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Jingle bells! I’ve had my first “beware the perils of the Christmas party” email from a solicitor’s firm.
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jingle bells! I’ve had my first “beware the perils of the Christmas party” email from a solicitor’s firm.
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I was struck by his ending on the language of "campaign forevermore" which is perhaps the distinctive feature of Corbyn's political method & commitment, co-founding this new party 33 years after entering parliament, and a significant part of the appeal being made to members
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I was struck by his ending on the language of "campaign forevermore" which is perhaps the distinctive feature of Corbyn's political method & commitment, co-founding this new party 33 years after entering parliament, and a significant part of the appeal being made to members
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.
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Charles Moore doing a merry old right wing supermarket sweep on R4 Today this morning and piling all of his culture war top buys into his ‘BBC is biased basket’ - climate change and Black Lives Matter (it isn’t? they don’t?) were straight in there. Surprised he didn’t grab the National Trust as well
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Charles Moore doing a merry old right wing supermarket sweep on R4 Today this morning and piling all of his culture war top buys into his ‘BBC is biased basket’ - climate change and Black Lives Matter (it isn’t? they don’t?) were straight in there. Surprised he didn’t grab the National Trust as well
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Charles Moore on Radio 4 - barking fucking mad.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Charles Moore on Radio 4 - barking fucking mad.
Charles Moore is only 69 but has reached the quavery, wavery, pantomime-damey voice and the reds-under-the-bed paranoia at which a microphone should be withdrawn.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Charles Moore is only 69 but has reached the quavery, wavery, pantomime-damey voice and the reds-under-the-bed paranoia at which a microphone should be withdrawn.
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I think if i was the chair of the BBC I might prioritise the BBC as a forum to speak to stakeholders -- licence fee payers -- over a select committee
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I think if i was the chair of the BBC I might prioritise the BBC as a forum to speak to stakeholders -- licence fee payers -- over a select committee
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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If James Cleverly is what passes for a "big beast" I am tempted to quote Michael Foot on David Steel in 1979: "He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever."
July 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
If James Cleverly is what passes for a "big beast" I am tempted to quote Michael Foot on David Steel in 1979: "He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever."
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Now I dislike Trump and dislike old Rupert but who do I dislike the most?
a bald man in a suit and glasses says there is only one way to find out
ALT: a bald man in a suit and glasses says there is only one way to find out
media.tenor.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Now I dislike Trump and dislike old Rupert but who do I dislike the most?
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Can't believe Trump is forcing me to back Rupert Murdoch. His worst crime yet.
July 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Can't believe Trump is forcing me to back Rupert Murdoch. His worst crime yet.
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Slowly realising Badenoch is one of my favourite political figures ever: sold to us as a firebrand truth teller but is instead an amusing and self satirising mix of arrogance and vulnerability. To be clear she'd make an awful PM but a brilliant character in a comic novel.
On the Today programme, Kemi Badenoch tells Emma Barnett: “You are asking questions that are changing the very focus of what it is I’m talking about.”
Yes, that’s how interviews work.
Yes, that’s how interviews work.
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Slowly realising Badenoch is one of my favourite political figures ever: sold to us as a firebrand truth teller but is instead an amusing and self satirising mix of arrogance and vulnerability. To be clear she'd make an awful PM but a brilliant character in a comic novel.
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
America has hardly achieved much militarily in the last 40 years… #withallduerespect
March 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
America has hardly achieved much militarily in the last 40 years… #withallduerespect
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They are disgusting people and they shame the great country they now govern. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
A day of infamy in Washington
The old world perishes and with it dies the American Idea.
open.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
They are disgusting people and they shame the great country they now govern. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
This, with “even though you voted for them in large numbers”
My God, America. I'm so sorry for you, and all of us, that you have these intolerable brutes in charge.
February 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This, with “even though you voted for them in large numbers”
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The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.
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Brexit has never looked quite so daft
February 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Brexit has never looked quite so daft
February 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Its cherished Oval Office” - laughable if not so sad.
Trump has posted on Truth Social:
“[Zelensky] disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
“[Zelensky] disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
February 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“Its cherished Oval Office” - laughable if not so sad.
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It would be so ironic if Musk dies in a private jet mid air collision because he defunded the FAA.
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It would be so ironic if Musk dies in a private jet mid air collision because he defunded the FAA.
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TNT Sports have announced a grassroots initiative to encourage cycling use, as the broadcaster becomes the home of 2500 hours of elite racing.
I don't know. Perhaps the way to support grassroots is to put more cycling (such as the Tour) on free-to-air, rather than a big paywall?
I don't know. Perhaps the way to support grassroots is to put more cycling (such as the Tour) on free-to-air, rather than a big paywall?
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
TNT Sports have announced a grassroots initiative to encourage cycling use, as the broadcaster becomes the home of 2500 hours of elite racing.
I don't know. Perhaps the way to support grassroots is to put more cycling (such as the Tour) on free-to-air, rather than a big paywall?
I don't know. Perhaps the way to support grassroots is to put more cycling (such as the Tour) on free-to-air, rather than a big paywall?