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Fond of sand dunes and salty air. Totally woke. Check my blog at www.eclecticblue.org.uk.
"Millions of UK voters are desperate for radical change", whines Jones, in the anti-Labour
@theguardian.com
, failing to add that very few of them want a washed-up, never-was, egotist like Corbyn to be leading it.
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Corbyn and Sultana: the needs of the left are greater than any of your differences | Owen Jones
Millions of UK voters are desperate for radical change. For their sake, we must hope Your Party’s hotheads give way to calm strategists, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-your-party-left
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Even when Labour does something Malik approves of, she still makes sure she sticks with
@theguardian.com
's editorial line of attacking Starmer.
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Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik
The British PM and others offered fine words, but after all the horror, many will say too little, too late. Palestinians need unfettered support – and now, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/starmer-finally-said-recognise-palestine-gaza-desperately-needs-action-where-that
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I'm afraid the BBC is committing suicide right in front of us. A 56 minute long party political broadcast by what many regard as a fascist organisation. I can no longer defend the corporation.
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Young LGBTQ+ folks under the age of 18, currently targeted by the right and the Epstein Regime, did NOT vote for Trump. Farmers overwhelmingly did. Before I'd donate a penny to Farm Aid, I'd give everything I have to The Trevor Project. I'm just saying.
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And so farewell tiktok.
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Trump says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch likely part of US TikTok investor group
US president tells Fox News ‘a man named Lachlan is involved … that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/trump-rupert-lachlan-murdoch-tiktok?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Now we go live to the anti-Labour
@theguardian.com
- where else? - to hear from a failed Greek politician & a middle class luvvy Corbyn supporter, who seem to be amazed that the colossal egos of Magic Grandpa & Sultana are at war. An historic opportunity my arse.
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A historic opportunity for the British left is being thrown away. This very public Your Party row must stop now | Yanis Varoufakis and Ken Loach
People desperately want and need a party with socialist values. Future generations will be damning if this fails, say economist Yanis Varoufakis and film director Ken Loach
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/21/historic-opportunity-british-left-thrown-away-your-party-row
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Brilliant to see
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social
at the Redgrave Theatre, Bristol last night. Wonderfully entertaining and one of the few reasons I have maintained my
@theguardian.com
subscription for as long as I have.
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I guess if you support free speech but subscribe to the Disney Channel, you might think of getting rid of it?
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@theguardian.com
relentlessly pursues its endless anti-Labour campaign. Who needs the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Times, Express when The Grauniad appears to hate Labour even more than they do?
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Trump will soon be gone but Britain’s problems will remain. Starmer’s invitation was a big mistake | Frances Ryan
All the pomp and circumstance can’t distract from the hate and division. The PM must summon the courage to act, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/donald-trump-state-visit-uk-keir-starmer-crisis
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Splitter! 😂 They haven't even come up with a fucking name yet and they're squabbling already. Same old Trots.
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Corbyn clashes with Sultana over membership portal as split emerges in new party
Ex-Labour leader says ‘legal advice being taken’ over issue, while Sultana also claims ‘sexist boys’ club’ is running party
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/18/jeremy-corbyn-clashes-zarah-sultana-your-party-split
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@theguardian.com
relentlessly coming after Labour from the hard left. It's almost as if they'd be quite happy with Farage in number ten.
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/clear-keir-starmer-warm-up-act-nigel-farage
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Appalled to hear Queen on
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. Please don't let it happen again.
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Free speech? The Fagash Fuhrer will be livid about this censorship, won't he?
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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit
Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/four-arrested-after-image-of-trump-and-epstein-projected-onto-windsor-castle-ahead-of-presidents-visit
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"Everything is Labour's fault", says total bell end. There was me thinking Israel caused all this carnage.
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If Labour admitted there is a genocide in Gaza, it would have to admit its own hand in it | Owen Jones
From publicly shunning British Palestinians, to supplying parts for fighter jets, Labour looks increasingly out of step with international opinion, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/17/labour-genocide-gaza-british-palestinians-fighter-jets
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Rearrange the following words. Cares and Who.
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Amazon to offer Champions League viewers new immersive in-game data
Amazon Prime Video will offer Champions League viewers a new kind of match coverage this season with a focus on player data inspired from video games
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/15/amazon-prime-video-prime-vision-data-champions-league-football
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So, Danny Kruger is ...
