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Engineer. It’s probably my fault. Likes: Punk, Post Punk, Post Rock, England RFU and the mighty Boro @mfc.co.uk #UTB
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This documented, fighting age white British male was found guilty of 7 counts of rape, 4 counts of assault by penetration & 2 of administering a drug his victim’s is life now in tatters

A 2024 HMPPS report showed 76% of offenders were White

Yet Reform/Far Right say migrants are a danger to women❗️
Man jailed after drugging and raping woman in Swindon
Lee Hampton left his victim with daily flashbacks and nightmares about the assaults.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I can't tell you how many times I've signed an NDA.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Red Faction Rob Edwards rodent claim. #UTB #Boro
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Remember, if you are going out in the hail showers today, pop a child's xylophone on your head for added fun.
October 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A senior Reform member who was their leader in Wales has pleaded guilty to 8 charges of bribery.

He took money from someone connected with the Russian Secret Service to make positive statements about Russia in the EU Parliament when an MEP.

So it's clear:

Vote Reform. Get Putin. Become a traitor.
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor.

What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
September 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Farage admits breaching parliamentary rules over Trump event, blames his office for ‘error’.

Collects full £93,904+exp as MP but isn't in the Commons often enough.

Previously claimed to have bought a house in his constituency, but after press investigation now tells a different story.
Farage admits breaching parliamentary rules over Trump event and blames his office
The Reform leader failed to disclose how much he earned or who paid for his visit to a Republican Party event in March 2025
www.independent.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I remember when it was universally acknowledged that Tommy Robinson was a racist thug. Now he’s being encouraged by The Telegraph.

Musk is inciting violence and amplifying him.

Reform are saying they’d ’take back the judiciary’ and god knows what else.

What’s happening to Britain?
September 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Delivery (yester)day. On yellow vinyl. #TheFall #Vinyl #PostPunk
September 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.

Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.

Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.

Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Looks like @bylinetimes.bsky.social is sweeping the field in the only award categories that really matter
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It drives me crackers when I hear them. It's totally unnecessary just stirs the pot & makes things easier for Farage & co.
August 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh…

Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)

Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK

Immigration isn’t draining us

Inequality is.
August 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Christ above. These pitiful fucking cowards.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Israel bombing a hospital and this is OK? What has humanity become.
August 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM