Gen-X and feeling Fatigued. Ex Fleet St Photographer. Family moved here in 1066 from Normandy. Escaped London after 55 years for the Highlands. Deus Vult.

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The difference between America and Europe 🤣
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Whilst potentially committing mortgage fraud given one of his rentals is with the mortgage works which has a standard term prohibiting renting out to family
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The only person responsible for Jason Arday's death is Jason Arday. He was a liar and a fraud who was rightly exposed for what he really was by academics and journalists who were simply doing their job. No one forced Arday to make up lie after lie about his life. He chose to do that. And he did it for financial gain and to bask in the applause it brought him. He used those lies to deceive people into giving him a job he didn't merit, a lucrative book deal he didn't deserve,  as well as fame and adulation he didn't earn.  And when he was found out, he called in the police and expensive lawyers to shut his accusers up, and his failed students who complained were branded as racist. Cambridge University and Jesus College enabled this liar by lauding him as brilliant when he wasn't even mediocre. They should ask themselves why they put their DEI religion above the need for fairness in their appointments processes, above the needs of Arday's students and, most importantly, above the truth. Arday's family and friends should ask themselves why they chose not to speak out to expose his lies which they must have known to be untrue.  The police should ask themselves why they thought it acceptable to investigate an academic and a journalist simply for asking questions about Arday's fraudulent CV.  The BBC and Arday's many other deluded cheerleaders should ask themselves why they were so desperate to believe Arday's outlandish claims in the face of all the evidence. The thousands of the great and the good in academia, politics, media and law who signed the Good Law Project letter backing Arday should ask themselves why, without any justification, they outrageously branded Arday's critics as racists who just wanted to bring down a successful black man because of the colour of his skin. All of these people made their own contributions to Jason Arday's life. And arguably all of them contributed in some way to his decision to take his own life when his fantastical claims were finally exposed for what they really were: lies. The idea that those who exposed Arday as a lying fraudster are to blame for his death is as laughable as it is outrageous.  The idea that Arday was "hounded" to his death is absurd. He chose to tell every single lie himself and he even chose to continue those lies in his resignation letter from Cambridge. He is not the victim. He is the perpetrator. The claim that Arday's downfall was only a front page story because he was black is also ridiculous. He chose to tell the lies that made him a front page story in the first place.  I feel sorry for those who loved him. It is very sad that he has chosen to take his own life rather than face the consequences of his own actions, which should have resulted in a criminal conviction for fraud.  But actions have consequences. This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong.
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Cambridge Owes An Answer, Not A Statement Of Condolence. Jason Arday has died at 41, days after resigning as a Cambridge professor. His family have said the sustained scrutiny and pressure of the past three years were "too much." Whatever comes next from the coroner, that statement alone deserves to be taken seriously, and it changes what the right question is this week. The facts already on the public record haven't changed. Cambridge's own job advertisement named ethnic background as a formal hiring criterion. A panel weighted toward DEI advocacy hired a candidate whose academic record, once properly examined, did not meet the standard the post required. That was true before this week and remains true now. But establishing that record was always an argument about the institution's judgement, not a licence to keep making the case against the man himself once he is no longer able to answer it. The two things can be held separately, and they should be. What Cambridge now has to answer is different, and arguably harder. Having put a man in a position his qualifications didn't support, in pursuit of a diversity target it set for itself, what duty did the university then owe him once the pressure that decision invited began to build? It launched a fresh investigation into his appointment and conduct in the same week, by his own account, that pressure became unbearable. Did anyone at Cambridge consider what that timing would do to a man already under three years of sustained public scrutiny, much of it a direct consequence of the institution's own original failure to vet him properly? An institution that engineers a high-risk, high-visibility appointment for its own reputational purposes carries some responsibility for what happens to the person placed in it, not just when the appointment succeeds, but especially when it collapses in public. That is the question Cambridge cannot avoid now. Not whether the hiring decision was defensible, the evidence on that was already clear. But whether an institution that used a man's identity to solve its own diversity problem, then abandoned him to the consequences of a process it designed and controlled, has any answer for what it owed him once things went wrong. Deborah Prentice, Cambridge's vice-chancellor, called this "tragic news." Tragedy implies something that simply happened. What actually happened followed a sequence Cambridge built, appointment, warning signs ignored, public unravelling, investigation, resignation, and now this. The university owes a fuller account of that sequence than a statement of condolence provides. "Deborah Prentice called it tragic. Jason Arday's family called it the cost of three years' pressure."
