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A Jew who lost relatives to the Nazis, I decry incitement to or actual antisemitic violence.
This includes the Manchester synagogue worshippers murdered or injured. Though whither the police who shot dead and wounded some congregants? Israel's war crimes in no way justify, but fuel Jew hate.
This includes the Manchester synagogue worshippers murdered or injured. Though whither the police who shot dead and wounded some congregants? Israel's war crimes in no way justify, but fuel Jew hate.
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 AM
A Jew who lost relatives to the Nazis, I decry incitement to or actual antisemitic violence.
This includes the Manchester synagogue worshippers murdered or injured. Though whither the police who shot dead and wounded some congregants? Israel's war crimes in no way justify, but fuel Jew hate.
This includes the Manchester synagogue worshippers murdered or injured. Though whither the police who shot dead and wounded some congregants? Israel's war crimes in no way justify, but fuel Jew hate.
Taking only the opportunity to demonstrate common sense.
Adults and children free to share public spaces, provided what they do has no detrimental effect on anyone else. This includes toddlers' dirty shoes off bus seats. Older kids letting the needy sit down. Logic available to all, including you.
Adults and children free to share public spaces, provided what they do has no detrimental effect on anyone else. This includes toddlers' dirty shoes off bus seats. Older kids letting the needy sit down. Logic available to all, including you.
February 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Taking only the opportunity to demonstrate common sense.
Adults and children free to share public spaces, provided what they do has no detrimental effect on anyone else. This includes toddlers' dirty shoes off bus seats. Older kids letting the needy sit down. Logic available to all, including you.
Adults and children free to share public spaces, provided what they do has no detrimental effect on anyone else. This includes toddlers' dirty shoes off bus seats. Older kids letting the needy sit down. Logic available to all, including you.
How magnanimous. You win the Guardian award this week for the best community spirit. Your prize? The paper locks you in a room with exhausted, hungry toddlers. No food or drinks. It won't let anyone home for hours.
Unfair? Nah, mate.
Unfair? Nah, mate.
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
How magnanimous. You win the Guardian award this week for the best community spirit. Your prize? The paper locks you in a room with exhausted, hungry toddlers. No food or drinks. It won't let anyone home for hours.
Unfair? Nah, mate.
Unfair? Nah, mate.
Schools must give parenting lessons. Any restaurant whose manager allows rowdy children serves food less than hot. Dads and mums should curb their children to prevent other diners' meal disruption. Or, AJS, defending unruly kids against tepid spaghetti dropped on them, are you pasta caring?
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Schools must give parenting lessons. Any restaurant whose manager allows rowdy children serves food less than hot. Dads and mums should curb their children to prevent other diners' meal disruption. Or, AJS, defending unruly kids against tepid spaghetti dropped on them, are you pasta caring?
How true. The far right street violence in 2024 owed as little to economy inequality as Hitler's rise in Germany. Politicians' failure to match living standards and public services with population growth turns migrants into scapegoats. Those who duck history lessons prove bound to relive the past.
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
How true. The far right street violence in 2024 owed as little to economy inequality as Hitler's rise in Germany. Politicians' failure to match living standards and public services with population growth turns migrants into scapegoats. Those who duck history lessons prove bound to relive the past.
John Healey tipped as caretaker premier.
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Where Reform-lite loses to the real thing.
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To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Where Reform-lite loses to the real thing.
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JOHN HEALEY: We've made tough decisions, this is a new era for defence
JOHN HEALEY: The threats facing Britain today are more serious and less predictable than at any time in a generation.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
John Healey tipped as caretaker premier.
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Where Reform-lite loses to the real thing.
share.google/iJEoNOcPnHTM...
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Where Reform-lite loses to the real thing.
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"Chris Wormald, the UK’s most senior civil servant, is negotiating his exit from the role as part of a broader shake-up of Downing Street, the Guardian has learned, adding to the sense of turmoil at the top...."
The worm has turned.
A new competence vowed at number ten:
youtu.be/8ZvugebaT6Q?...
The worm has turned.
A new competence vowed at number ten:
youtu.be/8ZvugebaT6Q?...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"Chris Wormald, the UK’s most senior civil servant, is negotiating his exit from the role as part of a broader shake-up of Downing Street, the Guardian has learned, adding to the sense of turmoil at the top...."
The worm has turned.
