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Brit immigrant in Germany & happy to have escaped the Other Place. Pro-EU; history PhD, teacher, former Victoria County History researcher and writer; ‘Indian’ food fanatic with ridiculously full spice cupboard. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦
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Actually, given all the horror stories coming from the US rn, this article is even more demented. Fascism’s okay because football b

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

If I have this right: boycotting = supporting and participating = resistance?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Well said Durham Miners’ Association 💪 As WP Roberts might have said in Sunderland magistrate’s courtroom: “Come, let us reason together” (points at Farage) “Not you.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Casey criticises but does it with grace and diplomacy. Consider Badenoch’s parallel press conference today - held while Casey gives evidence to a parliamentary committee: graceless, shamefully opportunistic and frantically scrambling for relevance.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 2086 comments

An opinion piece criticising ‘the media’ for obsessively enabling fascists published by a media outlet that’s similarly obsessed. The glass just cracked on the irony meter.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The answer is that BBC News is corrupted beyond redemption and QT is the stench. As with Kuenssberg etc. just stop giving these creeps your time.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

That’s the spirit! Never let a negative go unnoticed, no matter how abstract.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sure the Guardian will find some entity to dump on this by the day’s end.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I see Laura Kuenssberg was a guest on the Reform Show on BBC1 again this morning

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

You've just employed a 22 year old gardener as your anti terrorist chief and you want NATO to share military intel with you on signal?

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

Today’s shameless clickbait Guardian front page, lurching ever rightward.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The Guardian really has it in for the govt atm: extending FSMs to 500k more children gets this headline. And people wonder why the govt is struggling to communicate the progressive things it's doing

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments