Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
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If you’d be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal.
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Nice to see my follower count rise. My policy is to follow back people I know from elsewhere and generally follow others after there's been a bit of interaction. If I haven't followed you back despite knowing you, it's probably because you're using a different photo. Just like this and I'll rectify.
about 1 year ago
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Just read this. Honestly, does anything more need to be said that isn’t in the heading and subheading? I’m pretty sure she’ll be fine. The woman in question, whose house is worth £4m, describes herself as ‘property rich and cash poor’. Has she considered moving to a £2m house and pocketing £2m cash?
1 day ago
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Just bought a huge plank of wood. Not sure how I’ll get it home on my bike. That’s not what’s annoying me, though. What is is that the first plank I selected was missing a barcode, which the cashier pointed out, and it’s only just occurred to me that I could have dazzled her with a ‘bark ode’ pun.
1 day ago
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That Badenoch unchristian talk has somehow been maliciously converted by my subconscious into a Mistletoe and Wine earworm, perhaps because of the ‘Christian rhyme’ lyric. Why did Cliff have to make it even worse by pronouncing it ‘kris-tee-un’ rather than ‘kris-chun’? It’s not rhythmically needed.
3 days ago
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Will Sebag-Montefiore
3 days ago
My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox
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Haven't got any plans for my lunch break so am thinking of wading into various animated WhatsApp chats I'm in, posting a full stop, and then immediately deleting those messages just to fuel people's sense of intrigue about the topics being discussed and me as a man of mystery.
3 days ago
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You're all mocking Kemi Badenoch and her comments on what is and isn't Christian but ask yourself this: which other British political leader causes you to mutter 'Jesus Christ' more than she does every time they open their mouth?
3 days ago
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Thing is, back in the late 70s/early 80s when Farage was, by documented accounts that seem very plausible to me, marching around singing Hitler Youth songs, how would you even have knowledge of those songs? How would you have been casually exposed to them in everyday life if you weren't a wrong 'un?
3 days ago
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I just think that if I were a motorist sitting behind several cars stuck at a junction despite the lights being green because a bus went into the yellow box I wouldn't honk my fucking horn for fear of polluting the air with my moronic noise, achieving nothing and making me look like a complete cunt.
3 days ago
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The notion that you did nothing but your house rose in value above £2 million and that that somehow means we should feel sorry for your predicament is an interesting one.
3 days ago
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The word ‘Thanksgiving’ - capital ‘T’, one word, lower-case ‘g’ - just doesn’t look right somehow. But then neither do ‘Thanks Giving’, ‘Thanks giving’, ‘ThanksGiving’, ‘Thanks-Giving’ or ‘Thanks-giving’, so I don’t know what the answer is, to be honest. Sorry to bring it up.
3 days ago
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Why does Farage think an attack being politically motivated invalidates that attack? Attacks are very often politically motivated, and well they should be if the attack is sincere and illustrates a point that would-be supporters of the person being attacked should be made aware of.
4 days ago
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Jonathan Portes
4 days ago
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Big homes ARE expensive to heat.
4 days ago
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Nick Robinson is doing a sterling job in his
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interview in making me warm to Rachel Reeves. Barking at someone to “take the opportunity” to apologise is unlikely to work, Nick, and the listener isn’t left reflecting on her refusal to apologise; they’re left thinking you’re a hectoring twat.
4 days ago
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It’s obscene, hackneyed and meaningless for shadow chancellor Mel Stride to talk on
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of Rachel Reeves “trash[ing] the economy”. What a shameless charlatan.
4 days ago
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What I said after an argument as a parting shot to Morten Harket and his mates when they were working as bouncers at a really shit pub:
5 days ago
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I'm not defending what I imagine is a flawed budget that everyone will hate for many often conflicting reasons but, just out of interest and as a genuine question to experts, what would be the key points of a budget that...? - Is liked by Labour's base - Liked by business - Liked by voters at large
5 days ago
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Jonny Morris
5 days ago
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
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🎶 Ob-la-di, OBR Life goes on, brah La-la, how the life goes on I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
5 days ago
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1/2 Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough. *Ha.
5 days ago
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Jason
5 days ago
During today’s Budget, all I ask is that just one MP stands up and shouts “that’s Numberwang!”
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Say what you like about the budget - unless you were part of the last government, in which case, STFU and FO.
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5 days ago
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Friends had SO many good lines, didn’t it? And I think it’s because they often have real-life applications. One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?” It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
5 days ago
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I found it, lads, on my cycle to work: a van with stickers that make the 'honk if you want a blowjob' one that Jay bought for Simon in The Inbetweeners look like T. S. Eliot. The one in the bottom left-hand corner is the nadir for me but you might suggest another contender.
