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I'm curious about most things. Here for comedy / parody and a bit of anti-right wing banter. 🏴
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James O’Brien
about 8 hours ago
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-...
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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school
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Parody Nigel Farage
6 days ago
The BBC have always been biased against me. As I explained in detail during my 38 appearances on BBC Question Time.
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Parody Nigel Farage
6 days ago
Many thanks to JCB’s Lord Bamford for donating £200,000 to Reform. HMRC seem to think he owes them up to £500m from money hidden in offshore accounts, but why pay tax when you can give it to a bunch of racists instead?
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Parody Nigel Farage
6 days ago
Talk TV confirm that they have sacked renowned concrete grower, Mike Graham. Seems unfair to sack him for being a racist dick when that was basically his job description.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺
9 days ago
Spot on , what a bellend he truly is.
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Tim Bale
9 days ago
"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating."
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To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
https://www.ft.com/content/676c3c30-aee5-427f-afa8-f12cb917e26c
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James O’Brien
13 days ago
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487
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Larry & Paul
about 1 month ago
🙏🏻 Once again, the public is asked to forgive Prince Andrew. 👇🏻 Please watch and share this
#BrokenNews
report:
youtu.be/AvRITcinvik
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#BrokenNews - Public Urged To Forgive Prince Andrew
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
https://youtu.be/AvRITcinvik
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Kevin Schofield
29 days ago
'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...
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'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments
Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam said some immigrants living legally in the UK should be deported to leave the country more "culturally coherent".
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-breach-of-human-decency-james-obrien-savages-tory-mps-immigration-comments_uk_68f620f0e4b02184e56ed939
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Anand Menon
29 days ago
"Legal and treaty commitments to foreigners don’t count, even if we’ve already made them, because ‘our people’, however defined, come first....It is....not simply immoral but just plain thick". 👏🏾👏🏾
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Parody Nigel Farage
about 2 months ago
On the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street, let us remember that the Daily Mail was cheering on Fascists then and continues that proud tradition today.
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James Ball
about 1 month ago
“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
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listening to you right now. Bang on about Badenoch and Daily Mail column / access. PS - ard you aware, your employer has just given her a "monthly phone in" platform with failed Tory candidate Ian Dale? Seems fair and balanced. I assume the PM will get the same offer?
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James O’Brien
2 months ago
‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home
A BBC investigation raises questions about how the Reform UK leader's partner paid for a home in his constituency.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce845w70g0yo
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George Monbiot
2 months ago
Read that
@hopenothate.org.uk
article alongside my article in the Guardian today, and you see a deeply concerning picture of what politics in this country has become.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/11/tories-rightwing-junktanks-no-10-government-civil-servants
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George Monbiot
2 months ago
A very disturbing thing I missed in researching this week's column. Three of the four junktank ultras hired by Labour to groom civil servants are named in this investigation of a Westminster network involving the disgraced eugenicist Andrew Sabisky.
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...
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Unravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hate
An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabisky-westminster-network/
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Do those under 16 need to send in a question by post with a self-addressed envelope included?
4 months ago
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I think it is fair to now ask if the £22BN black hole included the projected £9BN??
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being objective, to me, the most emotionally unstable person at PMQs yesterday was Badenoch who clearly has had an empathy brass and a swinging brick as a heart!
5 months ago
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Will Sebag-Montefiore
5 months ago
London is over
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: Enabled by right-wing media, those with the most wealth demonise those with the least. The narrative and myth multiplies. The majority, including those with the least, don't get that platform to highlight tax evasion, PPE fraud, slum landlords, multi home owners etc. Simple
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Q. what happened to UK utilities? Answer - Thatcherism. End of. Pure Tory dogma.
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just asking - can't you have a say in selecting our sit-in presenters on
@lbc.co.uk
? So far today, 2 straight hours of UK Government bashing. Now giving Lord Toby Young a platform to bash them on freedom of speech (irony, much?).
