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· Jun 13
Went for a swim where the land is falling quietly into the sea
Feels so mad to say this for such a young gov but this administration has totally fukt it. Brits (the english) have a very bad habit of just pinning all their cognitive (negative) effort onto a few specific things, Starmer served some juicy shit sandwiches and now they won't think of anything else.
Labour should ditch Starmer, give a new PM enough run-up for elections that are still years out, and actually govern with a belief in good policies not racist and self-destructive pandering to the far right.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Feels so mad to say this for such a young gov but this administration has totally fukt it. Brits (the english) have a very bad habit of just pinning all their cognitive (negative) effort onto a few specific things, Starmer served some juicy shit sandwiches and now they won't think of anything else.
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So it turns out Lizza writes like this too. Aside from the "everything else" of it all, what is it about this story that makes everyone involved start clacking at their typewriters like they're Garth fucking Marenghi.
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So it turns out Lizza writes like this too. Aside from the "everything else" of it all, what is it about this story that makes everyone involved start clacking at their typewriters like they're Garth fucking Marenghi.
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Such a relief to switch off from zia yusuf flogging the dead Reform unicorn on #bbcwato and catch this instead on #bbcws. Reform is the past, this is the future, joyous www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In the Studio - Film director Gurinder Chadha - BBC Sounds
Film director Gurinder Chadha new film Christmas Karma puts a twist on A Christmas Carol
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Such a relief to switch off from zia yusuf flogging the dead Reform unicorn on #bbcwato and catch this instead on #bbcws. Reform is the past, this is the future, joyous www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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17-year-old Karina Bakhur, who died in Berestyn, was a Master of Sport, a champion of Ukraine and Europe in kickboxing and Cossack combat. On Nov 19, she was meant to travel to Austria to compete in the World Cup, and on Dec 5, she would have celebrated her 18th birthday.
Russia murdered her.
Russia murdered her.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
17-year-old Karina Bakhur, who died in Berestyn, was a Master of Sport, a champion of Ukraine and Europe in kickboxing and Cossack combat. On Nov 19, she was meant to travel to Austria to compete in the World Cup, and on Dec 5, she would have celebrated her 18th birthday.
Russia murdered her.
Russia murdered her.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
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Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
Hearing this on the radio bulletins is so weird, feels like an opening montage to a disaster movie. Absolute fantasy numbers. Why only 20 years, why not 3 generations with a final qualifying performance at the proms? Like opening Pandora's box of dystopia policies and being surprised at the result.
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Hearing this on the radio bulletins is so weird, feels like an opening montage to a disaster movie. Absolute fantasy numbers. Why only 20 years, why not 3 generations with a final qualifying performance at the proms? Like opening Pandora's box of dystopia policies and being surprised at the result.
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
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Fascinating look into how reputation laundering works in practice
So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Fascinating look into how reputation laundering works in practice
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After huge losses, Russian forces are entering Pokrovsk from the south. They also claim to be inside Kupiansk.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
After huge losses, Russian forces are entering Pokrovsk from the south. They also claim to be inside Kupiansk.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
For real, that's the edit, 10 seconds of Trump's own words, where Trump said you've got to fight, and then there was a massive fight, and now the BBC is on fire? What? This is so eye wateringly stupid it actually hurts #newsnight
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
For real, that's the edit, 10 seconds of Trump's own words, where Trump said you've got to fight, and then there was a massive fight, and now the BBC is on fire? What? This is so eye wateringly stupid it actually hurts #newsnight
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
Come for the rather grim former insider's view of the beeb and stay for Robbie Gibb getting absolutely skewered.
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Come for the rather grim former insider's view of the beeb and stay for Robbie Gibb getting absolutely skewered.
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The impact of Russia's bombing campaigns and the resulting blackouts isn't just physical, it's a constant state of high-alert anxiety and anger.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The impact of Russia's bombing campaigns and the resulting blackouts isn't just physical, it's a constant state of high-alert anxiety and anger.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
Presumably this is just part of the typical Trump tantrum perpetual grievance playbook and isn't expected to lead to anything more than that but still quite significant that Trump has no problem extorting Brits to give him money because of a very minor mistake about how much of a shit he is.
Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action, following a bitter row over its coverage of his administration.
Donald Trump threatens BBC with legal action
The broadcaster said it would review a letter from Trump’s team and respond in due course.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Presumably this is just part of the typical Trump tantrum perpetual grievance playbook and isn't expected to lead to anything more than that but still quite significant that Trump has no problem extorting Brits to give him money because of a very minor mistake about how much of a shit he is.
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
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Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)