Screenshot of the headline of Camilla Tominey's article in the Telegraph: "William Hague: ‘Leading the Tories was the least successful part of my career’". Strapline: "The University of Oxford chancellor and ex-Telegraph columnist on the ‘talent pipeline’ in politics and cracks in the special relationship."

#WilliamHague is odd. At 16, he was an awkward right-winger at the #ConservativeParty conference. He was similarly gawky as a by-election winner in 1988 and by the time he retired as Tory leader aged 40, he was still often #cringetastic.

A decade later, Hague […]

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Yer Man #EdDavy of thehttps://tinyurl.com/2026-IEHC-31Uk's #FibDems has been cruelly hacked.

Bad chainsaw action, heavy #dadrock vibe, #cringetastic at number 11, all half a year after #KetamineBoy made that stuff briefly topical.

You tell it's fake, cos Ed […]

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But my favourite #Gaudete is this 1974 live recording by Steeleye Span, for
or its pure 1974 English folk rock vibe, with far too much hair and clothes from a jumble sale: https://youtu.be/cEPmGq0Ii2o

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💯. Esp the “Newsom as Used Car Salesman Ass Goblin” 😂which is spot on. FFS, ask any of us who spent any time in SF and/or California in the last 20 years! #cringetastic