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Paul JACK

@boroughpaul.bsky.social

Former teacher of History and Classics. Brexile living in Dordogne, south west France. Historian and political junkie. πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆFoodie #betterbeforebrexit

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There’s never enough money for schools or healthcare or veterans.

But there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

We can support the democracy movement in Iran without bombing innocent schoolchildren and sending our American troops off to die.

09.03.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2930    πŸ” 1011    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 35
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Is war in Iran a Donald Trump distraction from the Epstein Files? | The News Agents America and Israel are at war with Iran, but some have speculated that for Donald Trump, it is an attempt to keep eyes away from the Epstein Files. But would he really go to the brink of a World War…

"The Epstein Files have come and gone, as far as Trump is concerned – I don't think they've really touched him."

Would Trump invade Iran, and potentially go to the brink of World War 3, to distract from 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-w...

06.03.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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Good Afternoon

06.03.2026 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely biscuits are to dunk in tea or coffee?

04.03.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have just held a call with President Pedro SΓ‘nchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.

The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

04.03.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2001    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 65

Unfortunately, within 5 years, whatever skills or knowledge learned will be redundant. It’s viscous circle

04.03.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re about to take back Texas.

Join us: jamestalarico.com

04.03.2026 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3474    πŸ” 550    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 55
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Just for your knowledge: THIS is a REAL Carbonara.
And it has no chicken, no cream, no shrimps and it is not prepared in a casserole.

It's just pasta, eggs, pork jowl and sheep cheese. Nothing else.

04.03.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Chicken in carbonara? No!!! Cream?? No!!

04.03.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nigel Farage has positioned himself as the person who would lick Donald Trump's butthole the most.

Donald Trump is the most hated foreign politician in the UK (except for Netanyahu).

Do you really want to be the USA's slave?

If not DONT VOTE REFORM.

04.03.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0

Iran isn’t a member of NATO!!

04.03.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given that more Brits oppose strikes on Iran than support them, it is possible that Trump is in fact helping Keir Starmer’s standing with the public.

The more Starmer resists Trump’s demands, the more principled he appears, in line with British views on the war.

03.03.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 417    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 5

The fact that Isabel Oakeshott, economic migrant to the UAE may just turn into a refugee fleeing to the UK from a war zone will cause a level of schadenfreude in me that may just make me topple right over.

03.03.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1921    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 21
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Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

02.03.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3678    πŸ” 1017    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 135

Oh well …

03.03.2026 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

03.03.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4049    πŸ” 949    πŸ’¬ 266    πŸ“Œ 31
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This lot?

02.03.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK launches operation to support thousands of Britons in Middle East Officials are understood to be working on plans to evacuate British nationals, should airspace remain closed.

What's happening in Dubai bolsters the argument taxes should be based on people's nationality, not just their country of residence (ie the US model).

If Brits living abroad can expect to be airlifted out by virtue of being British, they should pay some tax towards that.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

02.03.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 863    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 32

Operation Epic Fury (OEF) = Open Epstein Files

28.02.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Read it and loved it! Nice to be reminded that half of the English are actually Danes. But why ignore the Jutes? History’s great obscurities!

28.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

27.02.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5070    πŸ” 685    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 39

Me too. Regardless of tomorrow’s by-election result, the hysteria in today’s Daily Mail suggests something very significant is happening in the green corner of UK politics.

25.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1163    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 7

Because a dumbass country voted for him!

24.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m sure he has a view. I think those who pay his wages might like to hear his thoughts.

22.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like a Roman emperor the question remains … mad, bad or misunderstood? My guess is that she is more of a Caligula than a Tiberius.

22.02.2026 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage Is Losing the Plot The Gorton and Denton by-election could be the moment when the Reform UK leader's meteoric rise finally starts crashing down

β€œReform’s candidate, an oddball far-right former academic turned GB News presenter, is facing allegations of sexual harassment, while their β€œinterim” campaign manager.. has been exposed as a holocaust-denying anti-semite”

Please god, G&D, don’t inflict this on us.
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

21.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 469    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 7

Major set back to the Trump admin in Supreme Court 6-3 decision which rules substantial part of his tariff programme effectively illegal.

Trump will try and levy the tariffs via other means. But now Fed govt faces possibility of refunds of potentially hundreds of billions of dollars.

20.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 1

There’s surely a German word for loving the humiliation of an idiot while hating the damage done by their idiocy…

20.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 985    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 7