@pastyface43.bsky.social
Living in murder mile according to the Daily Mail
I can’t believe this was 30 years ago.
My friend and I left our Canary Wharf office that Friday night to go for a drink. Got to the doors then the explosion hit. What stays with me is the amount of dust in the air and the two newsagents who died over at South Quay
My friend and I left our Canary Wharf office that Friday night to go for a drink. Got to the doors then the explosion hit. What stays with me is the amount of dust in the air and the two newsagents who died over at South Quay
Thirty years on, our thoughts are with the Londoners whose lives were stolen or forever changed by the Docklands terror attack.
Let today be a symbol not just of remembrance, but of hope – for a future free of hatred, violence, and fear.
Let today be a symbol not just of remembrance, but of hope – for a future free of hatred, violence, and fear.
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I can’t believe this was 30 years ago.
My friend and I left our Canary Wharf office that Friday night to go for a drink. Got to the doors then the explosion hit. What stays with me is the amount of dust in the air and the two newsagents who died over at South Quay
My friend and I left our Canary Wharf office that Friday night to go for a drink. Got to the doors then the explosion hit. What stays with me is the amount of dust in the air and the two newsagents who died over at South Quay
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Nigel Farage’s rant against working from home highlights a big problem for Reform: it knows how to pander to retirees but hasn’t the faintest idea how to speak to workers.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
What Farage fails to understand about working from home
Being chained to the office desk, going to the pub and only getting home once the kids were asleep might have been acceptable in the Eighties
spectator.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Nigel Farage’s rant against working from home highlights a big problem for Reform: it knows how to pander to retirees but hasn’t the faintest idea how to speak to workers.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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How you get from massive victory to complete mess in 18 months is a story that should be studied for years
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
How you get from massive victory to complete mess in 18 months is a story that should be studied for years
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Significant, even if unsurprising.
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Significant, even if unsurprising.
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Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
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Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.
In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.
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You run a real classy shop, Bezos.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
You run a real classy shop, Bezos.
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Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress' ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents and family members under threat of criminal charges — thanks to how Republicans threatened the Clintons — and they plan to use it against Trump.
February 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress' ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents and family members under threat of criminal charges — thanks to how Republicans threatened the Clintons — and they plan to use it against Trump.
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WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
February 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
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This really shouldn't surprise anyone.
February 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
This really shouldn't surprise anyone.
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Nigel Farage appears to have changed his mind
January 26, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Nigel Farage appears to have changed his mind
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🚨 "Advocates of Brexit, ought to apologise for taking us into a world where we are now entirely isolated.
We cannot rely on the US. We've got a Russian aggressor on our doorstep. We're now out of the room when European decisions are taken."
Closer relations with the EU are vital for our security.
We cannot rely on the US. We've got a Russian aggressor on our doorstep. We're now out of the room when European decisions are taken."
Closer relations with the EU are vital for our security.
January 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
🚨 "Advocates of Brexit, ought to apologise for taking us into a world where we are now entirely isolated.
We cannot rely on the US. We've got a Russian aggressor on our doorstep. We're now out of the room when European decisions are taken."
Closer relations with the EU are vital for our security.
We cannot rely on the US. We've got a Russian aggressor on our doorstep. We're now out of the room when European decisions are taken."
Closer relations with the EU are vital for our security.
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MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Remember this.
Remember this.
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Remember this.
Remember this.
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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Remember that crazy period of completely made-up, bullshit claims of “left wing censorship , thought policing, and cancel culture” from like three years ago?
Good times…
Good times…
The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students
Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times
Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.
arktimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Remember that crazy period of completely made-up, bullshit claims of “left wing censorship , thought policing, and cancel culture” from like three years ago?
Good times…
Good times…
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Robert Jenrick asked why he lied last week when he told the Telegraph that he would "never, ever" defect to Reform.
Jenrick replies that joining Reform was "the most honest thing" he could have done.
Jenrick replies that joining Reform was "the most honest thing" he could have done.
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Robert Jenrick asked why he lied last week when he told the Telegraph that he would "never, ever" defect to Reform.
Jenrick replies that joining Reform was "the most honest thing" he could have done.
Jenrick replies that joining Reform was "the most honest thing" he could have done.
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Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
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Labour's message at the next election will be pretty clear: the Tories wrecked the country for 14 years, don't let the same people back in to do it all again.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
Robert Jenrick Becomes Latest Big-Name Tory To Defect To Reform UK
The former cabinet minister jumped ship after being sacked by Kemi Badenoch.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Labour's message at the next election will be pretty clear: the Tories wrecked the country for 14 years, don't let the same people back in to do it all again.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
Paging the Labour Party
Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Paging the Labour Party
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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@roberthutton.co.uk is a national treasure...
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
@roberthutton.co.uk is a national treasure...
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Imagine Keir Starmer gave a speech and said Tunbridge Wells was a shithole. Why do right wing politicians get a free pass on slagging off the country they’re trying to represent?
Farage says Sadiq Khan is "deluded" to think London is the greatest city in the world.
Not sure that's the best way to appeal to Londoners at a press conference designed to appeal to Londoners.
Not sure that's the best way to appeal to Londoners at a press conference designed to appeal to Londoners.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Imagine Keir Starmer gave a speech and said Tunbridge Wells was a shithole. Why do right wing politicians get a free pass on slagging off the country they’re trying to represent?
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I had forgotten this, but it is consistent with Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskyy into dangerous concessions to Putin. It should be (yet another) alarm signal to European leaders - Trump's goals in Ukraine may be the opposite of Europe's.
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 11:22 AM
I had forgotten this, but it is consistent with Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskyy into dangerous concessions to Putin. It should be (yet another) alarm signal to European leaders - Trump's goals in Ukraine may be the opposite of Europe's.