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Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

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Everything about the flag discourse is fucking stupid. Absolutely every single thing about it.

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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On it

St George and the dragon

Graphic showing that half of England is owned by 25,000 landowners - less than one per cent of its population.

Cover of my book Who Owns England? (2019)

Happy St George's Day.

A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest.

England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy!

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This is exactly why we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. Invite everyone you know to join BlueSky and together let’s send Musk packing

Dear MailOnline I don't believe I've talked about anything on air fryers in well over a year (possibly two) let alone just give an 'urgent' warning. It's news to me!

Is the warning that both airfryers and me are high search engine terms so you're using them to attract clicks?

🚨 RESALE DATES CONFIRMED 🚨

Resales are:
• Coach package - Thu 24th April
• General - Sunday 27th April

#Glastonbury

Thames Water has been given a £3 billion bailout, paid for by you and me.

Why should households have to pay for the mess that Thames Water got itself into, just so execs and shareholders can protect their profits?

There is a better solution: take water into public ownership.

Every political tribe in Britain hates Elon Musk, and increasingly so.

Data via @yougov.co.uk.

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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I’m just catching up on Traitors and “she was proper smart, she was reading the books in the library” has ended me 💀

San Marino minutes away from Nations League promotion. Don't think I've ever seen something more FM in my life. Amazing.

YouTube video by DMA'S DMA'S - Silver (Official Video)

Excited for a bit of DMA’s before Courteeners this weekend 🇦🇺

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In a crowded field, woke may now be the single most meaningless word in the modern lexicon. Its usage long ago departed the realm of sanity into some kind of lunatic deepspace.

Share this if you think Elon is a soccer douche who can’t even lace up his cleats before soccer practice

Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X' His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."

Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’

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City's academy rated highly as best youth systems in England ranked Bristol City hold the distinction of possessing one of the best academies in English football

Bristol City with the sixth best academy in England according to a new index 💪 #bcfc

Breezed through the Glasto ticket purchase process last night, almost suspiciously so! Ticket buying is *never* an easy thing! Definitely had one too many Rattler as a consequence though...

Ey up Bluesky 👋

A quick social experiment.

The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers.

Bluesky replies on the left.

Twitter on the right.

Should I tell Twitter I’m here? I don’t want to inadvertently cause an influx of all the worst accounts on the internet.

Johnny Somali, the nuisance streamer who travels the world committing the most culturally offensive felonies he can for views, is now in Korea. Mock-assaulting memorials to sex crime victims, Actual-harassing women, spraying rotten fish juice on subway strangers.

And he is absolutely screwed.
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