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Barry Lyndon La Rochefoucauld

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Social researcher looking at safety on building sites. Monorail and cat enthusiast. In the process of moving from London to Liverpool. “Rude”. VOTE GREEN!

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The protests worked. They won the right to rape.

12.03.2026 15:45 👍 743 🔁 338 💬 0 📌 24

I feel cheated

12.03.2026 18:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just how big are they? Compared to, say, Bigbot?

12.03.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Scene from “The Simpsons.” Principal Skinner stands outside abandoned buildings and looks ponderous. Text reads: “Am I so out of touch?’

Scene from “The Simpsons.” Principal Skinner stands outside abandoned buildings and looks ponderous. Text reads: “Am I so out of touch?’

12.03.2026 08:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, I think they’re ordinary Ray-bans which any normal person now avoids for fear of looking like a nonce

12.03.2026 08:35 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The “Lion of Gripsholm Castle”, a derpy, badly-taxidermied lion with its tongue sticking out.

The “Lion of Gripsholm Castle”, a derpy, badly-taxidermied lion with its tongue sticking out.

12.03.2026 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, James, that you was. You retweeted Guido Fawkes' claim that "Socialism or barbarism" was a Hitler quote and attacked Owen Jones for employing it.

So, yet another lie you need to apologise for.

11.03.2026 21:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

baselessly accused his supervisor of having failed to perform due diligence? That time a few months ago when you shared an unverified news story from Visegrad 24, a PiS propaganda outlet, maybe?

11.03.2026 21:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Out of interest, James, did you ever admit fault or apologise for repeating a far-right blog's claim that "Socialism or barbarism" was a Hitler quote and attacked Owen Jones for employing it? Or, for that matter, when you claimed Aaron Bastani didn't have a PhD and, when given proof he did 1/2

11.03.2026 21:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Ah, yes, the man who repeated a far-right blog's lie that "Socialism or barbarism" is a Hitler quote and attacked OJ for using it; then claimed Bastani was lying about having a PhD and, when given proof he did, lied about his superviser having failed to do due dilligence, has an opinion on lying.

11.03.2026 21:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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מח״ט הבקעה לתושבים: ״הפלסטינים צפויים להתפנות משטחי C״ אל"ם גלעד שריקי סייר בקהילות פלסטיניות והזהיר מפני הריסות בתים ופינוי משטחי C. צה"ל: הסיור נועד "לתת תחושת ביטחון לתושבים״

A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year.

IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this.

www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...

11.03.2026 17:42 👍 140 🔁 109 💬 4 📌 6

Bagders on bank notes in exchange for bringing back the workhouse

11.03.2026 21:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"[M]aximum dignity and minimum media intrusion which I think is to the benefit of all concerned..."

That's a threat.

11.03.2026 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a headsup - the video cuts off before the final comic reveal. An easy mistake to make, but you should try to fix it asap since the video without it makes you look ridiculous.

11.03.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those stroads could easily end up eating up most or all of that. You could, of course, just not build them but I can’t see Scottish Transport allowing that.

11.03.2026 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Our current political trajectory has led to such a disastrous situation we have no choice but to…keep doing the same thing even harder.”

11.03.2026 18:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A brave and magisterial piece that’s not afraid to tell the hard truths no one else dares: we need more austerity

11.03.2026 18:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I see he‘s written his one article again.

Well, one of three. But the other two are much more bigoted.

11.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, yes, the expert on fake news who

1) Repeated a far right blog’s ludicrous claim that “socialism or barbarism” is a Hitler quote and attacked Owen Jones for using it
2) Engaged in Bastani PhD-trutherism
3) Just a few months ago, promoted Visegrad 24, a PiS propaganda outlet

11.03.2026 18:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It hasn’t really “emerged“, though. It emerged, and was reported on, years ago. What has happened is that the political class and commentariat no longer finds it useful to pretend it never happened.

11.03.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

effective or popular) will ever be allowed near a leadership position again.

11.03.2026 15:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still, I hear there’s a popular and effective soft left Metro Mayor who might be willing to step in…ah, no, scratch that.

Seriously, don’t you get it? McSweeney and pals haven’t just put Starmer in place and dictated his approach. They‘ve fixed it up so no one outside their faction (so no-one

11.03.2026 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Like whom? Mandelson’s protege Wes Streeting, the man who suffered a -21% swing and came within 450 votes of his seat in an election his party won by a landslide? Rachel “Tougher on benefits than the Tories? Reeves? Or one of the 2024 intake of MPs personally vetted by…Peter Mandelson?

11.03.2026 15:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m torn on this, honestly. It would be great to see it removed. But I can’t shake the belief the outcome will be even more of the centre carved up by pedestrian-hostile one way stroads

11.03.2026 14:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seymour Skinner, “No, it’s the children who are wrong” scene from The Simpsons. The text has been changed to “No, it’s the British people who are wrong.”

Seymour Skinner, “No, it’s the children who are wrong” scene from The Simpsons. The text has been changed to “No, it’s the British people who are wrong.”

Labour usually do this with their own voters so it’s impressive to see The Tories go the whole hog

11.03.2026 12:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“ I think it's more like he has never had a persistent loss, unexitable loss .. and in the background is the knowledge that should this fall apart he is massively exposed in an unprecedented way and so it's either win or be destroyed.”

So, in other words, “he has no understanding of risk at all”.

11.03.2026 11:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“milktoast totally standard Euro-style Social Democracy”

Remember that the Labour right believe the 1983 *SDP*
manifesto is “commie”, “extremist”, “illegal”, would cause capital flight and make us “international pariahs”. I know because I’ve shown them pledges from it without revealing the source.

11.03.2026 11:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Expenses limited to travel.”

And then only people rich enough not to have to work for a living would be able to sit in it.

11.03.2026 11:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m getting tried of pubs - including, sadly, old favourites like The Royal Oak in Borough - stinking of chip grease and vinegar because grockles have got it into their heads that the main function of a pub is as a place to eat fish and chips.

11.03.2026 11:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The current system is broken”

Ok, I’m listening

“We’re spending too much and have no control over our borders…”

Sigh

11.03.2026 10:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0