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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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A more optimistic assessment here on the potential fate of Donald Trump Well worth a read inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

The Gulf of Intelligence

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent, with the very latest from Washington. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

It’s that time of year again! The Guardian is opening its two-week work experience for underrepresented journalists: disabled people, POC, and now working class. It is paid at the London living wage. This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Brexit in three headlines

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submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

Put all that US Gov data on individuals into a Tesla owner/ Starlink user/ Palantir provider sandwich and Musk and Theil will REALLY have a unique data picture right down to individuals. Money. Movement. Interests. People connections. Wonder where Meta is in all this?

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

The most frustrating thing about continuing failure to skewer Farage is that his grasp of detail is non-existent. It’s why he gets petulant when exposed to even mildly decent questions. Interviewers just need to zone in on one element of the bullshit & interrogate it until his ignorance is exposed.

submitted 25 days ago • 192 comments

sickening

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

So how’s it going so far?

submitted 35 days ago • 513 comments

Brilliant.

submitted 37 days ago • 66 comments

Check out my latest, I decided to make this available to everyone because it's too important for people not to hear. 9 mins if you can spare harrydunn.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 177 comments

Jan 6 was investigated and largely prosecuted as domestic terrorism. The pardons should be reported and spoken of accordingly. An endorsement of terrorism. Trump sprung his terrorist network - including, by extension, himself.

submitted 38 days ago • 55 comments

♫ It’s fun to be in the NA ZI Party It’s fun to be in the NA ZI Party ... ♫

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.

submitted 40 days ago • 596 comments

"Donald Trump is a slob, a cheat, a lawbreaker, a bully, a careless liar, a cheap jingoist and a very dangerous politician indeed. He appeals to the dark side, the chaos in human nature. His presidency may prove a disaster." Matthew Parris is not wrong. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

Decided today is the day to delete my Twitter account (refuse to call it X). I haven't used it in months and wanted to join the planned exodus, but keep getting an error message and can't get rid of the account. Now I wonder why that might be...

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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

submitted 40 days ago • 362 comments

Jesus fucking Christ. She's an unconscionable cognitive disaster.

submitted 44 days ago • 71 comments

Vaccines are among the best of inventions. There's a high chance that without them, and the herd immunity they can deliver, you'd either not be here or would face a lifelong disability: whether or not you had them yourself. It seems crazy to have to point this out, but we forget it at our peril.

submitted 44 days ago • 33 comments

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit” President Joe Biden

submitted 44 days ago • 154 comments

The stock market has tumbled today. Why? Because the jobs report was strong, with over 250,000 jobs added. (So investors are worried that interest rates will remain high.) It illustrates that the interests of investors and working people are often very different.

submitted 50 days ago • 142 comments

Oh my word! Legal people of Blue Sky I don't know where to begin with 'Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger' absolutely preposterous 😱

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And another fan voiced their opinion northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/sp...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Inflation is running at 2.6%. It was 16% in 1974.

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

"The first casualty is truth... it's not about different views... the truth is the truth and the BBC should be really promoting that" – former Green Party Leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social calls out the corporation on Newsnight for referring to Trump's claims rather than referring to them as lies.

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

While far more skilled, erudite and suitably qualified legal people will no doubt tackle the substance of this curious letter, I offer some brief observations. /1

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

submitted 51 days ago • 376 comments

All the pro-Trump Brexit sovereignty-fetishists being exposed again for the lying two-faced pieces of shit that they really are. No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk. www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...

submitted 51 days ago • 27 comments

Elon Musk knows ‘absolutely nothing’ about women and girls’ safety, says Jess Phillips

submitted 53 days ago • 30 comments

@bylinetimes.bsky.social I’ve been a subscriber for a few years now, some months (randomly) my account isn’t debited and I don’t get my fix 😢

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🔥 “Elon Musk: from tech visionary to reactionary megalomanic The toxic trajectory of the world’s richest man highlights the dangers of unchecked wealth, power, and personal arrogance”

submitted 54 days ago • 21 comments

Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk. It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.

submitted 54 days ago • 117 comments

Elon Musk is starting to risk getting Jess Phillips killed. She's been safeguarding minister for six months. She oversaw nothing relating to the rape gangs. As an opposition MP she was one of the most prominent campaigners for the victims. What he's doing is a travesty.

submitted 57 days ago • 103 comments

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

submitted 56 days ago • 199 comments

This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.

submitted 55 days ago • 132 comments

Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

submitted 55 days ago • 26 comments

I wrote a quick post about the latest UKHSA data on the current flu wave. christinapagel.substack.com/p/its-defini... TLDR: we are in a very big flu wave, but Covid levels are low & RSV decreasing. But we should consider extending eligibilty for annual flu (and RSV, Covid) vaccines.

submitted 57 days ago • 19 comments