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I’ll keep saying it … the old are far more vulnerable to social media lies and conspiracies than the young. They also have a lot more time in which to be brainwashed.

Taking a trip to Italy and we've decided not to hire a car as unfortunately in my experience cat hire companies are all scams. Every time I've hired they try to get out of giving you an actual car. I don't know why they're not banned or properly regulated.

Everyone already knew James Johnson was dodgy, right? I mean his analysis has always been poor and biased. Worth contrasting him with Luke Tryl, one of the very best political analysts. World of difference.

If Burnham does call an early election, it'll be fine if we get MORE of this!! 🤣

Saxony-Anhalt is the new Wayne County 😉 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @aphclarkson.bsky.social @almagroschool.bsky.social

I've enjoyed Helen Lewis' writing in the past, but this is really poor. Misses the reason people are upset completely. You'd have to live in a bizarre bubble to write this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

El hombre al que no quería perder Dolly Parton era Carl Dean. Estuvo casado con la autora de "Jolene" desde 1966 hasta que murió en 2025.

Carney is the boss.

All the more galling when we already found out the best way to counter Nazis between 1939-1945

Can anyone explain why all these academics have come out in support of a guy who is clearly neo-nazi? What does it achieve for them? Makes em look stupid and a bit racist. So why on earth do it? Half of them aren't even smart enough to understand why he has been suspended!! 🤷

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

Hasan only able to make his (very strong arguments) because Riflind gave him time and space to answer properly.

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social (who I'm not a big fan of) is absolutely bodying @hugorifkind.bsky.social (who I'm a big fan of) on Times Radio. It's great radio. Hugo is scrupulously fair and a great interviewer. Hasan rock solid in his arguments.

Israel looking more like a fascist state every day

Scoff all you like, but do you have any idea how hard it was to type this while in a hotdog costume?

For a long time I said it wasnt a genocide. I was WRONG!!

My God! Andrew Neill on Times Radio very clearly blaming the family for Jason Arday's death! Time for that old fascist to be fired.

I can’t shake off the image of our press, like a pack of sharks smelling blood or a horde of mindless zombies, going in for the kill without pausing once to think of the consequences.

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

Cambridge's failings in terms of recruitment and oversight, which turned an internal HR mess into a widely reported and then politically instrumentalised issue, will need substantial internal investigation. But so much Anglosphere Right wing discourse in these cases comes down to projection

It was quite telling how at a time when an authoritarian American President and a reactionary American tech oligarch clearly left the bounds of sanity so much of the Anglosphere Right became obsessed with the frailties and blunders of a relatively obscure black British professor

Guto Harris on Times Radio saying this was inevitable 😬

At least 80% of the Westminster lobby will be cracking open the champagne today at the news of Jason Arday's death. Look at the Telegraph coverage. This was always their goal. The crisis in British media continues unacknowledged...

Good moment to say something nice about Binface I suppose. The thing is, he's really very funny. The whole thing would have worn out horribly if he wasn't. Just a genuine source of joy in an otherwise grey landscape.

Just went very dark in the restaurant...bit weird...

🇿🇼 At least 44 people drowned after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, police said on Wednesday, releasing an updated toll a day after the disaster ➡️ u.afp.com/SHeX

Chris Philp being interviewed on Times Radio by Stig Abel, about boats and prisons. He at no point mentions that both these problems arise during the Tories 14 years in government. One day I will get an answer as to why UK media have memory holed 2010-2024?! Why??

I guess it's not a huge surprise that the men who wrote Basil Fawlty and David Brent as characters for themselves turned out to be insufferable pricks.

Always thought, as most do, that capitalism is the least bad system. Perhaps I was wrong 😬😬

We have a really serious problem with judges in Spain. They should retire everyone over 60. All Francoists.

Meloni has fucked up so bad the only way out is complete surrender. She'll keep these checks for a few weeks, until they look utterly absurd, then they'll be pulled, and she'll be humiliated.

If ten Russian ballistic missiles landed on Barcelona, would Europe do anything? Yes of course! The Danes, Finns and Italians would demand we be kicked out of Schengen, and that's about it 😬

I really don't see how this nightly bombing of Kyiv is sustainable for Europeans. We can't just sit here and watch. People are going to think "if our leaders accept one massive city being bombed, will they accept us being bombed?"

Yet another reason we Europeans need to have nothing to do with these so-called 'americans'. They're just deeply immoral people.

I'm listening to Babymonster's feed on SoundCloud, and my god, pop music has drastically improved in my 50 years on this planet. My daughter has a few 80s / 90s hits in her Spotify feed and they sound very ropey these days.

Peter Caldwell lying about Cueta on Times Radio. Of all the immoral right wing propagandists in the UK, he's easily one of the worst.