“Gas ‘em all!”, I said. I didn’t single anybody out. Except Hitler, who I agreed with.

Oh Farage actually used the "banter" defence. He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook bsky.app/profile/raks...

When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone". This is the Bernard Manning defence.

BBC News: Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims. So not only is he a racist, he is a coward as well? Is that what we are to take from this statement? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lx0981nro

My “We’re not ENRON” press releases are raising a lot of questions already answered by the press releases.

There’s nothing like fire discipline. And that’s nothing like it.

He sounds extremely rattled here, the slippery turd. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pleased, but it’s unlikely DJT would ever have been president without Comey’s actions in late October 2016.

There’s nothing on TV, and that’s Ben Stokes’s fault.

If they don’t rename a bar in the Perth Stadium The Doggett and Duckett, it’s a missed opportunity.

You shouldn’t need to invest the equivalent of the Apollo project, the Manhattan Project, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam combined to have something spew out inaccurate information and cat videos.

More on Rob Hatch as a cricket commentator: has to parse so much information in a bunch sprint in cycling that ball-by-ball commentary must be easy.

You’re never going to beat Australia scoring less than 200 in both innings. England won in 2010/11 down under because their batters scored heavily, not because they bowled well.

Regression to the mean. Australia were never going to bat as badly as last time.

Not been awake for any part of an England innings yet. Feel for the Sunday crowd. They might be getting a refund at this rate.

"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?

Rob Hatch, commentating on a sport that lasts all day and has a history of cheating but it isn’t cycling. At least he doesn’t have to talk through French churches for the first 3 hours.

My considered professional view is that that was a load of bollocks. #TheAshes

Yeah, that over-reliance on Earth. Silly me.

Approximately an Edgbaston Cricket Ground crowd’s worth of dead.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is there an Epstein files count, for the number of days it takes Trump to sign the bill into law? One day so far.

Nigel Farage's spokesman denies he made racist comments, saying it was "a long time ago" and "you can’t always recollect what happened". Asked why lots of people remember the same thing, he asks why they didn't come forward before When I point out some of them did, he replies "not in the same way"

Schumer just ended Smithers’s career.

Walking like a Boss for the first time in years.

Trump is being an arsehole. That’s the headline you should use. Surely at some point a pool member will tell him to get in the fucking sea.

Gym Jordan says what?

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite. (Note also the line about pronouncing his name.) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

No. We really do laugh at him. Him specifically. We’ll stop laughing if he turns out to have sexually abused an Epstein victim.

When names drop from the Epstein files of old rich men having sex with victims, remember that every single act was produced by coercion, and is therefore rape, irrespective of the victim’s age. Every. Single. One.

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

"The cat scratched my groin when he saw that woman from Strictly" "Claudia Winkleman?" "No, man, but it was close"

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.

Trump is a convicted felon, whose conviction was due to using campaign funds for a hush money payment to cover up sexual activity with a porn star. We often forget this part of Trump’s typical day-to-day activities.

“Outstanding” is the last thing you want somebody to describe an MRI. “Normal” is best.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Penny just dropped: remember when the “grab em by the…” tape came out, everyone said Trump was done, and he went after Bill Clinton? Same here. The “they were all doing it” defence is an admission.

One of these people/banks is going to go scorched earth, get the Epstein files as discovery and fist Trump’s presidency to death.

"We do not yet know how Trump and lawyers will react to this sensible, measured response. He may well file suit, for the sake of demanding more. But even if he does, the BBC response so far places the broadcaster in the best position for dealing with any claim" @davidallengreen.bsky.social

The Met Office is not messing about.

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But we have seen a slew of women accuse Trump of sexual assault and rape. We have! Also, “The President is not a pedophile, he was just having sex with his pedophile friend's trafficked victims after he was done with them." Isn’t the defense she thinks it is.

Remember also that the actual trading changes came into effect in 2021, and the negative impact was obscured by effects of Covid.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Is this real?! Our timeline I mean. Because, well, fuck.

Not a single capital letter in emails written by Epstein. Massive red flag there.

It’s podcasters I feel sorry for on days like today.

If this was a hoax, wouldn’t releasing the full Epstein files to the public exonerate Trump? If he had nothing to hide, why would Trump be working so hard to prevent its release?

“But further examination revealed that he is full of shit”