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Posts by Mike Smith

If I were super-rich I would bring back Punch and give it covers like this.

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I share your view on this but unfortunately I think the right wing media juggernaut will get them in the end, it always does.

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All that plus I got my pocket picked!

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Question from a Brit: aren’t you worried about President Vance though?

2 weeks ago 1 0 1 0
Robert Harris
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Imagine Trump's messages read out by the prosecution at Nuremberg. ("A whole civilisation will die tonight.") They would have hanged any one of the defendants.

Robert Harris @Robert__Harris X.com Imagine Trump's messages read out by the prosecution at Nuremberg. ("A whole civilisation will die tonight.") They would have hanged any one of the defendants.

Well indeed, and again: this shit is happening because the world did nothing to even impede the obliteration of the Gaza Strip, and the men who did that took it as global permission for them to expand their murderous destruction across the entire region. And here we now are.

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What’s that peeking out through the mist? Why, could it be my new book FOG!?

Adapted from Carl Sandburg’s classic poem, my latest book follows the trail of a mischievous cat as he scampers across San Francisco, covering the city in its famous fog 🌁

Preorder Fog now wherever books are sold!

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Boris Johnson says Trump
back in White House is 'what
the world needs'


Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president
ahead of election, saying he 'won't ditch the
Ukrainians'

Boris Johnson says Trump back in White House is 'what the world needs' Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president ahead of election, saying he 'won't ditch the Ukrainians'

Never forget these arse kissing fools who cheered on the worst president in history.

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There's something terrifying and ominous about the juxtaposition of his rants with the photos of the Earth from the other side of the moon.

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Will the Artemis crew will come back and find anyone left?

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Watching films with kids is a learning experience, put it that way. The seven year olds I know literally *cannot* understand “people will do bad things for money”. I don’t mean they refuse to understand, I mean they cannot comprehend it.

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This is what my mother always said to me

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He is addicted to attention.

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This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.

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Ella Baron on Donald Trump and the Iran war – cartoon The US president has claimed that ‘productive talks’ have taken place to end the conflict – but Tehran denies any contact

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵
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Politics latest: No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election, police say, after Reform complaint There is no evidence of "family voting" in last month's Gorton and Denton by-election, police say, after a Reform UK complaint following the Green Party win there. And Beth Rigby has spoken to Keir St...

Too late as always. The propaganda effect is complete. Thousands of voters will believe that Muslim men’s coercion swung the vote and corrupted “our” democracy because false allegations were reported. This is how right-leaning media have rolled the pitch for Reform.

news.sky.com/story/politi...

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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If Corbyn had won the 2019 election and been PM during covid there would be wall-to-wall coverage of the inquiry right now.

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I look forward to listening to this. During my lifetime what is called the 'centre ground' has shifted massively to the right, which always makes me think what a meaningless term it is.

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This looks good.

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Oh no, my magic beans

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I heard someone died after eating green eggs and ham. It was suesside

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Edward Hopper bunny bank note

Edward Hopper bunny bank note

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Now's the chance to make a £25 note with a pony on it and a £500 note with a monkey

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Perhaps they should use famous animals like orville the duck or basil brush

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LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.

[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].

After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:

Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon. 

bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,

Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon

To earth's hard oblivion.

[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.

[Ends]

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

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The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017.

Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986.

Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991.

This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026

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This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.

Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

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All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

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