Matt
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I have no idea what I’m doing | Always thinking about food |🇭🇺 by birth, 🏴 by the grace of G-d | 🏳️🌈✡️
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This is very very illegal in France. If the government doesn’t do anything about this then we might go ahead and say American companies are above the law.
Grok denying the Holocaust here
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is very very illegal in France. If the government doesn’t do anything about this then we might go ahead and say American companies are above the law.
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‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.
Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy
Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher
www.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.
Elon take Tolkien’s name out of your filthy mouth challenge
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Elon take Tolkien’s name out of your filthy mouth challenge
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The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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Faragist parties have always hit a ceiling of support at 30% – that’s about as well as the Brexit Party or UKIP ever did, albeit in EU elections.
Reform hasn’t broken through that, it’s just done it in Westminster polling as the vote share of the big two has collapsed. That may be significant.
Reform hasn’t broken through that, it’s just done it in Westminster polling as the vote share of the big two has collapsed. That may be significant.
Because so much debate around the Farage restoration a lot of debate including Hyde's piece doesn't grapple with how Reform's ceiling at the moment is around just below 30% even as public frustration mounts.
That leaves a lot of F U voters that can be picked up by others like the Greens.
That leaves a lot of F U voters that can be picked up by others like the Greens.
Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Faragist parties have always hit a ceiling of support at 30% – that’s about as well as the Brexit Party or UKIP ever did, albeit in EU elections.
Reform hasn’t broken through that, it’s just done it in Westminster polling as the vote share of the big two has collapsed. That may be significant.
Reform hasn’t broken through that, it’s just done it in Westminster polling as the vote share of the big two has collapsed. That may be significant.
What if Sarkozy was like ‘I’m already going to prison, might as well live a little’ and then robbed the Louvre
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What if Sarkozy was like ‘I’m already going to prison, might as well live a little’ and then robbed the Louvre
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Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
October 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Can you explain this gap in your CV?
Yes, actually that was the time when darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell
Yes, actually that was the time when darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Can you explain this gap in your CV?
Yes, actually that was the time when darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell
Yes, actually that was the time when darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell
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Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
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Utterly despicable.
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Utterly despicable.
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Bomb proof doors. Barbed wire. Coordinating with police. Community security service. Drilling congregants about the security protocol. Withholding the details of events publicly for security reasons. Always being on high alert. The list goes on.
And it’s still not enough.
What more can we do?
And it’s still not enough.
What more can we do?
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Bomb proof doors. Barbed wire. Coordinating with police. Community security service. Drilling congregants about the security protocol. Withholding the details of events publicly for security reasons. Always being on high alert. The list goes on.
And it’s still not enough.
What more can we do?
And it’s still not enough.
What more can we do?
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they’re a complete failure when they’re ill 🤒
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they’re a complete failure when they’re ill 🤒
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🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have
September 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have
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The sheer hypocrisy of this.
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The sheer hypocrisy of this.
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
Damn was it Mads Mikklesen
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Damn was it Mads Mikklesen
Damn right I’m eating the carp xx what do u think they’re for??
"They're eating the carp. They're eating the swans."
Nigel Farage doubles down on his bet that immigrants were eating cats and dogs in America.
He now suggests there's a 'similar story' in Britain.
Nigel Farage doubles down on his bet that immigrants were eating cats and dogs in America.
He now suggests there's a 'similar story' in Britain.
September 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Damn right I’m eating the carp xx what do u think they’re for??
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
The funny part is that none of these people support any real effort to have people retrain in STEM subjects
The worst kind of policy moaner is a middle aged arts or humanities graduate grumbling that not enough young people study STEM subjects.
September 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The funny part is that none of these people support any real effort to have people retrain in STEM subjects
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I'm old enough to remember US libertarians condemning the UK for much less than what he is now proposing. It was six months ago!
Rand Paul: "People say, 'Oh, people have a right to say things.' Well, actually they don't necessarily have a right to say things. Many people have in their contract what we call a morals clause ... I think it is time for this to be a crackdown on people."
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I'm old enough to remember US libertarians condemning the UK for much less than what he is now proposing. It was six months ago!
Gonna be savaged for this bc Bluesky, but I have a healthy social life and still don’t think only ever communicating with coworkers through a screen is as productive or enjoyable as working together irl. I just want to be able to ask questions or discuss something quickly without having to do admin
Anyone who complains about working from home because they don't get enough human interaction should get a hobby rather than making the rest of us suffer for their lack of social life. Go do morris dancing or something.
September 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Gonna be savaged for this bc Bluesky, but I have a healthy social life and still don’t think only ever communicating with coworkers through a screen is as productive or enjoyable as working together irl. I just want to be able to ask questions or discuss something quickly without having to do admin
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that