Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
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An example of how the most toxic racists on X are much encouraged by Rupert Lowe's words to promote images of violence + terrorism + and to make racist deportation threats to any and all British-born citizens who are ethnic minorities, including me.
December 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
An example of how the most toxic racists on X are much encouraged by Rupert Lowe's words to promote images of violence + terrorism + and to make racist deportation threats to any and all British-born citizens who are ethnic minorities, including me.
Rupert Lowe repeats his belief that "whole communities" need to be deported from the UK - attacking Nigel Farage for saying Lowe went too far by using that "whole communities" language to propose that all British Pakistanis needed to be deported from the UK.
December 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Rupert Lowe repeats his belief that "whole communities" need to be deported from the UK - attacking Nigel Farage for saying Lowe went too far by using that "whole communities" language to propose that all British Pakistanis needed to be deported from the UK.
Writing a short column previewing 2026. What kind of year is it going to be?
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Writing a short column previewing 2026. What kind of year is it going to be?
Perhaps the Test teams should play a 40 over One Day International if the Test finishes without any play on day three or four. (These sides could play a second 3 day Test on this Melbourne pitch!)
December 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Perhaps the Test teams should play a 40 over One Day International if the Test finishes without any play on day three or four. (These sides could play a second 3 day Test on this Melbourne pitch!)
England win a two-day Test in Australia - their first Test win in Australia for 15 years! Trail 3-1 in the series with one Test to play
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
England survive MCG mayhem to break Ashes drought in Australia with fourth Test victory
Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett make flying start as tourists charge to four-wicket win inside two days on a spicy pitch at the MCG
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
England win a two-day Test in Australia - their first Test win in Australia for 15 years! Trail 3-1 in the series with one Test to play
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
The second day of the Melbourne Test about to begin.
England kept the first innings Australian lead down to 42 runs!
England kept the first innings Australian lead down to 42 runs!
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The second day of the Melbourne Test about to begin.
England kept the first innings Australian lead down to 42 runs!
England kept the first innings Australian lead down to 42 runs!
Egypt are through with 6 points from 2 very narrow African Cup of Nations victories. What South Africa need against Zimbabwe depends on the Angola v Zimbabwe result, but they seem quite likely to make the last 16 too
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Egypt are through with 6 points from 2 very narrow African Cup of Nations victories. What South Africa need against Zimbabwe depends on the Angola v Zimbabwe result, but they seem quite likely to make the last 16 too
The view in Billericay - unlike the Channel 4 commentary - was that was not a penalty to South Africa. Ref looked at the monitor, then didn't give it
December 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The view in Billericay - unlike the Channel 4 commentary - was that was not a penalty to South Africa. Ref looked at the monitor, then didn't give it
"Read the bloody room" tweets Mr Braverman, who opposes the King's message of togetherness, but strongly approves of President Trump!
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Read the bloody room" tweets Mr Braverman, who opposes the King's message of togetherness, but strongly approves of President Trump!
The long-term decline of Christmas Day television audiences, a trend bucked by 12.3 million live (rising to 20 million total) for Gavin & Stacey last year
The King's speech got 10.6 million in 2022 - his first - which was the peak in the last 20 years for the monarch's Christmas day speech.
The King's speech got 10.6 million in 2022 - his first - which was the peak in the last 20 years for the monarch's Christmas day speech.
December 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The long-term decline of Christmas Day television audiences, a trend bucked by 12.3 million live (rising to 20 million total) for Gavin & Stacey last year
The King's speech got 10.6 million in 2022 - his first - which was the peak in the last 20 years for the monarch's Christmas day speech.
The King's speech got 10.6 million in 2022 - his first - which was the peak in the last 20 years for the monarch's Christmas day speech.
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Cromwell also not exactly a fan of pub landlords...
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cromwell also not exactly a fan of pub landlords...
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Yeah, but at least Oliver Cromwell never took a Premier League football club into administration.
December 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Yeah, but at least Oliver Cromwell never took a Premier League football club into administration.
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"Only Prince George by some miracle of history could salvage this wreck one day if he has unrestricted TikTok access."
Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Only Prince George by some miracle of history could salvage this wreck one day if he has unrestricted TikTok access."
