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An exile from Twitter, of course. Blackburn Rovers, politics and trying to work out why nothing works any more.
And it’s incredible how stupid they think people are to expect them to keep swallowing this obvious bullshit
I find it really galling when stupid people think you’re even stupider than they are.
I mean, I don’t mind geniuses thinking I’m dumb. They have a point.
But these guys thinking we’ll believe this? Gross.
I mean, I don’t mind geniuses thinking I’m dumb. They have a point.
But these guys thinking we’ll believe this? Gross.
Dr Oz on Trump lowering drug prices: "We woke the industry up to the fact that we were aware of what was happening. They said, 'Alright. The gig's up. You figured it out. We're gonna come down with our pricing.'"
December 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And it’s incredible how stupid they think people are to expect them to keep swallowing this obvious bullshit
What a charlatan. A lifelong grifter
December 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What a charlatan. A lifelong grifter
I hardly think we can call Trump’s efforts a serious move towards peace. He thinks it’s Ukraine’s fault they got invaded!
3/ Since the Trump admin began peace efforts in January-February 2025, the Kremlin has sought to delay and prolong peace negotiations in order to continue its war undisturbed, prevent the U.S. from imposing measures intended to pressure Russia into meaningful negotiations. isw.pub/UkrWar122925
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 29, 2025
The Kremlin accused Ukraine of conducting a long-range drone strike targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence on December 29.
isw.pub
December 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I hardly think we can call Trump’s efforts a serious move towards peace. He thinks it’s Ukraine’s fault they got invaded!
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Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
This is being copied in the UK. Today, Tories/far right are angrily calling for the deportation of someone they campaigned for years to be released from Egyptian jail, after some horrific tweets emerged by him. At the same time they’ve said British people in jail for horrific tweets is an outrage
Trump (well Miller) thinks he can revoke even the citizenship of naturalized individuals who don't show sufficient appreciation of the American flag?
The most anti free speech presidency of our lifetimes.
The most anti free speech presidency of our lifetimes.
The assault on free speech continues. Why do Miller, Vance & Trump hate the 1A? 'authorizing the revocation of visas, residency...naturalization for foreign nationals who desecrate the banner...' www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st... @thefireorg.bsky.social @eff.org @mmasnick.bsky.social @karlbode.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is being copied in the UK. Today, Tories/far right are angrily calling for the deportation of someone they campaigned for years to be released from Egyptian jail, after some horrific tweets emerged by him. At the same time they’ve said British people in jail for horrific tweets is an outrage
Even his terrible followers must struggle with this sort of obvious lie
The president has repeatedly and falsely claimed to have eradicated crime in Washington, D.C.
Families of Murder Victims Tear Into Trump Over BS Claims
The president has repeatedly and very falsely claimed to have eradicated crime in Washington, D.C.
trib.al
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Even his terrible followers must struggle with this sort of obvious lie
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I mean, this is fairly uncontroversial advice about talking to people helps, and men’s struggles often go over looked and unaddressed because we don’t talk. But it’s not that easy, is it? And some of us just don’t have anyone to talk to
The words from my Dad that saved me as a new parent
Professor Green and Ryan Libbey open up about how fatherhood affected them and how you can protect your mental health.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I mean, this is fairly uncontroversial advice about talking to people helps, and men’s struggles often go over looked and unaddressed because we don’t talk. But it’s not that easy, is it? And some of us just don’t have anyone to talk to
And they’re happy to do that, because so many of them setting the narrative and taking the decisions were always xenophobic or racist, now they’re just far more open about showing it
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
December 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And they’re happy to do that, because so many of them setting the narrative and taking the decisions were always xenophobic or racist, now they’re just far more open about showing it
This is all down to Trump viewing a smaller country defending themselves from an attack by a major power as stupid. He has learnt his whole life that bullies win, and he can’t even entertain the victims point of view
Invading and defending yourself from invasion are now morally equivalent.
How very dare they hit back at the invaders, eh?
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is all down to Trump viewing a smaller country defending themselves from an attack by a major power as stupid. He has learnt his whole life that bullies win, and he can’t even entertain the victims point of view
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I think the answer is "they're not white".
Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I think the answer is "they're not white".
