Bede thinks I should stop working now.
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Bede thinks I should stop working now.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the
'Is Epping burning?'
'Is Epping burning?'
Oh lordy @tomadelsbach.bsky.social Your brilliant 24kt heavenly creativity continues. May the petulant pedo’s parents control the faux gold quisling for eternity. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #Pinks
Not a friend of our Nige.
A broken Reeves:
Dusty Sex Toys would be my drag name
Freezer to deliver budget. I shiver at the thought: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Anonymous Mass of St. Gregory the Great [feast #otd 3 sept] c. 1500 (Rijksmuseum) - spot the two Bridgettines on the right.
Did anyone think they would? #TrumpyPumpy might have pleaded the 5th Amendment.
On this day in 1942, a 14 year old Dutch Jewish boy, arrived at Auschwitz with his mother and sister (18) where they were murdered after selection. His father perished in Mar 1944, place unknown. His name was Siegfried Lievendag Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
My grandmother had dementia. She sounded just like Trump. Dementia Donnie is getting worse by the minute.
Deport him!
When was the last time Dementia Donnie washed his dirty hair? He looks like a guy who sleeps under a bridge.
#DonaldTrump is old and ugly. Gavin is young and handsome.
Although he posted “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE” on social media on Sunday, Trump continued to keep a long distance between himself and the press. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Today last week that he was ready to be president if needed—“I’ve gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the past 200 days,” he said—rumors flew. Over the weekend, “Is Trump dead?” was one of Google’s top searches.
As Garrett Graff of Doomsday Scenario recorded, Trump, who normally talks to the press as often as possible, had no public appearances on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Coming on top of Vice President J.D. Vance’s odd comment in an interview with USA
Crikey, the Reformation is about to start again: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Civil Service fast track to be restricted to the sons to toolmakers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another candidate for the arsonists? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Epstein papers fail to hit the spot: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is what the Axis of Evil - Tommy, Kemi, Nige - actually want! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Ve vont some of your rockets.'
Death of the charming Edgar Feuchtwanger, Hitler's former neighbour: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Conrad Veidt (left) and dog.
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'He says you've lost weight.'
and we've all forgotten about the Epstein files
Old enough to remember the outrage in the United States when Serb forces killed Bosnian civilians fetching water during the siege of Sarajevo.
Waited years to see this. St Mary Swynnerton, Staffs: attractive enough church. But inside…
New leader of Green Party in England and Wales, Zack Polanski, rules out pacts with Keir Starmer, and attacks “charlatan” Nigel Farage
More growth: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"«La Physiologie du goût» is not without blemishes, but it is without question the first great work that seeks to link all aspects of taste."
All Darrens are barrens?
#TrumpyPumpy's bagman?
open.substack.com/pub/gilesmac...
200 years on:
And all because the lady loved... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aggravated sycophancy has its rewards: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Saint Joan casts off: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you must pinch your predecessor's buzz-word. Sushi looked a bit more like a delivery boy as well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
open.substack.com/pub/gilesmac...
200 years on:
Angela the Eagle looks happy:
Doesn't it officially end at the Equinox? www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Maybe because their ideas are ugly? Would that be the Platonic view? Some people might say Tice wasn't so bad looking? I hesitate to venture an opinion, but he is clearly thick.
Not half as much as she is. Perhaps we should ask her about Brexit? She was very strongly against, I think (like the rest of 'em), but now in favour? Maybe I dreamed that?
Yvette, I'm confused.
What Witloof says may be what Witloof has understood, but he doesn't understand much of what Putain's translator feeds him.
'Following the Alaska meeting, US special envoy Steve Witkoff said Putin had agreed to security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a potential future peace deal, though Moscow has yet to confirm this.'
'We'll show that fat pig who's boss!'
Killing journalists: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Sad to see the beautiful Douglas Carswell should have become another arsonist, but I assume he's well shot of the flames in Tennessee:
PHOTO OF THE DAY. British soldiers departing for France at the outbreak of WW2 (1939). 📷 google images
There is also nothing stopping me from breaking the law. This doesn't mean it would be a good idea or that there would be no consequences. Policy Exchange - Conservative think tank. #ukpolitics
Nigel, Tommy, Sue-Ellen, Kemi... all excellent names to describe foul weather. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Labor Day: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
A dirty-looking beetle is ravaging Britain's forests:
Gor! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I am not speaking to you.' 'I am not speaking to you either, you fat pig.'
Deal.
Seems like a huge number!
Insanity on steroids
#TrumpyPumpy creates new dynamics around the globe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I see you right son.'
Todays word of the day: FARAGE
Less than average IQ.
I can't use 'chat' (no great loss) because I am unable to prove I'm over 18. Apparently a debit card won't work, and this screen is without camera, so I can't flash my grizzled head.
The man who has put up the most England flags in Manchester was caught in 2016 trying to smuggle 4 Vietnamese people into the UK. Now he is out of prison hanging up flags. Any old grift.
My Great Grandpa (still alive 90+) escaped the Holocaust via a train. He successfully did before things got worse, by doing an Aliyah to Palestine. But now, after all that they have experienced, their refugee land has became a genocidal entity, which is doing the same things they experienced!
As a child I ALWAYS thought the song was about knights in some sort of bizarre armour. I think I was rather disappointed when I learned it was about sex. Mind you, I hated the song with a loathing.
You miss the point: we don't want to see #TrumpyPumpy again, we want him to go to hell, and stay there.
There’s a lot to hate about the world the Brexiters created. But the deliberate failure to hold Brexiters to account is right up there. The fact that they’re still strutting around the stage and not in the reject-bin of public life is a tragic indictment of our politics and our press.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, New York in 1957 by Richard Avedon. He knew that they were great dog lovers so during the portrait session told them a lie that on the way to meet them his taxi had run over a little dog. He took this famous photo as they reacted to the story.
Lieber noch einen Kilometer Stadtautobahn mehr 🫠
Ukraine : « L’échec n’est pas la soumission des Européens aux Etats-Unis, c’est la manipulation des Américains par Poutine »
My sister's mediaeval history tutor. Extraordinary to think she became at tutor at Somerville in 1955!
My academic grandmother, Barbara Harvey, died earlier this month; there's a short tribute to her from @somervillecollege.bsky.social here: www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/barbara...
Knights in Bri-Nylon, Where the hell will it end?
Fossil #TrumpyPumpy returns to fossil-fuel: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
But Bamberg stands firm: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Will it come to London? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Homan Factor: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I just shagged your wife!'
Senile old fart.