6 days ago
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Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
6 days ago
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Imagine a British newspaper having a political position and then running a story it believes to be true that could serve that position. Whatever next?! No wonder Nigel Farage - who, unrelatedly, enjoys such prominence because of our tame and sometimes supportive media - is so pissed off.
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6 days ago
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Six years ago today according to Facebook. This was the end of a work trip to Lisbon. The laughter of my colleague who filmed it is priceless.
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6 days ago
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This is Percy, a sausage dog my colleague often brings into the office. A few minutes ago, while chatting to the same colleague, Percy wandered over. Trying to lift him on to my lap, I cackhandedly dropped him, before quipping that I'd become a Percy Thrower, a joke I feel deserves a wider audience.
7 days ago
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Neither of my children use capital letters that aren’t auto-generated or punctuation in text messages, and it’s rare - and unheard of, in the case of my son - for them to sign off with kisses. But apart from that, great scam!
7 days ago
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Doug, Persisting
7 days ago
All this stuff about Farage peddling conspiracies with Alex Jones, people saying he was racist at school, his party is filled with Russian money, and he has questions to answer and fucking Hell, have we learned nothing? He won’t own up and no-one will make him, he’ll just glide off untouched, again
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Interesting piece on a unification referendum:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
. I’m with the Irish on flags. Imagine the abomination! Also, the orange in the tricolour already represents Protestants, which, as an aside, always amuses me when fans add it to Celtic kits to emphasise the Irishness.
7 days ago
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The same people who think vaccines cause autism think neurodivergence is over-diagnosed. Logically, these aren’t wholly incompatible beliefs, but do they not stop and question the irony?
7 days ago
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'Choosing'... lol.
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8 days ago
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Farage's assertion that there's 'no evidence' is factually inaccurate. A witness statement, in English law at least, IS evidence, even if it's not proof. Whether to believe it would be down to a court. Of course, this isn't yet a legal matter, but it would be if Farage sued for libel - and he won't.
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Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/22/nigel-farage-racist-past-who-is-telling-truth-schooldays
8 days ago
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Meowyin and meowyang.
#caturday
8 days ago
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James Ball
8 days ago
Most of the public know what’s going on with flags on lamp posts. Crucially for the government, 78% of its 2024 voters think anti-minority sentiment is involved in flying England flags (versus just 15% who think it’s just a national pride thing). They are getting the politics of this all wrong.
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‘Fish and chips just £14.25’, says a chalkboard outside an O’Neill’s pub on Euston Road. Maybe we should change the symbol for our currency to ‘Just£’ and we won’t feel the effects of inflation.
9 days ago
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James O’Brien
9 days ago
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.
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Cute how, reporting on the owner of the Mail buying the the Telegraph, a Radio 4 newsreader has just described both papers as “right-leaning”. If I leant as far as they lean, I’d either fall over or have the strongest leg muscles in mammalian history.
9 days ago
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yesterday’s NYT Connections, which broke my 50-day streak. I got yellow and saw the cocktails connection but there were two false positives with that and the Pixar connection I suspected but didn’t know well enough. As for purple… Scarf? Fucking scarf? Even Americans don’t pronounce scoff like that.
9 days ago
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You’ve got that right.
9 days ago
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If you want to massively depress yourself going into the weekend, read this, because it's hard to counter any of Ian's damning appraisal of Keir Starmer's government. The only glimmer of hope: I think it could be as much as 44 months till the next election, not 40.
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10 days ago
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Ooh, looking forward to £5.88 worth of performative cruelty this month, lads!
10 days ago
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Romeo and Juliet famous, of course, for all the many children they raised.
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10 days ago
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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, double, double, toil, trouble, fire, burn, cauldron, bubble, 10 Hexadecimal
11 days ago
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I suspect that the appalling racist abuse Shabana Mahmood was describing on
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was something she faced more as a child than as an adult. If there’s been a recent uptick, that’s down to political rhetoric, not immigration numbers, which have been higher than when she was a child for many years.
11 days ago
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Emu Hp
12 days ago
Number 6 is JOKES man
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On the Farage alleged youthful racism story, supporters will fall into: - Those who don't hear about it (lots) - Those who do and dismiss it as unfounded (also lots) - Those who do and privately embrace it (a minority but worryingly high) - Those who do and reconsider their support (single figures)
13 days ago
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Weird that Cloudflare's own site isn't down. To be honest, though, can you really trust a company that thinks the world looks like this?
13 days ago
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Two things: 1) Yes, I fucking know. 2) 'Dear customer'? I'm very happy to pay tax. It's my civic duty. And yeah, I suppose I get something from it, but 'customer' is pushing things.
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