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Incidentally, I am absolutely not Team Cromwell, but justice compels me to point out that it was Cromwell who allowed Jews to resettle in England and to openly practice their faith, and I doubt he’d have had much time for this lot.
Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!
December 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Incidentally, I am absolutely not Team Cromwell, but justice compels me to point out that it was Cromwell who allowed Jews to resettle in England and to openly practice their faith, and I doubt he’d have had much time for this lot.
Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk didn't like the King's message. Danczuk got 6% as the Reform candidate in the Feb 2024 by-election, though the parry got 17% just 4 months later once they did not select this disgraced ex-MP. He got < 2% as the incumbent & an independent in 2017
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk didn't like the King's message. Danczuk got 6% as the Reform candidate in the Feb 2024 by-election, though the parry got 17% just 4 months later once they did not select this disgraced ex-MP. He got < 2% as the incumbent & an independent in 2017
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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The really sad thing is that being associated with Liz Truss is now probably more damaging to the Neo-Nazi brand than vice versa.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The really sad thing is that being associated with Liz Truss is now probably more damaging to the Neo-Nazi brand than vice versa.
Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!
Enoch Powell sharply criticised Queen Eluzabeth II's Christmas broadcast of 1983 - featuring a trip to the Commonwealth summit in India - which may "suggest she has the affairs & interests in other continents as much, or more, at heart than those of her own people" & too concerned for newcomers here
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Enoch Powell sharply criticised Queen Eluzabeth II's Christmas broadcast of 1983 - featuring a trip to the Commonwealth summit in India - which may "suggest she has the affairs & interests in other continents as much, or more, at heart than those of her own people" & too concerned for newcomers here
"Give it a rest" posted podcaster Connor Tomlinson at 3.15pm on Christmas Day about the King's message
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
December 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"Give it a rest" posted podcaster Connor Tomlinson at 3.15pm on Christmas Day about the King's message
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
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Following the King's address, the combined choir of "Songs for Ukraine" and the Royal Opera House Choir performed the English version of the Ukrainian song "Shchedryk," known as "Carol of the Bells."
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Following the King's address, the combined choir of "Songs for Ukraine" and the Royal Opera House Choir performed the English version of the Ukrainian song "Shchedryk," known as "Carol of the Bells."
The Boxing Day test begins shortly, with England out of the series & hoping to salvage some pride.
In v similar circs in 2006, the fourth test did not go well, but England were 100-2 before collapsing to 159 all out. That tour was 0-5.
In v similar circs in 2006, the fourth test did not go well, but England were 100-2 before collapsing to 159 all out. That tour was 0-5.
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Boxing Day test begins shortly, with England out of the series & hoping to salvage some pride.
In v similar circs in 2006, the fourth test did not go well, but England were 100-2 before collapsing to 159 all out. That tour was 0-5.
In v similar circs in 2006, the fourth test did not go well, but England were 100-2 before collapsing to 159 all out. That tour was 0-5.
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I saw most of this. I’d only just started going to games when Clough arrived. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t immediately start winning and my dad patiently explained why these things take time.
That was in the days when managers were given time.
That was in the days when managers were given time.
RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
John Robertson, Nottingham Forest and Scotland legend, dies aged 72
John Robertson, part of Brian Clough’s famous Nottingham Forest side and a former Scotland international, has died at the age of 72
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I saw most of this. I’d only just started going to games when Clough arrived. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t immediately start winning and my dad patiently explained why these things take time.
That was in the days when managers were given time.
That was in the days when managers were given time.
RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
John Robertson, Nottingham Forest and Scotland legend, dies aged 72
John Robertson, part of Brian Clough’s famous Nottingham Forest side and a former Scotland international, has died at the age of 72
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Courage, sacrifice and communities coming together in adversity "are the values which have shaped our country and the Commonwealth. As we hear of division, both at home and abroad, they are the values of which we must never lose sight", says the King in his televised Christmas Day message
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Courage, sacrifice and communities coming together in adversity "are the values which have shaped our country and the Commonwealth. As we hear of division, both at home and abroad, they are the values of which we must never lose sight", says the King in his televised Christmas Day message