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Alistair Smailes 🍉
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One of the “woke lefty elite” apparently running the world. Who knew? Old enough to have seen it all, young enough to still have things to do.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Fellow Londoner here.

We realise that Trump hates us but, at the same time, he's a sex offender and best mates with a nonce... actually, many nonces.

We don't generally care what anyone thinks of us but... y'know... kids.

Now release the Epstein Files.
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.

Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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No lies detected from The Great Jon Stewart 👇

#ResistTrump
May 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Our monthly conversations on key issues facing our society continue - this time it's the housing crisis - with author and journalist Vicky Spratt and our own Faiza Shaheen.
Monday night in Woodford - entry is free - sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1353566276...
How do we solve the housing crisis?
Faiza Shaheen in conversation with Vicky Spratt
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Liz Truss: 'i killed the Queen'

JD Vance: 'hold my lettuce'
April 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Netanyahu is a war criminal
March 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You couldn’t make it up!
Isabel Oakeshott who spent years complaining of immigrants coming to the UK and not speaking English

Has moved to Dubai, where she's an immigrant, and doesn't speak Arabic 🤷‍♂️
January 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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History is there for us to learn from…
November 28, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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America's red lines:

- Violent insurrection
- 34 felony convictions
- Liable for sexual abuse
- Profound corruption
- Chronic incoherence
- Chaotic incompetence
- Unable to explain a single policy
- Signs of cognitive failure

Sorry, I meant: America's red lines:

- Being a woman
November 6, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Have you been following the Teesworks scandal story? Peter Morris summaries the multiple failures that led up to it:

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
The multiple failures that led to Teesworks scandal
Analysis by Peter Morris
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 1, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Wall-to-wall coverage of a millionaire’s superyacht sinking yet, while I obviously sympathise with all the families and don’t underestimate their pain, if that was a boat full of poor people the media would have moved on by now to an octopus predicting the premier league winner.
August 21, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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They butter not change it!
August 14, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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The 89th anniversary of Social Security is a good day to remember that Trump tried to slash the program in every year of his presidency.
August 14, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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August 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Shell is trying to silence #Greenpeace through a multi-million dollar claim for damages after a peaceful protest. It’s a disgusting move - please sign the open letter to Shell suggesting they think again about their course of action. #shell #climate
action.greenpeace.org.uk/shell-open-l...
Shell: your lawsuit is an outrage!
Tell Shell their intimidation lawsuit against us is disgraceful. Sign the open letter now.
action.greenpeace.org.uk
March 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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I'm going to track down as many of you as I can. Please could people repost me, so others can see I am here - and I can find them, and them me. Blue skies, herds of unicorns and sunlit uplands beckon. Oh...and another two Tory candidates bite the dust, I understand 👍👍👍
October 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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Yep.
October 28, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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I think this is desperately needed
October 28, 2023 at 12:56 PM
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The Tories want to lower taxes for the most wealthy not to help win the next election, they know they've lost. It's in the hope Labour will have to reverse it and sew the seeds for winning again in 2029.
October 21, 2023 at 10:45 AM
What’s the betting it’s another of Suella’s “dreams”? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
Surgeon treating patients in Gaza says police in London ‘harassed’ his family
Prof Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has a practice in UK capital, claims it is a ‘brutal attempt at silencing us’
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2023 at 12:33 PM
The company this government keeps!
Interesting to know that people in seventeenth-century France (well, the Cardinal de Richelieu at any rate) were already complaining about too many people, especially the lower classes, going to university and studying the ‘wrong’ kind of subjects. Source: R J Knecht, Richelieu (1991), p. 154.
October 17, 2023 at 10:56 AM