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Good point. I was 17 in 1985, and whilst I was already listening to Billy Bragg and The Pogues, but I suspect this was a gateway into softer, more American style of singer songwriting.
Defection watch? Isn’t she the darling of the right, and the most likely contestant to stand against Cleverley in a leadership contest?
Mary Chain and Suzanne Vega would definitely be in my list. HMHB is a very good call too.
New pre-war merch drop
It’s all just a game to them
Screencap of a Krishnan Guru-Murthy tweet quoting a Donald Trump post on TruthSocial: KG-M: "Yesterday dinner with Farage. Today the salvo against Starmer." DT: "The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump is in Putin's pocket.
Farage is in Trump's pocket.
Let us not forget this when we're voting in 2029, eh?
#bbclaurak
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
was nine years old when a Labour government followed the US into an illegal war in Iraq, sold to the public on lies. Twenty-three years later, we're back on the streets opposing another Labour government and another illegal war - this time against Iran.
We have suffered our worst national humiliation since the Suez debacle, if not the fall of Singapore. This time, though, we lack the excuse of having been pressured by alies or attacked by foes. The decision to cower and plead neutrality even as Iranian proxies were lobbing ordnance at us was entirely our own. Sir Keir Starmer's pusillanimity has left us looking weak, needy and duplicitous. And all for what? Anxiety about anti-lsrael voters in constituencies like Gorton and Denton? Fear of crossing our human-rights obsessed Attorney General, Lord Hermer? Paywall down.
In a desperate attempt to make Trump and Netanyahu's war all about the UK government, you simultaneously have the Your Party tendency sowing a narrative that we're already fighting on America's side... and the Ladybird Libertarians calling it the greatest humiliation since the Fall of Singapore.
Blair’s lack of self awareness is remarkable
You can do Walsall and Brixton on the same day.
What a moment 🖤
It’s far from baseless. I was a member of the Green Party for 15 years. But there are far more green-minded people who share my view of the world in the modern-day Labour Party than there are social democratic-minded people who share my view of the world in the modern-day Green Party.
And Portsmouth… a heavy session on Gales HSB, and my mate desperately hoping to sober up because he was going out for a meal in London on the way home with his girlfriend and her teetotal evangelical Christian parents. They’ve now been married for 37 years.
There were days back in the 90’s when I woke up on Sunday with little or no memory of having been to a match. I can remember a day at Brighton when we started on the train and I spent the game sat on the terrace at the Goldstone to stop the stadium spinning.
To be fair, they never have.
Desi pub lunch for me!
Well; thanks to Trump, I’m not flying in from Dubai for the game. But I’m just going to walk the dog before heading over from Suffolk. Cheap ticket to see Sleaford Mods in Brixton tonight on the way home.
Very true. But no one who voted for Trump gets a free pass.
Trump nearly doubled his support among Black voters between 2020 and 2024: 8% voted for him in 2020 vs. 15% in 2024.
Sharpton: "The problem is not Trump. The problem is us. What happened to us?"
The same party that chose Michael Howard, Iain Duncan-Smith, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss…
Not even bothering to hide the white nationalism.
There are undoubtedly some Labour voters who have been lost to the shallow populism of Reform and the Greens who are not coming back. But Labour’s remains the only practical agenda on the table. The Greens can’t form a government and it they did then their manifesto would tank the economy overnight.
That’s your choice. Labour is not Reform lite. Disillusionment with a Labour government and the false belief that the Tories would be no worse led to election losses in 1951, 1979 and 2010, and in every case the country ended up in a far worse place as a result.
She’d be in her element, and at about the level of her ability, as an Apprentice contestant. She was born to be an Apprentice contestant.
Holding up a piece of paper is obviously not the same as causing £30m of damage to aircraft, or breaking into a factory tooled up, threatening people and hitting them with sledgehammers.
The proscription of PA was an over-reach (though they do meet the description of terrorist group according to the Terrorism Act 2000). The problem is badly written vague legislation.
Otherwise we will lose the next election not by losing London and university cities to the Greens, but by losing small, deindustrialised towns and the suburbs to Reform. That means managing migration, telling a story of hope and maintaining social consent for a multi-cultural, multi-religous society
That said; Labour is the only party capable of beating Reform. That means delivering on its promise to keep economic migration to sustainable numbers, ending the housing of aslyum seekers in hotels and “smashing the gangs”.
