Gareth Thomas

You win the internet today for that one 🤣

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Why would anyone need to refer to scripture in order to make the case that his views are utterly abhorrent?

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

In a good way 😁

Online Sudoku has cringe-worthy ads for a certain University we both know, Paul 😬

Be honest, Paul, you’re just a latter-day Cromwell

Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~- grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

How convenient.

The Trump administration is unsatirisable

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

Latest substack from me.

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Um…

Starmer has finally found a wedge issue on which he sides with the majority of voters ànd the overwhelming majority of his party’s base. But he comes across as being afraid to accept that this means he has a conflict with Trump, so unlike Spain’s Pedro Sanchez he won’t gain anything from it.

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This is brilliant from Monbiot.

Not everyone does Instagram. I’ve no idea what “we add in our copy in threads” means. (Please don’t explain.)

Omission of the speaker’s name, or of a link which might enable the reader to readily identify her, is just bad - bordering on disrespectful - practice imho.

It has form ☹️

Disappointing that you don’t supply the name of this “UEA mind”, in your post or in the video.

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It’s very easy to, with the current Home Secretary 😔

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Even more embarrassing that her false claim is more likely to result in political loss to Labour than political gain.

On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...

Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.

You just knew which side the Right would come down on.

“Has been asked”, not “has asked”

It’s straightforward price-gouging, as these inflated prices are for supplies that are already in the UK. Meanwhile, I shall be mostly burning wood.