Heard on the Radio 4 PM programme last night: “it’s been a day of ups and downs for Team GB at the Winter Olympics”.
To be fair, many winter sports would be very boring without ups and downs.
The standing start ski jump, perhaps?
The Fenland luge?
Bonus: people who voted for Trump won't even get the joke.
"From 1898 to roughly 1934, the U.S. military invaded, occupied, and in some cases outright colonized no fewer than 14 countries and territories in whole and in part, including Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic."
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
Not commenting on Venezuela is one thing, but Starmer's ministers not even being willing to say "no of course the US shouldn't invade a peaceful sovereign democratic NATO country, which is one of our closest allies" is quite another.
This looks like the basis of a very scary episode of Black Mirror.
The detective inspector interviewing all the suspects in the case of the assault on George Grundy knows so much background info in all of them so soon after the incident.
The only way she could know so much is that she listens to #TheArchers.
You and they are not entirely correct.
Not everyone in the UK says “haitch” by any stretch:
theweek.com/culture-life...
Funny in the sense of different people in the UK pronouncing it differently?
theweek.com/culture-life...
2025: Liz Truss criticising Keir Starmer over the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah
2022: Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary trying to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Life really does come at you fast when you're Liz Truss
Reform tried to dismiss questions on Farage’s racism, saying they should be asked about the ‘substance’ of their policies instead.
Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too.
“The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Goodwin (like similar voices) is being totally dishonest about this. Despite the equal dishonesty of its headline, the Mail story shows these weren't "anti-immigration tweets", they were calls for "slaughter" and mass violence against MPs. It's incredible that this is being openly condoned.
So Hard To Lie, When We Always Bring In The Receipts...
Venezuela “surrounded” by an “armada”?
After this and the peace that he brokered between “Aberbaijan” and Albania, I think we can add geography to the list of things which are not his strong points.
The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
“The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us. Everything that looked solid since WWII is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Did I hear on the Today programme that the budget was being blamed - even though the budget was in November?
It will also severely curtail international business travel.
When you look at Nigel Farage, never forget that he idolises a US President who sucks up to Putin and despises our continent, culture and values
Too many whats of Mohammed and Abdul?
The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time.
Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…
His defence appears to boil down to saying that he is completely incapable of empathy.
He admires Putin “as an operator”.
As “an operator”, Putin murders on a vast scale, violates other countries, embezzles, silences dissent, and lies with every breath.
What does Farage admire about that mode of operation?
