Philip Challinor
@pchallinor.bsky.social
Pedantic malcontent. Author of all this stuff https://lulu.com/spotlight/challinor07/ and worse https://thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/
Tolerance through gritted teeth is a famous component of British decency thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/but-...
The Curmudgeon: But Is She Worthy Of Us?
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December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tolerance through gritted teeth is a famous component of British decency thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/but-...
The early stages of the pandemic were difficult for Fishy Rishi, but with hard work and pluck and gumption he managed to make them difficult for the little people instead www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rishi Sunak tells Covid inquiry he was worried about UK’s ability to fund itself
Reflecting on chaos of early pandemic, former chancellor said it was ‘acutely stressful’ to see rising interest bill on government bonds
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December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The early stages of the pandemic were difficult for Fishy Rishi, but with hard work and pluck and gumption he managed to make them difficult for the little people instead www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Big of them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
Victory thought to be first under new policy that normally refuses applicants such as refugees who enter illegally
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December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Big of them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
When They do it: crimes, aggression, deliberate and wilful offences against world peace
When We do it: mistakes, sleepwalks, life's little ironies t.co/MaIRbZw8JG
When We do it: mistakes, sleepwalks, life's little ironies t.co/MaIRbZw8JG
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/trump-venezuela-repeat-past-mistakes
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December 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When They do it: crimes, aggression, deliberate and wilful offences against world peace
When We do it: mistakes, sleepwalks, life's little ironies t.co/MaIRbZw8JG
When We do it: mistakes, sleepwalks, life's little ironies t.co/MaIRbZw8JG
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that capitalism's beasts of burden have only one valid reason for objecting to the policies of their drivers and owners thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/just...
The Curmudgeon: Just Rewards
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December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that capitalism's beasts of burden have only one valid reason for objecting to the policies of their drivers and owners thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/just...
Now that @shabanamahmood.bsky.social has earned the Tommy Robinson Compassionate Award for asylum policy, the Home Office will doubtless be more amenable to publishing its achievements in this regard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
Campaigners call for quarterly data to be published in line with other departments instead of FoI route
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December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Now that @shabanamahmood.bsky.social has earned the Tommy Robinson Compassionate Award for asylum policy, the Home Office will doubtless be more amenable to publishing its achievements in this regard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Presumably saw the screw-up coming and doesn't intend to take the fall for it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months
Exclusive: Catherine Howard’s exit comes amid disagreements at top of government about how far to push deregulation agenda
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December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Presumably saw the screw-up coming and doesn't intend to take the fall for it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Philip Challinor
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Reposted by Philip Challinor
"If Wes Streeting is the answer, is the question 'can Labour do even worse?'"
Wes Streeting's "Change of Course"
If Wes Streeting is the answer, is the question 'can Labour do even worse?' I ask, because the previous round of hostile briefing/leadershi...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"If Wes Streeting is the answer, is the question 'can Labour do even worse?'"
Because of course it won't
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Because of course it won't
A potential leader on the order of James Cleverly, Penny Mordaunt or Tommy Tugendhat? Starmer must be quaking in his boots www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who is Al Carns? Former Marine and Labour minister with sights on leadership
Ex-special forces colonel, who is sounding alarm on Russia, has risen swiftly to role of armed forces minister
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December 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A potential leader on the order of James Cleverly, Penny Mordaunt or Tommy Tugendhat? Starmer must be quaking in his boots www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who's the next shrewd choice going to be, then? Jacqui Smith? Michael Gove? The strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange himself?
December 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Who's the next shrewd choice going to be, then? Jacqui Smith? Michael Gove? The strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange himself?
Of course workers have the right to strike! But not in ways that deliberately and wilfully underscore why their pay and conditions should be improved! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Beyond belief’ that resident doctors could strike amid flu crisis, says Starmer
Exclusive: PM’s outspoken attack on stoppages planned for 17-22 December risks inflaming tensions with medics
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December 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Of course workers have the right to strike! But not in ways that deliberately and wilfully underscore why their pay and conditions should be improved! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The vast unauthorised waste dump in Oxfordshire is to be cleared at the taxpayer's expense, while leaving less refined populations in full possession of similar amenities thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/one-...
