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Claire
@wombledondog.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Book No 1 of 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(English translation)
Absolutely loved it. Quirky, rambling, confusing but ultimately beautiful.
Someone described the prose as feeling like they were being pulled along by the current of a river. And that's spot on
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(English translation)
Absolutely loved it. Quirky, rambling, confusing but ultimately beautiful.
Someone described the prose as feeling like they were being pulled along by the current of a river. And that's spot on
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"Enemies of the People".
There's a true fascist trope for you.
And yes, Trump actually posted this - on Truth Social.
There's a true fascist trope for you.
And yes, Trump actually posted this - on Truth Social.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Enemies of the People".
There's a true fascist trope for you.
And yes, Trump actually posted this - on Truth Social.
There's a true fascist trope for you.
And yes, Trump actually posted this - on Truth Social.
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Oh well. In for a penny and all that.
Trump is a cunt.
Trump is a cunt.
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Oh well. In for a penny and all that.
Trump is a cunt.
Trump is a cunt.
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*IF* you want to watch the show that @mrjamesob.bsky.social is talking of and DON'T want to monetise it for the, arguably mentally fragile, owner use the link that @sturdyalex.bsky.social has supplied 👍
If you are curious and want to watch The Liz Truss Show without boosting her figures or giving her ad revenue you can do so here. Share freely. yewtu.be/watch?v=PpH8...
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
*IF* you want to watch the show that @mrjamesob.bsky.social is talking of and DON'T want to monetise it for the, arguably mentally fragile, owner use the link that @sturdyalex.bsky.social has supplied 👍
This is the funniest post I've read in ages.
Then we have this - I call it The Delirium Desk - where Ms Truss does her opening and closing monologues, 90% of which are devoted to raving against the "bourgeoisie establishment". Against a backdrop which, if it were on a dropdown menu, would be called "Bourgeoisie Establishment Basic". 2/
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is the funniest post I've read in ages.
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Then we have this - I call it The Delirium Desk - where Ms Truss does her opening and closing monologues, 90% of which are devoted to raving against the "bourgeoisie establishment". Against a backdrop which, if it were on a dropdown menu, would be called "Bourgeoisie Establishment Basic". 2/
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Then we have this - I call it The Delirium Desk - where Ms Truss does her opening and closing monologues, 90% of which are devoted to raving against the "bourgeoisie establishment". Against a backdrop which, if it were on a dropdown menu, would be called "Bourgeoisie Establishment Basic". 2/
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As a side note, I resent Phillips' assertion that back in the 1970s and 1980s white school kids like me were routinely racist. It is absolute bollocks. We weren't. We knew how fucked up racism was back then as much as we do now.
The "I'm no apologist for Farage, here's some apologism for Farage" column that everyone knew Trevor Phillips would write is a monument to bad faith and whataboutery. It's so tedious and predictable.
Is Nigel Farage racist? There’s a more urgent question
Reform leader’s schooldays were a different age and pale compared with the failure to protect minority children today
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As a side note, I resent Phillips' assertion that back in the 1970s and 1980s white school kids like me were routinely racist. It is absolute bollocks. We weren't. We knew how fucked up racism was back then as much as we do now.
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
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We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
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Fair play to the Greens - this is excellent.
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Fair play to the Greens - this is excellent.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This headline will not be repeated by most other newspapers, neither will it lead the TV news. Our agenda-driven, bad faith media is one of the major reasons why we’re in the fix we’re in and why the government is terrified of taking the steps needed to change things. More fool them.
OBR board member says Reeves did not mislead public on Budget on.ft.com/3Ka0h3H
OBR board member says Reeves did not mislead public on Budget
UK chancellor’s fiscal warnings backed by David Miles a day after economic watchdog’s chair resigns
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This headline will not be repeated by most other newspapers, neither will it lead the TV news. Our agenda-driven, bad faith media is one of the major reasons why we’re in the fix we’re in and why the government is terrified of taking the steps needed to change things. More fool them.
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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The one thing the useless incompetent Boris Johnson clung on to for his failed premiership was the UK’s Covid response. Turns out he killed 20,000 people.
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The one thing the useless incompetent Boris Johnson clung on to for his failed premiership was the UK’s Covid response. Turns out he killed 20,000 people.
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He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
So much wrong with this man, but some days his appalling bad taste just kinda overwhelms me with hate.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So much wrong with this man, but some days his appalling bad taste just kinda overwhelms me with hate.
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A famous (and very well spoken) QC:
“Now tell the court what happened at the scene”
Defendant:
“Well, person X told me”..
A famous QC:
“No, what you saw, your account”.
Defendant:
“And you are a c**t too”……
“Now tell the court what happened at the scene”
Defendant:
“Well, person X told me”..
A famous QC:
“No, what you saw, your account”.
Defendant:
“And you are a c**t too”……
‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A famous (and very well spoken) QC:
“Now tell the court what happened at the scene”
Defendant:
“Well, person X told me”..
A famous QC:
“No, what you saw, your account”.
Defendant:
“And you are a c**t too”……
“Now tell the court what happened at the scene”
Defendant:
“Well, person X told me”..
A famous QC:
“No, what you saw, your account”.
Defendant:
“And you are a c**t too”……
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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YES!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
YES!!!!
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM