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Alan Allport

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Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.

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It would help if they offered some explanation of their path back to peace (which is more than just not firing missiles any more)

09.03.2026 19:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Anyone who ever describes their country as “this land” is guilty until proven innocent.

09.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Yay

09.03.2026 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ok, i'll bite. what's oil

09.03.2026 02:14 — 👍 68    🔁 9    💬 8    📌 2

Like I’ll ever be able to retire lol

09.03.2026 02:51 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

RIP my pension tomorrow morning. Great way to start the week

09.03.2026 01:53 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0
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“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

08.03.2026 23:13 — 👍 3305    🔁 674    💬 56    📌 31

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

08.03.2026 16:56 — 👍 4290    🔁 941    💬 17    📌 53
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‘I feel I am not yet grown up’: Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year He got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

08.03.2026 23:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t even thank us for our attention to this matter #rude

08.03.2026 23:29 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I thought college sports rules were all anyone cared about

08.03.2026 23:02 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Have been genuinely wondering at what point Trump starts calling him mojito.

08.03.2026 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Neither Trump nor anyone else is bringing back the draft. But if he’s going to get even more unpopular for this baseless fear then I for one am quite happy to sit back and watch it happen

08.03.2026 22:55 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock legend with an anti-war hit, dies at 84 Country Joe McDonald, who became a Woodstock festival legend and fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish in the 1960s, has died at age 84.

Gimme an R! Gimme an I! Gimme a P!

08.03.2026 22:50 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

It shouldn’t - let’s face it - be very difficult for a normal human being to do this sort of stuff.

08.03.2026 22:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shouldn’t it only be called a dignified transfer if it is, in fact, a dignified occasion? For instance when the President doesn’t show up wearing a fucking baseball cap and fidgeting around like he’d pretty obviously rather be playing golf?

08.03.2026 22:38 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 — 👍 17709    🔁 4766    💬 617    📌 249
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There are some beautiful speeches and monologues and quintessential British humour but, having seen the film three times, I can never shake Candy's sombre remark:

08.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is showing on BBC2 this afternoon.

When will it get a full 4K release? one of the most gorgeous Technicolor films of the 20th century and one of the greatest British films ever made

08.03.2026 12:26 — 👍 72    🔁 21    💬 9    📌 6
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It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:

08.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 2701    🔁 394    💬 175    📌 170

Honestly at this point with Lindsey I think it’s a kink

08.03.2026 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes I guess it’s more than men seem more meh about it

08.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Genuine non-trolly question: are women (and I mean specifically moms, and even more specifically middle class white moms) more likely to be anti-vax than the median? That’s my very impressionistic sense but ofc it could be wrong.

08.03.2026 15:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are

Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are

Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are https://theonion.com/flight-attendant-quietly-informs-first-class-passengers-1819576296/

08.03.2026 15:00 — 👍 1966    🔁 160    💬 13    📌 11

a) it’s basically a dumb story
b) sometimes dumb stories break through with normies
c) we can do two things at once

08.03.2026 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Literally licking his lips while talking about sparking a world war

08.03.2026 14:55 — 👍 691    🔁 166    💬 89    📌 14

Maybe the clubs should I dunno just stop using the platform.

08.03.2026 13:54 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

08.03.2026 11:56 — 👍 4194    🔁 775    💬 288    📌 79

The Iranians have suffered enough

08.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0