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Ex-corporate writer, trying to be a novelist. Husband, father and grandfather. Sci-fi. GGMU. Pink Floyd. Railways. Official Annoying Pedant of Wülferhampton. I block crypto bros and OF sirens.

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DOJ Source’s Verdict on 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Revealed FBI interview summaries from the Epstein files detail allegations from a woman who said she was trafficked to Trump as a teen.

The most serious accusations of sexual assault asserted against Trump thus far were deemed credible by the FBI agents who interviewed the victim. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-sources-...

08.03.2026 04:03 👍 61 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2
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WATCH — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to @chrislhayes.bsky.social: “It’s a moral abomination and tactically stupid… Trump doesn’t give a damn about Iranian lives. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza is 🇮🇱 can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity.”

07.03.2026 17:38 👍 875 🔁 276 💬 34 📌 4

Hello Baker. I am full of admiration for your writing career and I wish you wild success.

07.03.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yay Janice!

07.03.2026 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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07.03.2026 14:18 👍 28255 🔁 6970 💬 465 📌 315

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

07.03.2026 12:22 👍 1709 🔁 486 💬 49 📌 19

Investigators now say the U.S. likely bombed a girls’ school in Iran, killing over 160 people, mostly children. If confirmed, it would rank among the worst civilian massacres of America’s Middle East wars.

06.03.2026 11:41 👍 5393 🔁 2157 💬 412 📌 149
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

05.03.2026 16:59 👍 4880 🔁 1785 💬 249 📌 340
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 17220 🔁 5380 💬 454 📌 324

It’s like the American government [is] addicted to international violence, to wars, to assassinations, to launching those hegemonic wars that they [cannot] end.”

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Sign the Petition Katie Hopkins is not welcome in Wimborne!

The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.

Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.

www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

05.03.2026 08:12 👍 1302 🔁 458 💬 72 📌 17
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Pay attention to the verbs. Pay attention to who gets named. Pay attention to who “says” and who “did.”

That’s how perception is shaped - not with blatant lies, but with careful framing.

04.03.2026 15:16 👍 947 🔁 469 💬 46 📌 23
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🤬🤮

05.03.2026 03:54 👍 4008 🔁 1904 💬 167 📌 75
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17130 🔁 5975 💬 514 📌 493
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

05.03.2026 08:50 👍 3394 🔁 1553 💬 136 📌 72
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DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed Justice Department expects to restore missing documents that were taken offline for review

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

05.03.2026 02:28 👍 389 🔁 222 💬 16 📌 7

By postponing any attempt at a Moon launch for over 2 years they have basically admitted SLS is an utter failure by Boeing and Northrup Grumman. This "administration" doesn't give a damn about science or exploration.

04.03.2026 17:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is awesome!

04.03.2026 19:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

04.03.2026 13:16 👍 30508 🔁 5844 💬 1863 📌 713

I’ve said it repeatedly - Artemis is a death warrant for its astronauts.

04.03.2026 11:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!

04.03.2026 03:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

An excellent dragon!

04.03.2026 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*

03.03.2026 18:15 👍 8454 🔁 3189 💬 316 📌 117

Great camouflage colour!

04.03.2026 02:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

God willing, Artemis will never fly with astronauts on board. The whole project is a death sentence.

04.03.2026 00:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check out the beliefs of Shia Islam in their equivalent of Armageddon. Both sides seem to think the Final Battle is underway.

04.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 15336 🔁 3845 💬 630 📌 566
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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’ Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

03.03.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

03.03.2026 12:41 👍 1437 🔁 446 💬 62 📌 21