Colin
@cognitivedistance.bsky.social
Plant trees. Love language. Use numbers. Take photographs. Despise populists. Capable of fact-based rational thought. Still alive.
Please note two 'typos' in Dan Hodges' post:
1. "objective" should read as "objectionable"
2. "mislead" should read as "misled".
Thank you for his inattention in this matter.
1. "objective" should read as "objectionable"
2. "mislead" should read as "misled".
Thank you for his inattention in this matter.
1) I did say Hodges was a fan.
2) Is this true? I wonder if there are any journalist over here that would support this statement.
(I haven't seen it so far)
2) Is this true? I wonder if there are any journalist over here that would support this statement.
(I haven't seen it so far)
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Please note two 'typos' in Dan Hodges' post:
1. "objective" should read as "objectionable"
2. "mislead" should read as "misled".
Thank you for his inattention in this matter.
1. "objective" should read as "objectionable"
2. "mislead" should read as "misled".
Thank you for his inattention in this matter.
Like a latter-day El Cid, Trump will soon be dressed in golden armour, strapped to a horse, and sent off, with his bone-spurs jangling, to triumph in "The Battle of the Tariffs".
A dead legend in his own Time-warp.
A dead legend in his own Time-warp.
The president is falling asleep durring a White House cabinet meeting with each member praising him for his resilience. What are we doing America? This is so embarrassing.
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Like a latter-day El Cid, Trump will soon be dressed in golden armour, strapped to a horse, and sent off, with his bone-spurs jangling, to triumph in "The Battle of the Tariffs".
A dead legend in his own Time-warp.
A dead legend in his own Time-warp.
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Next time Reform claim to be something different, remember this.
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Next time Reform claim to be something different, remember this.
The ironic and next career move for Chris Mason should be as a guest on "Have I Got News for You?", because he rarely does.
Do I think Reeves' numbers actually add up? No. Do I think Chris Mason owes her an apology? Yes. And further to that it would be good if he learned a lesson from this - it's not his job to decide who is telling us the truth, he is there to report facts.
Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The ironic and next career move for Chris Mason should be as a guest on "Have I Got News for You?", because he rarely does.
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Johnson described the pre-referendum Brexit Treasury report as “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” & “just not credible”
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Johnson described the pre-referendum Brexit Treasury report as “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” & “just not credible”
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Remember, Chris Mason is being Chris Mason "on your behalf".
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Remember, Chris Mason is being Chris Mason "on your behalf".
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I’m very pleased that Jonathan Gullis has joined Reform – we need more conviction politicians with strongly held principles. In other news, here he is explaining why there is absolutely no chance he would ever defect to Reform.
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m very pleased that Jonathan Gullis has joined Reform – we need more conviction politicians with strongly held principles. In other news, here he is explaining why there is absolutely no chance he would ever defect to Reform.
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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Americans definitely don't need any advice on how to kill each other.
Trump: "People that shouldn't be in our country, and that includes Somalians and plenty of others. We don't want those people. Many of them are no good. All they do is go around killing each other, then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. We don't want them."
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Americans definitely don't need any advice on how to kill each other.
BREAKING NEWS:
BBC ANNOUNCES THAT CHRIS MASON WILL DELIVER THE NEXT REITH LECTURES:
Chris's first lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
Chris's second lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
BBC ANNOUNCES THAT CHRIS MASON WILL DELIVER THE NEXT REITH LECTURES:
Chris's first lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
Chris's second lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
BBC ANNOUNCES THAT CHRIS MASON WILL DELIVER THE NEXT REITH LECTURES:
Chris's first lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
Chris's second lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
BBC ANNOUNCES THAT CHRIS MASON WILL DELIVER THE NEXT REITH LECTURES:
Chris's first lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
Chris's second lecture will be:
"Budget Reporting, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Onanism."
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Ever see a statement like this from the BBC Political Editor on any of Johnson's falsehoods?
Or indeed any of Farage's?
Or indeed any of Farage's?
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Ever see a statement like this from the BBC Political Editor on any of Johnson's falsehoods?
Or indeed any of Farage's?
Or indeed any of Farage's?
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2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
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What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Pantomime season begins early.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Pantomime season begins early.
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Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
A total capitulation and cynical sell-out is not a "deal", in any language.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A total capitulation and cynical sell-out is not a "deal", in any language.
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Why are people suddenly pearl clutching over income tax thresholds?
Where have you been for the last 4.5yrs?
The freeze has been in place since Apr 2021, when Chancellor Sunak froze them from 2021 to Mar 2026!
Then Chancellor Hunt froze them further in Autumn 2022 to Mar 2028!
1/2
Where have you been for the last 4.5yrs?
The freeze has been in place since Apr 2021, when Chancellor Sunak froze them from 2021 to Mar 2026!
Then Chancellor Hunt froze them further in Autumn 2022 to Mar 2028!
1/2
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Why are people suddenly pearl clutching over income tax thresholds?
Where have you been for the last 4.5yrs?
The freeze has been in place since Apr 2021, when Chancellor Sunak froze them from 2021 to Mar 2026!
Then Chancellor Hunt froze them further in Autumn 2022 to Mar 2028!
1/2
Where have you been for the last 4.5yrs?
The freeze has been in place since Apr 2021, when Chancellor Sunak froze them from 2021 to Mar 2026!
Then Chancellor Hunt froze them further in Autumn 2022 to Mar 2028!
1/2
"Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You didn't hear it here first.
In fact, you didn't hear it.
Fear of Trump caused the BBC to self-censor the above sentence from its Reith Lecture.
You didn't hear it here first.
In fact, you didn't hear it.
Fear of Trump caused the BBC to self-censor the above sentence from its Reith Lecture.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You didn't hear it here first.
In fact, you didn't hear it.
Fear of Trump caused the BBC to self-censor the above sentence from its Reith Lecture.
You didn't hear it here first.
In fact, you didn't hear it.
Fear of Trump caused the BBC to self-censor the above sentence from its Reith Lecture.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
Time to throw away the key.
The White House is in lockdown, the press secretary says.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Time to throw away the key.
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Sir John Major’s Speech at Maurice Fraser Lecture – 18 November 2025
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/11/19/s...
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/11/19/s...
Sir John Major’s Speech at Maurice Fraser Lecture – 18 November 2025 – The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH
johnmajorarchive.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sir John Major’s Speech at Maurice Fraser Lecture – 18 November 2025
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/11/19/s...
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/11/19/s...
If Kemi Badenoch was a football manager, following a 6-0 defeat when all the goals were own-goals, the club owners would be discussing her future in hushed whispers, in a dark corner, right now.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If Kemi Badenoch was a football manager, following a 6-0 defeat when all the goals were own-goals, the club owners would be discussing her future in hushed whispers, in a dark corner, right now.
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Badenoch's response was like having the snidest Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail piece, read out by a foghorn.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Badenoch's response was like having the snidest Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail piece, read out by a foghorn.