Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

OH FUCKING FUCK OFF WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME IT'S NOT EVEN DECEMBER

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers K.

Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

I'm really pleased to see this documentary on YouTube. It's years since I saw it on TV but it has always stayed with me. The Man With The 7 Second Memory. youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?...

The BBC and Starmer’s Labour govt share much in common. They’re easily bullied and often afraid, as institutionalised too often are, of exercising their own power. They then appear weak and ineffectual. They’re judged against standards to which their critics would themselves would never adhere...

As usual the consumer will be left picking up the pieces www.notebookcheck.net/Roomba-robot...

Just been to see Bugonia. Almost ruined by the two loudest twats I've ever heard in a cinema. Pissed as farts, cannot for the life of me think why they would come to a film like that in a state like that, other than maybe they were hoping to see Emma Stone's tits again.

It's crazy that no man has ever cried on TV more than Jimmy Kimmel, and all of it is appropriate and maybe useful for a lot of young men to see.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

Gary Lineker for DG

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

I'm sure #Pluribus is going to be great but the opening sure is giving off The Last Of Us vibes.

Richard Aldington's Epilogue to Death of a Hero. Always worth revisiting on Remembrance Sunday.

In a cafe and they're playing a bossanova version of Never Gonna Give You Up and I've never hated music more.

I loathe LinkedIn.

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Has someone from @privateeyenews.bsky.social snuck into The Guardian?

On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.

I must confirm that I will *not* do anything for love, however I will do that.

I'm guessing Aberystwyth

Things we did: Built this city. Shot the sheriff. Things we didn’t do: Start the fire. Shoot the deputy. Things we want to do: Break free. Know what love is. Things we will do: Rock you. Anything for love. Things we won’t do: THAT

It’s disgraceful that there are no-go areas in modern Britain, and that they’re the private estates of wealthy landowners.

This is an excellent idea!!!

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Absolutely unequivocally one of the greatest recordings of all time. Blood and Chocolate remains my favourite Costello album.

I live in Manchester in England in the UK. Inputting my country is sheer guess work. The UK? Scroll to U. Nope. OK. Great Britain...? England...? Stupid 3 name country

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

This Girlbands Forever documentary... What's with the weird fake newspaper clippings?

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

Long time since I did one of these, here we go... #B-SidesandBonusTracks #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day One The Fall - Lost In Music B-side track from 12" of "Why Are People Grudgeful?"

They literally ruin everything they touch

Absolute perfection. #Reform

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Trying to watch Down Cemetery Road but finding all the acting turned up to 10 very, very irritating. Who's to blame in that scenario, is it the director?

Finally somewhere I can sort out my vistors. #ChurchillSquare #Ikea

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

Well I'm trying to watch season 3 of Blue Lights and it's all fine until Cathy Tyson comes on screen and appears to be acting in a completely different programme.

You will never be a billionaire, but you will be forced, every day, for the rest of your life, to make them richer.

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