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@poorparge

Ex Totter, now tottering even more. Left wing, generally confused.

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

09.03.2026 23:04 👍 649 🔁 251 💬 17 📌 62
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A war without objectives Say what you like about Netanyahu, but he's known what he wanted for years

open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

09.03.2026 21:24 👍 71 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

Literally during my own confirmation, standing in the church, suddenly knew at the depths of my soul that this was not the truth, and went through with the ceremony anyway, sobbing. I was quite dramatic at fourteen.

09.03.2026 18:26 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It's really uncool to indicate when driving. Keep 'em guessing. That's what all the cool kids do.

07.03.2026 15:55 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 18 📌 0
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

07.03.2026 20:14 👍 610 🔁 345 💬 34 📌 37
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Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets (!), so Trump's response is to ease the Russian oil sanctions. This guy is NO PATRIOT. #PutinsPuppet

06.03.2026 21:10 👍 141 🔁 68 💬 8 📌 5
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Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Moulin en Hollande, 1908

06.03.2026 15:00 👍 145 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

I'm beginning to understand why older people are ignored. It's because we've seen all this shit before and know how it turns out already.

05.03.2026 21:33 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Sent my daughter to school dressed as Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch to serve as a warning to the other 5 yr olds about the danger of age gap relationships #WorldBookDay

05.03.2026 08:42 👍 39 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

congratulations Ivanka I guess

05.03.2026 16:38 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)

05.03.2026 20:20 👍 6774 🔁 941 💬 116 📌 70
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We had a fantastic launch for our Senedd election manifesto in Wales. Just a shame my good friend, senior colleague, former Leader of Reform in Wales and convicted traitor, Nathan Gill, couldn’t be with us to enjoy it.

05.03.2026 20:13 👍 272 🔁 55 💬 5 📌 0
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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 15:27 👍 6133 🔁 2445 💬 93 📌 184
Clive James - Postcard from Bombay (Part 1 of 5)
Clive James - Postcard from Bombay (Part 1 of 5) YouTube video by Justin Tyme

Sure you could watch Alexander Armstrong hoof his way round India to pay his kids' private school fees, or........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkN3...

05.03.2026 11:44 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0

Stop sending bloody celebrities on holidays

05.03.2026 11:59 👍 131 🔁 23 💬 14 📌 2
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Think “Godfather"…
NOT “West Wing"

@raskin.house.gov

05.03.2026 16:34 👍 3704 🔁 1093 💬 0 📌 0
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In non absurdly-pointless war news, saw the Tracey Emin exhibition @ Tate Modern today. It was GLORIOUS. Meaningful, deeply feminist, interwoven strands of the effects of racism, classism and sexism, life and death and meaning. Stunning.

04.03.2026 21:10 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

That hair doesn’t slick itself back.

04.03.2026 21:21 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Dear America. Just so you know, a strightjacket fitting a 300 lb man is only $200 on Amazon.

04.03.2026 18:03 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

With the reintroduction of beavers and other formally native animals to the UK, I believe that wolves and bears should also be reintroduced, making rambling a much more exciting way to pass the time.

03.03.2026 16:55 👍 157 🔁 6 💬 16 📌 0
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🎶"Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a-your window"🎶

28.02.2026 20:32 👍 582 🔁 105 💬 16 📌 6

Am I alone in having been bored to tears reading Wuthering Heights as a kid, so having absolutely no desire at all to watch it, regardless of how the director has butchered it?

15.02.2026 13:03 👍 86 🔁 4 💬 37 📌 0
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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

SOS save the #bbcworldservice

‘Perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world”in the 20th century’: Kofi Annan.

Money runs out in 7 weeks. No plan.

Pls lobby YvetteCooperMP Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer John Healey MP

Please Email:

fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk

enquiries@dcms.gov.uk

14.02.2026 09:59 👍 82 🔁 63 💬 5 📌 4
black and white photo of a teenage boy sitting in a chair, wearing a coat, vest, and nice pinstriped trousers. He's surrounded by other boys similarly dressed, but I've mostly cropped them out to focus on the cat. The boy looks at the camera and cradles a shorthaired tabby cat in his lap.

black and white photo of a teenage boy sitting in a chair, wearing a coat, vest, and nice pinstriped trousers. He's surrounded by other boys similarly dressed, but I've mostly cropped them out to focus on the cat. The boy looks at the camera and cradles a shorthaired tabby cat in his lap.

Most important subject goes up front. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.

14.02.2026 17:47 👍 2113 🔁 160 💬 35 📌 4
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Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

12.02.2026 22:22 👍 1204 🔁 308 💬 16 📌 31

I cannot stand by while our government once again enables agents to strip people of their dignity, their rights, and the fundamental freedoms every human being deserves.

13.02.2026 18:10 👍 752 🔁 51 💬 2 📌 1
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Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde A big loan to keep the case out of court doesn’t quite add up to ‘thoughts and prayers to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’. Working with the police might be a start, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde

13.02.2026 18:14 👍 186 🔁 52 💬 23 📌 7

The Today programme this morning interviewed Diana Furchgott-Roth, a senior staff member at the Heritage Foundation, about Trump's climate policies, during which she came out with the zinger: “a lot of people like it a bit warmer.”

How is it in the public interest to platform anti-science tripe?

13.02.2026 09:20 👍 398 🔁 147 💬 29 📌 7
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12.02.2026 16:31 👍 2174 🔁 677 💬 48 📌 53

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

11.02.2026 17:48 👍 16567 🔁 4370 💬 1201 📌 371