That era when everyone seemed to be obsessed with Bombay Bicycle Club, Elbow and Mumford and Sons. I probably would recognise songs from each of them but never really cared (two of them I've seen live at festivals or as support bands, still no idea).

Safe to say Italy are comfortably the 5th best rugby nation in Europe right now

Nice for Argentina to drop in on one of the minnows during their European tour

L'Italrugby batte l'Australia: delirio totale al fischio finale https://video.gazzetta.it/rugby/video-italrugby-che-impresa-batte-l-australia-ed-e-delirio-totale-al-fischio-finale/63a0e42d-e975-44b9-b146-ff9d52826xlk

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Who needs professional translators?

No, I think it’s better if we don’t tell them…

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

Two gigs in a week. I’ll need to lie down for a month

New cat tree review vs anger at removal of old one

Upcoming bands in cool small venues is the way to go

Amazing

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

There should be actual meaningful consequences for blatant misinformation and inciting hatred

My hometown is 10km from Huntingdon station. It’s what my Facebook home town is set as. Today I am inundated with the absolute dregs of humanity commenting on last night’s attack in my newsfeed. Once I figure out how to keep informed of group events my account will be deleted

This is horrifying and hits harder as it’s the local station for most of my family www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Schottland gegen USA kommt gleich. You don’t want to miss it’ You know what? I think I’ll be ok.

I have no idea why German TV has such extensive free-to-air rugby union coverage but I’m not going to complain.

But the Home Office wouldn’t cause unnecessary hardship to people for the sake of minuscule savings would it? One of our most trusted institutions and pillar of British society….

‘Why are people so angry in the East? Better make their airports useless until they know their place’

I’m so angry I feel like sending a fax

‘Your flight itinerary cannot be changed online. Please cancel’ Absolutely had enough with this joke of an airline. Never again

Lufthansa ‘we are going to cut internal flights but also sabotage our own partnership with Deutsche Bahn so just move to Frankfurt and stop demanding we get you to where you booked to’

The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Thousands of families suffered because Labour wanted to show that they were anti-immigrant in a desperate attempt to appeal to racists. Labour should immediately reverse course. And yes, the junior minister responsible should be sacked.

26 year old German known to the police for extremist political views took a knife to the throat of a Tunisian man on a tram in Dresden. Yesterday an Egyptian family were racially abused on a tram to the point that the police are after the abuser. Today Merz was here to no doubt blame immigrants

Pressure therefore needs to be kept up on Tories, and Reform, regarding policies which will put at risk the lives and futures of millions of law abiding families in this country who have played by the rules, contributed, and done nothing on. Don't let up until this is ditched, by both parties

I did my Masters thesis on EU expansion and migration to the UK. In 2009. What I hadn't anticipated was the number of councillors, community organisations telling me that the statistics on entering and leaving the UK are essentially guesses and they have no idea who is in the country.

You all laugh at cricket but at least after the required mumble of overs on the 5th day have been bowled and no one has won we shake hands and call it a draw. None of this extra innings nonsense.

Please let me nap

Trying to explain to two cats where one has a very rigid dry food schedule and gets grouchy very quickly….

If you are looking for a Halloween themed movie for this weekend…. Thank me later

Grapefruit lovers of the world unite

people should not be able to casually suggest ruining a huge amount of lives like this without the distinct and very real fear of being run out of town by angry villagers imo. but please, do come round to my house and tell me my wife's going to be deported for going on maternity leave

Ok I feel less sad at being stuck in bed watching Arrested Development all day

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.

‘People are fed up of [insert nationality here]’ ‘£38000 isn’t that much’ ‘It’s needed to stop welfare fraud’ ‘Of course we don’t mean people like *your wife*’ ‘Common sense will prevail’ ‘Labour are worse’

A democratic government stripping away rights from those who have played by the rules, splitting up families, deporting pensioners to countries some haven’t seen since childhood - this is what such legislation enables. Britain would be a pariah state. British citizens abroad would be unsafe.

‘Why are you leaving just because of the Brexit referendum? You’ll be fine, you have good jobs, they don’t mean your partner, not even Farage is proposing deportations, your partner is one of the good ones, you’re overreacting’. Everyone, ca. 2017

Who proposed to deport millions to make sure the nation is made up of those ‘culturally coherent’ A) a Nazi or b) a Tory?

Having read those Tory deportation proposals I assume Reform will take another step closer to Nazism. If either of those two parties get power in 2029 I will not be returning to the UK even for a visit.

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Great week so far - I’m sick, I had to sell my Queens of the Stone Age ticket for Thursday’s show. Now my cat is sick and had to go to the vet. My other cat is at home with me but depressed because her buddy is getting a medical examination.

No, there is a difference. Lam's proposals are more extreme than Reform's current proposals, I think. And the BNP, at least in its 2000s variant, proposed voluntary repatriation not compulsory.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that the WWII obsessives on the right are proud of Britain beating foreigners rather than fascists and Nazis

Targetting dual citizenship, through narratives of "divided loyalties", is traditionally the next stop along this path.

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