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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
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For the record the person who challenged him was Dianne Abbott MP.
I attended the committee hearing.
I attended the committee hearing.
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
For the record the person who challenged him was Dianne Abbott MP.
I attended the committee hearing.
I attended the committee hearing.
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Taking asylum seekers jewellery is a hardy Labour trope.
In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.
Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’
In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.
Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Taking asylum seekers jewellery is a hardy Labour trope.
In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.
Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’
In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.
Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’
When did the latest budget speculation begin?
I'm not sure I remember a time before daily headlines discussing Rachel Reeve's plan for income tax.
I'm not sure I remember a time before daily headlines discussing Rachel Reeve's plan for income tax.
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When did the latest budget speculation begin?
I'm not sure I remember a time before daily headlines discussing Rachel Reeve's plan for income tax.
I'm not sure I remember a time before daily headlines discussing Rachel Reeve's plan for income tax.
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I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.
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Interviewer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as a doctor and the creator of the supremely rational detective Sherlock Holmes, do you believe—
Doyle: Yes!
interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur.
Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT
Doyle: Yes!
interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur.
Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Interviewer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as a doctor and the creator of the supremely rational detective Sherlock Holmes, do you believe—
Doyle: Yes!
interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur.
Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT
Doyle: Yes!
interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur.
Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT
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The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
Massive recommend. A stranger on a busy train asked me if I needed a doctor because I was shaking trying to suppress my laughter
The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...
The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure
The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure eBook : Abercrombie, Joe: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Massive recommend. A stranger on a busy train asked me if I needed a doctor because I was shaking trying to suppress my laughter
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The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...
The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure
The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure eBook : Abercrombie, Joe: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...
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"on a technicality"
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out
Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"on a technicality"
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
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MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]
August 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]
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Shameful. A Secretary of State should not be dictating to any employer or the BBC who they should sack which would be regarded as highly prejudicial by an Employment Tribunal . Nandy has also prejudiced the police investigation of Bob Vylan over Glastonbury . She’s an irresponsible loose cannon.
July 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Shameful. A Secretary of State should not be dictating to any employer or the BBC who they should sack which would be regarded as highly prejudicial by an Employment Tribunal . Nandy has also prejudiced the police investigation of Bob Vylan over Glastonbury . She’s an irresponsible loose cannon.
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A look back on my TV viewing this week. On the patter and clatter of The Bear's fourth season, and the masterful, maddening Glastonbury coverage that showed the BBC at its best and its worst.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Glastonbury 2025: All that Kneecap and Bob Vylan outrage drowned out the air strike on the cafe birthday party
The BBC’s coverage of the festival is a wonder. But this time around it became a morass of missed points and moral cowardice
www.irishtimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A look back on my TV viewing this week. On the patter and clatter of The Bear's fourth season, and the masterful, maddening Glastonbury coverage that showed the BBC at its best and its worst.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Absolutely from the bottom of my heart this labour government can go and get to fuck. I am incredibly lazy but I will do anything I can to get them out of power.
Absolutely from the bottom of my heart this labour government can go and get to fuck. I am incredibly lazy but I will do anything I can to get them out of power.
UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group
Minister argues move will not impinge on people’s right to protest but critics call it ‘grave abuse of state power’
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Absolutely from the bottom of my heart this labour government can go and get to fuck. I am incredibly lazy but I will do anything I can to get them out of power.
Absolutely from the bottom of my heart this labour government can go and get to fuck. I am incredibly lazy but I will do anything I can to get them out of power.
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interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!
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Mike Duncan you beautiful bastard you've done it again. It's just awe-inspiring how gracefully this series stuck it's landing. I hope this inspire more people to start writing Fictional Non-Fiction because it's such an amazing genre that not many authors have explored.
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Mike Duncan you beautiful bastard you've done it again. It's just awe-inspiring how gracefully this series stuck it's landing. I hope this inspire more people to start writing Fictional Non-Fiction because it's such an amazing genre that not many authors have explored.
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Normalise telling people their 'concerns' are not, in fact, 'legitimate'.
May 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Normalise telling people their 'concerns' are not, in fact, 'legitimate'.
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You find, in time, that dogwhistles eventually become megaphones.
If you thought the PM’s speech was punchy, his foreword to the immigration white paper says high net migration has done “incalculable damage” to the country.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
May 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
You find, in time, that dogwhistles eventually become megaphones.