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absolutely incredible scenes in walthamstow where the community has mobilised in massive numbers to protect muslims from a rumoured right-wing fash protest in the area.
this is what the real britain looks like! proud of these people!
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It really is transparent that after years of calling Corbynism "a hate movement" and anti-genocide-in-Gaza protests "violent mobs", the British press has absolutely no idea to respond to actual racist pogroms, especially given they inspired them for years with anti-migrant hate.
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So let me get this straight. The way to avert the rise of the far right is to give them everything they want.
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The position of the gender-critical community appears to that a woman who has abnormal levels of testosterone should be considered male for legal and practical purposes, which has some fascinating implications that I don't think they've thought through.
Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024
one the one hand, ICT at school was pretty useless. on the other hand, quite a lot of my working life has been used making powerpoints. so, that's something
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Getting really into rug cleaning videos. They’re soothing not just because of the sound & the satisfaction of a dirty thing becoming clean but the hope they promise that anything can really become clean with enough washes & products………..perhaps even the human soul
due to a lifelong enthusiasm for packed lunch sandwiches, I'm afraid that I may have eaten at this point yards of tinfoil
the thing I've figured out about my frustration with Longlegs is that if I was put in charge of a movie I think that's exactly what it would be like. and like I mean that as a criticism
at the library cafe the barista asked for my library card so I asked if the cafe is for member's only and he said yes and I said "oooh, member's club!" Absolute slam dunk, we were both chuckling. It might not be coming home but at least I have a friend
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There’s good arguments against taking generational politics too seriously but you have to admit there’s something uniquely cursed about the crop of British public figures who became famous in the 90’s
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Delighted to say that since tweeting this I've had two more sources for this story, so am now confident in stating it as fact:
Robert Jenrick ran unopposed to be the president of the JCR (basically, undergrad student president) at St Johns College, Cambridge, and lost.
