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Goodbye, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen …

As this story is released, the UK’s transitional deal with the EU will end, and we will step out, blinking and dazed, into a strange and unfamiliar world. For many of us, first the EEC and then the EU has been a low background thrum in our lives since childhood…

Eu

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Goodbye, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen …
Goodbye, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen …
Eu

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The Cult of Stupid

·1 day ago

“It’s party time!…OH”

The conference season is upon us, may God have mercy on our souls. — The LibDem conference passed off last week in the shimmer of apathy it generally engenders in most of the population, but seeing as Parliament is in recess and the autumn is starting, it’s time for the “Big Guns” now. On Sunday, the Tory circus lurches into Manchester. In the immortal…

Conference

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Conference

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Fifteen Minutes of Mantra-filled Oompah

·Sep 19

Brian Butterfield: [placeholder name] Tour

18 September 2023 — City Varieties, Leeds — It seems that motivational and self-help media are modish once again. After all, only recently, we saw the Alan Partridge’s Stratagem doing the rounds. Well, anything Alan can do, Brian can do … better? A bit of a side note here…

Comedy

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Brian Butterfield: [placeholder name] Tour
Brian Butterfield: [placeholder name] Tour
Comedy

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The Cult of Stupid

·Aug 20

“Hack, Slash, Burn, Destroy”

Ad ondatra, mortem cupio¹ — I had sort of promised myself I wasn’t going to write any more about Elon Musk, with his smug self-satisfied backpfeifengesicht, and his ongoing mission to destroy Twitter. Just for the record, I refuse to use the new “is this a porn site or something?” name he has dropped onto…

Musk

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“Hack, Slash, Burn, Destroy”
“Hack, Slash, Burn, Destroy”
Musk

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The Cult of Stupid

·Jul 8

Picking at Threads

“Jesus Christ, they’ve done it. They’ve done it” — There’s a new social network in town, kids. Apparently, 70m people signed up to Meta’s new Threads app in the first couple of days. At this point, I’ll issue a disclaimer, and say that I’m not one of them, nor am I ever likely to be, for reasons I’ll explain…

Twitter

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Twitter

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The Cult of Stupid

·Jun 18

Nail The Lid Shut

If the Tories want the Johnson smell gone, they have to finish the job — It was supposedly Harold Wilson who once said that “a week is a long time in politics”, though I’m not sure what he’d have made¹ of the seven years of famine we’ve had to endure since June 2016 and “The Event” that has been the source of so many of…

Johnson

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Nail The Lid Shut
Nail The Lid Shut
Johnson

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Fifteen Minutes of Mantra-filled Oompah

·May 28

Review: The Full English

Stuart Maconie, Harper North 2023 — It’s hard not to like Stuart Maconie, even if he is from Lancashire¹. Over the course of a number of entertainingly garrulous, and personable travelogues over the last few years that might make certain metropolitan columnists drop cliched references to “northern good humour”, he’s shown a (critical) love of the…

Maconie

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Review: The Full English
Review: The Full English
Maconie

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Fifteen Minutes of Mantra-filled Oompah

·May 16

Review: The God Desire

David Baddiel, TLS 2023 — At more than one point in this book David Baddiel describes himself as a “fundamentalist” atheist, but even then he undercuts that with the revelation that he is also a reluctant one. There’s an echo of Carl Sagan in this, who, when writing in his book, The Demon Haunted World¹…

David Baddiel

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Review: The God Desire
Review: The God Desire
David Baddiel

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The Cult of Stupid

·May 16

“Don’t be stoopid, be a smartie …”

…look at all the Nat-C farties — There are rabbit holes, and then there are rabbit holes. The great and the good (and I’m being extremely generous there) of wonky-eyed, manic Conservatism have assembled, in a gathering of the clans in London to swap stories and map out their vision for a New England. very much with…

Nat C

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Nat C

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The Cult of Stupid

·May 5

“Welcome To My Nightmare”

I bet Rishi Sunak didn’t get much sleep overnight. This would primarily be because he’d have been up with party workers looking over the local election results as they came in, but also because even if he had been able to doze for a few sweet minutes, there would have…

Local Elections 2023

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Local Elections 2023

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