Self-unemployed. Historian of suburbs, new towns, urban reconstruction and gambling. Recovering Academic. 🇬🇧 🇮🇱
The Cotswolds, Middle England
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Labour Suspends David Walliams' Party Membership order-order.com/2026/11/10/l…
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🚨NEW: All train services that were nationalised by the Labour government have seen their performance plummet
It comes alongside ticket prices to use the services remaining the exact same
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I recall when Navalny was murdered in a Siberian prison and she questioned whether it was Putin or death by natural causes. Along with Neil Oliver and 'Father' Calvin Robinson she needs booting from GB News.
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The Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal showed how Islamic mob rule is corrupting Britain. Muslim bigots wanted to turn Birmingham into a no-go zone for Israeli Jews. The police aided them every step of the way, says Hugo Timms
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Remember how Ed Miliband cosied up to Russell Brand in his home in the run-up to the 2015 election.
Even at the time, Brand had a terrible reputation. But Ed thought it was the best way to reach the youth vote.
He is now Andy Burnham's choice of Foreign Secretary.
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And this was terrible of them because he was an obvious wanker talking absolute horseshit, not because he was later pinged for rape. It was just as bad when they wrote these as it is now.
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Wrong.
The Caribbean sugar trade during the era of transatlantic slavery generated vast national wealth for Britain, funded the early stages of industrialization, and reshaped its financial and consumer culture.
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This is false. Plantations made some people wealthy, but small contributions, max 1-2% national income, some saying 0.5%.
It had a small effect on pace select areas industrialised, but weak compared to existing technology/funding. More slaving states developed slower.
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Just looked at Jeremy Corbyn’s X posts. Nothing about the Iranian regime and this terrible massacre. But the 18th century slave trade, the ‘genocide’ in Gaza etc are his priorities. Then again he was happy to appear on the regime’s Press TV, so no surprise really.
Truly remarkable 1 hour @BBCPanorama documentary last night.
What stood out very plainly was the sheer evil of this regime. The pure, unadulterated cruelty of the massacre in January after an order by the Supreme leader.
It records how it unexpected it was. We’ve seen the depths of what this regime is capable of, but never like this. One person says that what transpired in those two days “will be talked about for 200 years”.
It also captures the lies the regime spewed after. The very next day the Supreme leader declaring that Israeli and American insurgents “killed peaceful protesters - sometimes in deeply inhuman ways” - showed gaslighting on another level.
This is what was needed to be seen and what the world was prevented from being shown by the 3 month regime-imposed internet blackout.
People know now. Watch for yourself on catch up and understand what our fellow human beings in Iran have been up against for the last 47 years. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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My gods, I've spent the last forty years thinking it was an original Pretenders song and now I find out it's a cover, sung by the lovely Marion and written by Ray Davis!
Marion - I Go To Sleep (1967)
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It is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Time to remember the Manchester Arena attack. Where an Islamic terrorist murdered 22 during an Ariana Grande concert killing.
A security guard saw him as suspect - but was too concerned about being branded Islamophobic to take real action.
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18 femmes iraniennes sont dans le couloir de la mort pour le « crime » de s’être opposées à un régime islamique barbare et terroriste. Elles risquent d’être pendues à chaque instant !
Comment le monde peut-il être aussi silencieux face au sort du peuple iranien ?! Comment pouvez-vous ne parler que du détroit d’Ormuz, comme si la vie des nôtres n’avait aucune importance ? Comment pouvez-vous avoir l’audace d’invoquer le droit international chaque fois que la République islamique est en difficulté ? Où êtes-vous pour vous indigner du massacre que subit le peuple iranien ?! Où est votre indignation ? Où est votre humanité ?
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yes of course shooting civilian women in the genitals tremendously inspiring act of liberation- what a pathetic ghoul
You missed out Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot but somehow include Churchill as a mass murderer. Associate Professor at Cambridge by the way.
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Every time I see tragedies like this, caused by Putin, I can't help thinking of the useful idiot left-wing academics I once knew who, like Farage, went on Russia Today, Putin's propaganda channel.
👼2.5 years old. She didn’t make it to the shelter. Russia (Putin) killed another child in Odesa.
Born in Odesa on June 23, 2023. A long-awaited child. She had just started kindergarten and loved drawing and putting together puzzles.
On the night of April 6, 2026, a Russian drone hit a residential building in Odesa. Anna was killed along with her mother Daria. They didn’t manage to reach the shelter in time.
This is not “collateral damage.” This is the deliberate killing of children.
Eternal memory to Anechka.
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The BBC seems to think the norm for Islam is violence and terrorism. Why else would they label an award-winning Muslim cleric famed for his outspoken opposition to violent extremism and advocacy of Muslim–Christian coexistence, as ‘controversial’?
This also explains why they refused to label the terrorist group Hamas as ‘terrorists’. They think terror is the natural state of affairs for Muslims and indulge it so as to avoid causing offence.
There are plenty of Muslim thinkers, activists and organisations who would disagree. Perhaps the BBC could tiptoe outside of its bubble and meet a few.
Controversial Islamic cleric shot dead in northern Nigeria bbc.in/4sto6Fj
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He is not controversial in any sense, he encourages peaceful coexistence and calls for dialogue with other religions.
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