Anne M
@mulrain.bsky.social
Likes people, cats, art, law, music, theatre, opera, travel, Europe and the NHS.
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Holy shit. Fucking incredible movie.
Trenchant, riveting, gut-wrenching, occasionally hilarious, strangely moving. My heart was pounding in my chest for most of this.
One of the best films of the year. Maybe THE best.
Just because a repressive regime ends doesn’t mean its effects are over.
Trenchant, riveting, gut-wrenching, occasionally hilarious, strangely moving. My heart was pounding in my chest for most of this.
One of the best films of the year. Maybe THE best.
Just because a repressive regime ends doesn’t mean its effects are over.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Holy shit. Fucking incredible movie.
Trenchant, riveting, gut-wrenching, occasionally hilarious, strangely moving. My heart was pounding in my chest for most of this.
One of the best films of the year. Maybe THE best.
Just because a repressive regime ends doesn’t mean its effects are over.
Trenchant, riveting, gut-wrenching, occasionally hilarious, strangely moving. My heart was pounding in my chest for most of this.
One of the best films of the year. Maybe THE best.
Just because a repressive regime ends doesn’t mean its effects are over.
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I just can't get over the fact that the guy who gave this quote is 45. It would be embarrassing for all involved if this quote came from the *current* under-14 chess champion, but from an adult...I worry I've ruptured something from cringing so hard.
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I just can't get over the fact that the guy who gave this quote is 45. It would be embarrassing for all involved if this quote came from the *current* under-14 chess champion, but from an adult...I worry I've ruptured something from cringing so hard.
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Who benefits from changes made in this budget?
Low-income families with children, particularly with three or more children, are clear winners.
In 2028-29, a low-wage single parent with 3 children who receives UC will be £4,960 per year better off, thanks to the removal of the two-child limit.
Low-income families with children, particularly with three or more children, are clear winners.
In 2028-29, a low-wage single parent with 3 children who receives UC will be £4,960 per year better off, thanks to the removal of the two-child limit.
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Who benefits from changes made in this budget?
Low-income families with children, particularly with three or more children, are clear winners.
In 2028-29, a low-wage single parent with 3 children who receives UC will be £4,960 per year better off, thanks to the removal of the two-child limit.
Low-income families with children, particularly with three or more children, are clear winners.
In 2028-29, a low-wage single parent with 3 children who receives UC will be £4,960 per year better off, thanks to the removal of the two-child limit.
George will assault Amber and Brad will then blame himself for not reporting what he saw.
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
George will assault Amber and Brad will then blame himself for not reporting what he saw.
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London is full of incredible spots to discover, and Next Stop is all about celebrating them.
At MATCHADO I got a closer look at the craft behind matcha and learned what makes their take on Japanese tea culture so special 🍵
At MATCHADO I got a closer look at the craft behind matcha and learned what makes their take on Japanese tea culture so special 🍵
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
London is full of incredible spots to discover, and Next Stop is all about celebrating them.
At MATCHADO I got a closer look at the craft behind matcha and learned what makes their take on Japanese tea culture so special 🍵
At MATCHADO I got a closer look at the craft behind matcha and learned what makes their take on Japanese tea culture so special 🍵
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In London we’ve seen a record number of e-bike and e-scooter fires this year – with most taking place in people’s homes.
Ahead of Black Friday, LFB is urging Londoners to be aware of the dangers of e-bike conversion kits and encouraging them to shop with reputable retailers.
Ahead of Black Friday, LFB is urging Londoners to be aware of the dangers of e-bike conversion kits and encouraging them to shop with reputable retailers.
E-bike fire warnings shown on Piccadilly Circus billboard
The London Fire Brigade has warned fire from e-bike batteries are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In London we’ve seen a record number of e-bike and e-scooter fires this year – with most taking place in people’s homes.
Ahead of Black Friday, LFB is urging Londoners to be aware of the dangers of e-bike conversion kits and encouraging them to shop with reputable retailers.
Ahead of Black Friday, LFB is urging Londoners to be aware of the dangers of e-bike conversion kits and encouraging them to shop with reputable retailers.
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
This is a must read.
Excellent piece on Mohamed Rasool, quite possibly the worst landlord in London, and who ended up in prison for two years for contempt of court for making re-entry injunction applications, claiming illegal eviction, for properties he had nothing to do with.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mohamed-raso...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mohamed-raso...
How a rogue landlord built an empire in London’s poshest streets
‘In 35 years, I can confidently say I’ve never seen anyone like Rasool’
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is a must read.
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Ok the FT politics podcast, George Parker explains that the next director general of the BBC should be George Osborne, on account of he “took editing the [now basically defunct] Evening Standard quite seriously” and “would be harder for the Tory right to criticise”. Unbelievable scenes really
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ok the FT politics podcast, George Parker explains that the next director general of the BBC should be George Osborne, on account of he “took editing the [now basically defunct] Evening Standard quite seriously” and “would be harder for the Tory right to criticise”. Unbelievable scenes really
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Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
How many prisoners are released by mistake?
Politicians and the public have reacted with fury after it emerged a second and third prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth - but it's not as rare as some might think.
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
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After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
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In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.
Needs a new editor badly.
Needs a new editor badly.
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.
Needs a new editor badly.
Needs a new editor badly.
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Well I can't stand here chatting about Torsten's chair all day, I've got a busy afternoon ahead photoshopping minorities out of adverts.
Love and light,
GB
Love and light,
GB
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Well I can't stand here chatting about Torsten's chair all day, I've got a busy afternoon ahead photoshopping minorities out of adverts.
Love and light,
GB
Love and light,
GB
Absolutely 100% this 👇
All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Absolutely 100% this 👇
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Obviously this is mad but it is very funny that YG did poll it not least because of the wave of ‘send the younguns to the army’ nonsense we had to put up with last year.
Should there be national service for Boomers?
A German think tank has called for 1yr of "mandatory social service" for all new retires - a move Britons would oppose for the UK
Support: 14%
Oppose: 73%
18-24yr olds: -43 net support
25-49: -58
50-64: -70
65+: -53
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
A German think tank has called for 1yr of "mandatory social service" for all new retires - a move Britons would oppose for the UK
Support: 14%
Oppose: 73%
18-24yr olds: -43 net support
25-49: -58
50-64: -70
65+: -53
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Obviously this is mad but it is very funny that YG did poll it not least because of the wave of ‘send the younguns to the army’ nonsense we had to put up with last year.
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if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future
October 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme www.politicshome.com/news/article...
BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme
The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...
www.politicshome.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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Farage to send troops into war ravaged Islington and to declare the Fabians a terrorist organisation.
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️
Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Farage to send troops into war ravaged Islington and to declare the Fabians a terrorist organisation.
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Looks like a big win for Maia Sandu‘s PAS in Moldova today, probably on course for an absolute majority of seats, similar to 2021. Good news for Moldova‘s EU accession. 🇲🇩🗳️
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Looks like a big win for Maia Sandu‘s PAS in Moldova today, probably on course for an absolute majority of seats, similar to 2021. Good news for Moldova‘s EU accession. 🇲🇩🗳️