A new competence vowed at number ten:
youtu.be/8ZvugebaT6Q?...
The worm has turned.
A new competence vowed at number ten:
youtu.be/8ZvugebaT6Q?...
Ministers' support for the PM betrays hypocrisy and Labour's shallows. Backing flows as plots fester. But Streeting's NHS privatisation repels. Ditto Rayner's silence on rightist lurches while in Cabinet And Cunliffe's "integrity" tag for the premier? His axed vows after he became leader?
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Ministers' support for the PM betrays hypocrisy and Labour's shallows. Backing flows as plots fester. But Streeting's NHS privatisation repels. Ditto Rayner's silence on rightist lurches while in Cabinet And Cunliffe's "integrity" tag for the premier? His axed vows after he became leader?
A journalist too, I use both X and Bluesky to keep informed and post views. The erstwhile Twitter features content that some people find offensive. But, with Jewish roots like Cunliffe, antisemitism only galvanizes me to deconstruct hatred. A vegetarian, I do not shun restaurants that serve meat.
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A journalist too, I use both X and Bluesky to keep informed and post views. The erstwhile Twitter features content that some people find offensive. But, with Jewish roots like Cunliffe, antisemitism only galvanizes me to deconstruct hatred. A vegetarian, I do not shun restaurants that serve meat.
2 Sarwar not only received privileged, independent education, he sent his children to a private school. The MSP's family company advertised job vacancies with pay below the recommended living wage.
His reported failure to offer different plans for Starmer betrays hollow politics.
His reported failure to offer different plans for Starmer betrays hollow politics.
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
2 Sarwar not only received privileged, independent education, he sent his children to a private school. The MSP's family company advertised job vacancies with pay below the recommended living wage.
His reported failure to offer different plans for Starmer betrays hollow politics.
His reported failure to offer different plans for Starmer betrays hollow politics.
1 Anas Sarwar wants a Labour alternative to the prime minister? The PM has secured backing in the main for his policies from Sarwar. A former dentist, for the most part the party's Scottish leader has proved a toothles dissident. Only now, amid the annus horribilis ahead, does he speak out.
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
1 Anas Sarwar wants a Labour alternative to the prime minister? The PM has secured backing in the main for his policies from Sarwar. A former dentist, for the most part the party's Scottish leader has proved a toothles dissident. Only now, amid the annus horribilis ahead, does he speak out.
2 Starmer on McSweeney: "We changed the Labour party together." Both vowed socialism foe the former to become party leader, who then lurched right. Cuthbertson, the acting joint Downing Street staff chief? Husband: ex-adviser to a Conservative home secretary. Now she fits the red Tory sellout .
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
2 Starmer on McSweeney: "We changed the Labour party together." Both vowed socialism foe the former to become party leader, who then lurched right. Cuthbertson, the acting joint Downing Street staff chief? Husband: ex-adviser to a Conservative home secretary. Now she fits the red Tory sellout .
1 When Allan ran Portland, its clients included controversial financial company Barclays and countries notorious for human rights abuse - Russia, Kazakhstan and Qatar.
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
1 When Allan ran Portland, its clients included controversial financial company Barclays and countries notorious for human rights abuse - Russia, Kazakhstan and Qatar.
1 When Allan ran Portland, its clients included controversial financial company Barclays and countries notorious for human rights abuse - Russia, Kazakhstan and Qatar.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
1 When Allan ran Portland, its clients included controversial financial company Barclays and countries notorious for human rights abuse - Russia, Kazakhstan and Qatar.
4 Why did few Starmer's Commons allies speak out earlier? Anxiety over more suspensions. Why did the pain and torment endured by so many women and girls register only fleetingly? The rose party set voters with Pakistani origin above grooming gangs' working class white girl victims.
February 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
4 Why did few Starmer's Commons allies speak out earlier? Anxiety over more suspensions. Why did the pain and torment endured by so many women and girls register only fleetingly? The rose party set voters with Pakistani origin above grooming gangs' working class white girl victims.
3 Analogy between Hamas and Reform. Their support reflects IDF and Labour sins. Mandelson untypical New Labour? – "in thrall to wealth, denuded of values, heedless of the vulnerable." Brown denies that "caricature"? Widened inequality on incomes. Soft curbs on the City that helped fuel the crash.
