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The sight of him at a prayer breakfast yesterday sickened me. The man has no love for God or for other humans.

This is just *so* Nicola Murray. Badenoch doesn’t have guys dressed up as lamb cutlets asking if she’s for the chop. She has actual rats. Amazing.

No sweat.

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world but lose his soul?

Lark Ascending too which I also adore. But Tallis is just amazing. Even if you don’t really get classical, and you don’t know it, check it out. You may already have heard it. Those first few notes sound like the rising of the sun on a freezing morning.

Very much looking forward to Sunday: lunch and then classical music at the Old Fire Station in Sunderland. And hearing live for the first time my absolute favourite piece of classical music - Ralph Vaughan Williams “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”

"This is how men behave" is the tacit basis for male bonding over abuse, exclusive innuendo-based in-jokes, "banter" that denigrates women and girls, and the backslapping bonhomie that means arseholes get ahead, every time.

If this is "how men behave," then fucking do better.

Sending best wishes.

Please read this whole thread, but this - THIS - is the thing I can’t stop thinking about.

How many bright futures have been snuffed out before they had a chance? How many lives have been ruined and how many masterpieces were never made because of supposedly “brilliant” predatory men?

Can’t be said emphatically enough.

Starmer should not be PM due to links to Mandelson. Farage should not be PM due to links with Trump.

Both things true.

Looks like the guys at the car plant were correct when they called him a “paedophile protector”. Although it seems like “paedophile” would have worked too.

Do not even briefly entertain the notion of voting for this scum. Please. We all and will always have people who need support amongst our families and communities. Reform do not give a shit about communities, welfare or support.

I’m sure Starmer’s words of apologies are well meant but the major elephant in the room is the UK’s continued relationship with the guy who’s mentioned about 38k times in the Epstein Files. I bet that makes the victims feel great.

Remember how many leaders the Tories have burnt through in the last decade without triggering anything beyond the limits of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. Imbeciles.

If only we had some grasp of football’s higher art forms.

Wanker.

I’m sorry to hear this. Losing a cat is just so painful. What a lovely chap he seems.

Me, every day for the last 4 weeks.

The final sentence annoys me: “it is one of the enduring tragedies of English football that those with the greatest interest ultimately have the smallest say in it.” Why, then, did the Guardian use KSA’s ownership as a stick with which to beat NUFC fans?

Broken clocks etc.

Incredibly cruel of Reform to give her the job of skills minister. It’s like picking Tommeh for your basketball team.

I think there’ll be people starting to question whether season ticket renewals are really worth it. Maybe not many but something needs to happen in the next couple of months and clearly it won’t be on the park.

Uriah Heap of Shite

... but what I think is imperative is that it serves someone else, too.

And I also can't stop thinking about what I would do with that kind of money. I would fund research, pay debts of whole countries, try to solve climate change, stop wars, build schools, fund publishers and newspapers ...

Show your kids love, parents. Otherwise this happens.

And as an aside, Toby Young has been quiet for a bit hasn’t he? Never once piped up when protestors against genocide in Palestine were being arrested. Is that not the right sort of free speech?

“We didn’t realise how problematic it would be”. Bollocks you didn’t.

'We let Nigel Farage visit our bar - now we are being called Nazis'

Lie down with dogs, get fleas. No one should condone abuse, victimisation or vandalism but frankly there are enough good restaurants in the City I’d rather support who don’t provide hospitality to shitheads.

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Pyooah shite

Nice to have such varied weather