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Retired languages teacher living in France (85). Widower. Wildlife, especially birds. Pro-EU, anti-billionaire, woke lefty. Word freak. Cats, coffee, wine

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“We would be helping the Americans and Israelis in any way they saw appropriate”

“in ⚠️ANY⚠️ way ⚠️THEY⚠️ saw appropriate”

FFS. He wets his pants about an EU army and British sovereignty one minute. But would sign our troops up to god knows what, the next.

Tice is a weapons-grade moron.

08.03.2026 22:52 👍 672 🔁 228 💬 45 📌 9
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Belgium MP Paul Magnette: “Not one of our soldiers, not one of our weapons, should go for Trump’s war in Iran. We must say no to Trump, like Spain did”

09.03.2026 01:05 👍 2767 🔁 706 💬 63 📌 55
Ha’penny enjoying the sun.

Ha’penny enjoying the sun.

08.03.2026 15:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From The Archives #483

Nigel Farage, June 2015:

"We don't need to take foreign policy advice from the American President. The last time we did that it was called the Iraq War".

08.03.2026 13:58 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s spare a thought for Sarah Palin, who did want people to speak American

08.03.2026 14:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A bald headed eunuch called Tate
Was known for spreading his hate
But what drove him crackers
Was his shortage of knackers
And a knob that was hard to locate.

08.03.2026 10:20 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

😂😂😂

08.03.2026 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was she ever hinged in the first place?

08.03.2026 13:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Who voted for this?

Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.

6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.

Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.

08.03.2026 10:50 👍 421 🔁 196 💬 26 📌 5

But the exorcism obviously didn’t work

08.03.2026 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jan, certainly.
If I was serious about it I could ferment the fruit and take it to the peripatetic still that does the rounds at the end of winter to make eau-de-vie.
Some folk round here make a passable apéritif with it

08.03.2026 12:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know that, and I’m only half serious, but resent the cultural hegemony that tells me I don’t know how to spell neighbour

08.03.2026 12:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

True. But it’s more than just spelling

08.03.2026 12:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump next to a photo of fire in Iran

Trump next to a photo of fire in Iran

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

#ShakespeareSunday

08.03.2026 08:06 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Isn’t “intelligent MAGA spokesman “ a contradiction in terms?

08.03.2026 11:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’ Government says new rights for parental leave and sick pay will increase equality and economic growth

The Guardian has a positive article about Labour today on the benefits of the Employment Rights Act 2025, much of which comes into force next month.

Please read the article and share it widely, to let the Guardian know this is more the sort of content we want!

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

08.03.2026 08:56 👍 214 🔁 108 💬 9 📌 8
Giving myself a break after a lot of spring cleaning.
The old mirabelle coming into flower, blackbird & chaffinch singing, doves mating, frog croaking (a little - still quite early), first blue butterfly, lots carpenter bees…

Giving myself a break after a lot of spring cleaning. The old mirabelle coming into flower, blackbird & chaffinch singing, doves mating, frog croaking (a little - still quite early), first blue butterfly, lots carpenter bees…

Giving myself a break after a lot of spring cleaning.
The old mirabelle coming into flower, blackbird & chaffinch singing, doves mating, frog croaking (a little - still quite early), first blue butterfly, lots carpenter bees…

08.03.2026 11:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And common humanity/decency?

08.03.2026 11:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought her book. Just dipped into it and immediately feeling moist-eyed

08.03.2026 11:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The idea of an Attorney General who’s concerned about human rights! Shocking!

08.03.2026 11:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s because I’m English

08.03.2026 09:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Then why does it keep correcting my English spelling?

08.03.2026 09:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

A small town near here has streets all named after men, so a group of women is replacing them with female names for the day

08.03.2026 08:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Good morning Caroline and SORCs.
Sunny here so hope to catch up with washing &c.
Woke at 7.15, thought “ought to get up”, then woke with a start at 8.30, feeling cross with myself.
Domesticity and gardening. The house has several French windows (obvs) which one of the cats scrabbles at muddily

08.03.2026 08:46 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They behave a bit like a mouse, moving quite slowly at times. They crawl up one tree, then fly down to the bottom of another to start again. And they spiral, so disappear round the back

08.03.2026 08:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

By a bat? Extremely unlikely.
By excited kitties? Hmmm

07.03.2026 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are times when I don’t understand American and need an interpreter. And not only when Trump is speaking

07.03.2026 17:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

While we’re at it, maybe it’s time to finally stop arming israel too?

07.03.2026 11:21 👍 431 🔁 83 💬 8 📌 1
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This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.

Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.

Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

07.03.2026 09:21 👍 294 🔁 219 💬 41 📌 9

I suppose if you put a wash boiler on the fire you might get soap bubbles coming out of the chimney

07.03.2026 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0