Maurice Mauve
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Maurice Mauve
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Had a blog. Sometimes still write. Do marketing for pubs. Did European Studies at Kings College London. Like cooking. Am Mauritian. Like Ukraine to win. Democracy in Europe. Up the spurs.
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The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:
Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again
A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere
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December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Like asking people to get better at skydiving by just doing it daily without any basic training
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This week precisely. Monday onwards I was losing ground
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The wheels kinda fell off the whole "one more week of normal human consumption before the feasting begins"
December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's more that he's making it up on the fly and saying the same thing in two ways
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance.

She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.

Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Anyone who’s ever actually spoken to a single asylum seeker about their experiences in any country in Europe simply could not honestly conclude that what would improve things would be to further reduce their human rights protections.

It’s vile scapegoating unworthy of us & it needs to end #r4today
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
God's strongest soldier say what?
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Was going to say, surely increased consumption is a net benefit to an economy reliant on demand
December 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Weather in Madrid has been exceptional this evening
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM