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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
In the days when the Post had cajones, of course. Now it would apologise to the President and its owner make an anonymous investment in Trump’s crypto. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
Robert Redford once played the heroic Washington Post reporter who stood up to a corrupt president. If that movie were remade today, his character wouldn’t be hailed—he’d be fired, the editors would spike the story, and the publisher would issue an apology to power. Just ask @karenattiah.bsky.social
Sad that Robert Redford had to to see the Washington Post die before him.
Channel 4 are only covering 100 lies.The New York Times logged over 30,000 falsehoods in Trump’s first term alone. So yes ! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...
If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
Someone who contrived to lose a Conservative seat in Sussex ( SUSSEX !!!!) joins the Bide-A-Wee Rest Home For Rejected Tories that is the Reform UK party.
“American democracy is teetering – prepare for the worst” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the threat of Trump and MAGA to the US and to liberal democracy in the UK and Europe I’ve a podcast interview with Anne here plus an essay from me on her life and work open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Here's a Danny Kruger story we all seem to have forgotten. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...
No bet.
I don’t want to scare you… but Evri’s dreadful service was on the radio this lunchtime (first story) . www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
So much for free speech. He even censors his own AI.
Indeed. In contrast, Musk, egging on the knuckleheads from his screen many thousands of miles away is an utter shitebag.
Stay cool. At least it is not Yodel.
I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.
When you see it.
Telling NHS staff that if they think Labour are shite then just wait until Reform get in is possibly not the great argument Wes Streeting thinks it is.
Hardly a luxury option. www.tesco.com/groceries/en...
British diplomatic policy towards the United States remains unchanged : "get up the arse of the White House and stay there," www.theguardian.com/politics/200...
Worth remembering that when the NF/British Movement were recruiting at football grounds, they struggled (relatively) at WHL. Which makes it even sadder to see some leading neo-nazi provocateurs among our ranks these days.
Astounding conspiracy theory here
Well one amusing thing about the Tommy Robinson stans deciding to go for a drink in the BFI bar was their confusion about the gender neutral toilets
COYS
Vaguely mother of the free, compared to other places this week. Not the most deranged flag waving in London today by a long stretch.
You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.
Gets regularly pumped rotten. Bonnie Blue also in attendance .
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
I mean, for fuck sake
Little hope of that .The statues of Whitehall will be drenched in lagery urine.
Allegedly… clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-f...
Better deal for who ? Ah.
My friend tells of seeing it with his brother, and in front of him was a gobshite ferociously and loudly chomping his way through a big bag of Opal Fruits. Then that head pops out, and chomping was transformed into choking,with his pals thumping his back. Still funny 50 years on.
That depends what you mean by regulation. Someone in control of a mobile phone but not their Lime bike crashed into my nephew on his bike, injuring him and writing off his own bike. When he sought redress from Lime they told him there was no insurance for this. It is the Wild West out there .
Today is one of those days on which I am so glad I left Twitter.
Perhaps now Quentin Letts can give us a clearly overdue article on Brothels I Have Known.
Perhaps now Quentin Letts can give us a clearly overdue article on Brothels I Have Known.
Your regular reminder that Quentin Letts is a twat:
They just can't catch a break can they, the vigilante peedo lads. Moving up a level to child murderers mind you Maybe they think that you set a nonce to catch a nonce
Absolutely DELIGHTED to tell you that #thedaddy has been nominated for this year’s MERCURY PRIZE!!!!!! About time, Dad! You total BELTER! 🐟🐟🐟👑👑👑🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🌟🌟🌟 Congratulations team: Ben Seal, Liz, Chris Salt, Kairen Kemp, Jon Wilks, Tim Youster and Dan Macdonald! #transformmethenintoafish
Write on books ? I do declare ! (** Fans self **)
On the train. I am the only person with a book. Even the old biddies are on their phones. What a dreadful old anachronism I am. (Obviously I mean to go being so.)
Patriots my arse.
Mislayed long ago ?
Oh no, they can fight among themselves indefinitely as far as I am concerned.
Succession latest: I’m still on the News Corp press mailing list from my media reporting days so… A few mins ago, the non-Lachlan Murdochs got a load of money to go away and leave Lachlan as sole heir. So you can drop your “what if the liberal-er siblings take over Fox News or The Sun” thoughts.
No, it has only been one year,and Labour will have a huge majority for four years. Let’s have the Rejoin The EU referendum first.
