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Watching it at the moment after the recommend. Really good.

Fucking get in!

pipe down nobhead

I think you missed the point. Brexit has handed the sort of people in my post all the power of the British state to enact their free market visions of the “Britannia Unchained” mob. Low tax, zero welfare, next to no regulations to hamper “business”. The ERG and other headbangers. There’s now a conveyor belt of new Tory gobshites waiting in the wings ready to use the UK as lab for their economic visions. And they can do this without any checks and balances because as you will know they’ve already started targeting British laws and institutions they don’t like and could stand in their way. Yes, Cameron and Osborne were fucking Tory cunts. But Brexit is/was a hard right project to hand even more power to the even more despicable Tory only in name cunts who now run the show. They’re going to throw the kitchen sink at it to stay in power. Hence why the GB News hedge fund cunt is going to buy the Torygraph and Spectator.

Editor of The Sunday Telegraph. And pals. From the Taxpayers Alliance. They’ve deffo got our best interests at heart.

https://thequietus.com/articles/08944-jeremy-hunt-levenson-enquiry-hotcourses “Already reported in Popbitch (on the day of the 2010 general election) was an incident on September 11, 2001. Now, my memory – and the source for Popbitch, which wasn't me – tells me that it was Hunt who, when we were listening intently to the radio reports of planes smacking into the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, came into the office to demand that we turned the volume down as it was affecting the sales team's telephone calls. Whether it was him or not, it speaks volumes about the management culture of the company.”

Stumbled across this playlist of documentaries and clips about Liverpool on YouTube. Tons of good stuff. If you press the icon with the 3 lines it brings up the list. This is from 1941. “A hunting we will go…”

Konstantine Kisin. Needs a swift dig right on his gob during his inane pro General Franco podcast.

Marshalling in a new era Dan Wootton’s suspension this week as an anchor at the UK’s right-wing GB News station left many viewers baffled. His on-screen behaviour invited it (see below) but he’d already survived reports that he’d tricked or bribed scores of men – including former colleagues – into sending him nude photos and videos. Why now? Also this week, analysts said 21 potential bidders have expressed an interest in buying the The Daily Telegraphincluding GB News co-owner Paul Marshall. So what? The two could be connected. Wootton’s fall looks like Marshall clearing the decks in an attempt to prove he’s a respectable media owner. Wootton has been collecting Ofcom complaints since his first appearance on the channel, when he presented a fiery monologue on the “madness” of Covid lockdowns. On Tuesday he burbled and guffawed as the actor Lawrence Fox delivered a misogynistic tirade about a female journalist. An auction for the Telegraph is expected within weeks and the stakes for Marshall – and the British media landscape – are high: Marshall wants to make GB News the centre of the next Tory leadership race. To that end he’s employed Conservative MPs Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Philip Davies as presenters. Owning The Telegraph would cement him as Tory kingmaker. But Ofcom, the regulator, can be expected to take a close look at GB News before allowing it. “We don’t see Paul Marshall as being a risk-free bidder,” says Dr Alice Enders, head of research at Enders Analysis. “GB News is not making the bid, but the issue of material influence will be considered.” The little hedgie that could. Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall is fringe media’s Murdoch. Co-founder of the short-selling hedge fund Marshall Wace, his first media venture, in 2017, was the opinion website UnHerd – motto “Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking”. Marshall was enticed into UnHerd by founder and former Timescomment editor Tim Montgomerie, who resigned a year after its launch. Marshall’s next step was co-founding GB News and sticking with the channel through its early troubles (it was mocked for low production standards and Andrew Neil abruptly departed as launch anchor). Who’s in Paul’s army? Marshall’s consortium includes the anti-Trump US Republican Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, a hedge fund with $62 billion in assets under management. While the Telegraph’s expected asking price of £480 million would all but clean out Marshall’s £630 million net worth, Griffin brings $35 billion in personal wealth to the party. Liberal, Actually? Described in one interview as possessing “the bushy hair and quiet, gentle manner of a character from a Richard Curtis sitcom”, Marshall doesn’t present as a determined anti-wokester. He spent most of his political life as a LibDem, working as a research assistant for Charles Kennedy, standing unsuccessfully for the party in Fulham in 1987 and backing the so-called Orange Book free-market LibDem sect that pushed the party into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010. He donated to the LibDems until 2014. Brexit through the gift shop.Marshall’s Road to Damascus went through Brussels – he fervently and financially backed the Leave campaign, persuading Michael Gove to join him. Gove’s move enticed Boris Johnson to the Leave camp and Marshall backed Gove’s short-lived leadership campaign in return. Like many Brexiteers, Marshall has recently opened a Dublin office and is married to a European – his French-Hungarian wife Sabina runs an antiques shop. The zeal of the convert. Marshall went to Merchant Taylors’ School in Northwood – motto: “producing gentlemen since 1561” – and says he loves Schumann, Fleetwood Mac, Manchester United and Jesus, worshipping at London’s Holy Trinity Brompton network of churches since 1997. Griffin is also a committed Christian. Soros giveth… Marshall’s City career led through the $10 trillion asset management firm BlackRock to founding his own firm in 1997 with £25 million from the conspiracy world’s second-most hated figure (after Bill Gates), George Soros. Marshall Wace and BlackRock often invest together – including in Rumble, a video site currently sheltering Russell Brand’s earnings. … and he giveth back. Marshall does a lot for charity but doesn’t like to talk about it. He is chairman of Ark Schools, a chain of 40 academies, and founder of the Education Policy Institute and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. Marshall & sons. Marshall’s kids Winston and Giovanna are musicians. Winston was the banjo plucker in Mumford & Sons until he praised the right-wing journalist Andy Ngo’s book attacking Antifa and departed the band. Winston now fanboys Jordan Peterson and hosts a podcast for the Spectator, owned by the Telegraph and thus, potentially, by his father.

Torygraph mentalist Tim Stanley best work.

Colin from Portsmouth is on the line…. https://x.com/exploding_heads/status/1707308968421335450?s=46&t=PTj441Vf8lPmYCGaHkFBoA The official list of woke things.

Have you noticed the Liverpool TV channel on Freeview (channel 7) runs wall to wall Talk TV when its paultry amount of local content isn’t on?

The hedge fund behind GB News are mooted to be looking at the Telegraph and The Spectator. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/hedge-fund-tycoon-marshall-hires-bankers-to-plot-daily-telegraph-raid-12959685 The woke elite won’t know what’s hit them.

Nice one mate, yeah I made a note of that book. Another one on the list!

Watched Coup 53 at the weekend after stumbling across an interview with the director. The story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh. https://coup53.com/ It uses elements from a Granada TV series called End of Empire that I’ve not seen but is available on YouTube. 9 democracy old boy?’s out of 10

Good luck @Redder Lurtz

Just appoint Jimmy Case as Press Officer.

Not watched it yet but it’s called El Conde.

Star Stories series 2 episode 3 “Simon Cowell, My Honesty, My Genius” Proper funny episode this one. 8/10 On the Channel 4 app or probably YouTube.

I’ve got family and friends in teaching and it’s that potent mix of rewarding and stressful as fuck at the same time that can lead to burnout especially when the extra work at home or after hours isn’t recognised.

Sorry to hear this mate hope the missus is alright. All to common I’m afraid. My cousin was head of year and department down south and a new head forced out all the old guard one by one, he just about got through it and has just retired.

“Arch Brexiteer Nigel Farage has a new target in his sights: The National Trust. The former UKIP leader has now thrown his weight behind a renewed attempt by anti-woke activists to capture the Trust, which owns more than 1,300 farms, 775 miles of coastline and 250,000 hectares of land, making it Britain’s largest private landowner. In October 2021, the charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation warned of an ideological campaign being waged against it by self-styled ‘anti-woke insurgents’ belonging to Restore Trust (RT). Last year’s AGM saw the Trust subjected to a well-coordinated campaign by RT. The Restore Trust campaign began in 2021, in the wake of the publication of a report by the National Trust that highlighted connections between 93 of its historic places and slavery. The dossier of sites linked to ‘colonialism and slavery’ and included Winston Churchill’s former family home, citing the former prime minister’s role in the Bengal famine and his opposition to Indian independence. RT took exception to the report claiming it “presents a strongly negative view of Britain, and which does not properly represent the scholarly consensus.” Now the RT has a new list of candidates for the upcoming council elections and, this time, they’ve been endorsed by Nigel Farage, who is a family friend of one of the candidates. Earlier this month, seven-time failed parliamentary candidate Nigel Farage said: “I hope that Restore Trust knocks a bit of common sense into what was once the great National Trust.” Among Restore Trust’s candidates is Farage’s friend Lady Violet Manners. Yorkshire Bylines reports: “Manners is the eldest daughter of UKIP supporter the Duke of Rutland and her family’s estate, Belvoir Castle, has hosted fundraising events for the party. Farage has been a dinner guest at the castle which boasts 356 rooms and 16,000 acres of land.” Other candidates include Philip Merricks, who has drawn criticism in the past over his links to the grouse shooting industry, as well as Lord Jonathan Sumption who is reported to have earned the highest legal fee in British history when as a barrister he defended the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in the controversial Berezovsky vs Abramovich case of 2012. Candidate Andrew Gimson is described as a brilliant sketch writer by Charles Moore, his close friend and former editor of the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. “