"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
Farage neglects his duties as MP for Clacton and is absent from the U.K. Parliament. Instead he frequently goes to the US and lies through his teeth about his own country. No patriot he - he’s an opportunist, spiv and grifter. He’s looking for funding from American right-wing groups.
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
I had an email from the BBC about complaint I made on their bias towards Farage and Reform. I put a post on here about it & deleted it because their email was so full of bullshit that it wasn’t worth it. So for info the BBC will still interview Farage as much as they like and we can’t stop them.
#Epstein #survivor: “Let me announce now. Several of us, Epstein survivors, have been discussing creating our own list of names. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now as survivors we will confidently compile the names we know were regularly in the Epstein world”
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
I’d love to send him to North Korea and see how long he would last there!
The British Political-Media Class’s Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right - Julian Petley explores how hard-right views have increasingly been normalised as the ‘common sense’ of the more mainstream right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-britis...
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social went through all the…old…Epstein Files dumped last night and found many were duplicates to make it seem like a big release. “This has repeatedly happened as Miami Herald has fought over the past six years to unseal Epstein files,” she says. Where are the real Files?
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.
Do you remember Sunak, after failing properly to declare various interests on many occasions, repeatedly using the excuse that he had no idea what his family had shares in, because it was part of a complicated investment portfolio?
Hope you had a glorious day 😘
Starmer ravages Farage: "The honourable member for Clacton is not here... he's flown to America to badmouth and talkdown our country. And worse than that... he's gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It's a disgrace."
Is it your birthday lovely girl?
A good girlfriend (this definition rests on having a good boyfriend) comes to bed just wet.
According to Oxfam the wealth of the richest 1% has surged by $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to eliminate annual global poverty 22 times over
The stage is set for a damaging battle for the future of Lord Houchen’s signature project. | Ray Casey
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
Yes, they are. That trip to Alaska was a big success.
I have faith in the young
Words are magic
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
When you thrive on grievance politics, the absolute last thing you want is to fix problems, then you can't exploit people's grievances any more. Fauxrage's agenda *needs* those problems to continue to exist because – even apart from the grievance politics and the grift – it's how he makes money.
Mostly because English voters attack the wrong minority group. It’s Billionaires that make their lives awful; but they listen to the Billionaire media and attack immigrants and other vulnerable groups instead.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
This is a masterclass of stupidity in criticism. The author either never read the book or their reading level is so poor that "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" would elude them. I don't normally do this, but this is criticism at its absolute worst. READ THE GODDAMNED BOOK, WILL YA?
You’ve gotta love the way some cosmetic companies describe their products. I use tinted moisturiser, but according to No7, it isn’t tinted moisturiser- it’s ’tinted skin veil’ 😂
It’s as if he doesn’t actually recognise people as life forms - they are sex toys, or slaves, or photo-ops or development opportunities or power sharers or bugs to be stepped on if they’re in the way.
Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is this true? Who knows? In the post-truth age that Trump, Bannon, Farage and their acolytes have created, we can’t believe anything. Particularly when we have repeatedly been told to believe some things we can see as obvious falsehoods. Truly, we live in a time of fakery and misinformation.
This. Oh this...
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Once Enlightened people who have now been crushed under the heel of malevolent agents who want to enrich themselves by appealing to the worst in people and encouraging them to acts of violence and disorder.
“What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness” After the trauma of a high-risk medical procedure, Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives not in thought — but in presence. bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/what-brain...
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Thanks for letting me know. Always want to find out if something is fake. I’ll delete the post 👍🏻
DONNY DOES IT BURN?🔥
It’s because he doesn’t see women as human beings like himself - he sees them only as ‘handmaidens’ help-meets, servants and Baby machines for his succesors. Chauvinism, fascism & misogyny are alive & kicking & they’re spreading the creeds so that they can increase their own privileges.
I blame Paramount for low-towing to Trump (don’t care if that’s the reason or not)
Chauvinism, misogyny and fascism are alive and kicking in some quarters and they’re trying to spread those creeds yet again because they serve to increase their own privileges.
“Ministers must scrupulously avoid any danger of an actual or perceived conflict of interest between their ministerial position and their private interests.” It seems that even out of Office, the Tories are still cocking a snook at the Ministerial Code.
As Marlene Dietrich once said, “You can fool the public that you’re 20 years younger, but you can’t fool a staircase”
It’s because he doesn’t see women as human beings like himself - he sees them only as ‘handmaidens’ help-meets, servants and Baby machines for his succesors.
Reform UK councillor faces suspension calls amid electoral malpractice allegations www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
So sick of the farcical entities all our political parties have become. Our politics is full of grim absurdities.
Graham Greene helped make the rest of the world see Indigenous people as real human beings. The first time I saw him on screen was in Dances With Wolves and the last time was in The Last of Us. What a tremendous legacy! RIP ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️
Still dislike her film, even if I get how her dream bubble is cruelly burst.
