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Words and humour. Not medicine but a tonic at least.

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sunupping is the new sundowning

07.03.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

06.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 13427 πŸ” 1949 πŸ’¬ 467 πŸ“Œ 169
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New official figures disprove claims that social security spending is β€˜spiralling out of control’ New official figures published alongside this week’s spring statement have again disproved claims that spending on β€œwelfare” is β€œspiralling out of control”. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OB…

Oh no! Anyway…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-official...

06.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Terminally online, just repeating the buzz phrases which get people all frothy on X.

06.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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He’s a terribly confused man.

06.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BBC News & Politics producer interviews, March 2026:
are you happy to make literally *everything* about how mean Keir Starmer is being to Trump? #r4today

06.03.2026 08:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

shhhhh she’s playing 4D chess.

06.03.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BBC hemming and hawing about saying something really obvious - this man says crass, offensive things because he is a 19-year old attempting to fulfil a role for which he has neither the skillset nor the background. Too meta for words.

06.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s so very woke being able to order a meal, or read signs warning you not to enter the water because of strong currents. Ho hum.

06.03.2026 06:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrating Noems firing.

05.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Murton (Durham) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 50.6% (+17.6)
➑️ RFM: 39.6% (-4.5)
🌍 GRN: 4.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 3.1% (-2.0)
πŸ”Ά LDM: 1.9% (-2.3)

No Ind (-13.6) as previous.

Labour GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.

05.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 366 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 77

bsky.app/profile/step...

05.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They know that Angela Rippon is *very* GBNews curious, right?

04.03.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve subscribed for about 25 years. It’s a brilliant read, even if you only flick through the parody news stories.

04.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

John Crace concurs.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s her only setting. Her online peers can’t get enough of it.

04.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The podcast is also brilliant and painlessly entangles issues which have appeared a recent edition, generally with more detail and not a little humour. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

04.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh *that* Russian ambassador…

04.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RFK wouldn’t know depreciation if it jumped up and bit him.

04.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

- do you not care about the Β£125 which you’ll never see again, regardless of whether there’s a fair selection process?

04.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a RefCon candidate *and* a Refuk one? Brave move in a supernumerical constituency.

04.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜[…] there might be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.’
Perfect.

03.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[laughs in FDR]

03.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Saddo adults amusing themselves’ - my canny 16-year-old

03.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Chris Mason - you implying that Trump is anything other than a pygmy compared to Roosevelt? #StarmerIsNotChurchillShocker

03.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The Room Next Door - Priti Patel

Any excuse.

share.google/yWbK7oiuJn69...

03.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the Overton window - the more frequently apparent red lines are crossed, the less we are shocked. That’s the theory.

03.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That should be the last time a journalist from either is invited onto any UK news/politics show. For the sake of balance alone, given that plenty of the hosts already find this stuff titivating.

03.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kemi Badenoch is going here as well - soundbites and media clips for Legatum and the stark staring mad right wing in the US, however repelled the UK electorate is by her tactics.

03.03.2026 08:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just such a waste of oxygen and everyone’s patience, but sits well with the school of β€˜isn’t it all so TERRIBLY interesting?’, beloved presumably by Justin Webb at the direction of BBC News/Politics.

03.03.2026 08:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0