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Rejoin. Historian. Likes Doctor Who, hockey, rugby & history & flags. Really should be writing. Quokka Facts. He/him. 🏴🇪🇺
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God save us from well meaning Americans charging into sensitive Irish discussions they know nothing about like a bull in a Pottery Barn
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
God save us from well meaning Americans charging into sensitive Irish discussions they know nothing about like a bull in a Pottery Barn
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I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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No Reform MPs attended Parliament today for the urgent question on Russia, because the Kremlin didn't think it was a good use of our time.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"You would have thought Trump would have had attention to this matter"
Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator
Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit
A new post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...
Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit
A new post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...
Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator
Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit
emptycity.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"You would have thought Trump would have had attention to this matter"
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“The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.….Brexit”
“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.….Brexit”
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Unzoomed #674 4/6 🔴🟡🟡🟢⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com that was quirky and I found it confusing for some reason.
unzoomed.com that was quirky and I found it confusing for some reason.
Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
unzoomed.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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unzoomed.com that was quirky and I found it confusing for some reason.
unzoomed.com that was quirky and I found it confusing for some reason.
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The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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I’ve sold more copies of my “50 LGBTQ+ Finds “ book in the past 6 months than my “50 Finds from Essex” book has sold in the past 8 years. 😭
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I’ve sold more copies of my “50 LGBTQ+ Finds “ book in the past 6 months than my “50 Finds from Essex” book has sold in the past 8 years. 😭
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
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Even for me (who's been saying that pol editors, journalists could just as likely be corrupted by Putin)
...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.
...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Even for me (who's been saying that pol editors, journalists could just as likely be corrupted by Putin)
...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.
...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.
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Johnson spent years charming, bluffing, and backstabbing his way to the top.
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
Boris Johnson: The Covid Tragedy and England's Clown King
Get news direct from reporters you trust.
www.noosphere.app
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Johnson spent years charming, bluffing, and backstabbing his way to the top.
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
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❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
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I think what Rachel Johnson was actually referring to by ‘his best’ was actually that during the Covid pandemic her brother was doing his best to bonk the brains out of his latest mistress rather than attend to matters of State.
Rachel Johnson defending her brother on @lbc.co.uk currently just blamed the "statest establishment" for the failures.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think what Rachel Johnson was actually referring to by ‘his best’ was actually that during the Covid pandemic her brother was doing his best to bonk the brains out of his latest mistress rather than attend to matters of State.
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
Andrei Bondarenko - National Anthem of Ukraine - Гімн України
YouTube video by Andrei Bondarenko
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Gilead update.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Gilead update.
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That awkward moment when your star columnist was responsible... and you have to write headlines around the Boris shaped elephant in the newsroom
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
That awkward moment when your star columnist was responsible... and you have to write headlines around the Boris shaped elephant in the newsroom
In my view Farage and Tice will have known.
Farage and Tice would have helped set this up.
Farage would have taken his commission.
Farage and Tice would have helped set this up.
Farage would have taken his commission.
Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In my view Farage and Tice will have known.
Farage and Tice would have helped set this up.
Farage would have taken his commission.
Farage and Tice would have helped set this up.
Farage would have taken his commission.
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Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
Nathan Gill; A traitor who was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting Russian adversaries, has been sentenced today.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
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Quite the correction indeed.
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Quite the correction indeed.
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The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that has infiltrated European politi...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
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And his bollocks.
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And his bollocks.