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2024-01-03 · aidThompsin

All Things Epstein

Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew are about to be exposed in court papers along with around 200 other people connected to one Jeffrey Epstein. LMFAO. A US court decided in December that these papers - which have been kept …

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2023-04-09 · Aid Thompsin

The Resurrection Of Sanity Is Still A Way Off

Happy Easter, it’s a time of rebirth, a time of new life. I wonder if we might see a resurrection of sanity any time soon? Anyone …

2023-03-11 · Aid Thompsin

WhatsApp: The Right Wing Truth-Serum

Are you a different person online to off? How about on-text compared to in actual conversation? Matt Hancock was different. So was…

2023-02-25 ·

Sunak's At A Crossroads. The One You Arrive At When You’re Dead.

The modern Conservative party are absolutely fucked. Poll-wise, existentially, they have no vision, no leadership, their future pr…

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2022-12-18 ·

Strip Them Of Their Titles? They're Gonna Strip You Of Your Home.

While we were all frothing about Harry and Meghan, the strikes and the cold snap - the Bank of England quietly raised interest rates for the ninth consecutive time. Ninth. The base rate for borrowing is now 3.5% which me…

2022-11-27 ·

Repercussions Are Dead. Long-Live Fake Repercussions.

Saturday night and I’m at home alone with the kids. The missus has gone out for her annual Christmas (/late-Nov) catch up with the…

2022-11-20 ·

The World Cup Could Be An Opportunity For Us All

The World Cup is about to begin (20th November) and Britain could not be more ready. Name a better time! I mean, some say it’s bes…

2022-11-06 ·

Raising Interest Rates Again? What's the Definition of Insanity?

Well another week, another interest rate hike. I make that the seventeenth time this quarter. Though I confess I’ve never been one…

2022-10-23 ·

"I Can't Believe I Cut My Holiday Short For This Shit"

Politics Sketch // Sunday Blog // LONDON Saturday night and there's a very faint whiff of hope in the air. It feels as though Johnson may have failed to get the numbers, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief - probably…

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2022-10-16 ·

Hunt is de-facto PM. And it's one of the last, frantic Chess moves of a checkmated Tory party.

Jeremy Hunt is your new Prime Minister! His office may say “Chancellor”. He may have shifted a few things into Number 11. But he i…

2022-10-09 ·

Liz Truss Is Like A Cognitively-Impaired Teenager The Party Supportively Applaud

The Tory Conference kicked off this week. And it's funny. You could choose to interpret that opening sentence in any way you wish …

2022-10-02 ·

Fucking The Country Without Consent

The Conservative Party Conference begins tomorrow! A four-day festival peppered with headline appearances from your favourite soci…

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2022-09-25 ·

The Hydraulic Fracturing of Tory Foundations

It was only in June the Bank of England were warning us NOT to ask for pay-rises because “it’ll only fuel inflation”. Doctors and nurses, knackered from the Pandemic and strapped for cash after a decade of real terms pa…

2022-09-24 · Funk 27

Doom-Lolz of the week | 24/09/2022

The week started bad and went downhill from there. But at least we were able to punctuate the sobbing with a few hysterical cackle…

2022-09-18 ·

Welcome To Britain's Endgame

Welcome, welcome, to the endgame of Britain! Our beloved Queen just checked-out as the whole country's about to collapse into a P…

2022-09-13 ·

The Queen's Death Has Shone a Light On Social Issues

The Queen's passing has yielded a lot of different feelings from a lot of different corners of society. Perhaps it's unsurprising …

2022-09-11 ·

When Britain Gets Emotional

We are now on Day 3 of the official mourning period. Three of ten. I can't tell you the last time I spent ten days sadabout something. Can you? Maybe the first time I listened to Bon Iver. That aside, I mean, in terms o…

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2022-09-04 ·

Kettles & Catastrophe: Where's The Fucking Plan?

I believe it was in the first week of August that Gordon Brown intervened, begging the Govt to hold an emergency budget or Cobra m…

2022-09-03 · Funk-27

Doom-lolz Of The Week | 3rd Sept 2022

Sweet motherfuckin' Jesus... Bluster and good ol' British optimism be damned, the week started shit and went downhill from there. …

2022-08-28 ·

Lights, Camera, Inaction.

Another week, another total absence of Government at a time of national crisis. Leadership vacuum doesn't do it justice. We are no…

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2022-08-27 · Funk 27

Doom-lolz Of The Week | 27th August 2022

In the first of what we hope will be many - we take a look at some of the funniest gems to have emerged in pop culture and the politisphere - in the past seven days. Devito, originally known for movie greats like Twins …

2022-08-21 ·

Why AREN'T Tories Taking This Seriously?

Why aren’t the Tories doing more to address the Cost of Living Crisis? That’s the question I keep coming back to. They must know i…

2022-07-31 · David Lowther

DAVID LOWTHER: We're All In This Together… except the ones who aren’t.

