Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
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Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Nice to see my follower count rise. My policy is to follow back people I know from elsewhere and generally follow others after there's been a bit of interaction. If I haven't followed you back despite knowing you, it's probably because you're using a different photo. Just like this and I'll rectify.
That Badenoch unchristian talk has somehow been maliciously converted by my subconscious into a Mistletoe and Wine earworm, perhaps because of the ‘Christian rhyme’ lyric. Why did Cliff have to make it even worse by pronouncing it ‘kris-tee-un’ rather than ‘kris-chun’? It’s not rhythmically needed.
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
That Badenoch unchristian talk has somehow been maliciously converted by my subconscious into a Mistletoe and Wine earworm, perhaps because of the ‘Christian rhyme’ lyric. Why did Cliff have to make it even worse by pronouncing it ‘kris-tee-un’ rather than ‘kris-chun’? It’s not rhythmically needed.
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My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox
Haven't got any plans for my lunch break so am thinking of wading into various animated WhatsApp chats I'm in, posting a full stop, and then immediately deleting those messages just to fuel people's sense of intrigue about the topics being discussed and me as a man of mystery.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Haven't got any plans for my lunch break so am thinking of wading into various animated WhatsApp chats I'm in, posting a full stop, and then immediately deleting those messages just to fuel people's sense of intrigue about the topics being discussed and me as a man of mystery.
You're all mocking Kemi Badenoch and her comments on what is and isn't Christian but ask yourself this: which other British political leader causes you to mutter 'Jesus Christ' more than she does every time they open their mouth?
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
You're all mocking Kemi Badenoch and her comments on what is and isn't Christian but ask yourself this: which other British political leader causes you to mutter 'Jesus Christ' more than she does every time they open their mouth?
Thing is, back in the late 70s/early 80s when Farage was, by documented accounts that seem very plausible to me, marching around singing Hitler Youth songs, how would you even have knowledge of those songs? How would you have been casually exposed to them in everyday life if you weren't a wrong 'un?
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Thing is, back in the late 70s/early 80s when Farage was, by documented accounts that seem very plausible to me, marching around singing Hitler Youth songs, how would you even have knowledge of those songs? How would you have been casually exposed to them in everyday life if you weren't a wrong 'un?
I just think that if I were a motorist sitting behind several cars stuck at a junction despite the lights being green because a bus went into the yellow box I wouldn't honk my fucking horn for fear of polluting the air with my moronic noise, achieving nothing and making me look like a complete cunt.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I just think that if I were a motorist sitting behind several cars stuck at a junction despite the lights being green because a bus went into the yellow box I wouldn't honk my fucking horn for fear of polluting the air with my moronic noise, achieving nothing and making me look like a complete cunt.
The notion that you did nothing but your house rose in value above £2 million and that that somehow means we should feel sorry for your predicament is an interesting one.
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The notion that you did nothing but your house rose in value above £2 million and that that somehow means we should feel sorry for your predicament is an interesting one.
The word ‘Thanksgiving’ - capital ‘T’, one word, lower-case ‘g’ - just doesn’t look right somehow. But then neither do ‘Thanks Giving’, ‘Thanks giving’, ‘ThanksGiving’, ‘Thanks-Giving’ or ‘Thanks-giving’, so I don’t know what the answer is, to be honest. Sorry to bring it up.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The word ‘Thanksgiving’ - capital ‘T’, one word, lower-case ‘g’ - just doesn’t look right somehow. But then neither do ‘Thanks Giving’, ‘Thanks giving’, ‘ThanksGiving’, ‘Thanks-Giving’ or ‘Thanks-giving’, so I don’t know what the answer is, to be honest. Sorry to bring it up.
Why does Farage think an attack being politically motivated invalidates that attack?
Attacks are very often politically motivated, and well they should be if the attack is sincere and illustrates a point that would-be supporters of the person being attacked should be made aware of.
Attacks are very often politically motivated, and well they should be if the attack is sincere and illustrates a point that would-be supporters of the person being attacked should be made aware of.
