Chris G
@chrisg-29.bsky.social
Just want the younger generations to have the opportunities I had.
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Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in creating this mess - it’s time UK news shows started pointing that out
youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in creating this mess
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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August 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out
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Macron's three-pronged response to Netanyahu's accusations of 'antisemitic fire'
Macron's three-pronged response to Netanyahu's accusations of 'antisemitic fire'
In a six-page letter, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had 'weaponized' the fight against antisemitism and urged him to 'end the desperate race of a murderous and illegal permanent war in Gaza.'
www.lemonde.fr
August 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Macron's three-pronged response to Netanyahu's accusations of 'antisemitic fire'
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Nigel Farage doesn’t want what’s best for Britain.
Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Aside from his pension packet, Nigel Farage can't bring himself to have any relationship with the EU."
Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Aside from his pension packet, Nigel Farage can't bring himself to have any relationship with the EU."
August 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nigel Farage doesn’t want what’s best for Britain.
Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Aside from his pension packet, Nigel Farage can't bring himself to have any relationship with the EU."
Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Aside from his pension packet, Nigel Farage can't bring himself to have any relationship with the EU."
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Can someone please just create an AI Nobel and give it to him like how we give Playskool steering wheels to toddlers in carseats to make them feel like big boys?
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
August 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Can someone please just create an AI Nobel and give it to him like how we give Playskool steering wheels to toddlers in carseats to make them feel like big boys?
A lesson for some of our 'leaders'.
The Trump rant that turned Newsom into troll-in-chief: ‘What Democrats should have been doing to Trump for past nine years’
The Trump rant that turned Newsom into troll-in-chief
www.independent.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A lesson for some of our 'leaders'.
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The most obvious question for journalists to ask Farage is whether he'd really be prepared - Trump-style- to send the police (and army?) into London to detain more than 200,000 Londoners.
Because that is what this policy would mean, obviously.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Because that is what this policy would mean, obviously.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK prepared to deport 600,000 under migration plans
The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The most obvious question for journalists to ask Farage is whether he'd really be prepared - Trump-style- to send the police (and army?) into London to detain more than 200,000 Londoners.
Because that is what this policy would mean, obviously.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Because that is what this policy would mean, obviously.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."
My column: Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."
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Journalist: “Can you name any of the military bases you would use to house migrants?”
Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Journalist: “Can you name any of the military bases you would use to house migrants?”
Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
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Smacks of £350m-on-a-bus levels of bullshit.
Nigel Farage tells his press conference that his deportations will save the UK "hundreds of billions" of pounds.
He knows he can make literally anything up at this point and not be called out for it
He knows he can make literally anything up at this point and not be called out for it
August 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Smacks of £350m-on-a-bus levels of bullshit.
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Nigel Farage says “We are not very far from major civil disorder” but forgets to add “and I’ll keep doing all I can to ensure we get there”.
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nigel Farage says “We are not very far from major civil disorder” but forgets to add “and I’ll keep doing all I can to ensure we get there”.
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Stop now. Enough.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Last photos taken by Gaza journalists before they were killed in Israeli strikes
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www.haaretz.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Stop now. Enough.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The ITV news makes a similar claim, based on 200 people across three locations
Friday (800 people across 8 places) and Saturday (2000+ across a dozen) were larger, so "a second day" is weird for this tiny trickle of protest today
Friday (800 people across 8 places) and Saturday (2000+ across a dozen) were larger, so "a second day" is weird for this tiny trickle of protest today
August 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The ITV news makes a similar claim, based on 200 people across three locations
Friday (800 people across 8 places) and Saturday (2000+ across a dozen) were larger, so "a second day" is weird for this tiny trickle of protest today
Friday (800 people across 8 places) and Saturday (2000+ across a dozen) were larger, so "a second day" is weird for this tiny trickle of protest today
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➡️ “Reform UK would look fundamentally at the contract between ministers and the impartial civil service.”
Civil service union leader Dave Penman tells @politicshome.bsky.social why he fears a Reform government would threaten impartiality
Civil service union leader Dave Penman tells @politicshome.bsky.social why he fears a Reform government would threaten impartiality
Union Leader Dave Penman: 'It's A Complete Mystery To Me Why Labour Won't Go Further On Standards'
Civil service union leader Dave Penman has accused Labour of ducking the “low-hanging fruit” of reforming ethics and standards in government, telli...
www.politicshome.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
➡️ “Reform UK would look fundamentally at the contract between ministers and the impartial civil service.”
Civil service union leader Dave Penman tells @politicshome.bsky.social why he fears a Reform government would threaten impartiality
Civil service union leader Dave Penman tells @politicshome.bsky.social why he fears a Reform government would threaten impartiality
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Reminder of what Allison Pearson was hoping for during the school summer holiday.
August 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Reminder of what Allison Pearson was hoping for during the school summer holiday.
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Those missing words in full:
August 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Those missing words in full:
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While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
August 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
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Devoted mother Lucy Connolly has said she hopes to see her family some time in the next six months, assuming she can fit them in between interviews with right wing shit-stirrers.
August 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Devoted mother Lucy Connolly has said she hopes to see her family some time in the next six months, assuming she can fit them in between interviews with right wing shit-stirrers.
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Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
Daily Telegraph today refers to A Rayner’s property “empire”. Whatever you think of her housing arrangements, I don’t think constituency house (bought for 375k in 2016), house in Hove, plus use of ministerial flat in London is an “empire”. Duke of Westminster wont fear a rival!
August 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
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Sky News, "Farmers Union says the UK is unprepared to feed itself in crisis"
British Retail Consortium, "About 80% of our imports come from the European Union"
That time in 2016 when Dominic Raab explained that he didn't understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for trade with the EU
British Retail Consortium, "About 80% of our imports come from the European Union"
That time in 2016 when Dominic Raab explained that he didn't understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for trade with the EU
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sky News, "Farmers Union says the UK is unprepared to feed itself in crisis"
British Retail Consortium, "About 80% of our imports come from the European Union"
That time in 2016 when Dominic Raab explained that he didn't understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for trade with the EU
British Retail Consortium, "About 80% of our imports come from the European Union"
That time in 2016 when Dominic Raab explained that he didn't understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for trade with the EU
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Times: "Asylum protests swell across the UK " headline, reporting an underwhelming wave.
Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
August 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Times: "Asylum protests swell across the UK " headline, reporting an underwhelming wave.
Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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BBC continues to have a persistent editorial problem in hyping & exaggerating scale of asylum protests (even at odds with its own reporting)
How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"
How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
BBC continues to have a persistent editorial problem in hyping & exaggerating scale of asylum protests (even at odds with its own reporting)
How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"
How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"
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The scale of the backlog arises because the Sunak government, while clearing the 2022 backlog, stops processing asylum claims of those who arrive in 2023-24, despite having no real world prospect of removing 99% of those it is accommodating, in limbo. No plan except to leave it to after the election
August 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The scale of the backlog arises because the Sunak government, while clearing the 2022 backlog, stops processing asylum claims of those who arrive in 2023-24, despite having no real world prospect of removing 99% of those it is accommodating, in limbo. No plan except to leave it to after the election
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Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
August 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.