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Beachcomber.
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Clearly this is all wrong. It should be three euros. #Sinatra www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rome: Tourists to face €2 fee to get near Trevi Fountain
Visitors who don't live in Rome will have to pay to view the Baroque monument up close from February.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Want to see billionaire brainwashing in action?

Seven out of ten Brits are big fans of renewable energy and want to see lots more of it.

But they think the majority of people DON’T support it.

That disconnect isn’t an accident. 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Can't wait until Trump is awarded the FAFO Peace Prize.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
If you're in the UK and haven't watched Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg yet on iPlayer, get on that. A stunning film. Its reminders of the devastation wrought by years of casual dehumanisation should be compulsory viewing for every Trump and Farage supporter. www.imdb.com/title/tt0055...
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) ⭐ 8.3 | Drama, History, War
2h 59m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New logo just dropped.
October 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Those breakfast TV news tickers in full...
September 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Next up, Department of Energy to be renamed the Department of Warm.
Trump has signed the executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

“We decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense.”
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I switch on the TV and on the BBC are Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen on stage together... and that's definitely Elvis Costello in the background... and is that Tom Waits on keys? What a blast. Springsteen is grinning from ear to ear.
August 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy "Daniel Hannan is Hilariously Wrong About Everything" Day to those who celebrate. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
What Britain looks like after Brexit
You’re reading Reaction.
www.reaction.life
June 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two companies: Warner; and Bros. Discovery, a streaming service dedicated entirely to late '80s boy bands.
June 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Watching the Musk/Trump feud feels like being one of these onlookers in Mothra vs Godzilla.
June 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Depressing to see Yvette Cooper is as punitive a Home Secretary as any of her Tory forebears. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement
People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions
April 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Octopuses are incredibly genetically complex and likely more intelligent than an AI will ever be, but none of these Silicon Valley bros is pushing a human-free future ruled by cephalopods.
Valley dwellers not only see this as inevitable but many argue that it is desirable and are ACTIVELY TRYING to bring it about. This is part of what Adam Kirsch aptly terms "the revolt against humanity" in this book:
April 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Why did the Ukraine peace plan fail?

open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
The Longest Day
Why can't Trump end the war in Ukraine?
open.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The most powerful people and companies in the world have successfully orchestrated one of the most damaging and stupid self owns imaginable:

www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We need to talk about American BBQ radicalisation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The fight back against American BBQ culture starts here – the Stephen Collins cartoon
Never ‘slaw’, never ‘smoker’, never huge beards …
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM