Ben Dunnell

The photo caption doesn’t exactly scream “sanctuary”, I must say.

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Or *not* telling them they can have good services with high tax levels.

Superb reporting. Should be essential reading.

In the 35 years Daniel Hannan has been a member of the Conservative Party, they have been in government as the result of that problem electorate a total of 21 years.

Yesterday in Blackpool I saw this sequence of images flash up on an advertising screen on the pier, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so depressed

No, I honestly think you’re right about this.

I have never overheard so many really worryingly stupid opinions being expressed as I have this year. The sort of stuff that makes you want to intervene extremely rudely but where you somehow hold your tongue.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

Travelling around mainland Europe recently, it was really noticeable that it was boomers being the most annoying when it came to playing stuff out loud on phones.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How on earth anyone can define a person’s “value” is beyond me. What’s the measure?

Memory of the Second World War and genocidal Nazi crimes is now as distant to Zoomers as memory of trenches at the Somme and Verdun was to my Xennial generation born in the late 1970s and 1980s.

The battle against myths of Nazism can no longer rely on lived experience of its catastrophic realities

Splendid!

Comment says "this may be the worst thing that has happened to Charlie's Kirk this year."

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

What’s so remarkable about AI stuff is how much of the bizarre, non-functional stuff goes uncorrected - if you were working normally, you correct foibles and artefacts as you go, but cause genAI is all about *not working* everything sits there, broken.

What's fun about this is that it has happened with, really, very little exceptional scrutiny of their councillors or candidates.

“At the turning-down of the thermostat, we will remember them.”

I really enjoyed that interview. No pretension about it.

No-one able to tell them otherwise.

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Superb series.

AH. That explains it. I didn’t know it worked like that on here!

Whoever this was has blocked me too.

These look like the bogs in a newly opened nightclub in Uttoxeter with ideas above its station.

It's like if Ceauşescu had a social media account.

Not just during those. All the time.

Though I was interested in how it made me think of a lot of very current Instagram/TikTok parody stuff, inasmuch as it left me with little idea of precisely what it was parodying, or why it needs to be parodied.

Yes, that’s a good point. And Broken News was just unutterably bad.

It’s one of those things I suspect I’d enjoy less now.