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Forty-year veteran of British leftwing politics. Not the opinions of any publication for which I write.

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As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

10.10.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 400    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Abolition of stamp duty would be worth ยฃ80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a ยฃ900,000 second home in Clacton

10.10.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 200    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Nobel Peace Prize has been denied to the man who ended the war between Azerbaijan and Albania. That's just cruel.

10.10.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 88    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

08.10.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Scrapping stamp duty will cost ยฃ11.6bn a year. But it won't house a single one of Britain's 240,000 homeless.

08.10.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 283    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

07.10.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 825    ๐Ÿ” 378    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Robert Jenrick owns two ยฃ2m homes in London and a ยฃ1.1m manor house in Herefordshire. He's shocked by the poor housing conditions in Handsworth, apparently.

07.10.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 236    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

06.10.2025 11:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 615    ๐Ÿ” 281    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Reform-led Kent county council is set to increase council tax next year. It's almost as if the 'wasteful local authority spending' Farage keeps banging on about isn't really a thing.

06.10.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 198    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

As Kemi Badenoch rightly points out, America and Australia are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I should just add here that El Salvador is not in the African Union, either.

05.10.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 265    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

The leader of the Conservative Party helpfully pointed out on television this morning that the US, Australia and Canada are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I guess the clue is in the name, Kemi.

05.10.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 114    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

At least 860 UK healthcare workers died of covid-19 and the British Medical Association says the true number is likely to be higher. Yet Michelle Mone unashamedly defends her cynical profiteering.

04.10.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 459    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Delighted to announce I have won the franchise to be official cocaine dealer to the 2025 Conservative conference

04.10.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We now have a woman Archbishop of Canterbury. One day it may even be possible to have a woman leader of the Labour Party.

03.10.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

03.10.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1273    ๐Ÿ” 404    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

If Michelle Mone gets to keep the superyacht, the private jet and the seat in the House of Lords, at least give the 'benefit scroungers' narrative a break for a couple of weeks

02.10.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 491    ๐Ÿ” 126    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for ยฃ122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.

01.10.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

PPE Medpro will almost certainly go into administration and Mone will repay almost none of the ยฃ122m she stole from the NHS. But she'll keep the superyacht and the private jet she scammed from the public purse.

01.10.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 222    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Michelle Mone must now repay the ยฃ122m she stole from the NHS. But she remains an unelected lawmaker for life.

01.10.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 248    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

If Sunak had been prime minister in world war two, Michelle Mone would have had the contract to supply Spitfires

01.10.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 116    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Michelle Mone was extremely lucky to get a new yacht on the NHS. Because most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

01.10.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 347    ๐Ÿ” 100    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'

30.09.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 186    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The NHS is routinely described as 'unsustainable'. But that adjective never gets applied to arms spending, bank bail-outs or tax dodging by the rich.

29.09.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 540    ๐Ÿ” 175    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Calling digital ID a 'Brit Card' might not go down too well in parts in of Belfast and Derry

26.09.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a ยฃ6m loan or didn't declare ยฃ700,000 in donations due to 'administrative error'. What do they take us for?

25.09.2025 11:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1259    ๐Ÿ” 331    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 94    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

I told the Inland Revenue that my failure to declare ยฃ700,000 in freelance earnings on my last tax return was simply an administrative error. But they didn't believe me.

25.09.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a good job Morgan McSweeney didn't fail to declare a five quid Universal Credit overpayment, because he'd really be in trouble then

25.09.2025 11:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where I live in London, churches and synagogues sit side by side with mosques and same-sex couples walk arm in arm in the streets. Doesn't look much like sharia law to me.

24.09.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 822    ๐Ÿ” 147    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Charlie Kirk sent 80 coachloads of activists to Washington to join a bid to overthrow a democratically elected government. Then Liz Truss demands the BBC be defunded for entirely accurately describing his politics as far right.

23.09.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 101    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you can't get a job, they call you 'a scrounger'. If you get a job and can't make ends meet, they tell you to find a better-paid job. And if you do get a well-paid job, they tell you train drivers earn too much.

23.09.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 226    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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