Slowmo
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Laid back and left wing working in UK local government, here for a chat more than an argument. Like #Books, #Music, #Politics, #Hiking, #Green issues, ellipsis...
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
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NEWS! 'It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they're less than 1% of the Parliamentary population' confirms public newsthump.com/2025/10/28/i...
‘It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they’re less than 1% of the Parliamentary population’ confirms public
The public have today confirmed they are sick and tired of seeing Reform UK politicians plastered all over their TV screens despite them making up less than 1% of the parliamentary population. Refo…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
NEWS! 'It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they're less than 1% of the Parliamentary population' confirms public newsthump.com/2025/10/28/i...
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Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon
There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London: "People will be wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multicultural, successful, diverse city. It seems to me that I’m living rent free inside Donald Trump’s head."
September 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London: "People will be wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multicultural, successful, diverse city. It seems to me that I’m living rent free inside Donald Trump’s head."
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The reason they come for comedians early is that a comic license is surprisingly easy to revoke. You just have to stop laughing.
Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength.
They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.
Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength.
They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.
September 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The reason they come for comedians early is that a comic license is surprisingly easy to revoke. You just have to stop laughing.
Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength.
They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.
Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength.
They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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Breaking News: 500 absolute wrong'uns arrested:
August 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Breaking News: 500 absolute wrong'uns arrested:
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MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
August 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
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I sometimes forget how spectacular Skegness can be.
August 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I sometimes forget how spectacular Skegness can be.
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NEWS! Brave patriots protest outside Turnberry after hearing hotel is housing a foreign sex offender who socialised with a convicted people trafficker newsthump.com/2025/07/26/b...
Brave patriots protest outside Turnberry after hearing hotel is housing a foreign sex offender who socialised with a convicted people trafficker
A group of patriotic protestors have set up outside Turnberry after they heard that a foreign sex offender was being put up there at a cost of millions of pounds to the taxpayer.
newsthump.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEWS! Brave patriots protest outside Turnberry after hearing hotel is housing a foreign sex offender who socialised with a convicted people trafficker newsthump.com/2025/07/26/b...
Day off, so I a leisurely ride along the Grantham Canal, which looking fine today #BikeSky, #Nottingham, #Cycling, #GranthamCanal
July 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Day off, so I a leisurely ride along the Grantham Canal, which looking fine today #BikeSky, #Nottingham, #Cycling, #GranthamCanal
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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These are the Heard & McDonald Islands. They are 4000km south of Perth, Australia and 2000km kilometres north of Antarctica.
Pictured here is the islands’
International Trade Committee, which is meeting in an emergency session tonight.
Pictured here is the islands’
International Trade Committee, which is meeting in an emergency session tonight.
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
These are the Heard & McDonald Islands. They are 4000km south of Perth, Australia and 2000km kilometres north of Antarctica.
Pictured here is the islands’
International Trade Committee, which is meeting in an emergency session tonight.
Pictured here is the islands’
International Trade Committee, which is meeting in an emergency session tonight.
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The Trump administration has just announced a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. 🤡
April 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Trump administration has just announced a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. 🤡
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Today in 1881 the good people of Basingstoke fought a pitched battle against the Salvation Army, who were campaigning for temperance.
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today in 1881 the good people of Basingstoke fought a pitched battle against the Salvation Army, who were campaigning for temperance.