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10 years since we lost this legend 😥

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Excellent article

Take your time, and listen to your body. The jobs will still be there tomorrow x

In a nutshell. 😊

they ought to put out a public warning before showing slugs 🤢 #secretgarden

Nope, 10 years on and I still can't hear Purple Rain without blubbing 😭 #princesongsatthebbc

It might be a bit preachy, but this Pip storyline is very important. If it educates just one woman it's done its job #thearchers

Entirely believable. You need all the support you can get

O'Brien grew up in Leicester, in what she calls a working-class family. (She defined this in the Marxist sense, meaning anybody who works for a wage, unlike the "asset class" and what she calls the billionaire "Epstein class".) She had always been progressive. But while studying for her master's degree at Bristol University, she started going to Black Lives Matter protests on College Green and felt inspired by the collective energy she saw there. She already had a TikTok following from sharing "random content", but her audience rapidly grew as her posts got more political. Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, and Israel's response in Gaza, was a "catalytic moment" for her. "I had been talking about immigration issues before, like Marxism, like philosophy," she said. "Then it all just became the war." O'Brien's content, and that of a growing number of left-wing female influencers like her, is in some ways a mirror image of the content made by male influencers. While the toxic, often hard-right politics of the manosphere has been exhaustively documented, the new generation of female influencers are similarly radical - they are just on the other side of the political spectrum. On the internet, women and men have never been more alienated from each other.

I mean, okay, but how do we expect young people brought up to Be Kind and respect each other to respond, when it’s graphically demonstrated the world’s most rich and powerful people are a clique of fascist sex offenders promoting racism, hatred and genocide? Are they meant to shrug and say, Oh dear.

I love Grayson Perry but didn't watch this because USA + AI = 🤮

We've only done the garden once, but the house twice. Well worth it. Love Northumberland ❤️

Beautiful gardens, but quite expensive to get in ☹️

Impressive!

Someone remind me who Lottie is 🤷‍♀️

Exactly. Can't be doing with shouting bullies ☹️

Really not enjoying Horrobin the elder. Nasty #thearchers

How lovely. People can be nice x

Well done!

Niamh is a bad un. The means justifying the ends #hiddenassets

I'm just about following it - hanging on by a thread!

Frances would be my choice to eventually take over from Monty. She's very soothing ##gardnersworld

I do love Ned 🥰

Is it the law that you have to have a dog in order to present gardening programmes? #gardnersworld

Enough. It's a sodding budgie ffs!! #thearchers

I had to Google him. Tons of films, tv, voiceovers etc in USA

Used to love this. 1970s?

Thank goodness the bloody budgie farce is over #thearchers

We long for it, then we can't cope 😅