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Let’s just hope that he doesn’t keep us in the dark and feed us a load of manure.

Let us hope that both sides have the desire to make this work and that the emphasis now will be on finding a way to live together rather than killing each other. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/1/17/israeli-cabinet-approves-gaza-ceasefire-deal

I agree. We need to be building for the next season so that we hit the ground running. I’d like to see us play a solid core of players here now who will have the job of getting us back up (and staying up) next season.

Replace “lefty” with “alt-right” and he is spot on to be fair.

Sounds like they finally have a ceasefire deal 🤞

Sad to hear that Tony Slattery passed away today aged 65. He seemed to be in every comedy programme back in the 90’s but then suddenly disappeared. Apparently he suffered severe mental health issues but had been making a comeback. He was a very funny guy. RIP

I am not sure if Meloni was depicted as the new Hitler but she certainly has a neo fascist background. So far she has not lived up to the negative expectations that were feared given her background. So far. The rise of populism is still a problem though. I have posted this before. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseupr/2024/02/06/the-creeping-ascent-of-the-far-right-in-mainstream-european-politics-and-how-to-stop-it/

Good news so long as the recruitment improves across the board starting with a decent and effective DoF.

I’m not normally a fan of Jones but he has a point here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/young-people-democracy-dictators-fascism-war-far-right Liberal and left ideologies are being drowned out more and more through social media platforms which in turn is being amplified by the many right leaning main media outlets. When the most powerful nation in the Western world reelects someone who tried to overturn the result of the previous election, has committed numerous felonies and decides that the “truth” is what he says it is, then we are already in an Orwellian world. Throw Musk and Zuckerberg into the mix and it just adds more fuel to the fire. The younger generations used to stand up against dictatorial bullshit. It seems now greater numbers are falling for it. Jones makes the point that the spectre of fascism from the 1930’s is vanishing from the younger generations now and he is right. The 60’s generation would not have stood by and let the likes Trump, Musk, Farage etc. get away with their bullshit now. It doesn’t bode well for the future.

More grim news. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/1/10/deaths-from-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-undercounted-by-41-percent-study-finds https://www.cbsnews.com/video/record-number-of-journalists-dead-in-gaza-war/

If I had seen your post I obviously wouldn’t have posted mine, but thanks for pointing it out. I didn’t realise that is was a competition 😉

You seem to have an issue with rape. Even Assage said himself that it was “improbable” that he was smeared by the US secret services. If what the woman said is true, that is technically rape. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1jgv3knnwo.amp As for Jo Cox, she was murdered by a far right nutter, but well done for trying to conflate the two and muddy the waters over Galloway’s comments. We all know how you are the first to defend the actions of extreme nationalist, flag shagging nutters in this country whilst pretending not to be one of them.

Are you trying to rewrite history again? The Tory Party have been are car crash for 14 years and left this country in an awful state. Perhaps you were living abroad for much of that time so missed it? Either way, to conflate Starmer with the Tory Party just six months in is a stretch even for a conspiracy theorist like you. By the way, I didn’t start giving the Tories proper grief until the referendum, Brexit and thereafter, but as ever you don’t let the facts get in the way of a good old rant. By the way, by getting likes from my Baby Reindeer you are in danger of becoming one yourself.

You don’t have to like Jess Phillips to appreciate the work she has done on behalf of woman who have been to victim to domestic violence. George Galloway is also a total scumbag and u don’t know why anyone would want to defend him. https://www.womensaid.org.uk/womens-aid-and-100-vawg-organisations-issue-letter-of-solidarity-with-jess-phillips-mp-following-far-right-and-misogynistic-attacks/ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/12/george-galloway-constituents-rape-comments

Yet another completely misguided post. You seem to live in a parallel universe. The only thing I agree with is about Starmer. Agree with his policies or not, he is a decent man who is genuinely trying to improve things after the car crash of the last 14 years. Let’s judge him after 5 years rather than right at the beginning of his tenure. He did a great job in sorting out problems within the CPS. He faces much bigger problems now.

A marriage made in hell. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/dominic-cummings-elon-musk-keir-starmer-tommy-robinson-b1204293.html

I certainly wouldn’t consider rubbing myself off on that individual. I have standards you know!

There were numerous scare stories doing the rounds about the vaccine at the time. Wasn’t Bill Gates supposed to be injecting us all with microchips? It’s odd how history gets rewritten, especially as it was only a few years ago.

If only we had agents with a license to kill. He is looking more like a dodgy Bond villain every day. https://www.ft.com/content/dd4b066c-30a1-4ce4-a95e-82c334a740cf

Bloody governments, Big Pharma companies, scientists and their vaccines. Who do they think they are, coming round here trying to save my life? Bastards.

I can just imagine social media in the Middle Ages - Royal Proclamation ”We need to lock down cities, towns, villages and hamlets to stop the plague spreading”. Commoners ”Don’t listen to them, it is fake news designed to control the turnip harvest so that the Lords can do away with us serfs and import cheaper turnips from Europe”. ”Listen to us, carry on harvesting your turnips and travelling between the markets in the cities, towns, villages, hamlets and those abroad too if you can find safe passage across the Channel. Don’t let the Deep State fool you. It is all a cunning plan we tell you! We have been told the truth by Baldrick!”

Probably just you Elon.

Precisely this, but it doesn’t fit in with the narrative for conspiracy theorists. https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/PHE-vaccine-leaflet.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme

So Musk supports a fascist who claims that Hitler was a Communist??? 🤪 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7errxp5jmo.amp

Welington replaced at half time.