Nicolas Chinardet

Followed by the Telegraph... #r4today

As #r4today, yet again, obsesses with migrants and small boats, guided in this by the right-wing press' agenda, here is the description of the country's actual situation you will never hear on air:

#r4today

Ranked: Where the World’s Richest People Live in 2025 💰

https://www.voronoiapp.com/wealth/Countries-With-the-Largest-Wealthy-Populations--5895

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

If you think the Polari Prize were right to nominate J*** B**** for their award because the book might stand up on its own merits in spite of its author's views, then you might be interested in this recent chat I had with a reader.

"Check responses for accuracy". Somewhere other than Google I can only presume. Great product you got there Google!

Or the fact that early releases was going to be a Tory policy too

Nigel Farage posts a video from 2015 in Greece and claims it is the UK today. What more proof is needed that this lying, grifting sack of shit will do anything to incite hatred and division?

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

Many of these same people once mocked the left for mistaking their own prejudices and assumptions as the country’s, egged on by online radicalisation. These same people make the same mistake and then some.

It is quite something to see much of what was once the mainstream right predicting, hoping for, braying for “revolt/revolution”.

'Patriotic' protester says he wants Donald Trump 'to make England a US state' Beg your pardon? This fella reckons the best way to make England great again is to simply cede independence to Donald Trump.

Calls himself a patriot, then says ‘England’ (not the #UK) should become part of another country!
Giving up control of our money, our laws and our borders to a foreign power - sound familiar?
#WTF is wrong with some people??

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/patriot...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire (last one, taken yesterday)
Red-hot poker

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The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

Why is the ASA even advertising? And who deals with potential complaints against these ads?

Doing what you want and voluntarily removing yourself is now like being in the Stasi, apparently.

State of these people

Transport of London staff face deportation under new visa rules More than 60 employees who came to the UK on skilled worker visas may have to leave the transport body.

The policies set out in this government's immigration white paper go further than the previous government's on creating a hostile environment for migrants. It will see so many people who have built lives here suddenly finding those lives utterly destroyed.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

All refugees from Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia, men and women alike, should be drafted without delay to a remote part of the country and kept under strict supervision . . . as the bead of a Balkan state said to me last month: "in Britain you fail to realise that every German is an agent.

bave German friends, but 1 would very willingly see them all bebind bars and I have told them so to their faces. Why should we be blown up as we are walking over a bridge, unless it is strictly necessary?

In the pre-Dunkirk Phoney War in 1940, right-wing papers like the Mail forgot their proprietor's enthusiasm for fascism and went after those fleeing it instead.

These "men on boats" formed a 5th column, which threatened Britain.

Here's Ward Price and Beverley Nichols

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This turtle on a skateboard has brought me great joy

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Polari Prize update Judges Edition:

Alongside the seven longlisted authors who've pulled out (so far), it seems that two of the Polari Prize judges, Nicola Dinan and Bob Hughes, have also pulled out.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire

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On the slippery road to Gilead...

If fascists feel comfortable "protesting", it's because they have been made to feel comfortable by mainstream politicians and media accepting their politics as "legitimate grievances", shamefully lapping up the idea these people care about women and children rather than white male supremacy

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

Daily Mail: Top Tory fears for daughters over boat migrants.

This ‘Innocent white girls at risk from evil brown men’ narrative is poisoning our society.

It must be repeated as many times as necessary: There is no evidence that men arriving on small boats are more likely to conduct a crime compared to the rest of the population.

Stop this demonstration.

Thank YOU!

At some stage, someone in the government needs to look at the Palestine Action situation in purely pragmatic terms: is proscription specifically achieving any of the goals they wanted it to, or is it proving entirely counterproductive?