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Well chuffed to see another piece of short fiction, this time set in rural Lincolnshire during the Millennium Bug panic, come to life in the Spring 2026 issue of @chariotpress. chariotpressjournal.com/2026โ€ฆ
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RT @MKaylaUltra: This episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia aired in 2020 during peak woke
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Modern conservatism simply couldn't exist without a tsunami of misinformation and gullible idiots to swallow it whole
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JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: โ€œI think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White Houseโ€”with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.
โ€œMichelle Obama is a manโ€ shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellisonโ€™s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.
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The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the Peopleโ€™s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda. The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.
The European mind cannot comprehend this
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It is remarkable that every single American who attempted a sentence on the rioting in Belfast has managed to attribute the wrong nationality and flag to perpetrators. Not only are they not Irish, the organisation of the riots is done by groups which are specifically anti Irish.
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Odd to see Tories claim "mass migration is still happening" as if there has been no change. Here's the latest:-
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โ€œI only got three things from the houseโ€ฆ the letters my children wrote for me when I was leaving them back home. My passport, laptop and uniform because I have to go to work. Will I be safe? Just know Iโ€™m scared.โ€ This is an Ugandan nurse who left her kids thousands of miles away because the UK government begged for nurses like her when we needed the help most. Now racist thugs, idiots and street urchins are burning homes and profiling people by skin colour, forcing her to flee in terror. This is a pogrom. Every last one of you causing this violence, you are the cowards. These women came to care and contribute to the community. We will not let you destroy them.
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His dad is a nonce, the President he worked for is a nonce, his app is full of child sex abuse material and he let his AI undress kids. Heโ€™s done about as much for kids as Jimmy fucking Savile.
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โ€œI think heโ€™s a complete genius, and I admire that.โ€ @annavanpraagh is 'very grateful' for Elon Musk โ€˜shining a lightโ€™ on the grooming gangs, and finds it โ€˜concerningโ€™ that he had to be the one to do it.
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He rioted - supposedly over a hideous crime. His criminal offences include mugging an 80 year old woman. These are the scumbags who claim to be the champions of British people.
44-year-old Daniel Frost from Southampton has been jailed for two years and four months for violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon, a dog lead with a metal carabiner that he had turned into a makeshift knuckleduster. He has 25 previous convictions for 55 offences, including a six-year prison sentence for GBH and robbing an 80-year-old woman, as well as public order and burglary offences.
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Farage is like the school sneak who eggs on the bullies in the playground but ducks for cover when the violence starts
We're seeing a clear pattern from Reform now. We saw it in Southampton. We've seen it in Belfast. They're all over social media and the airwaves with inflammatory and provocative language. Then when violence occurs, they go to ground.
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A 72 year old man was savaged stabbed to death in his home in Dungannon last year. There was no rampaging gangs "protecting their communities". Guess why? Because the victim was polish and the murderer was a "local" man. These aren't concerned citizens they're racists.
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The horrific knife attack occurred around 10.30 PM on June 8, 2026, on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast. A man in his 40s was pinned down and repeatedly stabbed/slashed with what police believe was a kitchen knife. The victim was hospitalised with serious/life-threatening injuries but is alive; police have corrected misinformation claiming he died or was a child. His condition remains serious as of the latest updates. Police initially described the suspect as believed to be Somali but quickly corrected to Sudanese. He had leave to remain in the UK and had traveled to Northern Ireland from Dublin. He lived locally near the scene. Leave to remain generally means he possessed valid UK immigration permission to be in the country (most likely limited/temporary leave, as full ILR is less commonly phrased that way without specification). This status allowed him to live in the UK legally at the time of the incident, even though he had traveled from Dublin. There is no verified information about what led to this incident, but it is NOT being treated as terrorism-related. A major investigation is underway; no other suspects are being sought. Police and officials (including Justice Minister Naomi Long) are urging calm to avoid retaliation, backlash against ethnic minorities, or repeats of past disorder. Despite this, and entirely predictably, Tommy Robinson, (currently believed to be in Russia with Erroll Musk, who has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren), along with the usual elite populist politicians, including Nigel Farage, are seeking to capitalise on the incident and inflame tensions. Robinson has made social disorder more likely by tweeting to his 1.9 million followers - many of whom are real - the reckless and utterly absurd claim that "the whole of the UK is hitting the streets tonight", while labeling the suspect a "third world savage". Robinsonโ€™s language is deliberately provocative and escalatory. His history includes convictions for contempt, assault, etc., and such rhetoric can rally supporters and risks disorder. The best outcome is a thorough, transparent investigation (motive, full background, any prior flags) followed by honest debate befitting of any civilised democracy. In the UK, the rule of law applies to everyone: suspects should get due process, victims should get justice, and citizens should get answers. Some people might reasonably describe someone convicted of assault, leading violent public brawls, and kicking an off-duty police officer in the head, as a "savage".
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Is it masculine to run from a storm? Is it masculine to allow a man to insult you, call your wife ugly, and call your father a criminal...and then kiss his ass?
Ted Cruz on Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."
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Why doesnโ€™t Farage sit down with a low paid care worker, look them in the eye and tell them the truth. He voted against a ban on zero hours contracts. Against sick pay from Day 1. Against protections from fire & rehire. Heโ€™s not a friend of workers - heโ€™s a political fraud.
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โ€˜Behind the โ€œguy with a pint in the pubโ€, this is a man who consistently voted against the interests of working people.โ€™ Trade Union Head Paul Nowak tells @AndrewMarr9 he finds Reform's 'party for the working class' image 'laughable'.
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Quote of the day by Lee of Makerfield.
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We are ten years into allegations of widespread election fraud - only for elections Trump or republicans lose, mind you - for which Trump and allies have either not produced evidence, or claimed evidence which was subsequently debunked. And blatant contradictions - such as celebrating wins under the same laws and practices while confidently declaring theft for any losses - are now the norm.
Speaker Johnson, like Trump, sowing doubts on CA results. I asked him about any evidence to back up their claims โ€œSome of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove,โ€ he said. โ€œBut think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here.โ€
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I'm not a some overt supporter of Starmer, but if you want to see how manipulation and misinformation works on this platform, @toryboypierce's post here can be used as an exemplary example of disingenous, misleading BS. The data he is referring to is 25 year data. When Starmer took office debt was 99.5% of GDP, today it's 94.2% of GDP. That's actually a fall of 5.3%. The UK is the world's 5th largest economy, recently upgrading from 6th. Debt is not increasing, and the UK is not a third world country - far from it. Andrew takes 25 year data and attributes poor performance to one of the few Prime Ministers during that era who actually reduced debt to gbp. Do we wonder why the working man on the street has been made to hate Starmer with all this utter BS circulated by these compromised grifters?
Britainโ€™s debt is growing faster than any country in the world except #botswana. We are now under @Keir_Starmer a 3rd world economy
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โ€œI donโ€™t trust the final result unless itโ€™s exactly what I wantโ€ is the perfect representation of what the Republican Party has become
"No one is going to trust this outcome if Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt are eliminated from the general election." Megyn rips California for their third-world election process.
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This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.
WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her." "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.
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