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Kat Tenbarge
7 months ago
The televised Oval Office meeting with Bukele is mockery. They’re mocking the press, their opposition, the courts, and the entire concept of justice. They’re mocking everyone who isn’t them. The abuser’s playbook yet again.
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Simon Nixon
7 months ago
Latest from
@thetimes.com
campaign in favour of keeping Britain as a tax haven for foreigners, regardless of how long they have lived here. What a pity it won’t tell us how Henley Partners, which has skin in the game, came up with its data. Its last “survey” was “modelled” on 250 LinkedIn profiles!
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London falls out of top five wealthiest cities as millionaires leave
The UK capital has lost 11,300 dollar millionaires over the past year, a higher proportion than anywhere other than Moscow
https://www.thetimes.com/article/e2d0fa01-844b-4973-9409-44e2a6c2279f?shareToken=aec560cc80b1e23d3a6d8675ce926343
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James O’Brien
8 months ago
Britain's wrongest man rides again.
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This book explains a lot!
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James O’Brien
8 months ago
From last month...
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...
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Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger | Computer Weekly
Russia-backed hacking groups have developed techniques to compromise encrypted messaging services, including Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram, placing journalists, politicians, and activists of interest ...
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619473/Warning-over-privacy-of-encrypted-messages-as-Russia-targets-Signal-Messenger
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Morgan J Freeman
8 months ago
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Ron Filipkowski
8 months ago
The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Phillips OBrien
8 months ago
For those who say that the results of the Trump-Putin call were good for Ukraine--the following needs to be understood. 1) The US has no new approved aid for Ukraine--all that is left is the remaining Biden aid (which is running out) 2) Trump has not actually put any new sanctions on Russia
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James O’Brien
8 months ago
This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.
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James O’Brien
8 months ago
The last *seven days*? What *we* have *always feared*? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
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Mehdi Hasan
9 months ago
lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye
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Chris Carini
9 months ago
State of the USA from a normal person ...
youtu.be/Vhdih6WXTEc?...
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BREAKING NEWS: Bernie Sanders Delivers Blistering Response To Trump's Address To Congress
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
https://youtu.be/Vhdih6WXTEc?si=XN6JAaq19DirQ2Kv
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James. I'd suggest PM Starmer and the UK not being at the Brussels EU summit today is akin to a poor child looking through the toy shop window at Christmas while the better of kids ard inside. Literally window shopping.
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John Pavlovitz
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maybe a trite wee thing to highlight, but at this time, I'd recommend a listen to the Nick Lowe song "So it goes"... "All day long in discussions with tge Russians".
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Memorial Device
9 months ago
The sound of a city (1) Glasgow 🙏
youtu.be/YvChvLCh5ew?...
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Tinseltown in the Rain
YouTube video by The Blue Nile - Topic
https://youtu.be/YvChvLCh5ew?si=KQeHP18l5CBGAKWM
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I wonder why
@borisjohnsonreal.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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I highly recommend watching the 1982 UK / Polish film Moonlighting with Jeremy Irons.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
9 months ago
An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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Morgan J Freeman
9 months ago
Who did this masterpiece?
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Led By Donkeys
10 months ago
VOX POPULI VOX DEI
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Peter Stefanovic
10 months ago
Labour needs to end its “cycle of hesitation” over Europe and press ahead with an ambitious new relationship with the European Union, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Starmer should end UK’s ‘cycle of hesitation’ with EU, says Neil Kinnock
Former Labour leader says government should show greater willingness to work with bloc
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/starmer-should-end-uks-cycle-of-hesitation-with-eu-says-neil-kinnock
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Aaron Rupar
10 months ago
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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Peter Stefanovic
10 months ago
The front page we’ve been waiting for 👏
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Viz Comic
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LBC
10 months ago
‘A tiny cabal of men and women control almost all of newspaper coverage.’ ‘The population is being groomed.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
hits out at Rupert Murdoch’s influence over UK media.
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