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#FIFA how's that Peace Prize looking right now?

Craig Charles @CCfunkandsoul 26m X Earlier today I was informed of the passing of @realrobgrant.i am in total shock.He was one of the funniest people I've ever met. A visionary. My heart goes out to his family and friends. The impact he and Doug had on the course of my life is immeasurable RIP ROB

I've been a huge Red Dwarf fan all my life. Sorry to bring bad news to RD fans who may not know yet.

Something something SkyNet something

Photo of Yusuf at a lectern saying “shadow Home Secretary” (Wot?) Reform's plan for a 'British ICE' combines cruelty with stupidity

Project forward to 2036 under a majority Reform government and the picture darkens further. Britain would be smaller, older and whiter; more isolated from Europe; paradoxically, more vulnerable to foreign interterence and less able to fund its own defence. The welfare state would shrink to a skeleton. Charity would fill the gaps. Flags would proliferate; rights would not. The police and courts would be politicised. The BBC could disappear. The NHS would survive only as a minimal safety net. Protections against discrimination would erode - you might indeed be sacked for being disabled. Migrants and even their British-born children could find their rights curtailed unless they were deemed to "contribute" sufficiently. Meanwhile, the wealthiest would enjoy a generous, low-tax regime.

“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.”

Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...

Looks at the Whitehouse..
Meanwhile..

But have a good look at the current resident of the White House before you steer too much eh?
You chose him..
You picked him..
You wring your hands about how bad he is yet do nothing so..
Glass houses? Stones? Throwing?

Nice, thanks for the disdain.
But we are 🤷‍♂️

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Wow.

Don't kid yourselves. The old trust is well and truly burned up. Can we establish new trusts and structures? Probably.
But expecting things just to flip back once orange hobgoblin is gone is just naive.

I take part in that re-enactment every year.
Ghosts or not its still kinda sobering to remember that the field on which we re-enact it is part of the actual site where it happened.
For real chills and hairs on the neck I recommend the sites of Culloden and Towton...

Back for the day 😎

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Twat

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten...

#RIP_Alex 💔

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Very pleasant
Sweet cherry start followed by a heavier porter hit at the end.
Mellow.

Thank you Man Utd !!

Fortifying myself for what promises to be a rough week ahead..

UTV 💪 💪 💪

Screenshot of an X.com post by jordan (@JordanUhl) reading, “The Titanic, a ship that famously turned around.” It shows a quoted FactPost (@factpostnews) post: “Vance on the economy: ‘You don’t turn the Titanic around overnight’.” Below is a video thumbnail of JD Vance speaking at a podium with people in high-visibility vests behind him and a chyron reading “VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE VISITS TOLEDO.”

His speechwriter secretly hates him.

"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private"

Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇

Won't happen.

Nice 👍

Lol
I believe last time it was 'Kaiju Preservation Society' by @scalzi.com

I have used this method to clean my maille.

It works👍