Being poor is, and I know this might surprise you- shit. Money is essentially the capital to do what you want, whether it’s go on…

2022-07-28 ·

FIRESALE! Get What You Can Before The Shit Hits The Fan

Fun to see Sunak U-Turn on his "no tax-cuts!" stance from... *checks notes* last week. I suppose it's similar to his "I won't tax …

2022-07-20 ·

The Tory Leadership Race Hasn't Been As Pointless As You'd Think

A common complaint in the current arena is we’re being waterboarded with coverage of the Tory leadership, despite a fraction of us actually having a say in who wins the fucking thing. A few thousand members of the Conse…

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2022-07-18 · James Bennison

The Nerd’s Stag Do - Day Two

<- Make Sure You Check Out Part-1 First Whilst the boys and I were, without question, #LadsLadsLads, we were not the kind of lads…

2022-07-17 ·

It's Like Watching A Terrible Couple's Marriage Collapse

I recall writing not so long ago (pre Pincher-gate) about the internal Tory split. I called the blog “Tories Are Split: the Witles…

2022-07-11 · James Bennison

The Nerd’s Stag Do - Day One

Being an absolute lad I get invited on a huge amount of stag dos, sometimes as many as one a year. A lot of people I know are pret…

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2022-07-10 ·

Sunday Blog: The Tory Leadership Candidates

The Tory Leadership candidates are out in full force now, aren’t they? It’s easy to mock. You don’t have to stray too far in the wild to see the usual comparisons to The Apprentice, Lord of the Flies and so on. All jokes…

2022-07-03 ·

2024 Is Going To Be Abysmal

Well, another week, another seven days of gawkish chaos, this time we take our attention States-side. When Biden won the 2020 Ele…

2022-06-26 · David Lowther

DAVID LOWTHER: The 1922 Committee is outdated -we need to act

Sit down, this may be shocking: the 1922 committee is outdated & we need to act. UK politics is at a long time fracture: the Prim…

2022-06-19 ·

One Man's Global Britain Is Another's Rogue State

Another week, another 65 million British heads simultaneously slumping into their respective hands while calls grow for the nation…

2022-06-12 ·

Brexit's A Disaster. So, If You're Looking For A New Cult...

Brexit is falling to pieces by the day. Whether it’s queues at the border (increased red tape), sewage in the harbour (de-regulation vs chemical production), a weaker pound meaning oil/food/products are more expensive *O…

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2022-06-05 ·

Mutiny! Mutiny on the Bounty!

This week saw the Conservative Party’s internal split widen. As of this morning (Sunday 5th June 2022), the Times’ Tim Shipman is …

2022-05-28 ·

"Have You No Shame?" the voter asked the Psychopath.

It's long been said that we've gone past the era of shame now. We're through it. Phew. What an awful relationship that was. Christ…

2022-05-19 ·

What would it take for this Govt to actually do something?

Okay, here’s a question for you. What would have to happen, what set of circumstances or sequence of events would have to take pla…

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2022-05-16 ·

They Would Literally Shoot The Messenger If They Could

Well, that was another week done. We made it through *another* one without gouging our eyes out and stuffing them in our ear holes so as to block out the awfulness from all senses. Some favour a “just put your phone down…

2022-05-01 ·

That Was Then, This Is Now - Don't Change The Subject!

Well another week, another runaway trainwreck of political absurdity. Where black is white and up is down. Where what you did six …

2022-04-25 ·

Why Are We Talking About WFH Again?

Well, here we go again. It had been a whole week or two since we’d last had the "WFH = Lazy" brigade out frothing about “productiv…

2022-04-24 ·

Tory Leadership: 4 Tories Who Aren't Total C**ts

It’s getting nearer to that time again! We’ve had Christmas, New Year and Easter. Next on the list of our favourite recurring trad…

2022-04-16 ·

Tories Are Now Split: The Witterers & The Witless

There’s an air of hope permeating through Britain at the moment, isn’t there? A subtle but infectious new variant of political optimism that frankly we’re not used to on the Left. It’s the sort of optimism and enthusiasm…

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2022-04-11 ·

28 Years Later: Kurt Cobain

It was 28 years ago on Friday (just gone) that Kurt Cobain took his own life. I remember when it happened and the effect it had on…

2022-04-03 ·

Peak Oil: The End Of Our Way Of Life

Get ready for a buzzkill. There’s your disclaimer. This shit is going to shake you to your core. I don’t even mean that in a casu…

2022-03-06 ·

Ukraine Is About Gas. So Why Are We Not Talking About It?

What would it take for the world to have an open, honest conversation about fossil fuels and natural gas? What are the catalysts? …

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2022-03-02 ·

Contrarians Are Back (& You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby)

From the “The Surrender Bill!” and “Traitors!” to a tacit support of a Russian dictator, the contrarians have returned. Hooray for scrutiny, Free Speech and questioning. That's right, you got it.. The same Barons of Bel…

2022-02-20 ·

We're About To Find Out How Useful Blitz-Nonce Boomers Really Are

From the Sue Gray 'update' to Prince Andrew's settlement, in the UK we've gotten used to things failing to match their hype. Take …

2022-02-13 ·

Johnsonism Has Reduced Us To A Bit-Part On The World Stage

Well, here we are. Right on the cusp of an international military crisis and the Big Dog, who's waited to be Churchill 2.0 his ent…

2022-02-05 ·

I'm a Comedian & Progressive. And I'm conflicted about Jimmy Carr.

