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Memo from Private Eye to our broadcasters

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‘President Putin called to very nicely wish me Happy Birthday…’ Jesus wept. Trump is 79 not 7.

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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Perhaps Vance could explain the virtues of gun ownership to us poor benighted oppressed Europeans next time he’s over here?

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www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... The Daily Torahgraph simply repeats Israeli propaganda.

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Stupid Starmer immediately butts into Israel’s illegal pre-emptive war on Iran. We owe Israel nothing. It is neither an ally or a friend.

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I see it’s Adam Curtis time again. How this pin-sharp parody did not put an end to the silliest of genres I’ll never know. Still, it’s easier to understand why people took Dominic Cummings seriously when this sort of join-the-dots nonsense masquerades as credible analysis. youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg?...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Trump can’t actually rein in Israel’s chickenshit prime minister. Who’s the super power?

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Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

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nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pi...

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liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/374... My latest

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www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... Always the pariah rogue state behind any murkiness. Remember NSOs Pegasus?

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You have to admire the LA Latinas for standing up to the orange lunatic. No wonder they are the largest recruitment pool for the US Marines. A fact his scummy henchmen fail to mention.

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Why not send some UK marines and paras to Ballymena if the PSNI can’t suppress racist feral scum?

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Darren Jones is Labour’s next leader. Brilliant and only 38.

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Really stupid comment by Rutte about Europeans needing to learn Russian if they don’t hike defence spending. Facile and glib.

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Pentagon launches review of Aukus nuclear submarine deal

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Is BBC weasel Mason going to investigate the new Reform UK chairman, Dr David Bull’s LinkedIn page and CV? 🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Any excuse for the feral scum

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... Now investigate and sanction any UK ‘charity’ or ‘think tank’ with any connection with these creatures.

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Good. Ghastly thugs.

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Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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🚨🚨 @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social going down the 🪠🪠 Fascinating as an external observer how much #ukpolitics and UK media seems to be governed by and largely obsessed with #nigelfarage and #reform. Tips from the coach to UK political leaders; focus on your own policies & achievements, not Farage.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Wrong. We need a party which speaks for the educated middle class majority rather than thugs and taxi drivers.

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Are we great yet?

submitted 10 days ago • 3251 comments

Netanyahu has created his own private militia of drug gangs and jihadists in order to make Gaza ungovernable, to perpetuate war, and to save his own rotten skin.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... But the BBC will still have him as guest on its rubbishy political programmes. Count on it.

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Reform UK - the racist party. #ukpolitics

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'I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time.' 👀

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Another clown bites the dust. Zia Yusuf now has no basis to be on the BBC.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w... Note that at no point did Trump warn Putin not to retaliate. Whose side is Trump on?

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... good for them.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... If you can bear it, this is very very good.

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UK should PNG Israel’s ambassador.

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youtu.be/V8QFN8XmtMU

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It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel (and on any ‘charities’ supporting illegal settlements.

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🔥 FT calls for sanctions on Israel. “The Bank of Israel invests about a quarter of its relatively large stock of reserves in Europe, which a freeze would make unavailable for their financial stabilisation function and could in time be put towards any compensation due to Palestinians.”

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

I hear Reform UK are campaigning in Scotland today. It would be tragic if this went viral again... ~AA

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u... What a depressing character.

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Mountainhead is monstrous.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

What, the, hell. These guys are kitted out like they're ready to re-enact Neptune Spear. Buckets have NVG brackets with armatures, Peltor Comtacs, bro closer to the camera has a strobe up top, dude in back has a suppressed subgun with plenty of rail furniture. This is horseshit.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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