It was abundantly and immediately clear yesterday that these people were being incredibly hypocritical at best, and clearly racist at worst. The mask has truly slipped for the right now as they embrace the far right. Philp and Jenrick wouldn’t have dared say it even a few years ago,
The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It was abundantly and immediately clear yesterday that these people were being incredibly hypocritical at best, and clearly racist at worst. The mask has truly slipped for the right now as they embrace the far right. Philp and Jenrick wouldn’t have dared say it even a few years ago,
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “There is no excuse for that kind of language," Philp said on Monday. "People who express that kind of hatred, that kind of anti-white racism, that kind of extremism who seek to incite violence, have no place in the United Kingdom." Farage riot people’s tweets were ok?
Home secretary urged to strip activist of British citizenship
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “There is no excuse for that kind of language," Philp said on Monday. "People who express that kind of hatred, that kind of anti-white racism, that kind of extremism who seek to incite violence, have no place in the United Kingdom." Farage riot people’s tweets were ok?
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Always get caught wondering if he's incredibly stupid or malevolent before remembering he can be both.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Always get caught wondering if he's incredibly stupid or malevolent before remembering he can be both.
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Sauron wants to see Frodo succeed.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Sauron wants to see Frodo succeed.
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Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.
This time Putin wants it! It’s a great deal this time! They have to get it done! I think it’s very close! Repeat ad nauseam
Donald Trump: I think the presidents of Ukraine and Russia want to make a deal.
December 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This time Putin wants it! It’s a great deal this time! They have to get it done! I think it’s very close! Repeat ad nauseam
A lot of wealth. A lot of money in his pocket I’m guessing
Trump on a Russia-Ukraine deal: "There are great economic benefits for Ukraine also. They have a lot of rebuilding to do. There's a lot of wealth to be had."
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A lot of wealth. A lot of money in his pocket I’m guessing
People sent to jail in the Farage riots who said disgraceful, law breaking comments was all wrong, and just for ‘hurty words’ they said. Now they’re saying someone who said something abhorrent should be deported. I wonder why the difference in proposed punishments
This was the government's position on "human rights defender" Abd El-Fattah in 2023, while Robert Jenrick sat in cabinet, Cleverly was Foreign Sec, and Sunak was PM - a position confirmed no fewer than ten times on the floor of both the Commons and the Lords.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
People sent to jail in the Farage riots who said disgraceful, law breaking comments was all wrong, and just for ‘hurty words’ they said. Now they’re saying someone who said something abhorrent should be deported. I wonder why the difference in proposed punishments
Exactly - anything Trump says is at best good for the rest of that day. They signed the minerals deal which Trump and his followers claimed was enough to stop any new attacks, he’s in thrall to Putin, has incompetent grifters working for him and is a con man. He’s always on the verge of a great deal
December 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Exactly - anything Trump says is at best good for the rest of that day. They signed the minerals deal which Trump and his followers claimed was enough to stop any new attacks, he’s in thrall to Putin, has incompetent grifters working for him and is a con man. He’s always on the verge of a great deal
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten car seats kill babies!
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten car seats kill babies!
There’s a severe case of fucking around and finding out going on, but they still can’t accept that this is what they wanted, campaigned for, shouted about for years. Turns out it’s just shit for everyone apart from grifters
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There’s a severe case of fucking around and finding out going on, but they still can’t accept that this is what they wanted, campaigned for, shouted about for years. Turns out it’s just shit for everyone apart from grifters
You can’t even be a billionaire anymore without the radical left trying to get you to pay something back before you pass it on for free to your children. This is how out of touch the elite are, yet they have continually been given a platform since Brexit to grind their personal axes. He can fuck off
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
You can’t even be a billionaire anymore without the radical left trying to get you to pay something back before you pass it on for free to your children. This is how out of touch the elite are, yet they have continually been given a platform since Brexit to grind their personal axes. He can fuck off
It needs to be amplified more that the far right HATE our country, its successes and the thing we do well today. They’re not patriots, and should not be called that, ever.
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It needs to be amplified more that the far right HATE our country, its successes and the thing we do well today. They’re not patriots, and should not be called that, ever.
The far right are massive hypocrites part 3,472
"Read the bloody room" tweets Mr Braverman, who opposes the King's message of togetherness, but strongly approves of President Trump!
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The far right are massive hypocrites part 3,472
Fuck off you Tory cunts
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fuck off you Tory cunts