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The problem for Starmer & Reeves is the dislike is for various reasons. The engaged right naturally dislike them, the engaged left have been let down with a failure to improve, progress or oppose Reform, whilst the disengaged associate S&R, arguably somewhat unfairly, with the UKs continued malaise

Another amazing spectacle today as Justin Hood, a man who was 86th in world before the tournament blew away a Top 10 player 4-0, and until the penultimate leg was on 11/11 100% double success. Just staggering to watch. The games tonight look even better. LOVE THE DARTS!

Oh, word? How convenient. Funny, I recall 2014 when hundreds of civilians lay dead in the smoldering ruins of MH17 and Russia tried to claim the plane had actually been shot down by Ukrainian jets in a failed assassination attempt on Putin.

Lucy Connelly was paraded at the Reform conference as some sort of hero, yet this fella is called a scum bag and threatened with denaturalisation. FWIW, they both seem pretty unsavoury to me, but the public at least deserve consistent logic, otherwise they are being taken for fools

I mean, at least Abd El Fattah has apologised. Farage hasn’t

It’s day 4 of doing my best to reconstruct Christmas leftovers into useful food. Today; macaroni cheese and a panettone bread and butter pudding

An important reminder

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

I am begging that someone, anyone, please ask Nigel and Reform to reconcile their position here

Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel

A pretty good summary of the latest political football concerning Alaa Abd El-Fattah

“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed... Putin was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding."

World Championship Darts is just BY FAR the best event to watch on TV. Nothing has the twists and turns, drama and mental strength on display as this. That Humphries-Clemens match epitomises how amazing it can be

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.

An excellent example as to how even 10 years later, Brexiter logic is still confused and contradictory

How stupid is that from Ward. Total hospital pass from Brewster, but you can’t chase back 80 yards then do that there when on a yellow. Moronic #dcfc

A former PM. Disgraceful and embarrassing in equal measure

You do have to sometimes stop and remind yourself that these mad ramblings on social media are from the actual US President - who was given a 2nd term when his mental unsuitability was plain to see. Weird and worrying times

Far right politics is calling the King treacherous and the Pope holier than though. Beyond everything else, these people really are just total fucking idiots

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

Ready for dad duties tomorrow: standing around with a bin bag and ensuring all wrapping paper goes straight into it.

The murder of CBS News by Trump operative Bari Weiss means it even more important for the BBC to contest Trump's specious "defamation" lawsuit in Florida. American journalism has collapsed. The rest of us need to double down.

So now we just have to pretend maths is just different to what we were all taught at school? Cool

Most of the claims here sound totally deranged. It’s a shame to see someone just embarrass themselves and bin off any further chance of work, but if you’re going to behave like this, it’s hardly surprising. Should have stuck to BOSH and curry for breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Canceling the northern leg of HS2 was an act of insane self-harm

Predictable and predicted back in 2015/6 then when Brexit inevitably failed, there would be crude attempts to blame the implementation not the idea. No, sorry, this won’t wash

Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?

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Every time I see any promotional material about the Jake Paul - Anthony Joshua fight it hits me again as to how much of a mismatch it is. What a ludicrous event* *I’ll still watch it - and I guess that’s the point

This is pretty strong, but the central point is a good one. The notion that good character and decency matter in politics is because it underpins accountability and the democratic system. If you’re saying it doesn’t matter, I think the whole system fails to operate as it should, it breaks down

What I’m constantly amazed with is how so many people can see things like this and can still reconcile it with the fact this is who they voted for and is the person who is in charge and responsible for so much. It’s such pathetic behaviour and indicates a man in very poor mental health

Raymond van Barneveld’s hairline really is something else. What is going on there. Tattoo? Transplant? What is it

Keir Starmer: "I have a Christmas message for Reform. If mysterious men from the east come bearing gifts...this time, report it to the police."

If you look him up, be aware that there are two chaps called Julian Teare. One is an eminent gastroenterologist, one is a former digital officer for the Conservative Party. One Julian Teare has a career dealing with poorly performing arses, the other…

Reform campaigned saying they were going to “cut waste and taxes”, but council tax here likely going up between 5 and 10% - will be a lot of Reform fantasy-based promises crashing into reality across various local councils they run, I expect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A man who is deeply mentally unstable is interested in Farage, Musk, Tate and crypto. How totally unsurprising

Of course he does, because all Trump does is double down, no matter how uncaring, wrong or grotesque his original statements are

The most maddening thing about HS2 and those who moan about it. If you are going to try and go to extraordinary lengths to placate wealthy, NIMBY, home owning Conservative voters in the Home Counties then yes - this will contribute to costs likely spiralling out of control

Trump’s legal action is an attack on a British institution and by extension the British population. And let’s have it right, Trump very obviously does not care about truth or accuracy. The whole thing is an exercise in exerting pressure and control over independent media organisations

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

Very much enjoying Derby County tonight but why are Man Utd so unbelievably pitiful. Just embarrassing

Compare and contrast. The man is an absolute sicko

A reminder that this is the same man who has just spent the past week calling all the Jewish victims of his own horrific anti-semitic abuse liars

The obsession with Christmas being cancelled is one of the maddest tropes of the far right. It's obviously not true and will never be true but they need it to be an imminent possibility. Where would they be without their imagined peril?

Back in 2016 as in 2025, at its core, all of this is based on just horrible British exceptionalism, the reality is so much more simple. Polish people moved to the UK when it made sense for their work or quality of life, now they move back when Poland offers better prospects. Its easy to understand