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Joined January 2015
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For a bit of comedy relief, rough calc for number of cash only barbers (and their staff levels) now in Woking, and using relatively recent population data, every male who lives locally would have to be getting their hair cut every 72 hours for them to cover costs.
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> Haiti gangs snatch 4 Salvadorans
> they think they just bought themselves a negotiation
> Bukele goes public saying bring them back or you're done
> they try to hand him 4 random bodies and say it was them
> he calls out their bs
> sends 2,000 troops into Haiti
> tells the leader to gather their gangs so he can fight them
> gangs run to the UN for a deal
> refuses all deals
> ignores the UN mandate
> pushes into gang territory and starts cleaning them
> does more in two weeks than the UN did in 13 years
Bukele might be the greatest leader of the 21st century
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I may have accidentally met Russell Brand once or seventeen times where I inadvertently referred to Brand as a political colossus & mankind's preeminent thinker as he guest edited my magazine, but this sycophantic praise was my way of expressing how much I utterly detested him .
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Remarkable scenes as the CEO of OFCOM explains just how shit at her job she is. Fair play to her for being so honest it's like a breath of fresh air
I’m begging you to simply choose better MPs than Clive Lewis, Stella Creasy, Dawn Butler, Ed Davey, David Lammy, Will Forster, James Murray, Carla Denyer, etc etc.
Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
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I’m running out of room.
My attempt at discussing what has driven violent riots & wanton destruction in France (not without interruption). I was also reacting to unhelpfully labelling Kemi Badenoch's mention of challenges of migration y'day, as a Trump-like dog whistle #PoliticsLive
a 4am tweet from a presumably drunk Feinstein, dribbling on himself, pretending Retarded Zack capturing 12% of the electorate despite blagging plenty of the muslim bloc vote is somehow a win. Have to admire it.
.@ZackPolanski has increased the progressive vote - & trebled the Green vote - while reducing the Labour vote. The trend is clear: with a careerist, mediocre Starmerite as our MP, & once Burnham actually changes very little, at the next election Holborn & St. Pancras will ditch Labour to elect a progressive MP who actually represents us rather than their billionaire donors & corporate mates. @ZackPolanski was courageous to stand & has intensified the progressive momentum in Camden.
The Great Noticing continues.
French government spending is 57% of GDP, the state is running a 5.4% deficit, debt to GDP is 119%, the retirement age is 64, pensioners make more money than workers do, the bond market is melting down over such obviously ridiculous fiscal policies, and yet you have violent rioters in the streets demanding an “end to austerity” LMAO
Part of the Great Noticing is people able to share data on social media, which paints a remarkable picture. I dont know how you can possibly fix a problem like Birmingham or Bradford. The time to act was >10yr ago.
Birmingham is ranked 1 out of total spending for benefits as a local authority at £4.1bn
The benefits bill per resident is £3,521 which has increased by over 25% in just two years!
benefitsdata.uk/mybill?local…
apropos of nothing, greatly enjoy every list having True Detective (but season 1 only) because a) its one the greatest seasons ever, and b) the following seasons were like something Joe Biden and Kamala had written in dogshit on celluloid.
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What worries me is that eleven problematic Mitchell and Web sketches is actualy enough material to make a whole episode. I'm terrified that a rightwing terrorist might edit them together, and create one uber offensive episode which could kill any diverse person that watches it.
We are probably doomed already but unless we get local councils full of competent people not bona fide morons we unquestionably are.
Have you met the uk public? Probably 10-15m people who couldn’t name 3 political parties, 5m who’d either turn up at the wrong place or the wrong day or both. 2-3m wouldn’t know what an election was
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The reading of great books makes great writers.
Cormac McCarthy, in an article from 1971, said he had more than 1,500 books in his collection, which ranged from contemporary novels to the collected works of Greek playwrights.
He was influenced by “gutsy writers,”like Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, James Joyce and Herman Melville.
“I don’t read bad books,” he would later say “I can’t physically make my eyes move across the page.”