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Bluesky used to be so much fun, but now it's dying on its arse. Such a shame.
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Uh oh. Here we go. Things will get seriously nasty from now on.
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12 days ago
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Very important, and deeply moving, thread. How could anyone of sound mind not agree with this?
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This is a brilliantly well thought out post, which sums up all we need to know about Mandelson.
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Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we
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Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
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Lee Dixon notes a phantom whistler in the crowd after a mere 24 minutes of phantom whistles.
#itvfootballisshit
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Just 21 minutes for Matterface to work out Serbia marking England players man to man.
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“And to prattle on endlessly, providing no analysis whatsoever, it’s Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon.”
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Great to see
@theguardian.com
at last returning to actual journalism. Please - more of this and less opinion puff from the likes of Jones, Beckett, Chakrabortty, Malik and all the other Labour haters.
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Boris Johnson secretly lobbied UAE for billion-dollar private venture, leak suggests
Former prime minister courted senior Abu Dhabi official he had hosted in No 10 in apparent breach of rules
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/09/boris-johnson-secretly-lobbied-uae-business-venture-leak-suggests
14 days ago
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After months of non-stop attacks on Labour,
@theguardian.com
finally goes after the real enemies in our country, the super-rich, dodgy establishment. Hopefully, Farage will be next.
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/revealed-how-boris-johnson-traded-pm-contacts-for-global-business-deals
14 days ago
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If only these
@theguardian.com
luvvies went after the Tories and Reform with the same zeal as they go after Labour.
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What is the point of Labour’s new deputy leader? Until we know that, the contest isn’t worth having | Neal Lawson
With the party tanking and Farage in No 10 a possibility, we need a unifying figure who will wake the party from its slumber, says Neal Lawson of Compass
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/08/labour-deputy-leader-keir-starmer-nigel-farage
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The daily
@theguardian.com
attack on Labour, this time from Nasrine Malik, who never has anything much to say, but says it anyway. This is almost as poor as the drivel Owen Jones comes out with. What a disgrace you are, Viner.
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Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik
Here we are again: constant rebooting, cruel rhetoric and crackdowns. And hurtling towards a Reform-shaped future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/08/keir-starmer-reshuffle-labour-tory-reform
15 days ago
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More anti-Labour reporting in the failing Guardian as Sultana says she has no interest in creating a party that was just about winning elections. Classic Magic Grandpa bollocks at play there, where "building a movement" is all that matters for the comrades.
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Labour is dead, says Zarah Sultana as she calls for patience over party launch
Co-leader of nascent leftwing party says more than 750,000 people have registered their interest
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/07/labour-is-dead-zarah-sultana-your-party-launch
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Yet another Guardian hit-job on Labour. This is clearly a deliberate attack strategy and one wonders who is behind it and why.
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Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris
The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rug, says Guardian columnist John Harris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/angela-rayner-keir-starmer-labour-reform-nigel-farage
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Yes, but Angela Rayner …
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Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton
Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/nigel-farage-admits-he-was-wrong-to-say-he-had-bought-house-in-clacton?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Not as aggressive as the odious Owen Jones et al, but
@theguardian.com
's relentless attacks on Labour just keep on coming, this time from the usually excellent Jonathan Freedland.
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Rayner’s exit is a bombshell. But the real crisis for Starmer may have only just begun | Jonathan Freedland
From the outset her role has been crucial, and her fall will exacerbate all the doubts about the PM and his ability to keep Labour in power, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/angela-rayner-exit-keir-starmer-labour-power
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18 days ago
pitching a piece to the telegraph about how angela rayner's resignation is another blow for the white working class in britain, i wonder if they'll go for it
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Mary Ann Hobbs on the
@bbc6music.bsky.social
breakfast show? Were there no professional DJs available? The worst possible way to start a Friday morning.
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And now
@theguardian.com
sends a reporter to Ashton-Under-Lyne in order to carry out a hatchet job on Angela Rayner. I'm half expecting editor Viner to tell her beau Adrian Chiles to put the boot in to Labour when he pens his next piss-poor column.
