Retired Veterinary Pathologist, Cyclist and Horse Racing fan

Newton Abbot UK
Joined September 2009
Looks like an honest and reasonable chap that should be in government.
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Malcolm Silkstone retweeted
If you bet, like racing, or work in an industry that depends on gambling, you need to understand what’s happening. Some of what is sitting there in the public record deserves far more attention. Read it. Check it for yourself. And please retweet it.
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MAGA white rage
My daughter was practicing for her drivers test by the Fremont DMV. She wanted to practice on the actual routes the test is taken on. I jumped out because this white man was at my daughter’s window yelling at her.
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Divorced man who reportedly cheated on his wife and mother of his children lectures rest of Britain on morals.
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Malcolm Silkstone retweeted
‼️🚨 Breaking News 🚨‼️ The Speaker has cancelled votes and is sending us home. And there is really only one reason—impeachment of Pete Hegseth. Here’s what’s going on ⬇️
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Well said 👏
💥This guy was MAGA until April. Now, listen to him talk to you red-hatters. #FAFO
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Time for crooks to be brought to book.
Ted Cruz: If Democrats take Congress, they will use it to stop Trump's agenda
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Ted Cruz: If Democrats take Congress, they will use it to stop Trump's agenda
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Disgusting bully
Scumbags who spread hate and fear towards trans people for years are suddenly realising that this isn’t ok. Too fucking late. What did you think would happen? Men are acting like feral lawless vigilantes so of course it was gonna escalate. Take responsibility. You caused this.
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Replying to @vitt2tsnoc
He's gone way too far. Despicable dick.
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The weird thing is that we've had _over double_ the cumulative rainfall average over the last year thanks to the crazy Jan/Feb rainfall
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Obama is not stopping 🔥 3:00 PM 🇺🇸 Trump: "Iran war is going great. We’re doing amazing. Obama’s deal was trash." 4:00 PM 🇺🇸 Obama: "Amazing? I stopped their nukes with a deal. No shots fired. No billions wasted. No Americans died. No inflation. You blew it up and now it’s worse. Only your fans clap for this." Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥
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BREAKING: Trump's $10 billion BBC lawsuit is BACKFIRING BIGLY and may force Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6 evidence back into the courtroom After making $16 million from Paramount/CBS to settle one of his frivolous lawsuits, Donald Trump figured he could keep suing media companies and rake in the dough from corporate CEOs who would rather give in than face a protracted and expensive legal fight. But Trump got greedy and wanted a $10 billion payday from his next target, Britain’s venerable public broadcaster, the BBC. What he's getting instead is a legal nightmare of his own making. Trump sued the BBC last December, claiming a documentary on their news program Panorama, "put words in his mouth" by editing together portions of his January 6th speech delivered nearly 50 minutes apart. He even bizarrely claimed the network used AI to fabricate his words — it didn't. The BBC did splice the footage, which sparked an internal investigation, the firing of some senior officials at the broadcaster, and the issuing of a written apology. An apology simply wasn't enough for Trump, however. He still wanted that $10 billion. Now his lawsuit against the British broadcaster is unraveling spectacularly. A federal judge ruled this week that Trump must hand over detailed financial records from more than 400 companies tied to his family trust — because HIS OWN lawsuit claims the BBC's editing damaged his businesses. You can't claim massive financial injury and then refuse to show your books. Judge Enjoliqué Lett wasn't buying the attempted dodge: "All of President Trump's brand, properties and businesses are impugned... Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case." It gets worse. The same judge greenlit subpoenas targeting Trump's inner circle — Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, and Stephen Miller — to determine what Trump actually intended on January 6th. And now, in a third gut-punch within 24 hours, the BBC is demanding records showing exactly how Trump LOST his executive privilege claims during Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6th investigation. Smith's team had already gathered evidence establishing that the Capitol violence was "foreseeable" to Trump, that he "caused it," and that he made "a conscious choice not to stop it" once it began. If the BBC gets that evidence, Trump's entire defamation case collapses. Trump built a career suing media outlets into silence. This time, he sued an organization willing to actually fight — and in doing so, handed prosecutors a roadmap straight into his finances, his inner circle, and his own conduct on January 6th. Plus, the public may get another chance to review the evidence that Jack Smith amassed against Trump, evidence that judges appointed by the litigious president have made sure that he’ll never be held accountable for. Sometimes a lawsuit is simply a trap you built for yourself. Please like and share to spread the news!
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I'm confident nobody will share this.
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Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this. The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics. Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues. Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence. This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness. The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives. There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting. None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals. A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.
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Retweet if you stand by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni against Trump. Her Quote ‘Italy And I Never Beg’ 🇮🇹 Canada and Greenland never beg either. 🇨🇦🇬🇱
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BREAKING: LOL! Australia World Cup fans go viral with a chant of "Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender" and MAGA world is FURIOUS! This is just too funny... Clips are spreading like wildfire across social media showing hundreds of Australia fans in several locations gleefully belting out the chant. Australia will face off against the United States tomorrow in Seattle after triumphing over Turkiye this past weekend. Ahead of that showdown, the Aussies are waging a particularly funny brand of psychological warfare. Predictably, supporters of the President are screeching their outrage all over X, with some calling for the Australian fans to be banned from the United States for the match. As usual, these Republicans believe in free speech until they hear speech that they don't like. But the problem for MAGA is that Trump IS a sex offender. He's an adjudicated rapist and a self-admitted sexual predator. He's also an alleged pedophile and judging just by the Epstein files that we have seen, he preyed on little girls for years. This is what the entire world now thinks of the American President. The Oval Office used to inspire respect and awe, now it's the butt of every joke. Please like and share if you have NO PROBLEM with this chant!
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EVERY COUNTRY HERE IN EUROPE SHOULD DO THE SAME ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
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