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
3 Analogy between Hamas and Reform. Their support reflects IDF and Labour sins. Mandelson untypical New Labour? – "in thrall to wealth, denuded of values, heedless of the vulnerable." Brown denies that "caricature"? Widened inequality on incomes. Soft curbs on the City that helped fuel the crash.
2 "...Labour MPs willing to text journalists – anonymously – declaring the prime minister a dead man walking." Red Tories, supine to remain nameless. Most, like the columnist, failed to oppose Mandelson's appointment. Public distrust in politicians? Deserved. Successive governments' incompetence.
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
2 "...Labour MPs willing to text journalists – anonymously – declaring the prime minister a dead man walking." Red Tories, supine to remain nameless. Most, like the columnist, failed to oppose Mandelson's appointment. Public distrust in politicians? Deserved. Successive governments' incompetence.
1 "Starmer reached Downing Street in part because he was a boy scout – the squeaky clean antidote to the sleaze of...Johnson"? Freedland errs as much on the PM as on Israel. The errant knight arrived tainted, after he made radical vows to become leader, then axed them.
February 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
1 "Starmer reached Downing Street in part because he was a boy scout – the squeaky clean antidote to the sleaze of...Johnson"? Freedland errs as much on the PM as on Israel. The errant knight arrived tainted, after he made radical vows to become leader, then axed them.
Blame unsocial media and the Labour government's free market policies.vSwift's indistinct vocals attract over 370 million followers on Instagram and Twitter. More than 73 million follow Styles. Springsteen's fanzine shut amid protests at exorbitant gig prices. Online fanaticism needs scrutiny.
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Blame unsocial media and the Labour government's free market policies.vSwift's indistinct vocals attract over 370 million followers on Instagram and Twitter. More than 73 million follow Styles. Springsteen's fanzine shut amid protests at exorbitant gig prices. Online fanaticism needs scrutiny.
Quelle surprise that Josh Simons commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Starmer to power. Simons worked for the Jewish Labour Movement. It targets media and Jews who criticise Israel's unlawful occupation and repression.
February 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Quelle surprise that Josh Simons commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Starmer to power. Simons worked for the Jewish Labour Movement. It targets media and Jews who criticise Israel's unlawful occupation and repression.
Tayo Bero's tirade comes over as queer in another sense. Odd. Nicki Minaj's volte face towards the US president ought to surprise noone. Her persona? Independence. More than 100 million records sold? Criticism a worry? Never. Instead Bero should probe why people become such obsessive fans.
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Tayo Bero's tirade comes over as queer in another sense. Odd. Nicki Minaj's volte face towards the US president ought to surprise noone. Her persona? Independence. More than 100 million records sold? Criticism a worry? Never. Instead Bero should probe why people become such obsessive fans.
3 "Mandelson’s betrayal is beyond the comprehension of Starmer, his MPs and the rest of us."? Only the naive who ignored his earlier insatiable appetite for elitist power and big money. Reform to stop 34% of the vote winning 63% of seats again? Tories to block socialism? Lords change? Abolition.
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
3 "Mandelson’s betrayal is beyond the comprehension of Starmer, his MPs and the rest of us."? Only the naive who ignored his earlier insatiable appetite for elitist power and big money. Reform to stop 34% of the vote winning 63% of seats again? Tories to block socialism? Lords change? Abolition.
2 "Somehow, the grooming gangs of Rotherham cause more visceral disgust and outcry than exploitation of these equally vulnerable victims procured for the lusts of the wealthy."? No. Equal shame. But Labour councillors and MPs ducked the gangs to put support from Asian men before white girls.
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
2 "Somehow, the grooming gangs of Rotherham cause more visceral disgust and outcry than exploitation of these equally vulnerable victims procured for the lusts of the wealthy."? No. Equal shame. But Labour councillors and MPs ducked the gangs to put support from Asian men before white girls.
1 Toynbee? So many somersaults. Ought to join a circus. Amid the already notorious Mandleson's advice to Brown, at the 2010 general election she urged readers to vote Labour with "a clothes peg on their nose". Now? Riles at Mandy's stench. "Decent" Starmer? Who pretended left, then lurched right?
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
1 Toynbee? So many somersaults. Ought to join a circus. Amid the already notorious Mandleson's advice to Brown, at the 2010 general election she urged readers to vote Labour with "a clothes peg on their nose". Now? Riles at Mandy's stench. "Decent" Starmer? Who pretended left, then lurched right?