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You're telling me
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Please, just a little bit of child poverty reduced and a nicer public realm, for a treat
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Does anyone know of any collated account of the total number and list of those who were convicted for primarily online content in July-August 2024?
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
How much were his socks? I quite like his socks
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament

O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims

Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Amazing scenes
The reason for sports to be sex segregated is purely and entirely because of women winning them btw. Biathalon for instance used to not be, then a woman won a race and within 2 weeks there was a sex separation. It is fragile men who made it this way.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Monday
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Same energy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.

This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.

Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It'll be Amol Rajan of course
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Also what stands out to me that the last three Director Generals have ended up resigning. A tricky role.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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An emerging theme of my Substack is that the arguments the Populist Right adopt can sometimes have 'something in them', but that they are the worst people to advance them with their constant simplism, emotional button pushing, owning the other side, and taking things to extremes.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing regains consciousness
Rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing regains consciousness
A train crew member who was seriously injured while trying to protect passengers during a mass stabbing has regained consciousness.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Poor Bagpuss.
Michel Pigneres Egg Chair with a cushion upholstered in Luigi Bevilacqua pink tiger print fabric.

Image: Maison Cedric, Paris
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Film review time!

Bugonia - wild and eccentric, dark

Great soundtrack
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I really can't be doing with any of the defund the BBC chuds
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Look, I do *try* and be very not "he looks the type" but, well...
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM