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Flying_Rodent

8 years

A very, very impressive amount of pretending not to understand things we do understand very well, today. And the intensity! Very well done.

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2 years

Good god, he has just said it out loud himself

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1 year

As I’ve said before: when the director of Children of Men was asked how he made his future fascist Britain feel so grounded and authentic, he said he looked at the country in 2005 and asked himself - what would happen if it continued just like this, on this precise trajectory.

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BREAKING: The government is expected announce plans to move all migrants and asylum seekers out of hotels and in to military bases and potentially disused ferries @robpowellnews has the latest 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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4 years

Incredible scenes in our very normal top selling newspapers

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2 years

Like I say, we’re about to be bombarded with messages about the virtues of being poor, hungry, cold and sitting in the dark.

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9 months

To do what

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3 months

Does nobody stop to ask Are We The Baddies Here, when they’re interviewing members of the public who all say “this is some weird and nasty media bullshit, nobody cares”

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3 months

Parkrun is facing a backlash over its decision to scrap all-time records after a row over transgender athletes taking female records. Sky's @mattuthompson has been speaking to runners in Clapham this morning to get their reaction 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

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2 months

Honestly, it’s like being handcuffed to the village idiot

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2 years

It may help to understand what’s happening here, if you know that this idea is the big finale in the video game Call of Duty 4.

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@flying_rodent

2 years

When I talk about Britain having the most vicious, intentionally poisonous political press in the world, this is the type of thing I’m talking about.

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@flying_rodent

4 years

We’re going to see a lot of “Hey kids, let’s reimagine the entire world of work *right here in the church hall!*” from people who would gladly strap on dynamite and blow themselves up against any kind of change that doesn’t make our lives worse.

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1 year

How exactly are we reconciling “Joanne hounded the First Minister of Scotland out of office, and she’ll do it to her successor” with the idea she’s been cruelly witch-hunted out of public life just for being incredibly normal.

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1 year

Here it is lads, the most Guardian thing that has ever happened. British liberalism in all its glory.

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@flying_rodent

2 years

Britain’s most normal commentator in Britain’s most intensely normal newspaper

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@flying_rodent

2 years

(Massive bong hit) You know what

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@flying_rodent

1 year

Is there a word in the dictionary that sums that concept up more succinctly, my man.

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3 months

There’s a good Guardian article today where off-duty IDF servicemen happily confess to all kinds of astonishing war crimes, and these are the people willing to talk to the Guardian, totally not understanding they are describing stuff that would’ve sent Serbs to jail for 30 years.

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If you’re just waking up to Labour’s thumping by-election wins, imagine what it will feel like if Labour win the general election and put an end to 14 years of Tory rule.

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@flying_rodent

10 months

Not long now and exactly on track

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@flying_rodent

1 year

In seriousness: do you know anyone choking up at this stuff who is not also a roaring Tory. I don’t.

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2 years

Same thing that happened to all the other public services - they were ground down to barely functional, operating on fumes and the goodwill of staff by the governments you helped to instal

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6 years

I used to say this all the time but it really is remarkable that “Not supporting wars” is not only seen as fairly exceptional, but is plainly also viewed as some kind of horrifying ideological lunacy.

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7 years

Tasks that I'd confidently entrust to Jacob Rees-Mogg: ✔️Procuring a still-warm human kidney in Victorian London ❌Being Prime Minister

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1 year

Gen Z’s experience of the royals is watching the press go apeshit at Megan Markle, Prince Andrew stammering through an interview about his relationship with the world’s most notorious rapist/sex trafficker and seeing the Queen paying off her son’s accuser to keep her quiet.

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4 months

So these guys were rigging people’s houses with what is basically dynamite when they were attacked, setting off their own explosives while they were in the building. A very unusual war here, isn’t it.

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5 months

Contrary to what various belligerents replying to me say, I suspect your average country is going to conclude “stop genociding the Palestinians” is an easier and more achievable goal than “obliterate the Houthis and pacify Yemen”, a project that has been failing for a decade.

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1 year

What a country, amazing scenes

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@flying_rodent

10 months

This guy is increasingly just saying it out loud isn’t he

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@flying_rodent

1 month

This is how it was with the Iraq War, which was the last time politicians and commentators felt they had anything to apologise for: they acknowledged they had been wrong but for heroic reasons, and that the protestors had always been wrong because they are villains.

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[🔒shared with permission] 100% yes

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I was a teenager in the nineties and straight up, any of my classmates who were just suspected of being gay were mercilessly bullied for it.

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@flying_rodent

5 months

This is the type of stuff that should get you hauled in by Prevent for deradicalisation.

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@flying_rodent

5 years

If anyone’s looking for a culprit for the mainstreaming of the far right in Britain, I’d point the finger squarely at The Times. Consistently, the far right have followed where the Times has led.

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@flying_rodent

4 years

Hello Mr Starmer, it’s me, perhaps the most notorious liar and bullshitter in British political history. Can I interest you in a timeshare in my unbelievably gigantic fuck-up which is going to get thousands of people killed.

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@flying_rodent

9 months

I’ve spoken to Greek people who did national service and they said it was all about entrenching: pointlessly digging holes to sit in. Which is probably about right. Does this strike you as growth of moral fibre.

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3 years

I don’t British people understand it isn’t at all normal in other countries for top selling national newspapers to turn frail old members of the public into national patriotic symbols, then hallucinate imaginary ethnic minority threats to their as-yet-unbuilt memorials, for money

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2 years

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3 months

I think we’re at the point where some big, hairy lawsuits are an urgent necessity here

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3 years

Forty two solid years of either horrendous Conservative governments with a brief interregnum for the actual godfather of Rupert Murdoch’s child suggests that we might have a larger democratic problem than just one of the opposition parties being poor at PR.

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3 years

I imagine nobody had to be told this is how they should present this story, and that both tweet and photo naturally came together in just this combination.

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@flying_rodent

2 years

Christ

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2 years

Listening to the Maitlis stuff and it really is tiring to have these awful people keep coming out to announce everything that they roared at you was tinfoil conspiracy drivel is in fact correct, now that it’s convenient to them to say that it is.

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7 months

Gentlemen, you can’t protest a war here! This is a memorial to the war dead

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@flying_rodent

2 years

When I was a kid, constantly saluting flags, playing the national anthem and wanging on about patriotism was seen as incredibly crass and cringe because it’s the type of thing the Americans do. Because if something is good, you don’t need to keep making people agree that it is.

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@BBCPolitics

2 years

"Very odd" That's what Jeremy Corbyn thinks of the decision to sing the national anthem at the Labour Party conference this weekend Listen to the full interview with @BBCNickRobinson on #BBCPoliticalThinking

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2 years

Almost like the long-running, high profile hysterical panic has been caused by Britain having the most openly vicious, poisonous and deliberately inflammatory press in the western world. Surely not.

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Us: (Handing off monopolies on a vital resource to private finance at incredible knockdown rates with sweeteners, putting it under the oversight of an intentionally toothless regulator, then deliberately defunding the investigatory agency) Oh no look what poor regulation has done

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@flying_rodent

9 months

I look at this and think, would it not be better for your cause to just say nothing, to completely ignore it

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@flying_rodent

2 years

I understand the totally unnecessary destructiveness of this war is highly distressing but no, this *is* a war. This is what wars look like, civilians terrified in their bombed out houses hugging their kids, and that’s the good ones we approve of and the bad ones that disgust us.

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This isn’t true though, is it. My ancestors were mainly menial workers of one kind or another in Scotland, while Joanna’s include officers of the East India Company. So it’s really “some of our ancestors”, although that’s probably all the same to her and the Telegraph.

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2 years

LOL mate do you want to live in a strict hierarchy where extra special privileges are given to people who are wealthier and more important than you are, or do you not want that

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7 months

“The public don’t agree with us, and this shows they’re dangerously extreme and insane” is painfully on the nose

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1 year

For younger readers: this guy had his media buds hound a man to suicide for inconveniencing the government’s insane war plan, and then a stitched up inquiry compelled the BBC chairman to resign for his organisation explaining what the dead man had told them to the public.

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2 years

You’re going to have to pick one of these mate

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6 months

It’s worth noting that the smart, Sensible politics-understanders laughed this obviously correct stuff out of the room at best and rallied behind Johnson, who was at that point telling officials to let the virus tear unimpeded through the populace. What should we learn from this?

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4 years

"The government seems complacent" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he has written a letter to the prime minister asking why advice on coronavirus "is different to that given in almost every other European country"

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It’s fun to recall that for a couple of years in the late 2010s, it was very common for all kinds of public figures to proudly announce that they had no idea - not a clue - what the dominant economic and political system and ideology of the last four decades even is.

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2 years

Thinking about this: I’m not sure there’s an MP whose personal bio is a better one-page explanation of How It Came To This than this one.

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2 years

Looking at a graph that shows the public dislike all senior politicians and concluding this shows there’s something very wrong with the electorate really is some of the purest pundit brain you will see.

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4 months

I assume an editorial decision was made to broadcast this and not yesterday’s hearing, and I’d love to see someone sat down and asked to explain it.

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Watch live: Israel presents rebuttal to genocide claims at International Justice Court 👇

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3 years

We’re just saying it out loud then

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2 years

For all that there’s plenty to dislike about the New York Times, I am amazed at their ability to say things that are obviously true and correct about Britain but plainly off limits in this country, sending the world’s baldest men into repeated meltdowns.

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“You can only win from the centre” is dumb - how did Johnson win, how did *Donald Trump* - but in Britain it’s more of a threat. What she means is, if anyone tries to win an election from the left, then she and her colleagues will do whatever it takes to fucking annihilate them.

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#Ridge tells Bernie Sanders he's never won an election in the states!

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Three years to go. There’s a bit of catching up to do yet but I’d say we can do it with a little extra effort.

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1 year

Fancy a shift on the tills mate, or maybe you could wait some tables

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3 years

It took the Conservative Party, half the Labour Party and the overwhelming majority of the British press five years working full time at maximum nastiness to tank Corbyn into the same position Starmer and his team managed, just by being themselves.

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This is the thing. I like Corbyn personally because he absolutely boils the piss of everyone whose piss needs to be boiled, but I’d never have picked him as frontman for the policies I want. He’s really not good at selling them, but he is *the only person offering them*.

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I think it tells you a lot about the function and purpose of the press in Britain, that this topic has raised no interest from anyone except commentators who are utterly despised by most of their colleagues.

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Children of Men is so effective because they looked at all of the trends they could see in British politics and society in the mid-2000s and asked: what if these continued to get worse and more extreme.

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@flying_rodent Cuarón's depiction of Britain 2027 in Children of Men is beginning to look optimistic.

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Hodge here saying claims about racism are being exaggerated for political reasons, which is the exact reason why we were told Jezza was intolerable and had to lose the whip. Because nothing is real.

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3 years

Hell of a thing when James Murdoch is directly addressing his dad’s central, personal culpability in intentionally turning politics into a self-sustaining nightmare zone of confected hatreds and slapstick fascism, while the Guardian thinks it’s mostly about selfies and Facebook.

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3 years

Just calls, mind, not actual prosecution. They’re certainly not trying to stoke an angry pro-running-protesters-down-with-your-car backlash.

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@flying_rodent

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The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

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Sir Keir Starmer will begin an audacious attempt this week to make Labour the party to stem illegal immigration. He will promise to “smash” the criminal gangs and “bring order to the border”

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Imagine the nineties, except we keep inviting Serbian politicians on to explain all these executed civilians tied their own hands then shot and buried themselves, and that’s pretty much what all of this has been all along.

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Israeli politician Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is asked about the bodies of Palestinians being recovered from mass graves and she says they were terrorists. Kay Burley then asks why some of the victims had their hands tied behind their back.

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Everyone involved in the production of this story knows very well child abuse rings were ignored not because the perpetrators were Asian, but because the authorities didn’t give a fuck about kids in care and regarded them as annoying and probably complicit. And they don’t care.

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Zoomed in so we’re not seeing faces here but seriously, I was a kid in the 80s when there were still a few WWI veterans around, and you simply did not see things like this. I think people wouldn’t have dared, it would’ve been seen as obviously crass.

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Just seems like a nice guy who is sorry he’s been dragged into all this poisonous mess by our internationally remarkable, absolutely appalling national press, doesn’t he.

