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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 8h

My absolutely fav thing is when right wingers insist we ‘stage’ calls at LBC (we never do. We invite on guests - as announced - but everyone else just calls in on the number we give out) because the people supporting their point of view sound too daft to be real.

Anything but introspect, eh?

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the sound of neo-soul, has died. He was 51. The singer, born Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday morning at his home in New York after privately suffering from pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed to Variety. Continue reading...

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think anything’s ever that bad is it?!

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

a black and white cartoon of a sad bunny rabbit saying i 'm sorry .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of a sad bunny rabbit saying i 'm sorry .

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t used to word ‘ninny’ in about three decades but I feel like it’s appropriate, here.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

…. Not to mention that banning protests against genocide on the grounds of antisemitism is in of itself antisemitic because it implies that all Jews support what has happened and continues to happen in Gaza.

Starmer really does know how to lose friends and alienate people, doesn’t he?

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

So…..Starmer is moving to ban protests against genocide in order to root out the tiny contingent of antisemites who take part (reminder these marches also contain a large Jewish bloc/descendants of Holocaust survivors) but won’t ban future Unite the Kingdom rallies which are explicitly Islamophobic.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

I was listening via LBC and it was *almost* worth it for the moment @mrjamesob.bsky.social interjected, Terry Wogan style, to say ‘no one knows what he is talking about anymore’.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

- Biden ‘hated’ Israel, apparently.
Imagine how much support he would have given them if he liked them….

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

- a Board of Peace is like a board… of peace.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Things I’ve ‘learned’ from Trump’s hour-long display of oratory onanism so far:

- the president thinks all meetings should last 20 minutes;
- the planes that dropped bombs on Gaza killing at least 65,000 were ‘very pretty’;
- America’s wars post ww2 have been ‘politically correct’.

a close up of a man with a beard and earrings making a funny face .

Alt: a close up of a man with a beard and earrings making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

Some men on social media be like ‘you’re an ugly b*tch and you don’t deserve rights and I hope you get assaulted’ and then when they’re blocked post ‘omg women/the left claim to be tolerant but they won’t even debate with me’.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

'The majority of immigrants contribute more than they take.'
'You sound a lot smarter than me.'

Caller Gary vows to 'rethink' his support for Reform after @natashadevon.bsky.social explains her 'lack of faith' in Farage.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying everyone who has ever said ‘gazans’ denies the existence of Palestine - just that some people work really hard not to ever say Palestine or Palestinians. That’s literally all.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

I’m getting a lot of flack for asking this question - I think people don’t realise that sometimes as a host you ask questions you already know the answer to, in order to allow an expert to explain…..

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

‘A ceasefire has been reached, and Palestinians are returning to northern Gaza, so what are protesters on the streets today to protest?’

@natashadevon.bsky.social asks political analyst Professor Kamel Hawwash.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

Not really the same is it?

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

‘A ceasefire has been reached, and Palestinians are returning to northern Gaza, so what are protesters on the streets today to protest?’

@natashadevon.bsky.social asks political analyst Professor Kamel Hawwash.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

London today

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

The MET will say, like, 3 people were there….

Hundreds of thousands of people at Palestine protest today in London

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

I’m thinking of setting up a support group for all the bisexuals who can attribute almost the entirety and of their internalised biphobia to *that* episode of Sex and the City.

Carrie saying ‘I’m not even sure bisexuality exists’

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 11th Oct):

- Who ‘won’ party conference season?
- How significant are forthcoming massive council reforms?
- Parents: How much of a daily battle is your child’s screen time?

Plus: ICE terror Chicago, Gaza protest latest & Moan/Johnson corruption findings.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Give up satirists.

Move to Saudi or something.

You're not needed any more.

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