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Oh bugger this.
I am a straight white, right wing, cishet Male, but I want
1) Adverts featuring gay male couples.
2) Idris Elba as James Bond.
How do you blow through £25M?
🚨NEWS: Charlotte Church has been forced to close her £3m wellness retreat for good
The singer has shut The Dreaming in Wales after sinking her entire life savings into the business and admitting she is no longer a millionaire.
The retreat at the former home of Laura Ashley announced that after five years this is not a pause but the end of their journey.
How long before her OnlyFans career starts 😂😂
Sir Rob the skiving. #LBFB retweeted
I think the Home Office is in a strong position to beat Argentina's 1945-46 record for resettling murderous antisemites.
Hamas leader's former bodyguard granted British citizenship - 'then plotted terror attack'
trib.al/zPupEme
People have been executed for lesser treachery than Miliband’s and the only tears shed were in the queue of volunteers.
The UK *nominated* Iran to join this committee.
Why @Ed_Miliband? Is this what you shook hands over?
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The same Iran that has been threatening the UK with terrorist actions.
Someone could make a fortune writing a book that explains the logic behind that one.
Unbelievably, Iran (yes, Iran) has just been elected to the UN Committee that sets the priorities for women’s rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. This, the country with an almost uniquely violent record of brutalising women, executing peaceful female protesters and of course sponsoring very widespread terrorism.
Equally unbelievably, the UK nominated Iran and although the voting is secret, we must assume it subsequently voted for Iran in the General Assembly. This is the same UK that is nominally run by PM Andy Burnham who declared only a few weeks ago that “we will always stand with the underdog and take what action we can to support them.”
If the young women of Iran who dare to remove their headscarves, or sing, or engage in peaceful protest to press for basic democracy aren’t the underdog in their battle with a vicious and murderous regime… who then is an underdog?
I can’t exaggerate how ashamed I am of my country. I’m sickened and repulsed by what it has become. I barely recognise it. Burnham should hang his head in utter shame.
And as for the UN, it has come to embody institutional corruption and gaslighting on a global scale.
It put China, Qatar and Cuba in charge of the body charged with protecting human rights worldwide.
It put China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan (all of which crush/ban NGOs in their own countries) in charge of the body that decides which civil-society groups and NGOs get UN accreditation and access.
It put Syria (under Assad) in charge the body that promotes education, culture, and press freedom.
How long must this continue? The UN has no credibility whatsoever and should be stripped back to the basics- a debating chamber for the big global issues of the day. And nothing more.
How can anyone defend this?
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Hang in, so the “brains” behind the New Statesman were nine people, none of whom look to be over 50, or to have done any work outside of political activism, and all of whom thought this was a good idea?
I’ve never really thought about how many (or few) people it takes to write!
I haven't been on this site for a bit.
But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web.
It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
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If people limited their comments to what was important, then the whole internet could run off a lemon and a couple of scraps of metal.
I'm reminded this week about how whenever a celebrity gets exposed as a wrong un you'll have people coming out saying "I've never liked them" or "I never thought they were funny"
Yes, that's the important thing right now.
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Notoriously he read just enough Chomsky and Marx to impress people who couldn’t understand any.
“Intelligence” is often a virtue perceived by those who want to dignify their instinctive like of someone who has little visible merit.
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Brand started spinning this narrative years ago.
Labour have helped him somewhat with two tier justice and political interference in cases.
But to be fair, they haven’t been creating SA charges, they’ve been more interested in burying them.
If you think Russell Brand was targeted because he was speaking up against "the establishment" then someone needs to cut your sandwiches into circles for you so that you don't hurt yourself on the corners.
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I’m working on a hyper-woke site at the moment: seriously, pride month ran for two months etc etc.
I have just seen an act of death defying bravery, people have earned medals for less.
A woman in the lunch queue was wearing a Harry Potter outfit.
Mad respect to her!
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Labour will sell us out for pennies on the grand, never mind the pound.
They always have done, always will.
Miatta doesn't know what she's saying. This is just a recital of the same script they've been trotting out for twenty years. Miatta has no technical knowledge of energy system, and has nothing of value to add to the role. She is merely a suitably credentialed DEI hire akin with Jason Arday - elevated beyond her abilities despite the obvious lack of knowledge. She knows, however, that maintaining this narrative means there are endless lucrative sinecures for her when she moves on from politics. She will retire a very wealthy lady, despite having caused incalculable damage to the British economy.
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Sir Rob the skiving. #LBFB retweeted
Having multiple jobs - working implies that they are delivering something. They get away with it because they are not expected to deliver.
Ironically, his lonely wife is exactly the kind of woman that “in a precious life” he would be calling “fair game”.
He prayed on those with issues, fair bet his kids are going to have plenty now: I don’t wish any harm to befall them, but he’s getting a taste of his own medicine.
So Russell Brand only got 10 and a half years in prison. Apparently when the Brits say “significant custodial sentence” they mean something else.
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Andrew Sachs, the afterlife is beyond the comprehension of those of us left on the mortal plane. I know this is far removed in every domains from the grand experiences you have now, but I hope these signs of respect find meaning for you.
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And, coincidentally, reminds me of Owen Jones’s recent claim that he knew that Russell Brand was a problem, but had to get chunky with him in the service of a higher purpose which was.
(Checks Notes)
‘Selling more books to useful idiots’
Yup, that’s got “bait” written all over it.
I’d ask if there’s anything more degrading than pretending to be stupid to get attention, but then I realised that’s a functional description of celebrity culture.
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Remember that Burnham was supposed to be some sort of divine saviour, a better leader prospect than any of the 411 Labour MPs.
This is supposed to be the very best that they could find.
They want us to pray that Miliband will be next.
The only positive thing Burnham has done for me is to make me almost forget about Starmer and THAT voice
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