The Curmudgeon: One Does Not Neglect a Mansion in Order to Sweep a Hovel
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December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The vast unauthorised waste dump in Oxfordshire is to be cleared at the taxpayer's expense, while leaving less refined populations in full possession of similar amenities thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/one-...
Starmer to urge Met police commissioner to consider his position
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Starmer to urge Met police commissioner to consider his position
Where is the moderate grown-upness here? where the sensible pragmatism? Can Wesley the Wideboy not simply snap his fingers and proclaim that the flu is overdiagnosed? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Strikes could collapse flu-hit NHS amid worst crisis since Covid, says Streeting
Health secretary urges resident doctors, who are to strike from 17 December, to accept his offer to end dispute
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December 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Where is the moderate grown-upness here? where the sensible pragmatism? Can Wesley the Wideboy not simply snap his fingers and proclaim that the flu is overdiagnosed? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"the increasing scrutiny that Farage and his party, to his fury and consternation, are facing might suggest that the tide is turning. What is less in evidence is much sign that Starmer’s Labour understand the epochal choice which is underway"
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"the increasing scrutiny that Farage and his party, to his fury and consternation, are facing might suggest that the tide is turning. What is less in evidence is much sign that Starmer’s Labour understand the epochal choice which is underway"
Better that a million expendables should be assisted to suicide, than that the House of Donors should appear undemocratic www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block it
Letter says there is danger of Lords losing legitimacy as more than 1,000 amendments tabled, delaying any vote
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December 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Better that a million expendables should be assisted to suicide, than that the House of Donors should appear undemocratic www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Grimmfest Online 2025: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social capsules bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/12/grim...
Grimmfest Online 2025
Well, I often bemoaned that many online festivals had stopped after Covid. Even the London Film Festival continued to offer a few titles o...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Grimmfest Online 2025: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social capsules bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/12/grim...
"where the fuck does one start; and, having fucking started, where the fuck does one finish?" thejudge.me.uk/Rants/Rants_...
I Have Seen The Future...And It's Jerks
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December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"where the fuck does one start; and, having fucking started, where the fuck does one finish?" thejudge.me.uk/Rants/Rants_...
Poodle misses out on doggy-bag www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tony Blair reportedly dropped from Trump’s Gaza ‘board of peace’ shortlist
Former UK leader loses out on key role in transitional authority after objections from Arab and Muslim nations
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Poodle misses out on doggy-bag www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The question (last paragraph) and its answer (second paragraph) theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The question (last paragraph) and its answer (second paragraph) theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the nation approaches the orgasm stage in that three-month orgy of sales-talk, saccharine and sanctimony which is the Season of Feastmas, the annual copyright war has broken out over who really owns the Baby Jesus thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/egyp...
The Curmudgeon: Egypt Wasn't Swamped
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December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As the nation approaches the orgasm stage in that three-month orgy of sales-talk, saccharine and sanctimony which is the Season of Feastmas, the annual copyright war has broken out over who really owns the Baby Jesus thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/12/egyp...
Prospects for youth under Team Starmer: be a waiter, wash dishes, hump bricks or starve www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Young unemployed told to engage with jobs scheme or risk benefit cuts
About 350,000 work and training places in care, construction and hospitality available but ‘sanctions’ may apply if ‘neets’ refuse offers
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December 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Prospects for youth under Team Starmer: be a waiter, wash dishes, hump bricks or starve www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year and by the way here's our wedding anniversary again." All very Defender of Faiths, to be sure www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
King Charles and Queen Camilla unveil Christmas card for 2025
The royal couple chose their 20th wedding anniversary portrait taken in Rome this year for their official holiday greeting card
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December 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year and by the way here's our wedding anniversary again." All very Defender of Faiths, to be sure www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...