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"When I joined the Party for Thqueaming and Thqueaming Accusations on Insufficient or Nonexistent Evidence, I never expected ... !!!" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"I think that there is a fundamental problem in relation to our appeal system generally, that it just won’t face up to the fact that mistakes can be made" www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

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Would it result in economic growth? What if we can't breed the Britons to staff the care homes and keep the strangers out? Has anyone asked Nigel? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Even the staunchest protector of homeland values would probably admit that not all immigrants are the same: there are the decent ones who work hard and play by the rules, and then there are those others thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/oran...

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One should not compare Keir Starmer to Enoch Powell, just because he used comparable words in a comparable context

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"Cloud makes for a vaguely elusive treatise on the modern condition, on fraud, on culpability and aggrievement, but under the guise of a direct if pensive shoot-out" - the @buck-theorem.bsky.social review bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/05/clou...

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"... Starmer hopes it will assure the Reform adjacent and neutralise the issue, giving Labour political space to showcase their record. Like cutting the NHS, taking money off the disabled, arming a genocide, etc. etc."

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Investigators of a small fire in the ungodly hours at a house owned by the CEO of Team Starmer have so far not denied that the blaze resulted from a minor demon turning up to claim its due thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/hot-...

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Roadside rocks, Platonic sandwiches and interim chickens thejudge.me.uk/Raves/Raves_...

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Filipinos from the Philippines in middle-of-term midterm family dynasty electoral voting poll

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Certainly am glad Team Starmer plans to economise on flood defences www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The United Mexican States have filed a lawsuit against Google over the Trumpster administration's unilateral Murcanisation of the Gulf of Mexico thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/call...

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A worthy Speaker for a Team Starmer parliament www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Cunning fiends, those Quakers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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All the best people, then www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Squeals of moral outrage are forthcoming from the EU after the leaders of Slovakia and Serbia disobeyed orders and attended Russia's military parade thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/thos...

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"mainly I’m appalled to see Pearl Harbor on the list, which ought to be a war crime" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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@thomastessier.bsky.social Happy birthday - all the best.

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Why, I recall Conservative dignity and restraint right back from May's blue-rinser hysteria through Cameron's schoolboy bluster, all the way to Major's seven-year whinge and Thatcher's fishwife hectoring

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well who would ever of thunk it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A "pro-European social democrat" and not an opportunistic neoliberal crook as the uncharitable might have supposed www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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After several years of cruel and unusual punishment by botched lethal injection, it looks as if the Christian state of South Carolina has taken up cruel and unusual punishment by botched firing squad thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/alwa...

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Profound

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Balancing out all those "Britain celebrates VE Day as favoured ally steps up ethnic cleansing in Gaza" headlines

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Vote Reform, celebrate VE Day

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It all sounds jolly efficient. Doubtless more assistance will soon be required from Wideboy Wesley's pals in the private sector www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Since the Trumpster and his head-tribble don't believe in history and don't know what art is, one or two difficulties are understandably emerging as regards collaboration between art historians inside and outside the Land of the Free thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/cult...

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Meanwhile, His Majesty's Government's idea of protecting women's rights is making sure everyone uses the bathroom their birth certificate says they have to use www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Somebody ought to do something about it, squeal people who aren't going to do anything about it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"Corbynism has twice demonstrated it has more popular appeal than Starmerism at its height, and so there is a constituency for the taking."

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Those newts are stealing your new house thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/bash...

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Doubtless owing to some dirty work by immigrants and the like, the Farage Falange has somehow been deceived into giving the appearance of having said the thing that is not thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/refo...

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Rules are for the little people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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What the boot Badenoch brigade have got to explain to their withering membership and declining support is how removing her would make the job of seeing off Reform any easier.

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After only eighteen months of explicit declarations of intent accompanied by actual ethnic cleansing, fears are raised at the possibility of ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Certainly is a good thing Team Starmer rowed back on all that green crap, and even better that our nation's excess water will soon be absorbed by Elon's automated plagiarism hubs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Now wave the British bunting and put on your forties togs To celebrate the plucky chaps who beat the beastly wogs: In darkest days they stalwart stood and bravely bore the brunt, While Communists were basking on the balmy Eastern Front. thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/our-...

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Brexit was a "lockout", apparently. The Continent cut itself off from the mainland but has now partly seen the light www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Well no wonder she got the sack www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"While politics has changed, for both parties nothing has. Every election victory and defeat over the last five years has been interpreted as either vindication of a rightward turn or the outcome of not being right wing enough."

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Even hideously mutated, radioactively diarrhoeic head-tribbles have a sense of humour, and the specimen squatting atop the Trumpster has never shown itself lacking in that department thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/reli...

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Putting that doddering ventriloquist's dummy in the same category as Lincoln and Washington is a superb bit of journalistic bathos www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Before we all start congratulating ourselves on this as well, did they really "fight alongside" or were they segregated? Were there black and Asian officers and NCOs, or were they strictly cannon fodder and kitchen staff? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Labour is the party of working people. Fortunately, unpaid carers aren't allowed to work all that much www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Rachel Reeves in line for consultancy at US private equity firm KKR, Treasury squealing suggests www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Change with stability is the watchword of the moderately sensible, and the proposed improvements to the education watchdog's procedure for driving head-teachers to suicide are clearly no exception thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/05/nami...

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Dear me, how very surprising www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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The idea that the great British public or its lords and masters might have the slightest interest in rehabilitation of offenders is really rather quaint, is it not www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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