I await the follow-up article on Jeremy Hunt's 7 flats.
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I await the follow-up article on Jeremy Hunt's 7 flats.
FFS working the shaft and tickling the balls. Sean's never felt so alive.
Still thinks some brands are too spicy.
Local Reform council meltdown incoming.
I wonder if he goes into as much detail about circumventing the electoral spending limits; utilising stooges like Darren Grimes to inject an extra Β£600,000 into the campaign and exploiting opaque Northern Irish political funding rules?
I didn't know this was a thing. Any recommendations for live funds?
Of course, nobody thinks the tiger will eat their face.
When he mentioned levels of pollution is Scottish water being higher despite it being nationalised, I think you really missed the opportunity to point out that Scots aren't faced with the prospect of a Β£100B buyout or lengthy legal battles to do something, which he just mentioned England faces.
If you're "just asking questions", you should put as much effort into finding the answers
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They'll need to speak slowly and be prepared to use crayons to get through.
I remember her on BBCQT. I thought Suella Braverman was the thickest politician before that show, but Andrea Jenkyns is so dense that the fabric of spacetime bends around her.
Both great athletes with their own strengths. I think they're both inspirational. Vingegaard has shown great resilience under pressure producing results coming back from serious injury and press speculation that I haven't seen Pogi have to deal with to the same extent, but he's also formidable.
This policy over the last 40 years has brought rich and poor closer together, just not the way he'd like you to think. The disparity between middle and upper earners has expanded by several magnitudes, and the loss of job security for many has mostly extinguished the middle class.
So glad I didn't vote for you @gregorpoynton.bsky.social
One has the illusion you could become the ruling class without being born into it?
With social media and their access to tv airtime, they need to be getting this out more effectively themselves.
Republicans. Ask yourselves what your reaction would have been if this was Joe Biden.
What do you think the reband was in aid of? Farage refuses to be drawn on Brexit any time it's put to him. Even if it is (and should be) used to undermine his credibility, he'll just waffle about the wrong leaders or not done right. A bad performance in local council may be harder to distance tho.
I lived in both Hackney and Acton, areas with a very diverse population, and I never saw the "no-go" areas these pearl clutchers scream about.
Fuck me, Sharon looks like she's been kissing a red hot iron.
Me yesterday: "For all its faults, the BBC offers great value for money, and I'd pay the license for the Glastonbury coverage alone." BBC today:"Due to political pressure, right wing press, people who mostly hate us and don't pay the license fee, we're restricting our Glastonbury coverage." FFS π€¦
A chance to fuck off and get in the sea, perhaps?
It's one weekend. If I can put up with football almost all year round, you can suffer one weekend of music.
Do you not find tugging yourself off a bit of a distraction from the show? Ah, well. Each to their own. I suppose that's the beauty of it being broadcast into your home. Another win for the licence fee, eh?
Ironically, doing this to appease a self sabotaging Prime Minister desperately trying to please the US orange chimp most people here despise, and a right wing UK press corps that, for the most part look down their noses at Glastonbury and would happily burn the BBC to the ground.
In retrospect, this was the absolute worst political decision to put to a referendum. As there would be little chance of any repercussions for bad actors after a successful campaign, they promised everything to everyone, and Brexit became a panacea for every single ill of British society.
Especially as it's all the "patriots," the ones you'd have thought would be the first up for a bit of blood and soil suffering π€·πΌββοΈ
The most lacklustre parade I've ever witnessed. They look like they're coming home from an all-night club.
They heard it in a Vietnam movie, but never actually listened to or thought about the lyrics. "Born in the USA" suffers the same fate, as does Presidential favourite, Village People's YMCA, which is about inclusiveness, although the writer denies there's a gay subtext.
Bored looking soldiers shuffling past Pvt. Bonespurs to a song about privileged kids avoiding the draft. Maybe this parade isn't all bad.
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I knew they said they were Blairites, but I'd hoped following America into another Middle East conflict was one trait they wouldn't be so ready to repeat.
What.a.cunt.
She's got principles, but if you don't like them, she's got other ones. A damning indictment of the electorate's engagement levels that such an unremarkable candidate, so obviously willing to say almost anything, actually succeeded.
Man, I'd be really pissed off if I was part of the little girl constituency, facing cuts in the annual doll budget
The Sun champion him at every opportunity, just as they used to hitch their wagon to Saville, who's fiddling was an open secret by all accounts, although one of the UKs biggest newspapers gets a free pass and The BBC is crucified. I think that's a good indication of how public perception is shaped.
Before 1918, she's excluded from politics by law, so... 20s to 40s high unemployment and war. 50s - 60s start of troubles in NI and Cold War 70s stagflation, mass unemployment, IMF bailout 80s Miners strike, recession, race riots, market crash, high inflation. 90s New Labour?
While having the mental capacity to jump on a gravy train, I don't think she has the ability to have a political ideology. She will, however, be able to performatively imitate the very worst features of one, with no thought to the harm she causes, which is what her voters think they want.
I'm not having it that Trump read that biography.
Sadly, the news will still be full of his sycophants saying this was the plan all along.
I've seen thicker skin on old milk.
Bigger consequences for keying a Tesla.
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They can manage to bring back Andrew Tate and extradite cartel leaders like El Chapo. Their excuses are thin gruel.