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‘It’s a disgrace’: Rayner’s constituents call for her resignation after stamp duty row
In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/04/its-a-disgrace-rayners-constituents-call-for-her-resignation-after-stamp-duty-row
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Subscribe to Byline Times today. The establishment hates it.
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Is anyone else baffled by Florence and the Machine's popularity? Ghastly vocal wailing that sounds like a mash-up of Toyah Wilcox and the Glitter Band.
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Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iBgkXb1EE
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Well, fuck Lloyds bank, then.
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Lloyds to warn 3,000 staff they face sack for ‘underperformance’
With economic uncertainty leading fewer people to leave, bank will put one in 20 on ‘performance plans’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/04/lloyds-warns-3000-staff-they-face-sack-for-under-performance
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And, inevitably, in a week when the increasingly far left of centre
@theguardian.com
has launched an unprecedented attack on Labour, guess who crawls out of the woodwork join in with the 'fun'? Yes, that little toad Owen Jones who helped give us Corbyn and a Tory landslide under Johnson.
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This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10 | Owen Jones
A simple, terrible and obvious mistake is being made. The more Labour echoes Reform’s talking points, the more it strengthens them, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/keir-starmer-smoothing-nigel-farage-path-no-10-labour-reform
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The friends of Nigel Farage.
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Remember when the BBC went after 'Honest Bob' Jenrick for his dodgy dealings with porn merchant Richard Desmond? No, nor me. But the Tory run BBC is quite happy to put the boot into Angela Rayner. No better than GB News these days.
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Angela Rayner battles for political future as she faces questions over tax admission
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she has
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crm4mxrg40pt
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I don't remember the BBC going after 'Honest Bob' Jenrick when he assisted porn merchant and Tory donor Richard Desmond in getting special permission for a £1 billion development in the same way they are all over Angela Rayner. It's almost as if there were senior Tories at the top.] at the BBC.
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Let’s really start to stir the pot, says Sky News. If we keep at it, there will be some decent riots and maybe even a death or two to report on.
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How fake papers helped family get to Britain - raising serious questions about UK's immigration system
The story of Sami's family's journey to Britain - from a poor Indian family with a dream of a better life - gives a rare insight into the UK's immigration system. It also raises serious questions abou...
https://news.sky.com/story/fake-documents-debt-and-student-visas-inside-the-uks-immigration-system-13423639
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Sky News reports on a story it played a major part in bringing about. Sadly, there can’t have been enough space in the report to include that bit.
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Two women arrested in Nuneaton on suspicion of a public order offence after Sky News interview
The arrests come after a Sky News interview about tensions over asylum seekers was interrupted by women shouting.
https://news.sky.com/story/two-women-arrested-in-nuneaton-on-suspicion-of-public-order-offences-after-sky-news-interview-13424394
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Clearly, the Grauniad doesn't think there can ever be enough attacks on Labour, so now it's time to roll out 'Sir' Simon Jenkins to have a boot at Tony Blair who hasn't been PM since 2007 (more's the pity). Tune in tomorrow when doubtless it will be Clement Attlee's turn to take a beating.
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Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so? | Simon Jenkins
The former PM’s leaked visit to the White House is concerning. This scheme is an outrage that no other Arab – or western – state could back, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/03/trump-gaza-palestinians-israel-blair
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Grauniad taking the piss now. The genius who helped steer Corbyn to electoral oblivion in 2019 now has the brass neck to offer advice on winning elections.
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Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery | John McDonnell
After so many avoidable mistakes, of course people are angry. But with the far right looming, we need action not despair, says MP and former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/03/labour-starmer-government-john-mcdonnell
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Of course, The Grauniad gives the Fagash Fuhrer a free ride with not a word of criticism or context.
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Farage condemns UK’s ‘authoritarian censorship regime’ ahead of giving evidence at US congress - UK politics live
Reform UK leader to speak about Online Safety Act at House judiciary committee; government set to announce date of budget at PMQs later
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/03/farage-starmer-badenoch-pmqs-news-updates-uk-politics-live?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Yet another Grauniad attack on Labour. It's relentless.
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Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone
‘Delivery, delivery, delivery’ isn’t just vacuous nonsense – it’s emblematic of the prime minister’s leaden-footed approach to politics, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/02/keir-starmer-worst-political-slogan-prime-minister
20 days ago
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