An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

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Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

Labour are going to keep denying the reality of Brexit until the last vote is counted on their 2029 GE defeat, aren't they?
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HMRC denies 'deliberately poor' phone service for taxpayers Thousands on hold to HMRC's helpline say they were cut off after waiting for 70 minutes.

HMRC denies running a "deliberately poor" phone service to push taxpayers to seek help online instead.

44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now.

So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined.
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Facebook is now officially rotten to the core as a matter of policy.

And you can ask the six hamsters in the wheel that powers its servers if you don't believe me.

Today's sentencing hearing will be simple. Judge Merchan will declare Trump's sentence is to be held in abatement, which means he will not serve time for his crimes, but the conviction will stand and he will remain a convicted felon with the conviction on his record.

Did I say convicted enough?

Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week

Independent front page 5th jan 2025 Five years on, the true cost of Brexit £30.2bn Cost of Britain's divorce settlement from the EU (HM Treasury) - not counting any ongoing impacts to the economy £27bn Drop in goods exports to EU in 2022 alone due to the introduction of trade barriers since Brexit (LSE) with food, agriculture and fishing among worst-hit sectors 15% Long-term hit to UK trade (OBR) as revealed in Budget forecast £2.8bn Annual decrease in UK food exports to the EU (Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy) 6 in 10 Britons think Brexit has gone badly (YouGov) 118,000 Tonnes drop in seafood exports (Marine Management Organisation) 3.6M+ Number of immigrants into UK since the end of EU free movement (ONS) despite claims it would reduce the flow 1,227,800 EU nationals who left the UK between 2016 and 2021 56% Proportion of dairy producers struggling to find workers (Arla) EU nationals who left the UK between 2016-21 (ONS) 16,400 Number of businesses that stopped exporting to EU due to Brexit trade rules (LSE) 1/3 Drop in EU students at UK universities 2.3m Net migration since end of free movement

Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.

OH has been and totally agrees. Very humid.

A good way to write out the character

Or will she fly off into the Singapore sunset with Leonard?

Poor Jill…abandoned for Singapore!!

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

Yes, I think so but at least he’s having a good look at them.

And why he’s got Lowe and Simkin training with Stoke rather than Walsall

Private Eye Jan 25 Musk calls UK minister an “apologist for rape genocide” January 22 Musk opens Tesla plant in Xinjiang where systematic rape of Uyghur women has been reported

Private Eye

New manager, new start? I don’t think he improves the team unless he plays like he’s bothered which often he seemed not to.

There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲

Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.

You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

Nick Candy billionaire "investor" in Reform Party....at Tory #SexistShaun Bailey's PARTYGATE party (now a Tory Lord obviously 🙄)

Same old people
Same old sh*te

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New manager looks to be a disaster. Would anyone give him money to spend in January?

Precisely. Written, like a lot of Monkees songs, by Neil Diamond. I’ve been a fan since I watched the tv show as a kid.

Are you sure that you should be asking that? 😂

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday?

Of course not, all about the money from the Prime deal.