Ralph Topping

Such grumpiness on a Sunday morning ! You’ll no doubt feel better after an expensive but delicious cappuccino and almond croissant in a London coffee house . Fred Done meanwhile will press on with his legitimate lobbying of a feeble Chancellor .

Why Scotland’s higher school violence is a myth now being pushed by Channel 4 Professor John Robertson OBA From Channel 4 yesterday, the above and: Scotland has Britain’s highest rate of violent injuries to school staff reported to the safety watchdog, FactCheck can reveal. …

Yet another example of using Scotland's comprehensive statistics in comparison with England's less detailed ones, and using this to push the #Scotland.Is.Bad agenda.

A tactic applied across the board, and amplified by the MSM.

Lies by misinformation. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

The PM sees the football world from his padded seat in a directors’ box or if he’s slumming it in a private suite . Out of touch as usual with what the paying fans and Birmingham public will experience.

The Finnish have a word for people who take pleasure in someone else's typo: Pilkunnussija.

And to think Mason hails from Yorkshire - the pain is all too real for you , Peter .

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

This only happens to you once

Trump is an ultracrepidarian when It comes to medical matters ( Covid , vaccines , autism ) and now diplomacy ( UN , Ukraine , Palestine ) . What will tomorrow bring ?

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

America - Trump is an embarrassment and the rest of the world is laughing at you . You are going downhill fast ! Sort yourselves out . I cancelled my vacation plans in your country and our family has plans to invade Canada instead .

And Starmer still sits on his hands with Musk and Robinson . This PM diminishes the U.K. daily and weekly .

Cometh the hour , cometh the man - so where are you Keir Starmer ? Missing again . Not up to the job .

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The silence is deafening.

A lot of people are feeling anxious and scared tonight. For their loved ones. For themselves. For their community. For their country.
For our country.

Those who lead us must use their voices, unequivocally, now.

US ambassador

Does Musk have any commercial sense ? Brits and Europeans don’t take kindly to foreigners like Musk interfering in our affairs. Tesla sales will almost certainly plummet and that’s before Ed Davey gets on his feet in the Commons to savage him next week .

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

James Lucas (@jameslucasit) This only happens to you once

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Unity Mitford ?

Looks like they are congregating in a very busy betting shop in Central London.

I always wondered what Rasputin was like . Now I know .

Sisters definitely doing it for themselves .

Queen of Washington Square Park

This elderly woman is Doris Diether: she's known for using a marionette to feed squirrels in Washington Square Park in New York.

[📸 Nathalie Kalbach]

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YouTube video by Woolhall Films of Bob Dylan & Van Morrison BOB DYLAN - CAN`T WAIT - THE GORGE -AUGUST 10TH 2024

Bob Dylan, at age 83, completely re-arranges the blues-rock of "Can't Wait" from "Time Out of Mind" into something minimalist & haunting at the Gorge in August 2024.

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Hyperbole,hypocrisy and hoodwinking all part of the Trump approach . Nothing new here .

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.