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Why does Farage think an attack being politically motivated invalidates that attack?
Attacks are very often politically motivated, and well they should be if the attack is sincere and illustrates a point that would-be supporters of the person being attacked should be made aware of.
Attacks are very often politically motivated, and well they should be if the attack is sincere and illustrates a point that would-be supporters of the person being attacked should be made aware of.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
Big homes ARE expensive to heat.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Big homes ARE expensive to heat.
Nick Robinson is doing a sterling job in his #r4today interview in making me warm to Rachel Reeves.
Barking at someone to “take the opportunity” to apologise is unlikely to work, Nick, and the listener isn’t left reflecting on her refusal to apologise; they’re left thinking you’re a hectoring twat.
Barking at someone to “take the opportunity” to apologise is unlikely to work, Nick, and the listener isn’t left reflecting on her refusal to apologise; they’re left thinking you’re a hectoring twat.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Nick Robinson is doing a sterling job in his #r4today interview in making me warm to Rachel Reeves.
Barking at someone to “take the opportunity” to apologise is unlikely to work, Nick, and the listener isn’t left reflecting on her refusal to apologise; they’re left thinking you’re a hectoring twat.
Barking at someone to “take the opportunity” to apologise is unlikely to work, Nick, and the listener isn’t left reflecting on her refusal to apologise; they’re left thinking you’re a hectoring twat.
It’s obscene, hackneyed and meaningless for shadow chancellor Mel Stride to talk on #r4today of Rachel Reeves “trash[ing] the economy”. What a shameless charlatan.
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It’s obscene, hackneyed and meaningless for shadow chancellor Mel Stride to talk on #r4today of Rachel Reeves “trash[ing] the economy”. What a shameless charlatan.
What I said after an argument as a parting shot to Morten Harket and his mates when they were working as bouncers at a really shit pub:
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What I said after an argument as a parting shot to Morten Harket and his mates when they were working as bouncers at a really shit pub:
I'm not defending what I imagine is a flawed budget that everyone will hate for many often conflicting reasons but, just out of interest and as a genuine question to experts, what would be the key points of a budget that...?
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm not defending what I imagine is a flawed budget that everyone will hate for many often conflicting reasons but, just out of interest and as a genuine question to experts, what would be the key points of a budget that...?
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
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Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
🎶 Ob-la-di, OBR
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎶 Ob-la-di, OBR
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
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Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
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During today’s Budget, all I ask is that just one MP stands up and shouts “that’s Numberwang!”
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
During today’s Budget, all I ask is that just one MP stands up and shouts “that’s Numberwang!”
Friends had SO many good lines, didn’t it? And I think it’s because they often have real-life applications.
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Friends had SO many good lines, didn’t it? And I think it’s because they often have real-life applications.
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
I found it, lads, on my cycle to work: a van with stickers that make the 'honk if you want a blowjob' one that Jay bought for Simon in The Inbetweeners look like T. S. Eliot. The one in the bottom left-hand corner is the nadir for me but you might suggest another contender.
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I found it, lads, on my cycle to work: a van with stickers that make the 'honk if you want a blowjob' one that Jay bought for Simon in The Inbetweeners look like T. S. Eliot. The one in the bottom left-hand corner is the nadir for me but you might suggest another contender.
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
Imagine a British newspaper having a political position and then running a story it believes to be true that could serve that position. Whatever next?! No wonder Nigel Farage - who, unrelatedly, enjoys such prominence because of our tame and sometimes supportive media - is so pissed off. #r4today.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Imagine a British newspaper having a political position and then running a story it believes to be true that could serve that position. Whatever next?! No wonder Nigel Farage - who, unrelatedly, enjoys such prominence because of our tame and sometimes supportive media - is so pissed off. #r4today.
Six years ago today according to Facebook. This was the end of a work trip to Lisbon. The laughter of my colleague who filmed it is priceless.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Six years ago today according to Facebook. This was the end of a work trip to Lisbon. The laughter of my colleague who filmed it is priceless.