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Remembering Kirsty MacColl today on the 25th anniversary of her passing (December 18, 2000) | Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/KMacCollRIP

Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation

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The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

If divorced dads whose kids don't see them could go back to dressing up in superhero outfits and climbing up buildings instead of ushering in fascism I think we'd all be better off quite frankly.

You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it. This was a *child*

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The stand-up material of Ricky Gervais and Jim Davidson are pretty much the same.

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Got into Sananda Maitreya (FKA: Terence Trent D'Arby) right around the time he popped out for a 23 year cigarette, & I FINALLY got to see him 😍 Voice PRISTINE, charisma intact, he also cracked a joke which got the biggest laugh I've ever heard at a gig We both had big grins on our faces all night

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Your child is not the brother or sister of your pet dog. And you aren't the dog's mummy or daddy. Stop saying it you perverts.

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I went to see Graham Nash last night, and it was genuinely wonderful, but he had the oddest piece of merch I've ever seen: A picture of Joni Mitchell, signed by Graham Nash. It gave me "Video of West Country comedian Jethro, signed by Bono" vibes #AccidentalPartridge

Hey look! It's me and Wendy James! We love Transvision Vamp. And she's still a bad ass 😎

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

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This headline seems to be missing some wording along the lines of "reluctantly realises he has no other choice than".

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

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That Keir Starmer's government would a) swiftly become unpopular and b) the far right would surge as a result was entirely predictable. It was predicted. I predicted it before Rishi Sunak called the election, because it was obvious: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

The old "if you bring up Hitler in an argument you've already lost" has evolved in to not being able to call literal fascists what they are without everybody thinking you're being overly dramatic.

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

eulogizing Charlie Kirk as someone you disagreed with but whom you respected for his dedication doesn’t make you look broadminded or principled, it‘s a red flag that you are insulated from the very real and material consequences of his annihilationist political project, which is still ongoing!

REM nailed it. Become the biggest band on the planet. Sell out stadiums all over the world. Have millions in the bank. Break up. Don't be tempted by lucrative comebacks. Fair play.

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Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

Isn’t it amazing that when you explain things in simple language to people, things that are relevant to them, people suddenly understand what’s happening and how they affect people. Even better when you point out what Farage actually stands for. His voting record is proof of his true colours.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.

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There were more people taking part in protests against the board of Sheffield Wednesday than there were people protesting against all the Asylum Hotels in all of the UK this weekend. Don't mainstream bigotry!

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

Every profile of an "I left the left" celebrity is the same story: A combination of privilege, propaganda and getting yelled at on the internet. And once you make the turn you never go back because all the money is on the right.

The people crying 'house our homeless first' are largely the same people who used to scream 'get a fucking job' at homeless people.

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