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Pete Blanchard

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Proud father, hispanophile, history buff, once-competent bass player, ex-Fordie, pro-European. Oh, and Janey Godley was right.

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If Palantir were selling its evil wares to ordinary folk, it would keep this obviously psychopathic aberration well away from view.

But because it only needs to sell to idiots in government that basic consideration doesn't matter a jot.

12.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

β€œReform 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 πŸ‘ 569 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 2

Jeez. I thought I had seen everything but this! It’s almost impossible to believe it has actually just been posted by the White House. They’ve just presented the horrors of war as some kind of sick video game. Shameful, disgraceful, obscene and utterly horrific.

12.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 10

Nope.

12.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible self-own from the US president here, suggesting he's unable to keep his streets safe, even in comparison to the streets of a country he is presently bombing.

12.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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I needed a laugh today
You probably do also
Lil Marco
Marco Marco
You Deserve all these memes
Have you know self-respect
Your Florsheims seriously
and you wore them !!
If trump tells you to get on your hands and knees and grovel ...you would

12.03.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 856 πŸ” 310 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 24

No need to imagine. Hold on...

12.03.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that Jim Smith on bass still?

11.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 5

Good that there are positives in the move. Hope it goes smoothly for you all 🀞

11.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why on earth does he smear his face with this shit?

Doesn't anyone tell him it looks ridiculous?

11.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow!

11.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck no. Absolutely not. Cut disability benefits but give tax dodgers a get out of jail free card?

11.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

This is just great. I might put the picture on a T shirt

11.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“±πŸ…ΏοΈWARNING ABOUT QR CODE PARKING SCAMSπŸ…ΏοΈπŸ“±

Southend Council is urging drivers to stay vigilant after scams continue to occur involving fraudulent QR codes being placed on parking signage and fraudulent text messages claiming to be about PCNs.

11.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

10.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 943 πŸ” 308 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 41

I'm forced to the conclusion that a certain type of pro-Israeli Western Christian doesn't actually see the place as real, and certainly doesn't see the Christians of the Middle East whose lives have been made much, much harder by the policies they back.

It's just a sort of apocalyptic theme park.

10.03.2026 09:40 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4
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09.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 2320 πŸ” 727 πŸ’¬ 212 πŸ“Œ 108

Putin can't believe his luck with this guy. He's spent decades having to think of plans within schemes to deal with western leaders and then Trump gives him America's most gullible man as a go-between

10.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Time flies when you’re riding trains with a brother Cardiacs fan 😍😍 pleasure meeting you Dave and if anyone can help put us in touch (we ran out of time to exchange deets talking too much about music!!) we’d appreciate it x

10.03.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 183 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. This is precisely why I ditched my Instagram account a year or two ago.

10.03.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm confused.

09.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Lyatollah

09.03.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

09.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 2510 πŸ” 967 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 25
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Example number 20,000 of austerity actually costing us more money

09.03.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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Union street fire: support Haus of Hair Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating.

I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

08.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 19
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I see that his imaginary horse suddenly stopped

08.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 190 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

I looked up the Board of Peace website.

No news since 22 January.

Trump says (on the site) that it has the chance to be one of the most consequential bodies ever created.

I’d love someone to ask him why it hasn’t featured in his Iran strategy.

08.03.2026 07:41 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with the word david on the bottom left Alt: A close-up of a man's serious face. He then bursts out laughing and throws his head back.
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