Oliver
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Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
Lionel Shriver tells those of us who live here what our country looks like if you leave it + rely on the media ecosystem of the very online right as a proxy for reality
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
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Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'.
Ed Miliband:
Ed Miliband:
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'.
Ed Miliband:
Ed Miliband:
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🎵 All in all it's just another brick in the wall. 🎵
TRUMP: ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS
June 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🎵 All in all it's just another brick in the wall. 🎵
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Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
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But it's just so much easier to dismiss the entire world as "neoliberal" and pretend we can magically raise huge amounts of tax from Other People.
You get way more likes on social media that way.
But you won't ever deliver any change.
You get way more likes on social media that way.
But you won't ever deliver any change.
June 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
But it's just so much easier to dismiss the entire world as "neoliberal" and pretend we can magically raise huge amounts of tax from Other People.
You get way more likes on social media that way.
But you won't ever deliver any change.
You get way more likes on social media that way.
But you won't ever deliver any change.
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Salmon the king of pinks, obvs
Languedoc Roussillon would like to educate you on all the different colours of rosé
June 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Salmon the king of pinks, obvs
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Just shows how misinfo is weaponised. Even working class repeat Labour’s tax rises were bad because millionaires left Britain
There were 10,900 news pieces across print
Of the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires
There were 10,900 news pieces across print
Of the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires
Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals - Tax Justice Network
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
taxjustice.net
June 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just shows how misinfo is weaponised. Even working class repeat Labour’s tax rises were bad because millionaires left Britain
There were 10,900 news pieces across print
Of the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires
There were 10,900 news pieces across print
Of the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires
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The man who has never accepted responsibility, apologized, or admitted a mistake in his entire life isn’t about to start now.
April 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The man who has never accepted responsibility, apologized, or admitted a mistake in his entire life isn’t about to start now.
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Nigel Farage has just revealed another past life, apparently in the metal industry, on BBC1. Is it possible he has just always been alive.
April 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Nigel Farage has just revealed another past life, apparently in the metal industry, on BBC1. Is it possible he has just always been alive.
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"Name?"
"Mark Carney."
"Full name?"
"Mark Carney."
"Full name?"
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"Name?"
"Mark Carney."
"Full name?"
"Mark Carney."
"Full name?"
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So, which is it?
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
March 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So, which is it?
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
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The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
March 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
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This isn’t happening in a theocracy or a far-flung dictatorship. This is happening in the European Union.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ population
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This isn’t happening in a theocracy or a far-flung dictatorship. This is happening in the European Union.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights
Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
l.euronews.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
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So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
March 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
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How many hedge fund managers operate 'with integrity'...?
Crispin Odey fined £1.8m and banned from City for ‘lack of integrity’
The Financial Conduct Authority said Mr Odey ‘repeatedly sought to evade and obstruct efforts to hold him to account’.
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
How many hedge fund managers operate 'with integrity'...?
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I just saw a Cybertruck with a "Baby on Board" sticker and thought that was very self-aware of the owner.
March 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I just saw a Cybertruck with a "Baby on Board" sticker and thought that was very self-aware of the owner.
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Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
March 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
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I hear Nigel Farage is declining interview requests. First time for everything, I suppose. I suspect he’ll eventually speak to whoever is least likely to challenge him properly.
February 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I hear Nigel Farage is declining interview requests. First time for everything, I suppose. I suspect he’ll eventually speak to whoever is least likely to challenge him properly.
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Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart's memoir looks set to put firecrackers under Westminster... 🧨🧨
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart's memoir looks set to put firecrackers under Westminster... 🧨🧨
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
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Deceased 🤣💀
February 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Deceased 🤣💀
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Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics.
Putin's best week in years.
Putin's best week in years.
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics.
Putin's best week in years.
Putin's best week in years.