One reason is that is by nature really exclusionary. You would struggle to think of a more class-coded thing than the Boxing Day hunts. As I always say, we banned badger baiting and cockfights centuries before we got around to fox hunting because only plebs did the former.

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

Republican Indiana state senator Chris Garten is unwell.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Nigeria hit with FIFA peace missiles

-wanging on about Whittle's jet engine, the original Mini and the Harrier. All of those things were actually *made* in Britain. That's how you create wealth and productivity in a country. Jobs for people who can't be entrepreneurs or inventors. Dyson moved all his manufacturing overseas. -

Norwegian Christmas Tree Dressed for the Boxing Day Party, drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1934.

So now it seems that objection to Israeli colonisation of Palestinian territory to create an apartheid state can be called anti-semitism.....

Europhobia & Brexit drove the English political right entirely insane. Until that side of English politics regains its collective sanity & chooses once again to recognise economic reality: empirical facts: and objective truth, the UK will remain outside the European Union. bsky.app/profile/13sa...

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We're way past time for police officers to find Russell Brand's lifeless body sprawled on the bathroom floor at his home, face down in a puddle of his own vomit and surrounded by used drug paraphernalia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merry Christmas from the White house...

One here to add to your BlueSky block list: @boxman485.bsky.social An unpleasant, confrontational, shitposting troll account. Please don't engage. Just block and then forget it ever existed.

A couple of good ones for your block list: @sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social and @chicagonewsbench.bsky.social Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this

In my school mums WhatsApp group one of the Muslim mums is helping one of the other mums assemble a last-minute Christmas Eve box and this is the country I am proud to live in and share x

"I said Tommy Robinson really stood up for himself when that boxer confronted him in Dubai. What did I say Roy?" "You said the coked-up little prick shat his pants"

Andrew Tate is getting practise reps in before he and his brother are sent to prison.

The Grift must flow.

It’s all so pathetic isn’t it

“The whole Andrew Tate as a fighter conversation is pretty much over. The polarizing kickboxer-turned-influencer was … much less cobra on Saturday night as Heavyweight champion Chase DeMoor battered him from pillar to post …” - Fortune. First Jake now this. Good weekend for boxing. 😅😅

Paul Marshall: "You don't know the Brexit that I funded and agitated for. It goes to a different school" Risible post-truth Brexiter drivel. bsky.app/profile/domw...

"Rudderless cunt" is a magnificent description of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. My default description of him is "treasonous bin bag of rotting pigs innards". Yours is both immediate and accurate. Well played, sir. bsky.app/profile/john...

So much winning.🙄 I wonder if people in Kentucky realize how many of their problems are a direct result of voting for Republicans?

There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".

Its not just disgraceful and dangerous. Its depraved.There is no moral center to this party. Brexit broke their brains. They're degenerate. As for Badenoch. She is just a slightly more articulate version of Truss. The ghost of the lettuce that defeated truss could run circles round her.

Conservative politician Ben Houchen is: -Tees Valley Mayor -A Tory life peer in the Lords -Bent as a nine bob note -All of the above ✅ #Teesworks #TVCA bsky.app/profile/jenw...

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

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Literally the worst people on Earth want to either destroy or mutilate the #EU.. That should tell you a lot.

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

Wait until Allison Pearson wakes up from her crystal meth-induced fever dream & finds out which political party was in power for 14 of the last 15.5 years, during which time public sector funding has been gutted and take-home pay & living standards have both declined. Allison is going to be livid.

Outstanding.

I kind of wish this wasn’t still so relevant…

It's as if every word spoken by America's mad, self-serving, racist king and his cabal of scheming, malignant MAGA flying monkeys is a shameless, barefaced, outright lie.

It's as if every word spoken by America's mad, self-serving, racist king and his cabal of scheming, malignant MAGA flying monkeys is a shameless, barefaced, outright lie.

MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.

Welcome to a morning of silly hype about UK trade policy. Part one, "a serious setback in US-UK relations" as "£31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice"? Invented number, good thing if the UK pushes back on US regulatory asks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

While the US could well have a much more agreeable government after the next election, it has shown that even when in better hands than now, we will suspect it is just one election away from electing a complete moron. There is no way of building solid long-term relations under such conditions.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

It’s crazy how the “Don’t tread on me!” and “Live free or die” crowd is fine with masked gangs of anonymous armed federal agents hassling, detaining, and assaulting people on the streets “papers please”-style. This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.

Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.

Every credible economist in the UK and elsewhere said before June 2016 that leaving the European Union would make the UK poorer, weaker, and less secure. But Brexiters and voters ignored them #BBCLauraK #Brexit

One of them has f**ked the entire country. And the other one is Bonnie Blue. bsky.app/profile/then...

Shackling Daniel Hannan to a NASA probe on a one-way mission to explore deep space would be a blessed relief for us all.

"We're English and we don't like open borders or immigrants WAIT WHERE ARE YOU ALL GOING COME BACK" Lather, rinse, repeat. #DontBuyTheDailyMail #BBCLauraK bsky.app/profile/robf...

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer. mol.im/a/15379789

Slow hand clap for Liam Neeson. The selfish, grasping arsehole.