When Jimmy Carr’s Netflix special (His Dark Material) dropped, my initial reaction was “Wow, Jimmy Carr got a Netflix deal?”. I’d…

2022-01-25 ·

The Sue Gray Roller-Coaster Everybody Wants Off

I was as shocked as you were. I’m not aware on any parties. All guidance was followed. It was a work event. It was only ten minutes. Who *hasn’t* snorted four lines of ket off their private, personal interior decorator’s…

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2022-01-16 ·

Big Dog Caligula Clings On

“More parties? MORE? Are you physically shitting my tits?” That was the reaction from much of Britain this week as - day-by-day -…

2022-01-09 ·

Integrity-Bin Braverman Nails Remaining Credibility To Johnson's Sinking Ship

Fun to see Suella Braverman attempt to weigh-in on a legal matter again this week. It’s like watching your Granddad try to operate…

2021-12-18 ·

No One Will Accept Circuit Breaker While Albino Yeti Remains In No10

We now know, to a greater or lesser extent, that there were illegal Christmas parties taking place across various departments in W…

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2021-12-17 ·

Frost Negotiates Own Exit; Dorries Hits Baker’s Free Speech Threshold

You’d think it might take a lot to hit Steve Baker’s threshold for Free Speech. One of a hareem of self-styled Tory libertarians, this is the guy who - only two weeks ago - clutched his pearls at the thought of being ask…

2021-11-05 ·

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All Things Epstein

The Resurrection Of Sanity Is Still A Way Off

WhatsApp: The Right Wing Truth-Serum

Sunak's At A Crossroads. The One You Arrive At When You’re Dead.

Strip Them Of Their Titles? They're Gonna Strip You Of Your Home.

Repercussions Are Dead. Long-Live Fake Repercussions.

The World Cup Could Be An Opportunity For Us All

Raising Interest Rates Again? What's the Definition of Insanity?

"I Can't Believe I Cut My Holiday Short For This Shit"

Hunt is de-facto PM. And it's one of the last, frantic Chess moves of a checkmated Tory party.

Liz Truss Is Like A Cognitively-Impaired Teenager The Party Supportively Applaud

Fucking The Country Without Consent

The Hydraulic Fracturing of Tory Foundations

Doom-Lolz of the week | 24/09/2022

Welcome To Britain's Endgame

The Queen's Death Has Shone a Light On Social Issues

When Britain Gets Emotional

Kettles & Catastrophe: Where's The Fucking Plan?

Doom-lolz Of The Week | 3rd Sept 2022

Lights, Camera, Inaction.

Doom-lolz Of The Week | 27th August 2022

Why AREN'T Tories Taking This Seriously?

DAVID LOWTHER: We're All In This Together… except the ones who aren’t.

FIRESALE! Get What You Can Before The Shit Hits The Fan

The Tory Leadership Race Hasn't Been As Pointless As You'd Think

The Nerd’s Stag Do - Day Two

It's Like Watching A Terrible Couple's Marriage Collapse

The Nerd’s Stag Do - Day One

Sunday Blog: The Tory Leadership Candidates

2024 Is Going To Be Abysmal

DAVID LOWTHER: The 1922 Committee is outdated -we need to act

One Man's Global Britain Is Another's Rogue State

Brexit's A Disaster. So, If You're Looking For A New Cult...

Mutiny! Mutiny on the Bounty!

"Have You No Shame?" the voter asked the Psychopath.

What would it take for this Govt to actually do something?

They Would Literally Shoot The Messenger If They Could

That Was Then, This Is Now - Don't Change The Subject!

Why Are We Talking About WFH Again?

Tory Leadership: 4 Tories Who Aren't Total C**ts

Tories Are Now Split: The Witterers & The Witless

28 Years Later: Kurt Cobain

Peak Oil: The End Of Our Way Of Life

Ukraine Is About Gas. So Why Are We Not Talking About It?

Contrarians Are Back (& You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby)

We're About To Find Out How Useful Blitz-Nonce Boomers Really Are

Johnsonism Has Reduced Us To A Bit-Part On The World Stage

I'm a Comedian & Progressive. And I'm conflicted about Jimmy Carr.

The Sue Gray Roller-Coaster Everybody Wants Off

Big Dog Caligula Clings On

Integrity-Bin Braverman Nails Remaining Credibility To Johnson's Sinking Ship

No One Will Accept Circuit Breaker While Albino Yeti Remains In No10

Frost Negotiates Own Exit; Dorries Hits Baker’s Free Speech Threshold

The Week Populism Became Unpopular

From The Vault: Remembering My Commute

Deep-Fakes Are About To Ruin Everything