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Corporate lawyer, Yorkshireman in London, married to an Aussie. Cycling, skiing, scuba, rowing, computing, fast cars, wine, travel, trying to understand teenagers. Please don’t DM after I follow you. I won’t respond.

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Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

"In one email, Epstein told Maxwell, 'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.' He added that an unnamed victim 'spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.'"

“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

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As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.

I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…

11.11.2025 07:33 — 👍 1027    🔁 191    💬 34    📌 6

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09.11.2025 22:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates Davie says

This is pathetic. There have been plenty of good reasons for Davie to resign. This is not one of them.

The editing does not matter; Trump clearly incited the Jan 6 insurrectionists and was impeached for it.

09.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Matthew Lynn: My predictions for the next 25 years — MoneyWeek What will the world look like when MoneyWeek celebrates its 50th birthday? Look forward to the return of Tony Blair 1. The demise of the smartphone It is hard to imagine life without them. There are ...

Just in case you ever doubted that Matthew Lynn is a lunatic.

(How old is that byline photo, by the way?)

09.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sleepy Donny.

08.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

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Me in front of an olive tree and a basket of olives.

Me in front of an olive tree and a basket of olives.

Have spent this afternoon picking olives in Tuscany.

08.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

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Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

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The police continue to investigate the motive for last night's stabbings. Their initial statement is they don't have grounds to believe it was a terrorist motivated attack

Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack

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He’ll block each one. He doesn’t like to be told he’s wrong.

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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

02.11.2025 12:06 — 👍 2042    🔁 440    💬 59    📌 14
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Opinion | How Bad Is Finance’s Cockroach Problem? We Are About to Find Out.

Apart from the systemic risk that is scary, the scenario in the US is now that CEOs and owners can become obscenely wealthy through fraud and then stay out of jail and keep the money if they donate to Trump.

28.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It does seem to me unlikely that he would build a vast ballroom when he might not be in office in just over three years’ time. He is utterly selfish, so that ballroom is for him.

26.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just in case it is still possible for you to be shocked by the tawdry behaviour of this White House:

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I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion.

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

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Italy to raise flat tax on wealthy foreigners by 50pc
The annual levy could rise to €300,000 in fresh blow to rich expats

Italy to raise flat tax on wealthy foreigners by 50pc The annual levy could rise to €300,000 in fresh blow to rich expats

Milan is booming as Britain's wealthy flee
Labour
Starmer and Reeves's shake-out of London's super-rich risk turning the trickle into a flood

Milan is booming as Britain's wealthy flee Labour Starmer and Reeves's shake-out of London's super-rich risk turning the trickle into a flood

Hmmm… I do wonder why Italy is increasing their flat rate tax on the wealthy for a second year in a row and by 33%?

And also whether there will be a follow up by the Telegraph in their “War on Wealth” Series…

18.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 85    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 1
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The British passport is weaker than ever (and things are going to get worse) — The Telegraph UK ‘resting on past privilege’ as it slides down power rankings

Incredibly, this @Telegraph article lamenting the weakness of the UK Passport fails to mention Brexit or that the strongest passports are of EU Member States.

It seeks consolation in the weakening of the US Passport without blaming Trump.

apple.news/AOed7r8lzTS-...

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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

Trump appears to view apartheid South Africa as a model for America:

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Burn him!

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Putin on "Danzig corridor" in 1939 Vladimir Putin is known for his ahistorical rants in which he mixes reality with fantasies and then uses them to justify his present decisions. On this year's Valdai Club meeting in Sochi Putin sp...

Putin on "Danzig corridor" in 1939



#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!

04.10.2025 09:37 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It’s convenient that the company doesn’t have to produce income or cashflow statements!

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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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Not sure he has any interest in women…

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A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan ) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody ) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

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Masked goons.

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This is called assault. If he dies, it is called murder.

30.09.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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