Morning Jazz jam was taken
H.B (F6B) Tourist boulder overlooking Loch Katrine, Trossachs.
Brexit is the very definition of this country going backwards.
Kind of special relationship a repeatedly battered wife has with her abusive husband.
More of the same 'no go zone' bollocks that they've spread about London. I lived for years in some of these areas and never seen or had any problems.
I'd never accuse Elon Musk of being a fake Nazi.
Agree entirely, although speaking as a straight white man, I also think he's a total prick too.
Turns out, most of his prospective customers. Who knew? Well, everybody except him, apparently.
The Ironman of the Nerd Reich showing he's made of softer stuff.
Even got in the morning coffee. They know you so well! π
Really hoping he proves you wrong! π
For a supposed genius, he's having real conceptual problems with cause and effect.
This subscription has been worth every penny. Great work π ππ
Why is it too expensive to effectively tax the rich's wealth, but cheap to tax working class people? As Gary points out, the law created by rich MPs, backed by rich donors, is not effective *by design.
You've probably got more in common with MAGA Americans than you realise posting crap like that. Does it not occur to you that Americans living and working abroad are more likely to have a broader outlook and may not agree with their government's policies? Don't tar everyone with the same brush.
Sainsburys does bucatini if your current source dries up.
Bucatini. I wouldn't have thought the hollow structure would make such a difference. I can't explain it.
A convicted sex offender may want to think twice before calling anyone a sleazebag.
I think for some, Reform are the only party they feel truly reflects their beliefs on immigration and the counter narrative is MIA. It's Brexit in a new frock, and the other parties are still unable to handle it. Our 'leaders' are following twitter trends rather than getting out in front.
He also helped promote Dominic Cummings and Kemi Badenoch's profiles.
How about a life size brass statue of Trump bent over with his trousers at his ankles so they can all kiss his arse whenever they want?
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Agreed. This was an unintended truth that slipped out.
This is rich coming from the guy who lost a sexual abuse case and is on tape talking about grabbing women's genitals
Cuts for the "Poor, poorly, or poorly understood"
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They haven't seen the new F-35 infomercial from Big Don's South Lawn Car Lot yet, have they?
The threat of "Cock it or walk it" never seemed so real.
He could give them 20% of twitter in a peace agreement, seems the standard rate at the moment.
Be a real shame if Tesla died.
Free speech, unless you have a problem with the ruling Oligarch class.
Great conversation, your work is always very insightful and your tipic selection very much captures the political zeitgeist.
Considering America is the only country to have asked for NATO backing and received it, this shouldn't be a speculative question.
as long as they don't have to spell it.
No. I've engaged with many of your points. You, on the other hand, said "I don't care" or downplayed, or dismissed examples of football supporter's indifference to events surrounding games and tournaments. Sledging is fun, but this is like shooting fish in a barrel - with a bazooka π€£ππ€£π
So it won't be attended because of.....something, maybe? In the face of such overwhelming evidence, I'm cancelling my ticket right now. π Go back to the personal insults.They were coherent, at least.
Real documented examples of times when football has failed to take a stance against: Modern slavery and murderous racism. If they're able to turn a blind eye to that, a foreign war isn't much of a stretch. I don't recall a boycott of Russia after the annexation of Crimea.
Play the ball, not the man, mate π€£ π You're drowning here, somebody needs to throw you a rubber ring.
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Cool. I'll check it out. Is it a good site, you had much success with it? Look at the posts above it. Solid arguements about Harry Kane, Gary Neville and the attitude of fans here in the UK. I know you don't want to engage with them, because you've no real answer, do you?
For somebody so adverse to fallacies, you think you'd avoid strawmen. I know people that have been to games in Turkey, Greece and Italy, knowing they were going to grounds that were famous for violence. Didn't phase them for one minute.
You don't care. You're finally getting it. That's what most people that go to the World Cup will be saying too. From my OWN personal experience, Project 2025 is not a topic on the terraces.
Who said said anyone going to the World Cup in America in light of the current political situation is a "brain dead knobhead"? That was you, wasn't it? I'm saying most fans wouldn't boycott the competition. I make no judgement on their character.
Players taking a knee before matches was too much distraction from the game for some supporters.
I'm saying that going on past performance, fans will continue to watch football in spite of political events or controversy surrounding it. You're the one that thinks they're all going to miraculously do what you want but have given no examples to back it up.
You believe fans will boycott the world cup over a political issue. I'm telling you with multiple examples of when fans have been indifferent to events in favour of watching their sport.
You're floundering badly, reduced to ad hominem attacks. I've just gave you good examples of both fans and players choosing football over politics. All you've given is you watch football and personal slurs. I'm not even disparaging of fans for their choices. I'm merely pointing out that's the facts
Or just look at photos from the two previous competitions to see if fans appeared overly bothered. As I said previously, the only thing I remember being an issue amongst fans was the availability of alcohol in Qatar.
If you want to bring it back to domestic, we could look at the lack of action by fans in response to clubs taking money from and being owned by figures regimes such as Russia, Saudi and UAE.
You don't believe in your own values? Weird thing to say.
Want to discuss Gary Neville? Multimillionaire decided to go to Qatar despite all his hand wrining? Why would you expect regular fans to take a stand when those at the top of the game don't do anything? Should they be like you, and boycott all the World Cups?
