Sawmillbloke
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Ahem
The Trois Domaines produced a reassuringly cheap rosé wine labelled “La Hune”. After checking that it was drinkable, I bought several bottles to present to visitors next year in a deliberate pretence that somehow or other it is our own product.
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The Trois Domaines produced a reassuringly cheap rosé wine labelled “La Hune”. After checking that it was drinkable, I bought several bottles to present to visitors next year in a deliberate pretence that somehow or other it is our own product.
clement.co.uk/spiritual-co...
October 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ahem
The Trois Domaines produced a reassuringly cheap rosé wine labelled “La Hune”. After checking that it was drinkable, I bought several bottles to present to visitors next year in a deliberate pretence that somehow or other it is our own product.
clement.co.uk/spiritual-co...
The Trois Domaines produced a reassuringly cheap rosé wine labelled “La Hune”. After checking that it was drinkable, I bought several bottles to present to visitors next year in a deliberate pretence that somehow or other it is our own product.
clement.co.uk/spiritual-co...
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🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
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The part of the Alaska Summit we won't hear:
August 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The part of the Alaska Summit we won't hear:
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When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣
🐵 🥰
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July 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣
🐵 🥰
🐵 🥰
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1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
Meanwhile
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
July 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
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2. They all chortle along, and then suddenly they mean it. This is what we saw when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. It was still all one big laugh - cheer up, he isn't serious - then 200,000 people were dead with Covid.
July 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
2. They all chortle along, and then suddenly they mean it. This is what we saw when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. It was still all one big laugh - cheer up, he isn't serious - then 200,000 people were dead with Covid.
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It’s like they modeled one after the other.
July 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It’s like they modeled one after the other.
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Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
June 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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What are people making of this?
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
What are people making of this?
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wow. everything really was a pound.
June 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
wow. everything really was a pound.
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On 5 June 1975, we voted to stay in Europe.
It was a vote for peace, unity and shared purpose.
50 years on, the lessons still speak to us. ⤵️
It was a vote for peace, unity and shared purpose.
50 years on, the lessons still speak to us. ⤵️
What can the 1975 referendum teach us 50 years on?
Fifty years after Britain’s first Europe referendum, its lessons still echo through today’s political and cultural landscape
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
On 5 June 1975, we voted to stay in Europe.
It was a vote for peace, unity and shared purpose.
50 years on, the lessons still speak to us. ⤵️
It was a vote for peace, unity and shared purpose.
50 years on, the lessons still speak to us. ⤵️
Ahem
TRIPTYCH GROUTING QUARTIER: May 2025
I tried to take daylight pictures of the ghosts in the woods nearer the village and spent some time talking about the ghosts with the local priest, who thought I was mad.
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TRIPTYCH GROUTING QUARTIER: May 2025
I tried to take daylight pictures of the ghosts in the woods nearer the village and spent some time talking about the ghosts with the local priest, who thought I was mad.
open.substack.com/pub/lionelst...
TRIPTYCH GROUTING QUARTIER
May 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ahem
TRIPTYCH GROUTING QUARTIER: May 2025
I tried to take daylight pictures of the ghosts in the woods nearer the village and spent some time talking about the ghosts with the local priest, who thought I was mad.
open.substack.com/pub/lionelst...
TRIPTYCH GROUTING QUARTIER: May 2025
I tried to take daylight pictures of the ghosts in the woods nearer the village and spent some time talking about the ghosts with the local priest, who thought I was mad.
open.substack.com/pub/lionelst...
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The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
May 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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You can do it, yes you can, America.
May 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
You can do it, yes you can, America.
"This is the degrading ‘sovereignty’ to which the Brexiters have consigned us: an undignified attempt to duck and dive, to wheel and deal, to fawn, bluster, plead, and flatter. The figure who best represents post-Brexit Britain isn’t Drake, or Nelson, or Churchill. It’s Arthur Daley" - Chris Grey
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"This is the degrading ‘sovereignty’ to which the Brexiters have consigned us: an undignified attempt to duck and dive, to wheel and deal, to fawn, bluster, plead, and flatter. The figure who best represents post-Brexit Britain isn’t Drake, or Nelson, or Churchill. It’s Arthur Daley" - Chris Grey
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Why would you greet fallen soldiers when there are corrupt deals to be done with the Saudis at your golf course?
April 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Why would you greet fallen soldiers when there are corrupt deals to be done with the Saudis at your golf course?
Ahem,
"I got up groggily at around noon to be surprised by my daughters and a son-in-law for a birthday that I had momentarily forgotten."
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"I got up groggily at around noon to be surprised by my daughters and a son-in-law for a birthday that I had momentarily forgotten."
clement.co.uk/groggily-pou...
Clement
clement.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ahem,
"I got up groggily at around noon to be surprised by my daughters and a son-in-law for a birthday that I had momentarily forgotten."
clement.co.uk/groggily-pou...
"I got up groggily at around noon to be surprised by my daughters and a son-in-law for a birthday that I had momentarily forgotten."
clement.co.uk/groggily-pou...
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POLITICS.CO.UK: Labour MPs unite to slam Brexit as a 'disaster' and demand a bold reset with the EU, reigniting the debate on Britain's future relationship with Europe.
- by Josh Self
- by Josh Self
Labour MPs label Brexit a ‘disaster’ as government urged to intensify UK-EU reset - Politics.co.uk
MPs lined up to label Britain’s exit from the European Union a “disaster” in a House of Commons debate on Monday evening. Labour MP Stella Creasy vowed at the outset of her speech to speak plainly about the impact of Brexit, which she rubbished as “a disaster by anybody’s metric.” In one of several swipes... Read more »
www.politics.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
POLITICS.CO.UK: Labour MPs unite to slam Brexit as a 'disaster' and demand a bold reset with the EU, reigniting the debate on Britain's future relationship with Europe.
- by Josh Self
- by Josh Self
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...