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Estelle Wolfers

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With everything else going on I missed Badenoch committing the Tories to a policy of “enforced” assimilation into officially approved culture.

12.03.2026 21:27 👍 113 🔁 56 💬 23 📌 5
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Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

12.03.2026 18:16 👍 439 🔁 242 💬 19 📌 25
The head and wings of a red kite. Its head is grey, and its hooked beak is yellow and black.

The head and wings of a red kite. Its head is grey, and its hooked beak is yellow and black.

Low-level red kite this afternoon.

11.03.2026 18:51 👍 200 🔁 36 💬 14 📌 3
A white polythene bag of cat litter, marked 10 litres.

A white polythene bag of cat litter, marked 10 litres.

Indeed. 10 litres of litter.

12.03.2026 08:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

10.03.2026 13:48 👍 1664 🔁 837 💬 67 📌 46

Of course Sunder is correct. There is no logical/principled *argument* behind this hypocrisy.

But IMO there is indeed a logic to it.

The reason the Spectator/Telegraph want to crack down on antisemitism is not because they care about Jews, but because they want to legitimise anti-Muslim bigotry.

10.03.2026 11:58 👍 147 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 0
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This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

11.03.2026 01:56 👍 9296 🔁 4271 💬 136 📌 212
À ma boutonnière, le ruban blanc de la médaille nationale de reconnaissance aux victimes du terrorisme et le Bleuet de France.

À ma boutonnière, le ruban blanc de la médaille nationale de reconnaissance aux victimes du terrorisme et le Bleuet de France.

22nd European rememberance day for victims of terrorism.

22ème Journée européenne en hommage aux victimes du terrorisme.

11.03.2026 09:17 👍 143 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1
BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs (Lyrics)
BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs (Lyrics) YouTube video by Helvete TV

Sadly never gets out of style…

10.03.2026 22:37 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I was infuriated by the fact that the school wouldn't allow my kids to fry the onions in things like spag bol, even though I sent in a letter - twice - explaining that my husband is allergic to raw or undercooked onions.

10.03.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or perhaps it should be Calvados, because my grandmother was from Argentan.

10.03.2026 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe I can attribute my liking it to my 25% French DNA.

10.03.2026 17:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Macmillan's predecessor. I think the lecturer was trying to put the span of constitutional history into context as well as testing our general knowledge.

10.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

10.03.2026 09:38 👍 583 🔁 219 💬 23 📌 14

I rocked up to do a second degree and found they were running 'how to do email and social media' for mature students. My email address was older than most of my classmates. Then the constitutional law lecturer asked us the name of the PM when we were born. Me (wincing): 'Macmillan'.

10.03.2026 10:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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3 US B-52 bombers just landed at RAF Fairford in the UK.

These are the largest bombers in the world, this is NOT, not taking part in the war with Iran.

09.03.2026 15:41 👍 150 🔁 73 💬 20 📌 9

A kei sports car, absolutely.

09.03.2026 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That makes considerably more sense than a mantra repeated by people who've never met an actual farmer.

09.03.2026 11:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I agree. No need to mess with everyone's body clocks. Everyone goes 'But what about the farmers?' but they get up when they need to, whatever the clock reads.

09.03.2026 10:16 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We've got it here in Europe, until the last Sunday in March.

09.03.2026 08:37 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Better not tell the authorities that Android phones make trans people or Streeting'll be after them.

09.03.2026 08:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

08.03.2026 21:11 👍 1769 🔁 790 💬 81 📌 106

Assault(s), by any measure.

08.03.2026 21:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Samba band with rainbow instruments and mainly orange and green clothing, providing cheer at today's very chilly half marathon. They are on the lawn behind St John's College.

Samba band with rainbow instruments and mainly orange and green clothing, providing cheer at today's very chilly half marathon. They are on the lawn behind St John's College.

Be the samba band at Cambridge's Half Marathon today.

08.03.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In times of chaos, Europe is the muddled power the world needs In praise of the dreaded European working group

While Europe may be too slow at handling problems, it is rarely the source of them. There is something to be said for a power that prefers rule books to rockets

08.03.2026 16:40 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

Male or female?

07.03.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headlight of a lime green Lamborghini Miura

Headlight of a lime green Lamborghini Miura

07.03.2026 17:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shaming to the Met and all involved.

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely the rakshasa - I carefully coloured mine in the MM - even though it's nothing like the canon rakshasa.

06.03.2026 16:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The young woman carrying a stack of books is probably my sister.

06.03.2026 09:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0