MelS
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Love music, art, food. Hate bigotry and racism.
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If you demolish a cathedral that took decades to build within a few days, nobody sane thinks it will only take that few days to build it again
Why do so many EU fans (& I am one!) think this does not apply to the UK:EU relationship?
Why do so many EU fans (& I am one!) think this does not apply to the UK:EU relationship?
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If you demolish a cathedral that took decades to build within a few days, nobody sane thinks it will only take that few days to build it again
Why do so many EU fans (& I am one!) think this does not apply to the UK:EU relationship?
Why do so many EU fans (& I am one!) think this does not apply to the UK:EU relationship?
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POV: Me when the media announce that Rachel Reeves won the "wrong" chess competition.
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
POV: Me when the media announce that Rachel Reeves won the "wrong" chess competition.
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They feel she should have said: “I am — I was — a geek. I played chess. I was the British women's chess association girls’ under-14 champion" rather than “I am — I was — a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls’ under-14 champion" in perhaps the least newsworthy news story imaginable.
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
They feel she should have said: “I am — I was — a geek. I played chess. I was the British women's chess association girls’ under-14 champion" rather than “I am — I was — a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls’ under-14 champion" in perhaps the least newsworthy news story imaginable.
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The Telegraph is officially beyond parody. If you're upper class, you obviously don't use liquid soap, because your butler washes your hands for you...
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Telegraph is officially beyond parody. If you're upper class, you obviously don't use liquid soap, because your butler washes your hands for you...
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This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
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Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply.
It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?
It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply.
It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?
It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
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Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
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I do love the "...after the Chancellor was accused..." passive voice.
I think who was firing off unfounded accusations - lobby journalists and opposition politicians - is now an important part of the story.
I think who was firing off unfounded accusations - lobby journalists and opposition politicians - is now an important part of the story.
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I do love the "...after the Chancellor was accused..." passive voice.
I think who was firing off unfounded accusations - lobby journalists and opposition politicians - is now an important part of the story.
I think who was firing off unfounded accusations - lobby journalists and opposition politicians - is now an important part of the story.
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UK
Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for new oil and gas will be issued, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said: “B...
www.greenpeace.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
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Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers' rights bill is a huge achievement | Polly Toynbee
It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
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Seriously. Take ten fkn minutes off to be a person.
Choir singing carols. Xmas tree lights on. Jolly cheers.
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Seriously. Take ten fkn minutes off to be a person.
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Poor Kemi. So dumb that she doesn't even realise that she is dumb.
What is she even talking about? The OBR is, by design, not under the control of Rachel Reeves.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Poor Kemi. So dumb that she doesn't even realise that she is dumb.
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Kemi Badenoch performatively pretending not to understand that the OBR leak had absolutely nothing to do with Rachel Reeves because she has calculated that enough people are paying little enough attention that she can get away with it as an attack line. She really is a deeply contemptible person.
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Kemi Badenoch performatively pretending not to understand that the OBR leak had absolutely nothing to do with Rachel Reeves because she has calculated that enough people are paying little enough attention that she can get away with it as an attack line. She really is a deeply contemptible person.
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From my post on whether Reform will kill the Tories. These two are group one:
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
From my post on whether Reform will kill the Tories. These two are group one:
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
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There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.
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Let silly hacks go and work on their next bit of Westminster gossip. THIS is the main news from that conference. The clearest indication yet, right from the top.
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Let silly hacks go and work on their next bit of Westminster gossip. THIS is the main news from that conference. The clearest indication yet, right from the top.
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As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
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Shelagh on LBC is still pretending Rachel Reeves announced tax increases pre budget, then U Turned with no tax increases and is furious about the tax increases.
Our media is an absolute joke.
Our media is an absolute joke.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Shelagh on LBC is still pretending Rachel Reeves announced tax increases pre budget, then U Turned with no tax increases and is furious about the tax increases.
Our media is an absolute joke.
Our media is an absolute joke.
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Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
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There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.