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"If you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life - then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred" Statement from Daniel Radcliffe. ❤️

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I imagine there’s more of this to come and more MPs about to get whacked, so I’d again like to fully congratulate the Labour right on having intentionally bullshat themselves into a position where they can’t be upset about an actual genocide even in private, without getting fired

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Does Spain have a unified pack of media shitheads who spent the last 15 years *screaming* at the public on every available channel that investing in services and infrastructure was utterly insane, the kind of thing only hated Commie traitors would do? If not, there’s your answer.

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Translation: We worked out how to break decisively large chunks off a party’s electoral coalition via laser targeted crank screaming at the old and dim about horseshit, and the SNP are next.

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We should have absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

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Strip away the heat and noise of the last decade and what you’re left with is a lot of dumb pundits and celebrities repeatedly announcing that yes, they are in fact quite aggro Tories who can’t quite admit it to themselves.

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It’s absurd I have to say this but if you persistently can’t distinguish between e.g. nationalised rail or publicly owned broadband and, say, Gosplan and the gulag, basic professional responsibility should see you consigned to TV reviews and wistful articles about cricket.

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I think that if the Lula story had happened in Britain, the guy would still be in jail and anyone who said there was anything fishy about the media/political campaign to put him there would have their Acceptable Public Figure credentials instantly revoked, by guys like this.

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I really am not a Floyd fan but it does seem quite weird and sinister that this guy has been performing his oddball rock opera for over forty years, and now we’re getting whatever the fuck this is supposed to be.

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Voters keep spontaneously and organically convincing themselves of all kinds of wild and wacky shit, don’t they. A mysterious, inexplicable phenomenon.

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I’m afraid you can’t unshit the bed, once shat.

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What destroyed Johnson was the press withdrawing their deep indulgence in early November 2021. It was as simple and as stark as flicking a switch on the sound effects panel from “applaud” to “boo” and they wrecked him effortlessly in mere weeks, even if he clung on for dear life.

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Russia and Hungary had to bully, intimidate, sack and murder journalists to get the press to behave like this.

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The only answer that makes any sense to me is that video of soldiers doing war crimes is very popular indeed at home, and that there’s a huge public appetite for more. Because you absolutely would not allow it otherwise.

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In reality, German children are taught all about their country’s shameful past. And any recent slight upon the unquestionable virtue of the British Empire has sent the Telegraph into fits of furious, sobbing hysterics.

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Germans hate us celebrating our glorious victory against Nazism because it reminds them of their own shameful past

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My Dad tells me that when he was a kid, TV show Tomorrow’s World was all about how future generations would occupy their time in a world where super-abundance had made work mostly obsolete. Because they assumed the purpose of society was to improve things for everyone.

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Faults including setting up a National Front-style deportation system that sent citizens into destitution in countries they hadn’t seen since they were small kids, and it’s only possible to gloss this because of the total refusal of people like this to demand serious consequences

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My primary school used to refer to “parent or guardian” in letters for much the same reason *in the 1980s*, just to underline how deeply committed the British press is to absolutely deranging the brains of its readers.

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Gentlemen, you can’t do war crimes in here! This is a war!

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The Guardian

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The Observer view on how the UK has become a hostile place to have children | Observer editorial

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If you were wondering why everything is cancelled and there’s nothing but royalty on TV and news stands, this is why. Sometimes you’ve got no option except the hard sell.

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Five years of screaming hysteria, just so we could have this - a bland, featureless bore relentlessly agreeing with the Conservative Party.

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“I am just a uwu smol bean of a Metropolitan Police Commissioner” is certainly inkeeping with the long-running trend of treating some of the most viciously belligerent, ruthless people in public life who have behaved horrendously as if they were victimised fluffy bunny children.

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Euan Blair being honoured by the Queen for his £700 million property empire would be the end of the conversation, the point at which the embarrassment became too great for one side to keep arguing, in a better system,

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LOL Jesus Christ you dorks

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You might think it’s odd how the most damning evidence of the guy’s personal bigotry is a decade-old offhand remark in response to two far right activists kicking off at a public event, scraped out of an old YouTube video by this roaring wingnut. But that’s what it was all like.

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@WelshLa86864840 They don’t care

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