David Hall

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

admittedly it's been years and nobody has figured out that the Australian PM is just the former Australian PM in slightly different glasses

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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I’m lucky enough to have seen his plays from Hapgood (1988) all the way up to Leopoldstatz just after Covid. My favourite playwrights to make me think, with humour. Indian Ink we’ll finally see in December.

The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie.

Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!

"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."

Wombles!

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...

We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Murderer sues for right to eat Vegemite in prison A convicted murderer in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.

A man in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.

And they're marked by St George's flags

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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

This...

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A more politically skilled UK leadership could probably have done better at cultivating Trump while maintaining links with Dem Congressional leaders and potential presidential successors. But Mandelson and Starmer seemed fixated on Trumpian froth rather than underlying structural pressures.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.

This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.

How are Reform getting away with this?

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Certainly a Deep One.

This racist "John Jones" says he sees Ben Habib as an ally, but he rejects the idea Habib can be British or should be an MP.

He plans to vote Reform, despite believing Zia Yusuf can't be British, in the hope Reform become more overtly racist later The overt racist is enthusiastic about Rupert Lowe

At a recent presentation at Cambridge, (prince) Andrew biographer Andrew Lownie claims Epstein and Melania Trump were in a relationship before he introduced her to Trump. When his biography on Andrew was released, Trump forced the publisher to redact those portions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...

Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
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Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies.

And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?

Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission

I know nothing of Canadian politics but I regularly see Carney speeches in which he says basically, ‘this is where we are now, this is where we want to be, and this is how we think we’ll get there’. He might be talking bs for all I know, but he’s communicating properly. Starmer doesn’t do this. Why?