Gareth
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Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine
he/him
he/him
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I feel like this should be the lead story on every news outlet. They're quick to tell us about the taxi rides that asylum seekers are given so waste is obviously high on their agenda
£11 BILLION.
Did immigrants invent the various stupid schemes or something? Is that why we don't like migrants?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Did immigrants invent the various stupid schemes or something? Is that why we don't like migrants?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says
The response to the pandemic led to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I feel like this should be the lead story on every news outlet. They're quick to tell us about the taxi rides that asylum seekers are given so waste is obviously high on their agenda
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It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
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December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
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The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.
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Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
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Once more preaching to the choir (I hope):
If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.
If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.
“Women change their travel plans, their routines, and their lives out of fears for their safety in public, while far too many perpetrators continue to roam freely,” Lady Elish Angiolini KC said trib.al/u0d1SVa
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Once more preaching to the choir (I hope):
If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.
If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.
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Feminism is when you have to have a certain set of chromosomes to make jam!
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Feminism is when you have to have a certain set of chromosomes to make jam!
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
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This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.
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A hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence.
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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
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Elon Musk (pointing his phone at a fellow partygoer): “Hi, I’m Elon. Wow! Seen a mirror lately? You look like the love child of a marshmallow and a shoe shine brush! HA! You look like Wallace Shawn let himself go! Or a bowl of tapioca got syphilis from a …Wait, am I on selfie mode again?”
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Elon Musk (pointing his phone at a fellow partygoer): “Hi, I’m Elon. Wow! Seen a mirror lately? You look like the love child of a marshmallow and a shoe shine brush! HA! You look like Wallace Shawn let himself go! Or a bowl of tapioca got syphilis from a …Wait, am I on selfie mode again?”
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When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
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I wish I could remember how I first heard about this poem (Briggflatts, by Basil Bunting). Did somebody tell me about it? Or did I hear a bit on the radio? In any case, it's been one of my favourite things for many many years (especially if you hear BB doing it out loud: incredible)
Each spark trills on a tone beyond chronological compass,
yet in a sextant’s bubble present and firm
places a surveyor’s stone or steadies a tiller.
Then is Now. The star you steer by is gone
yet in a sextant’s bubble present and firm
places a surveyor’s stone or steadies a tiller.
Then is Now. The star you steer by is gone
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I wish I could remember how I first heard about this poem (Briggflatts, by Basil Bunting). Did somebody tell me about it? Or did I hear a bit on the radio? In any case, it's been one of my favourite things for many many years (especially if you hear BB doing it out loud: incredible)
I hope this won't mean the Telegraph goes really right-wing
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph on.ft.com/3JSdIFj
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I hope this won't mean the Telegraph goes really right-wing
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Habe gehört, dein Vatis Lieblingslied aus Dichterliebe ist 'Ich hab' im Traum geweinet'
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Habe gehört, dein Vatis Lieblingslied aus Dichterliebe ist 'Ich hab' im Traum geweinet'
Featuring:
'Splinter Wonderland'
'Stoole Nacht'
'Deck the Chairs'
'Little Wonky'
'Splinter Wonderland'
'Stoole Nacht'
'Deck the Chairs'
'Little Wonky'
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Featuring:
'Splinter Wonderland'
'Stoole Nacht'
'Deck the Chairs'
'Little Wonky'
'Splinter Wonderland'
'Stoole Nacht'
'Deck the Chairs'
'Little Wonky'
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It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
train to Oxford yesterday and from Oxford today both cancelled, lovely free weekend trip thanks to Delay Repay, love travelling on British trains
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
Conscious of not having heard anything of my hero Simon Russell Beale since he pulled out of Titus Andronicus in September, I turned to Google for news of his health. Nothing, but it did suggest another salient and knotty question.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Conscious of not having heard anything of my hero Simon Russell Beale since he pulled out of Titus Andronicus in September, I turned to Google for news of his health. Nothing, but it did suggest another salient and knotty question.
All aboard for Passchendaele
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
All aboard for Passchendaele
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This resets everything we've done. Incredible!
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This resets everything we've done. Incredible!
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
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Sitting there like Jeremy Bentham
Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Sitting there like Jeremy Bentham
Funniest Facebook comment I ever saw was by a friend of a friend riffing on 'HP Lovecraft' being how Harold Pinter referred to sex.
PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...
PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...
HP Sauce is named after HP Lovecraft
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Funniest Facebook comment I ever saw was by a friend of a friend riffing on 'HP Lovecraft' being how Harold Pinter referred to sex.
PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...
PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...