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My daughter Belle is known on X for her paintings of Jesus. Today she has finished her oil painting of Anne Widdecombe. I thought I’d share how remarkable and beautiful it is ❤️
The headlines have faded, but I have not forgotten. So I painted her. In honour of Ann Widdecombe. “The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance” Psalm 112:6
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Brilliant video exposing the FABIAN SOCIETY, the network that runs the machine behind our government. Now here's what it doesn't tell you. MAXIMUS judges the sick and disabled for the DWP. The same MAXIMUS funds the very think tank that shaped Labour's manifesto. They got through the door in 1884. Today that same door has a PRICE LIST, and the people paying hold government contracts. Watch the video first. Then look at how it works NOW. The Fabians tell you themselves. Every Labour Prime Minister has been a Fabian. 141 Labour MPs. More than HALF the current cabinet. Reeves, Miliband, Streeting, Mahmood, Healey, Cooper. And now Burnham, who wrote for their pamphlets and spoke on their platforms for years. Their own words. Labour's manifesto was shaped by Fabian values and filled with Fabian ideas. That's not a conspiracy. It's a business model and it isn't even hidden. On their website, right now, sits a page marked PARTNERSHIPS. An open invitation to work with them on policy, with an external affairs director to greet you at the door. Not a shadowy cabal in a smoke-filled room. There's a contact form. So follow it through. Corporate money goes in one end. Meta. Lloyds. Maximus. Policy and ministerial access come out the other. The firm paid to decide if a disabled person keeps their benefits is bankrolling the society that writes the government's script. This isn't abstract. These are the people who set your bus fare. Who taxed your local into closing. Who decide whether your neighbour keeps their money. You just never saw the room where it happened. The video shows you the wolf got in. Here's the bit nobody says out loud. It now charges admission at the same door. And the ones paying hold contracts with the very government it built. It's all public. That's what should terrify you. Brilliant work by @thenodeproject
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The smartest AI in the world with $20,000,000 of capital on Autopilot But still can't outperform the queen of Insider *******
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Protecting free and fair elections is above party politics. We all have a stake in ensuring that elections are decided by informed voters—not by bots, manipulated algorithms or foreign interference. How I want to strengthen the Elections Bill 👇🏻 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
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I shall repeat for all those at the back .... Labour have a convicted criminal with a international arrest warrant out for her as an MP sitting on the benches in Parliament. Where is the outcry about that? This is just another witch hunt by the leftwing MSM - it worked with Boris - they think it will win again. You will LOSE this time.
What level of corruption will Reform supporters tolerate before deciding Farage may not be suitable for high office after all? thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Will you present identification if it’s required to use this platform? Voting is anonymous so please be totally honest! I’ll start: never! Not in a million years.
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The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.
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I told you ...
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Boudica: "Yes I was flogged and my daughters raped in front of me, but I've been advised by a government-approved psychiatrist to not let division and hatred win. Now, let's stick that Oasis track on and sing to suppress whatever survival instincts we still have left."
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BREAKING NEWS Andy Burnham has ruled out rejoining the Eu until at least after he’s elected.
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> be Spencer Pratt > grow up in LA > go to USC > become Brody Jenner’s menace friend on MTV > get cast on The Hills > steal Lauren Conrad’s friend > marry beautiful midwestern mid angel Heidi Montag > become the most hated man on TV > blow millions on fame, crystals and elite delusion > disappear for a decade > come back as a hummingbird conservative dad > LA turns into tents, crime and $22 matcha > everyone who hated you now looks insane > chad > run for mayor > somehow become the most normal guy in the race
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