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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
45,200 and rising
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
45,200 and rising
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
On my list
New on the blog...
Can't remember the last time I enjoyed a new place this much (not in #Cardiff, anyway)
Went 3x last week, tipped a few off, everyone who has already been has loved it.
You need to know about this place. (The next Lahore, perhaps..?)
www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/afghan-cuisi...
Can't remember the last time I enjoyed a new place this much (not in #Cardiff, anyway)
Went 3x last week, tipped a few off, everyone who has already been has loved it.
You need to know about this place. (The next Lahore, perhaps..?)
www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/afghan-cuisi...
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
On my list
Does the AI industry get it's electricity free too? Maybe all industries shouldn't have to pay for their raw materials either? Or here's a better idea - Nick Clegg could get his head out of his arse.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Does the AI industry get it's electricity free too? Maybe all industries shouldn't have to pay for their raw materials either? Or here's a better idea - Nick Clegg could get his head out of his arse.
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I’m going to: Leicester, Northampton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Taunton, Southend, Cambridge, Southampton, Leeds, Liverpool, Guildford and Brighton.
I also have a few previews coming up - including Frome and Angel Comedy this week…
I also have a few previews coming up - including Frome and Angel Comedy this week…
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m going to: Leicester, Northampton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Taunton, Southend, Cambridge, Southampton, Leeds, Liverpool, Guildford and Brighton.
I also have a few previews coming up - including Frome and Angel Comedy this week…
I also have a few previews coming up - including Frome and Angel Comedy this week…
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Are you in or near Henley? I've just added a last minute extra tour preview there on 25 Sept - come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honk-henle...
Honk! Henley comedy September 25
Live stand-up comedy at The Relais Henley with Matt Green, Richard Stott & Frances Keyton
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Are you in or near Henley? I've just added a last minute extra tour preview there on 25 Sept - come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honk-henle...
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What’s the correct name for someone who is paid public money to represent UK citizens in Parliament but instead chooses to go before a Congressional Hearing in the US to slag off the UK and urge Trump’s government to take action against us?
September 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What’s the correct name for someone who is paid public money to represent UK citizens in Parliament but instead chooses to go before a Congressional Hearing in the US to slag off the UK and urge Trump’s government to take action against us?
@platelickedclean.bsky.social Every post on X ...
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@platelickedclean.bsky.social Every post on X ...
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The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...
It is so pathetic, I can't be arsed to think of something witty
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It is so pathetic, I can't be arsed to think of something witty
Good review, on my list.
New review on the blog, in which my Yemeni mandi obsession shows no sign of slowing down any time soon...
www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/qamariyah-fo...
www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/qamariyah-fo...
August 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Good review, on my list.
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And if you're not in Camden OR Edinburgh my tour tickets are available here: www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...
Matt Green Tickets, Tour and Concert Dates – www.livenation.co.uk
www.livenation.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And if you're not in Camden OR Edinburgh my tour tickets are available here: www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...
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I'm then heading to @edfringe.bsky.social at the end of the month and there are still tickets available for all shows there - although do book early if you can as some shows are starting to look busy already... edinburgh.justthetonic.com/event/88:4930/
Just the Tonic Edinburgh – The best of comedy in the UK
edinburgh.justthetonic.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm then heading to @edfringe.bsky.social at the end of the month and there are still tickets available for all shows there - although do book early if you can as some shows are starting to look busy already... edinburgh.justthetonic.com/event/88:4930/
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Given that she was The Foreign Secretary at the time of the leak, what exactly is she shocked about?!
July 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Given that she was The Foreign Secretary at the time of the leak, what exactly is she shocked about?!
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And by ‘practical plan’ you mean the illegal one that didn't work, cost £700m with a projected total cost of £10bn and only resulted in three people being paid £3k each to go to Rwanda. That practical plan?
July 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And by ‘practical plan’ you mean the illegal one that didn't work, cost £700m with a projected total cost of £10bn and only resulted in three people being paid £3k each to go to Rwanda. That practical plan?
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Correct.
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Correct.
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Looking for uncompromisingly spiced Sri Lankan cooking, hefty portions and value for money? Fresh on the blog, it's Canton's new Cuisines Negombo.
My thoughts: www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/cuisines-neg...
My thoughts: www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/cuisines-neg...
Cuisines Negombo Sri Lankan restaurant, Canton, Cardiff: review - The Plate Licked Clean
Cuisines Negombo sits where the interesting but short-lived Rasathi did. Unlike Rasathi, though, you can now eat in on a solitary table: so there is no need now to eat your Sri Lankan order in Victori...
www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Looking for uncompromisingly spiced Sri Lankan cooking, hefty portions and value for money? Fresh on the blog, it's Canton's new Cuisines Negombo.
My thoughts: www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/cuisines-neg...
My thoughts: www.theplatelickedclean.co.uk/cuisines-neg...
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Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism
Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism
Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism
On the lack of federal terrorism charges in Minn. killings, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson says they "brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now."
June 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism
Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism
Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism
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Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services
A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28%
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28%
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services
A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28%
www.mirror.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services
A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28%
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28%
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.
May 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.
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"worth reminding ourselves who is in favour of this deal & who is against it. In favour are all of our allies - the US, NATO, Five Eyes, India. Against it - Russia, China, Iran. Surprisingly, the Leader of the Opposition & Nigel Farage are in that column alongside Russia, China & Iran”
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer
May 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"worth reminding ourselves who is in favour of this deal & who is against it. In favour are all of our allies - the US, NATO, Five Eyes, India. Against it - Russia, China, Iran. Surprisingly, the Leader of the Opposition & Nigel Farage are in that column alongside Russia, China & Iran”
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer
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“When Labour negotiates, Britain loses” says Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch whose party’s “oven ready” Brexit cost the UK £100 billion a year in lost output
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“When Labour negotiates, Britain loses” says Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch whose party’s “oven ready” Brexit cost the UK £100 billion a year in lost output