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Nora's dad. Rufus' guy 14+ years. Yank, Montréaler, Brit (adopted pre-Brexit).Writer, broadcaster & speaker on Culture (arts, books, film, Americana), Politics & (as Mike or Iron Mike) Sports. Some poems. Accept no substitutes. His not Him before gerunds

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A word salad reply ensuring profiteering

12.03.2026 08:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinema left a deep black hole for the Democrats to fill

12.03.2026 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our collective silence & acquiescence have made "American values" almost non-existent

12.03.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The point seems to have disappeared already from our political discourse

12.03.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The grim irony of Labour’s anti-immigrant rabble rousers Shabana Mahmood has morphed from a liberal into a mini-despot

"They tell us it is to improve race relations and social cohesion, to placate implacable white “patriots” over and over, to create a happy, clappy, multiracial Britain. Say, do, fail, repeat." @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social

12.03.2026 07:53 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 1

No More King Crabs!

12.03.2026 07:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Old farthing with bird on it

Old farthing with bird on it

Animals on money?

Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.

11.03.2026 21:30 👍 794 🔁 107 💬 51 📌 9
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The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking | Editorial Editorial: The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism

“Reform and the Tories are now ideological satellites of extreme US conservatism, adopting Maga-coded positions on culture war issues and foreign policy by default”

Badenoch was clumsier on Iran than Farage. But both paraded just how dangerously useless they are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

12.03.2026 07:30 👍 436 🔁 148 💬 25 📌 2
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The 'Alexander Brothers' were high profile zionist real estate brokers.

They also raped, drugged and trafficked in underage women.

Jared Kushner invited them all to a White House Ball and was good friends with them.

This is the 'Epstein Class'.!

11.03.2026 20:45 👍 111 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1

A "strongly written letter" cannot be far off

12.03.2026 07:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Special Relationship!

12.03.2026 06:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does criticising Trump now make me anti-semantic?

12.03.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And Canada'snot giving you the beavers either

12.03.2026 00:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump: No other president can do some of this shit I’m doing

Trump: No other president can do some of this shit I’m doing

s/can/would

11.03.2026 08:09 👍 817 🔁 174 💬 193 📌 37
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Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

11.03.2026 23:04 👍 272 🔁 69 💬 15 📌 5

Does criticising Trump make me anti-semantic?

11.03.2026 23:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No King Crabs!

11.03.2026 23:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump during the campaign: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even take that long. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and Russia and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be that tough. I know just what to say to each of them. It will be over in one phone call.”

11.03.2026 23:34 👍 1181 🔁 323 💬 137 📌 20

Every accusation is a confession

11.03.2026 23:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reform are coming under scrutiny for broken local election promises to 'cut taxes' - and Farage doesn't like it

11.03.2026 10:31 👍 46 🔁 15 💬 7 📌 1

Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?

To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics

The warnings are there for us all to see

11.03.2026 10:29 👍 573 🔁 338 💬 25 📌 8

At a bus-stop, a teenager tells other teens from her school that her mum takes her on holiday every two weeks. One of them says, ‘Wow.’ There is a pause, and then the teenager says, ‘Ok, it’s actually shared custody but I like to think of it like that.’

11.03.2026 08:28 👍 209 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 0

No King Crabs

10.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honest Bob looks very uncomfortable in that tight jacket

10.03.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So No Kings was a total failure

10.03.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you cannot trust Putin who can you trust?

10.03.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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1. We have "no reports" Iran has mined the Strait
2. If for any reason mines were placed, Iran must remove them or there will be "Military consequences."
3. Uh we just destroyed 10 mine layers.
4. But they were inactive! Nothing to see here!

10.03.2026 20:29 👍 228 🔁 45 💬 13 📌 8
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WALLACE: Why are we at war with Iran?

CHRIS MURPHY: Great question. The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in that they've kind of tried to backtrack from since -- that Israel made us do it.

10.03.2026 20:35 👍 3223 🔁 815 💬 81 📌 43

Sounds like the British Royal family

10.03.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Always talking Britain down.

10.03.2026 20:46 👍 241 🔁 29 💬 37 📌 2