They are all equally unqualified for each position.
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They are all equally unqualified for each position.
This is why you should have sent me an advance copy…. Jus’ sayin’!
No! Don’t go! You’re the best host! OGWN will not be the same without your dry humour.
So far I’m gripped but I have to let you know I spotted a typographical issue. The chapter headings at the header change every few pages and bear no relation to the actual chapter I’m reading.
Chilling
A marketing agency in High Wycombe! Oooh he’s hit the big time hasn’t he? 🤪
I see all the media organisations endlessly parroting the "free speech under threat" rhetoric of the right are now staying completely silent as Reform and the Conservatives openly ban news outlets that criticise them from covering their events bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Fantastic news.
Actually I’d have like to hear him finish a sentence and not be constantly harangued and interrupted by Emily before he could finish a thought. A very frustrating interview.
Sounds a little bit treasonous to me
Does he realise he’s describing a dying country with a dying economy?
All those decades failing to get elected as an MP and Farage skips parliament on day 3 to swan off to talk down the country he’s supposed to be a proud patriot of: one might conclude the man is a lying charlatan & snake oil salesman who’d sell his grannie to the highest bidder.
Nailed it again, Sarah, with your pithy succinct response. Couldn’t agree more.
Of course Helen Whately is as much use as a chocolate teapot.
Brilliant! You should be on every show Zoe! 👏
Not totally against in principle. BUT. The question is who would implement it? A cash cow for Palantir or other such private provider who would keep and mishandle our personal data? No thank you.
Wow. How very refreshing. 👏
I like your optimism. I fear the left would rather fracture and eat itself than actually hold power but would be nice to see. Certainly refreshing to hear points of view that don’t represent billionaire capitalism being heartily espoused. Hope the Labour Party and the media pay attention.
Next week, Boris Johnson with advice on monogamy. ~AA
That can only be a good thing.
Well done! Ordered my copy yesterday, can’t wait to get my teeth into it! 😬
Has Warburtons been cancelled or something? I missed that one!
My next book buy… for definite.
Ooh! Will have tthat find a quiet time to enjoy. May well be 3 in the morning as that seems to be what happens these days…. 😒
Can’t wait!
Plus they are literally legislators of the upper house, which Reform wants into. So you can’t just say they have no right to get involved in politics.
Are you back at the mic tomorrow? We’ve missed you!
Well that’s a pretty good summary of how the book made me feel
What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is… (Sunday Times)
Dear Count Binface. You’d get my vote if you would implement fast and slow lanes on the pavements of Oxford St. When you’re on a mission, it’s a pain to be stuck behind dawdling tourists, don’t you agree?
This is subversive and dangerous. Don’t the Tories support the supremacy of the law in this country and judicial independence any more?
Oh the irony. How does he think his version of America was created, exactly? 🙄
The general public: Always the Last to Know. Except if Simon Marks has anything to do with it. Love your LBC reports by the way!
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Indeed he should be but I fear he’s much underrated.
Are you including Anna Soubry?
I endorse this message! 👆👆
Never mind the tomatoes - I need my peaches to ripen!
Incredible. Somehow seems less jarring in the style changes than the original. Bravo! 🙌
This is exactly what the Labour government are doing. They inherited a system intentionally broken by the Tories to create a crisis they could point to. Even better would be to let people work whilst awaiting a decision.
Richard pushed Brexit. Some self-awareness is lacking.
These days people seem to be too lazy to consume anything that isn’t ’entertaining’
BBC news just announced that in Gaza, they expect the fighting will be over at the end of the war, according to discussions at the White House today. Wow. That soon?!? 🤷♀️
I think their books are by Milton Friedman and Hayek
Is Canada willing to take UK refugees?
The puppies and mice round here are cheering!
Absolutely spot on.
Of. Not mod.
Gosh. I thought he’d be beyond the pale for them.
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A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
What about an addendum that says whilst immigrants are being checked out (yes we still need to do some filtering) we let them work, live normal lives, and contribute rather them becoming a massive public funds sponge and a magnet for anger?
Well done, @scotnational.bsky.social . We need more honesty about the positive impact of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. The far right have stolen a march in controlling the narrative, & too many in the media are now using the terms to imply sexual predators & criminals. #RefugeesWelcome
Nerines can take 3-5 years to flower from seed. Has the compost been there that long?
If Farage wants to go to Kabul and negotiate terms with the Taliban, I say let him! Let’s see who comes out on top there.
Oh sorry Patricia. Shall I stop earning a living, adding to GDP, paying higher rate income tax and be a drain on the system instead? No? Haven’t thought it through have you?
I for one would love to know.
You know what they say: two’s company, three’s a crowd!
What an absolute breath of fresh air! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The gothic font of the Telegraph seems more appropriate every day.
Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
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This may be the best movie review ever!
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Right as in Far Right?
This is excellent and should be taught in schools
Who says 'Summer's almost over', when there are so many gorgeous blooms just getting going... from cosmos to dahlias to salvias - so much colour and form yet to enjoy! 🌱
Why not just round it up to a nice round 100?
Spot on.
They blocked an A-road. What if an ambulance needed to get through? That’s what everyone would say if these were climate protesters.
Water features - not just appreciated by humans!
Angela Rayner has a drink on a beach?
Or Dutch.
They’d just say he was a local MP showing consideration for the legitimate concerns of his constituents.
Great episode. I listened to this twice in the early hours of my sleeplessness, to be sure I hadn’t dozed off and missed anything. Really needed this primer.
Wtaf? 😱
Anti-asylum protests and threats, political dog-whistling, flag-mania, emboldened racists strutting around our streets… It must stop. People must speak out. This country mustn’t be chewed up with hatred and failure. Such an important read. @iandunt.bsky.social liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/386...
Dropped by one of our finished garden design projects yesterday - and it’s absolutely blooming! #gardentransformation 🌱
But everything Matt does is de facto Green so of course it’s Green Screen!
She asks for stolen children to be returned to their families in Ukraine and he responds by crowing about the size of a trade deal. 🤮
The two are pretty much indistinguishable now.
So it’s all his fault?
How did it go, Matt?
There’s no P. Probably because he’s consistently taking it.
If they put Farage in the Lords would that skewer him for becoming PM, though? Just a thought…
How about the Secret Tory aka the incomparable @mrhenrymorris.substack.com ?
Just listened to this excellent episode. My only comment is that Masterchef should absolutely be renamed MadderChef and feature Jan Ravens presenting as Liz Truss in the mad woman corner and Lewis Macleod as Trump. With Guest appearances from the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. Now, I’d watch that!
Excellent cartoon by @bjennings90.bsky.social. 🎯
Oh you must be mistaken. Putin is clearly a man of peace. Read the room. 😏
He in good company then.
United Nations talks on a treaty to end plastic pollution collapsed in the early hours of this morning, as countries failed to agree on the basic parameters of the text.
No harm done
Thank you for posing my question (first one, no less!) to Sir Ed. I’m a she not a he by the way but no harm done. Good to hear liberal views getting an airing in these febrile times 👏
He should grant this wish, and abolish the House of Lords in the process.
The best growth. The fastest hottest growth. Only the Donald could create such beautiful growth.
Signed with a slight change in wording to emphasise how malign I think this move would be for ordinary people in this country.
A detail I remember from this fabulous book, highly recommended. A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars by Anton Gill
Between the wars in Berlin there was so little food that people lived on tree bark and squirrels.
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