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I like languages, history, dogs (especially my lad Eric), films and books. I used to believe (and work) in politics. I support Sunderland and Celtic.
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Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
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Rory Stewart has, this week, insisted that the views of a prominent working class economist must be questioned due to inherent class bias, while insisting that the blatant antisemitism and racism of Frog baws Farage must be ignored because…..🤷♂️
Rory Stewart is a wee dick.
Rory Stewart is a wee dick.
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Rory Stewart has, this week, insisted that the views of a prominent working class economist must be questioned due to inherent class bias, while insisting that the blatant antisemitism and racism of Frog baws Farage must be ignored because…..🤷♂️
Rory Stewart is a wee dick.
Rory Stewart is a wee dick.
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It's Rilke's 150th birthday, which coincides with publication of my translations of his complete New Poems - getting on for 200 of them. Out from Baylor University Press now. Here I am reading his poem about a dog.
#Rilke #poetry #translation
#Rilke #poetry #translation
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It's Rilke's 150th birthday, which coincides with publication of my translations of his complete New Poems - getting on for 200 of them. Out from Baylor University Press now. Here I am reading his poem about a dog.
#Rilke #poetry #translation
#Rilke #poetry #translation
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I see we've reached the "I hate disabled people" part of the budget.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I see we've reached the "I hate disabled people" part of the budget.
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every time someone goes on the Beeb, no matter what topic they’re there to talk about, they should add, ‘oh, and Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history’
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
every time someone goes on the Beeb, no matter what topic they’re there to talk about, they should add, ‘oh, and Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history’
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Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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My latest on the betting around Donald Trump's exit date for gambling.com
Does the Epstein scandal mark the beginning of the end?
www.gambling.com/uk/news/dona...
Does the Epstein scandal mark the beginning of the end?
www.gambling.com/uk/news/dona...
Donald Trump Exit Odds: Does Epstein Scandal Mark The Beginning Of The End?
Republican and Democrat lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the latest funding bill....
www.gambling.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My latest on the betting around Donald Trump's exit date for gambling.com
Does the Epstein scandal mark the beginning of the end?
www.gambling.com/uk/news/dona...
Does the Epstein scandal mark the beginning of the end?
www.gambling.com/uk/news/dona...
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I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Home secretary says it is ‘moral mission’ for her to tackle asylum system
Ukrainians are in the UK on a “bespoke scheme”, Mahmood says, and it is on a temporary basis.
If Ukraine becomes a safe country again and the conflict ends, “the principle of the new reforms are that if your country becomes safe then you will return,” she says. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
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June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
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What a time to be alive. The US President is openly extorting the British national broadcaster for a year old documentary which used his own words but in editing missed a time lapse dash. An ex-PM is leading the pack with 🐸 Farage working as the attack dog. While the UK govt cowers in a corner.🤦
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
What a time to be alive. The US President is openly extorting the British national broadcaster for a year old documentary which used his own words but in editing missed a time lapse dash. An ex-PM is leading the pack with 🐸 Farage working as the attack dog. While the UK govt cowers in a corner.🤦
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In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
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Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
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So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Rich New Yorkers eye London as Zohran Mamdani plots wealth tax
Estate agents have reported an increase in inquiries from affluent Americans considering a move across the Pond, but warn that Rachel Reeves’s budget may deter them
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Alleged war criminals and the racist far-right pile in to criticise the UK recognising Palestine
The last people we should listen to on anything are war criminals like Israel's Netanyahu - but enter little Tommy Robinson to do just that
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
The last people we should listen to on anything are war criminals like Israel's Netanyahu - but enter little Tommy Robinson to do just that
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
www.thecanary.co
September 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Alleged war criminals and the racist far-right pile in to criticise the UK recognising Palestine
The last people we should listen to on anything are war criminals like Israel's Netanyahu - but enter little Tommy Robinson to do just that
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
The last people we should listen to on anything are war criminals like Israel's Netanyahu - but enter little Tommy Robinson to do just that
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Can't believe this cunt with his Poundland Churchillian rhetoric about a made up threat will be on Strictly.
As I said yesterday it's the Boris Johnson Principle package a cunt with abhorrent views as a buffoon and they braying, pub racist cunts will lap him up.
As I said yesterday it's the Boris Johnson Principle package a cunt with abhorrent views as a buffoon and they braying, pub racist cunts will lap him up.
August 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Can't believe this cunt with his Poundland Churchillian rhetoric about a made up threat will be on Strictly.
As I said yesterday it's the Boris Johnson Principle package a cunt with abhorrent views as a buffoon and they braying, pub racist cunts will lap him up.
As I said yesterday it's the Boris Johnson Principle package a cunt with abhorrent views as a buffoon and they braying, pub racist cunts will lap him up.
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They wanted to intimidate, harass and arrest a bunch of old leftist protesters while telling the Mail and the Sun that the people they are stomping are extremists and terrorists. So yes, I would say they are achieving exactly the goals they wanted to pursue.
August 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
They wanted to intimidate, harass and arrest a bunch of old leftist protesters while telling the Mail and the Sun that the people they are stomping are extremists and terrorists. So yes, I would say they are achieving exactly the goals they wanted to pursue.
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Rachel Reeves' Mansion House speech last night was neoliberal to the core. Except for Rachel Reeves presenting it, anyone might have assumed that George Osborne was back in Number 11.
"Regulation still acts as a boot on the neck of businesses"
No! you idiot
Regulations are what keep us safe
"Regulation still acts as a boot on the neck of businesses"
No! you idiot
Regulations are what keep us safe
July 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Rachel Reeves' Mansion House speech last night was neoliberal to the core. Except for Rachel Reeves presenting it, anyone might have assumed that George Osborne was back in Number 11.
"Regulation still acts as a boot on the neck of businesses"
No! you idiot
Regulations are what keep us safe
"Regulation still acts as a boot on the neck of businesses"
No! you idiot
Regulations are what keep us safe
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As a disabled person this is the first time I've ever been pleased to hear about Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves 'appeared to be crying' says Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates
The government recently made a major U-turn over welfare reform to appeases its backbenchers.
news.sky.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As a disabled person this is the first time I've ever been pleased to hear about Rachel Reeves
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Counterpoint: no, fuck Rachel Reeves
July 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Counterpoint: no, fuck Rachel Reeves
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👉NEW -- Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
by Martin Williams
Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
by Martin Williams
Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
Revealed: cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
👉NEW -- Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
by Martin Williams
Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
by Martin Williams
Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
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So, a country that commits genocide can have a completely unregulated nuclear weapons programme (based on science that it stole from other countries) and that's fine, apparently, but Iran cannot?
June 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So, a country that commits genocide can have a completely unregulated nuclear weapons programme (based on science that it stole from other countries) and that's fine, apparently, but Iran cannot?