Paul Davey
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Why are people afraid to say ‘died’? In a report on Jimmy Cliff’s death on Radio 6 it was reported as passing, crossing over and departing but not death. RIP Jimmy.
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Why are people afraid to say ‘died’? In a report on Jimmy Cliff’s death on Radio 6 it was reported as passing, crossing over and departing but not death. RIP Jimmy.
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Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
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Zack Polanski shames Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood
"Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible"
"Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"
"Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible"
"Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Zack Polanski shames Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood
"Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible"
"Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"
"Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible"
"Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"
I’d never heard of Charlie Kirk before yesterday but from what I’ve read since it doesn’t sound as though he was particularly nice. So why the wall to wall coverage and now, apparently, a BBC special about someone most people hadn’t heard of just because he has extreme right wing views … oh … I see.
September 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’d never heard of Charlie Kirk before yesterday but from what I’ve read since it doesn’t sound as though he was particularly nice. So why the wall to wall coverage and now, apparently, a BBC special about someone most people hadn’t heard of just because he has extreme right wing views … oh … I see.
Radio 6 just playing something ‘post-punk’. Hasn’t everything been post-punk for at least 45 years?
September 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Radio 6 just playing something ‘post-punk’. Hasn’t everything been post-punk for at least 45 years?
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Three pictures which won't age well.
There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.
There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.
September 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Three pictures which won't age well.
There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.
There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.
And to think he said it was UAE who were damaging his reputation …
September 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
And to think he said it was UAE who were damaging his reputation …
Nothing says we’re serious about peace like bombing the people you’re negotiating a ceasefire with #roguestate
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Nothing says we’re serious about peace like bombing the people you’re negotiating a ceasefire with #roguestate
First story on the news features complaints from politicians about someone chanting ‘death to the IDF’, second story, criticism free, is about the IDF killing more people. Odd sense of priorities.
June 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
First story on the news features complaints from politicians about someone chanting ‘death to the IDF’, second story, criticism free, is about the IDF killing more people. Odd sense of priorities.
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Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant
Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant
Anonymous source describes ‘tense atmosphere’ after Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe protest group
Home Office staff are concerned about the “absurd” decision to ban Palestine Action under UK anti-terrorism laws, a senior civil servant has said.
On Monday the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to ban the group, which would make membership of it, or inviting support for it, a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant
It shows how we’ve slipped as a nation when the BBC become active participants in state censorship. Shocking.
June 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It shows how we’ve slipped as a nation when the BBC become active participants in state censorship. Shocking.
Kneecap as terrorists. Spraying paint as terrorism. Someone somewhere is losing the plot.
June 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Kneecap as terrorists. Spraying paint as terrorism. Someone somewhere is losing the plot.
This is happening so regularly it’s beginning to look like strategy.
June 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is happening so regularly it’s beginning to look like strategy.
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Bought my first Pulp album in the early 90s, drifted apart for many years, but their new stuff is as good as anything they’ve ever done. Has any other band returned after so long and not disappointed?
June 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Bought my first Pulp album in the early 90s, drifted apart for many years, but their new stuff is as good as anything they’ve ever done. Has any other band returned after so long and not disappointed?
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🎶"... These are a few of my favourite things..."🎶
May 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🎶"... These are a few of my favourite things..."🎶
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Trump says he is hitting EU with 50% tariff as trade talks are ‘going nowhere’
Trump says he is hitting EU with 50% tariff as trade talks are ‘going nowhere’
President says EU imports to US will be subject to levy from 1 June as markets slump in reaction to ‘major escalation’
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Donald Trump has said he will impose a 50% tariff on all EU imports to the US from 1 June after saying trade talks between the two trading blocs were “going nowhere”.
In a surprise announcement, the US president posted on his Truth Social platform that his long-running battle to secure concessions from the EU had run aground. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Of course he is 😂😂😂
Olympic champion Kyle Snyder to focus on ‘Lord Jesus and family’ after prostitution arrest
Olympic champion Kyle Snyder to focus on ‘Lord Jesus and family’ after prostitution arrest
Olympic wrestling champion Kyle Snyder has made his first public statement since his arrest in an Ohio prostitution sting last week
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Of course he is 😂😂😂
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Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Actually, Canada would probably be better off out of this automatic intelligence-sharing arrangement, which involves mass spying on each others' citizens. As would we. Not least because its dominant member is now playing for the other side.
See it as an opportunity, not a threat.
See it as an opportunity, not a threat.
FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
February 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Actually, Canada would probably be better off out of this automatic intelligence-sharing arrangement, which involves mass spying on each others' citizens. As would we. Not least because its dominant member is now playing for the other side.
See it as an opportunity, not a threat.
See it as an opportunity, not a threat.
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Genuinely on the look out for sightings of Conservatives - MPs, present or past, commentators - who are as outspoken in their solidarity with Ukraine today as they were when doing so carried no potential penalty in getting on the wrong side of Maga.
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Genuinely on the look out for sightings of Conservatives - MPs, present or past, commentators - who are as outspoken in their solidarity with Ukraine today as they were when doing so carried no potential penalty in getting on the wrong side of Maga.
We all knew it would be bad, but did anyone really believe it would be this bad?
February 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We all knew it would be bad, but did anyone really believe it would be this bad?
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