Dan Etchells

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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"

"Today we have 46,000 a year"

"And do you know why?"

"Brexit"

"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"

*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

Salma Shah (ex Tory advisor) & Caroline Flint (ex Lab MP) both agree Israel should be allowed to compete in Eurovision

They're wrong. Israel should be kicked out of not just Eurovision but all cultural & sporting events. Back BDS #GMB

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A minimalist statement or just Pantonedeaf? ‘Cloud dancer’ shade of white named Pantone’s 2026 colour of the year Wait, what? You mean … white? Are they trolling us? Emma Joyce explains all to Nick Miller

"A minimalist statement or just Pantonedeaf? ‘Cloud dancer’ shade of white named Pantone’s 2026 colour of the year."

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

'It'll be the rest of 'em!! Not me!!'

'A chance'?? Yes - a 100% chance!!

Speed camera. Longford Lane / A40. 11.45 4/12/25

Listened this morning... Really interesting...

Link to GBOOTH in the show notes doesn't work - it's got spurious % etc. - getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/%E2%81%A0

Delighted to publish this personal essay by me and John: Getting Britain out of the hole.

We wanted to write something quite readable that covers the big picture of the UK’s economic struggles. Hopefully we’ve managed at least one of those!
@johnspringford.bsky.social

getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

They have hugely damaged their credibility - even with their own back benchers - true enough.

It is indeed quite a good number - but the vast majority of them are unlikely to experience, as things stand, surely??

I seem to have spent 18.4% of 2025 (so far) listening to music... Wonder if I can make it 20% by the end of the year??

Wednesday morning, Trend Setters... A couple of sunny, cold miles with the Hairy Genius... 😎

No... Quite.

However, they're not really acting in *their* best interests - at some point they're realise they're likely to go from a historic majority to opposition...

Pinning their hopes in 'growth' happening in the chaotic circumstances they're supervising strikes me as naive, at best.

Yeah, agreed...

But - their options, as I see it, are ER or trying 'If you don't vote for us, that terrible Nigel Farage will get in, you know' on the electorate. And - frankly - I'd rather they looked at the bigger picture than purely their own interests and tried to do the right thing.

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Nightmare before Christmas ☠️ 🌲

Happy holidays, everyone.

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I can't believe Labour aren't pressing ahead with ER as quickly as they can - it's, frankly, just about their only hope...

They are - *literally* - the same wealthy elite...!!

Tuesday morning, Trend Setters - a very nice few miles from Cinderford to Staple-edge Wood and back... 😎

Larry Achiampong art causes ‘outrage’ after replacing Queen Elizabeth portrait at Foreign Office British-Ghanaian artist says media coverage of his work links to growing anti-immigrant sentiment

"Larry Achiampong art causes ‘outrage’ after replacing Queen Elizabeth portrait at Foreign Office.

British-Ghanaian artist says media coverage of his work links to growing anti-immigrant sentiment."

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

That's not an image I need!! 😁

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But, he will.