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James Elsender
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30-something. Enjoy running 🏃‍♂️ & cooking 👨‍🍳. Getting married in 2025. Apparently, I'm now a cat 🐈 & a dog 🐕 person. Nerd 🤓.
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Great.

We all knew that.

Now what?

Any chance of our 40 Billion quid back?
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Evergreen thread...
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

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November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration”
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget

Wealth hoarding is a pandemic.

Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋

📍 Brixton
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Or even better - 'this issue has been massively misrepresented and is not and never has been the cause of all our problems'
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Violence baguettes violence.
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Climate crisis latest!

More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night.

They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up.

Hope you're all dry!
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim

Click for more:

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Samir Zoutini, a heroic GNER staff member whose incredible bravery saved lives during the mass stabbing on Saturday, has confounded racists by being a Muslim.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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5m Britons live in poverty while 10% take over half of all flights…...
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:

"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Who the f- would describe Farage and Reform as "fiscally responsible" I hear you ask...

That's right, the Centre for Policy Studies; a centre-right think tank and advocacy group with principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence.

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Farage accused of betraying pensioners, but praised for 'fiscal discipline', after hinting he might ditch pensions triple lock - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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THREAD
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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To our community: thank you for raising up this statement and making it headline news.

To the Home Office: It's time to do better. It is not illegal to seek safety. The government must stop whipping up the same hatred we have seen erupt outside hotels, endangering the people forced to live in them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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There will be a day when we sit our grandchildren on our knees and we tell them...
October 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Hey, look where years of scapegoating immigrants and devising punitive immigration policies gets you…
Further into debt, collapsing universities, tax rises and spending cuts.
Prejudice and govt dishonesty have high price tags.
Slow hand clap to all those responsible.
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Here's part of Skeptic editor Michael Marshall's speech at the QED conference on Saturday, where he discussed others who were on the shortlist for the 'Rusty Razor' misinformation / conspiracy theory award.

It's pretty cutting (fittingly) on Toby Young's Free Speech Union...
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Musk doesn't understand Star Wars; how the fuck would he understand Tolkien?
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM