search.savills.com/property-det... scroll through the pictures and admire the photographer's valiant effort to downplay the most noticeable feature of the back garden not mentioned in the property description.
When normalised by population size, the death toll of US troops in Afghanistan is broadly similar to that of four other countries, including the UK... and Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...
Or in homage to the likely Alas/alias Smith & Jones association of the newcomer’s name, maybe apply as Griff Rhys?
Ah but is that because of what it was washed down with?
From Harry Sidebottom’s Those Who Are About To Die on Greece and Rome, reminding me of Macmillan’s comparison of the UK and US
New post: Understanding the rise of the populist far right
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Growing right wing populism stems from declining humanitarian social norms, leading to the significant section of the population that holds pretty socially conservative views voting accordingly.
Brilliant. How Starmer might respond to the constant whining that the government has done nothing "progressive".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOXF...
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
They wouldn’t accept it was poor editorial judgment at the time
I complained when they featured the Telegraph allegations about Angela Rayner & Stamp Duty because the Independent at the same time was saying that there was nothing to argue with on the basis of available information. My complaint was batted back because by then new information had come to light
Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies.
And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?
Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
About time...
Farage: epic grifter
I said months ago that Badenoch was trashing a key convention regarding opposition in matters of security.
Today was sadly a continuation of it. Imagine declaring that it's UK criticism that has "strained relations with Israel", rather than Netanyahu's war crimes.
Desperate, immoral, and so cheap.
good to see the government getting to grips with Premier League managers using translators
My school orchestra percussion section once sabotaged Songs Of Praise’s continuity by swapping clothes and instruments between takes of hymns. The teachers were quite angry when it was broadcasted but stopped short of accusing us of being part of the “leftwing cultural elite”.
Nigel Farage accuses Keir Starmer of "emboldening" anti-semites.
This Nigel Farage
Oh wonderful …another treatise suggesting that polls taken nearly 4 years before a general election should be taken as a guide to the future …surely there is something more interesting to say/write about ?
BREAKING
A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.
His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.
Nigel Farage accuses Starmer of "inciting violence" by calling Reform's racist policies "racist"
No, no, no. It is not the BBC’s job to ask these questions www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBCNews had opportunity to push Farage to disclose evidence about the Clacton house purchase. But they don’t follow through. So he gets away from something potentially worse than Angela Rayner’s tax offence
Y'days post: Farage and the BBC mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
If you just watched every world leader having to sit there and listen to that vomit of insanity, literal hostages of a nutcase in charge of the world's largest military power, and your takeaway was "iF oNLy StArMeR hAd nOt GiVeN HiM a StAtE ViSiT" you really need intensive therapy.
Presumably the British representative walked out at this point.
