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Art Historian, researcher, London.
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Also - if you have to constantly flex your supposed intelligence, then really, there should be immediate alarm bells ringing. All the smartest people I've ever known wear their genius lightly. Cummings sports his like it's a pair of cheap, fluorescent leg warmers.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Also - if you have to constantly flex your supposed intelligence, then really, there should be immediate alarm bells ringing. All the smartest people I've ever known wear their genius lightly. Cummings sports his like it's a pair of cheap, fluorescent leg warmers.
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Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more
This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration
Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more
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Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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EXCLUSIVE- The Reform Conference Diary - Day 2
"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
THE REFORM CONFERENCE DIARY - DAY 2
More incredible undercover insights from deep inside the Reform machine
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September 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
EXCLUSIVE- The Reform Conference Diary - Day 2
"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Reform is not some unstoppable political force.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
Reform call Connolly "Britain's favourite political prisoner"
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
September 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reform is not some unstoppable political force.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
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Exactly this.
It was never about the mistake she made, as Tories have been doing this deliberately for decades.
Call it classism, sexism, punching down, whatever you like. It stinks.
#Rayner #Labour #BreakingNews
It was never about the mistake she made, as Tories have been doing this deliberately for decades.
Call it classism, sexism, punching down, whatever you like. It stinks.
#Rayner #Labour #BreakingNews
Angela Rayner gawn 😢😩
Whilst she did make a silly mistake, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the right wing media bullied her out of her position because she amongst their top most hated demographics (a northern, working class woman trying to improve workers’ rights).
Whilst she did make a silly mistake, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the right wing media bullied her out of her position because she amongst their top most hated demographics (a northern, working class woman trying to improve workers’ rights).
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Exactly this.
It was never about the mistake she made, as Tories have been doing this deliberately for decades.
Call it classism, sexism, punching down, whatever you like. It stinks.
#Rayner #Labour #BreakingNews
It was never about the mistake she made, as Tories have been doing this deliberately for decades.
Call it classism, sexism, punching down, whatever you like. It stinks.
#Rayner #Labour #BreakingNews
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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Nick Robinson just asked John Curtice if the BBC giving a platform to Farage & Reform was responsible for their popularity; presumably hoping to hear the polling guru say a resounding "no".
Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it"
So the answer's clearly yes.
#r4today
Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it"
So the answer's clearly yes.
#r4today
September 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Nick Robinson just asked John Curtice if the BBC giving a platform to Farage & Reform was responsible for their popularity; presumably hoping to hear the polling guru say a resounding "no".
Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it"
So the answer's clearly yes.
#r4today
Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it"
So the answer's clearly yes.
#r4today
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James, why is there a media blackout in regard to Farages humiliation in congress yesterday?
September 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
James, why is there a media blackout in regard to Farages humiliation in congress yesterday?
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The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.
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Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
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Some ppl think the broadcast coverage parties get is down to some sort of science. Actually decisions are made by a few people. At one time they’d say it was seat numbers now it seems it’s polls as the measure. Either way we’re not hearing ALL our parties. Sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Some ppl think the broadcast coverage parties get is down to some sort of science. Actually decisions are made by a few people. At one time they’d say it was seat numbers now it seems it’s polls as the measure. Either way we’re not hearing ALL our parties. Sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
My friend worked in a hostel where a 15 year old used to spend their tiny allowance on tins of soup for his mother, his sole relation, because she was having chemo for terminal cancer and could not eat the food the hostel provided
In my pre-Bellingcat days, I worked for an organisation that housed asylum seekers, and I'd challenge anyone who think they get an easy time to spend a few months living in the same conditions and see how they feel about it then.
When I did a story on conditions in migrant hotels, there was a woman who would have to wash the spicy sauce off the pasta - in the sink - because there was no meal suitable for her toddler. She felt like a bad mum who couldn’t feed her own child
July 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My friend worked in a hostel where a 15 year old used to spend their tiny allowance on tins of soup for his mother, his sole relation, because she was having chemo for terminal cancer and could not eat the food the hostel provided
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Taking a break from my child sex trafficking scandal to condemn the lack of manners among starving kids these days
July 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Taking a break from my child sex trafficking scandal to condemn the lack of manners among starving kids these days
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Among the many things wrong with this is the nudge nudge use of the word “jihad”
I think President Macron overstates his case about the role of Brexit in the small boats.
Former PM Johnson obvs knows this is a lunatic conspiracy theory so it is interesting that he + the Daily Mail think it such a great lark to put his name to it
One of his weakest alibis for his own failure
Former PM Johnson obvs knows this is a lunatic conspiracy theory so it is interesting that he + the Daily Mail think it such a great lark to put his name to it
One of his weakest alibis for his own failure
July 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Among the many things wrong with this is the nudge nudge use of the word “jihad”
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Literally any other military operation was more complex and secretive.
Hegseth: "President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success."
Move over D Day!
Move over D Day!
June 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Literally any other military operation was more complex and secretive.
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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Contemporary Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari focuses on themes of identity and portrays mysterious narratives in her artworks #womensart
May 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Contemporary Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari focuses on themes of identity and portrays mysterious narratives in her artworks #womensart
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Not sure why #bbcwato thought we needed to hear any of the unhinged, genocidal thoughts of Sebastian Gorka, a "deputy assistant to Trump and senior director for counterterrorism", let alone for *seven minutes*. Quite bizarre.
Notably #WATO didn't point he's a far-right media pundit.
Notably #WATO didn't point he's a far-right media pundit.
May 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today, I have mostly been a Nigel Farage tribute act.
May 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today, I have mostly been a Nigel Farage tribute act.
Listen to the UK doctor talking about his personal experience in Gaza at 13.09 minutes in and then Gorka’s spewed hatred straight afterwards
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Listen to the UK doctor talking about his personal experience in Gaza at 13.09 minutes in and then Gorka’s spewed hatred straight afterwards
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Totally appalling interview on the BBC radio programme The World at One, just now. Sebastian Gorka, representing the Trump administration, failed to answer a single question from Sarah Montague and instead used the opportunity to hurl abuse at her.
No idea why the BBC producer didn’t turn Gorka off
No idea why the BBC producer didn’t turn Gorka off
May 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Totally appalling interview on the BBC radio programme The World at One, just now. Sebastian Gorka, representing the Trump administration, failed to answer a single question from Sarah Montague and instead used the opportunity to hurl abuse at her.
No idea why the BBC producer didn’t turn Gorka off
No idea why the BBC producer didn’t turn Gorka off