This is alarming
I wrote about the most frightening and dangerous trend in Britain
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
Queueing in pubs disgraces Britain
The practice is unpatriotic and must be banned
www.newstatesman.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is alarming
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Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
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God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
June 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
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This is precisely what happened. The same effort, over and over again, with Democrats and Republicans. But America was finally weak enough to simply ignore and its president idiotic enough to go along with it.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This is precisely what happened. The same effort, over and over again, with Democrats and Republicans. But America was finally weak enough to simply ignore and its president idiotic enough to go along with it.
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We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK
British political alliances are now mainly a result of dog-nudging incidents
March 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
British political alliances are now mainly a result of dog-nudging incidents
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Things I expected to see more in life based on my childhood comics:
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Things I expected to see more in life based on my childhood comics:
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
Sounds like Peak Trump is behind us
Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
Findings could open up possibility the universe will end in a reverse big bang or ‘big crunch’, say cosmologists
* Explainer: Is dark energy destined to dominate the universe?
Dark energy, the mysterious force powering the expansion of the universe,…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Sounds like Peak Trump is behind us
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Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians refuse to be annexed by the US: “That’s what everyone in the world wants—American citizenship.”
American Imperialism is on full show.
American Imperialism is on full show.
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians refuse to be annexed by the US: “That’s what everyone in the world wants—American citizenship.”
American Imperialism is on full show.
American Imperialism is on full show.
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Very timely retrieval of this Kissinger quote by the excellent @lewisgoodall.com
Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis
Why Trump clings to Putin.
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Very timely retrieval of this Kissinger quote by the excellent @lewisgoodall.com
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Would be nice to have some breathless media coverage about what this tells up about market perceptions of the state of the UK economy..
UK 10 year gilts nearly back to where they started at the beginning of the year.
January 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Would be nice to have some breathless media coverage about what this tells up about market perceptions of the state of the UK economy..
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sorry to hear mark zuckerberg died. didn’t agree with him on a lot but he changed social media forever. rip.
January 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
sorry to hear mark zuckerberg died. didn’t agree with him on a lot but he changed social media forever. rip.
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23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1
September 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1