Yodel told me my package is at their depot on Saturday and would be delivered today. The app still has it at the depot, as of now. This has happened before. I have a bad feeling about this.
Reform UK Councillor, Sam Journet has been arrested for stalking, harassment and public disorder in the council offices. ‼️
#nowlistening Sneaking some sunshine in between showers.
I used to have CDs of Ralph Fiennes and Paul Scofield doing it (not together). Particularly liked Scofield, but the CD went walkies and it is hard to get now for sensible money.
LOL. Nighty night.
Looking at the background. This is a world where Christopher Monckton can be described as a 'moderator'.
Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.
Does that mean all Tory Prime Ministers since Thatch have been clueless by Telegraph lights ? Can this be corroborated by thirty years of Telegraph headlines ? I do seem to recall particular enthusiasm for Liz Truss and her budget.
Happy Birthday to Sonny Rollins. Still with us. #jazzsky youtu.be/2qKLBmj1Emc?...
,@steviesingsabit has blocked me. Was not aware I had any dealings with him.A snowflake Faragista I must assume.
If you have the wherewithal to read bits of the FT for nowt, then do consider casting your eyeballs over this very satisfactory kicking.
That is a bit unfair. The figures have it as more like two in five. Ahem.
Clearly saving our kids 😡😡😡 Feel free to fill me in that this is the "fault of illegal immigrants" www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...?
Back in my day we called it reading a book on the bus
This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it
Those of us who have listened to the latest @backlisted.bsky.social and loved it, you may be interested in an old episode of Great Lives with Kate Stables (aka This is the Kit): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I never miss the Allister Heath headline on a Thursday in The Daily Telegraph. Always so gloriously unhinged.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
Nigel Farage Is Promoting Free Speech In America – While Reform Bans Journalists In The UK www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
For the second year in a row, Reform has banned me from attending its annual conference. So much for “free speech” etc. etc.
In the St Valentine's Day Massacre, St Capone only managed a mere seven murders. But Trump is the greatest , most beautiful gangster this country has ever seen etc etc etc
Extra-judicial executions or gang msssacre ? Depending on how you regard The Don.
There's a British blogger in Bavaria who says that every so often someone will tell him that they visited the UK and the food was awful. He asks them "which Wetherspoons did you visit?" and they invariably reply "how did you know?"
Reading Riddley Walker. Listening to Galina Ustvolskaya. It is raining. Raining. Raining. The tone is being set. On the other hand, there is crumble.
Apparently, when he was performing in a working men’s club in the 1970s, and strumming away singing, ‘It must be love, love, love,’ the compère came onto the stage, took the microphone from his hand politely, and said, ‘Excuse me, Labi. The pies are ready, the pies are ready.’
Brilliant
… or an English Literature student. King James Version, obviously.
This stuff is never sourced. Never.
Autocrats’ Playbook: page 17. Criminalise your opponents. I mean, at this stage it writes itself. www.foxnews.com/video/637738...
Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
I enjoyed this headline in a piece about forthcoming Jean Rhys exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Very honest bit of self-reflection from the Daily Telegraph journalists today:
HOAs ?
Thank you. This is the kind of thing I was after. I am not from the United States, though I have visited, and so have been intrigued by the sometimes strange mix of shops you find on American streets.
A different link for those barred from the original one outside the United States. Those who relentlessly assured us that Capitalism Will Provide have been shown to be full of it on thus showing. atlanta.urbanize.city/post/azalea-...
A classic argument. Backed up by solid supporting evidence. Who could fail to be persuaded?
Britons pay TV licence for BBC iPlayer, in theory. £174.50 a year. The formerly colonised can get themselves a VPN, which probably cheaper.
It is only under (cough) ‘communism’ that the people of Atlanta can get fresh vegetables? Didn’t see that one coming.
I blame @backlisted.bsky.social , obviously. open.spotify.com/episode/4AYG...
So prayer is sufficient against guns? Cool. Maybe try it against immigration as well ?
Leavitt fails to see the irony of "believe in the power of prayer" and "prayer works" as she talks about children who were shot to death while praying.
I suspect another plutocrat has got in there first. youtu.be/6vwNcNOTVzY?...
Herself thinks my gurgle stomach is currently sounding like The Aphex Twin but I think it is more like Autechre.
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
I appear to have accidentally started this.
As a firearm owner in the the UK, that is. In the USA there is little of that. Indeed I could certainly ignore the behavioural standards bit, instead slaughtering some children and then blow my own brains out.
He lost his mind years ago. But this community note😂😂😂
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