#Musicchallenge #colloqualismsinMusic Poker Face -Lady Gaga (Colloquial and idiomatic) youtube.com/watch?v=bESG...
Well, considering they got their wealth from oil & gas it’s nice they they’re trying to compensate. Good on ‘em.
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
👇is he testing see if we're weak and won't retaliate is it a threat ,UK and EU buildings now this
Who knows? Our political reality is a catalogue of grim absurdities nowadays
Our politics is a catalogue of grim absurdities
Crikey, how grim it must all be.
Really, so many of our current politicians have just become ludicrously farcical entities.
He has a wife - who must live a miserable existence
Always stylish, (I mean, The Handmaiden?) I found his English-language Hitchcock tribute, ‘Stoker’, had hints of a darkly comic sensibility (maybe that was just me…& Matthew Goode?). as well as some of his earlier Korean language movies. I’ll be interested to see how his comic tone comes across here
The fear of producing and letting loose yet another white male douche in the world is very real! (You have to put the work in to make sure the males you do create are ‘woke’ 😂)
Your word is good enough for me Wendy (and the fact that I like Park Chan-wook’s movies anyway) 😉
My pick of the Venice Competion so far: Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice www.screendaily.com/reviews/no-o...
Intelligence is rooted in curiosity - in asking questions all the time. The idea that there is always more to discover and learn, that information constantly moves on and we can only try to keep up. We should celebrate and revere the educators.
How we miss thinking people like Carl Sagan - he thought about everything before he talked about it and had followed the matter to its logical conclusion. youtube.com/shorts/Sn8Ek...
“I have very little interest in the lighter side of storytelling.” Ah, Cillian really loves the craic y’know, so he does… 😂https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/sight-sound-october-2025-issue?utm_medium=email
I married an intelligent man who respects me & isn’t afraid of showing affection & I’ve had children. But if I was a 20-something girl now & I look at dating apps & the divisions being stoked up between men & women & the assh*le men in charge of everything. I would seriously consider lesbianism
Just look at the men who are talking and it becomes obvious why women don’t want babies with men like these assh*les and the plethora of male assh*les they represent.
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
Sir David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, and Dick Van Dyke are all 99. If they all outlive the current President, that will be exceptionally pleasing.
Over half a million children to benefit from funded childcare The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets www.gov.uk/government/n...
I don’t think the media explains to people properly what politicians are doing to the NHS 🚨-this is more important than ever, because Labour is advancing NHS privatisation. I started a newsletter in my spare time to explain what’s going on. Click here: jujuliagrace.substack.com💙
It was one of the best shows ever created for TV. It had everything. Criminally cut short. (Created by #BryanFuller of Wonderfalls Hannibal & American Gods) youtu.be/HxqfnFoUIVI?...
Great explainer: The ECHR is protecting everyone in the UK 🚨 "Reform has touted its plan as a 'legal reset'. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction." https://bit.ly/3JYzaI8
Creates a lot of dissatisfaction and unhappiness with body image, a lack of self-worth and unrealistic & unhealthy body aspirations.
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
And they’re still surprised that the birthrate is plummeting 😂
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This is of course, mostly a female issue. Now it seems we’re also getting ‘Instagram body’ and women are squashing their innards into corsets & other restrictive underwear again to try to get tiny waists (which are probably photographically manipulated anyway)
Most women now modelling lingerie or tight dresses in ads on the internet have exaggerated ‘hourglass’ figures. (Photoshopped or CGI) Women are wearing corsets again FFS! It struck me that current fashion taste in women appears to want them to look like those ‘sexily’ drawn Anime girls (so use them)
Learn these simple hand gestures and if you ever see someone's using them, DO NOT IGNORE THEM. Teach them to your children, sisters , daughters and wives!. Blessings, love and light! 1111
Starmer is such a spineless wanker when it comes to standing up to Reform. Even though they’ll never been satisfied with anything less than camps and forced repatriation. And they’ll hate him regardless. Whilst people you want to support Labour will write him off as a right-wing flag shagging cunt.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
I said years ago that the human race was on the road to self-extinction. Was laughed at for my pessimism. ‘Not merely ‘pessimism’ I said, ‘look at the facts’. It just takes a few evil old men & the greed of a generation willing to sacrifice all those following as long as it can indulge itself.
Our 'civilisation' is nose-diving into catastrophe isn't it? TBF, I'm rooting for catastrophe. Not sure that I can see any way out of our doom spiral. Of course there is, but we're too greedy/stupid to take the righteous path.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
I’ve just been playing it. Spooky…
Oh the hypocrisy of this bloke. And he looks just the type! Brains of a rocking horse.
As an adult I sympathise with Tourneur, but at the time it made a little kid squeal with terrified pleasure 😂
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Great music, nonsensical lyrics.
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