Grahame Lucas

@grahamelucas.bsky.social

Journalist based in the EU. The UK needs PR, an elected second chamber representing the metros and regions, a written constitution and a return to the European Union #FBPE #RejoinEU #ProgressiveAlliance especially in the age of Trump 2.0 and Farage

You couldn‘t make this up: Reform UK has pledged to use the Royal Navy to return migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to France and Belgium if the party wins the next election. But France has responded, saying such a move would be a breach of its sovereignty. 😂😂 news.sky.com/story/politi...

Politics latest: France hits back at Reform's pledge to use navy to return small boat migrants

Reform UK has pledged to use the Royal Navy to return migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to France and Belgium if the party wins the next election. But France has responded, saying such a mo...

news.sky.com

You couldn‘t make this up: Reform UK has pledged to use the Royal Navy to return migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to France and Belgium if the party wins the next election. But France has responded, saying such a move would be a breach of its sovereignty. 😂😂 news.sky.com/story/politi...

Politics latest: France hits back at Reform's pledge to use navy to return small boat migrants

Reform UK has pledged to use the Royal Navy to return migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to France and Belgium if the party wins the next election. But France has responded, saying such a mo...

news.sky.com

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

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Issue: "Why I went east"

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Rod Liddle

A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury

27 Sep 2012, 12:00am

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Why I went east
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I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. We're talking secondary school level here, by the way and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive school a few teachers were known to be schtupping the pupils; one of them, a female teacher who was extremely foxy in a Pot Noodle scuzzy kind of way she copped off with some fifth-form lad, and another teacher (a man with a guitar and aGuardian

Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?

Rod Liddle

Tue 14 Jan 2003 04.12 EST

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I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn'tHow absurd the law is. But at least it is an appropriate reflection of our collective neurosis and confusion about paedophilia generally. The one laudable and necessary aim - to protect children from abuse - has become warped by our consuming, obsessive hatred for those who find children sexually attractive. There is no causal link between viewing child porn and abusing children. And even if there were, it would not be sufficient, within the philosophy of our judicial system, to simply assume that an unpleasant penchant for the former

And 25% of voters would put these ridiculous moneyed fools in charge of the govt and treasury, would they? How many investigations into Reform’s dodgy finances are there now? I’ve lost count. And no, it’s not an ‘establishment’ plot. It’s just what happens when corruption/incompetence meets scrutiny

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’. After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

theguardian.com

1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’. After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

theguardian.com

Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich. Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...

Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich

Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr

thenerve.news

Labour continues to disappoint as it sticks with red lines on the EU and sees cherry-picking as the only way forward. Sadly it hasn‘t worked for far and never will. More time wasted and another PM contender lying in wait for the inevitable Burnham failure www.ft.com/content/b08b...

UK business secretary argues against rejoining EU customs union

Labour’s 2024 manifesto position on the bloc ‘absolutely the right one’, says Jonathan Reynolds

ft.com

Labour continues to disappoint as it sticks with red lines on the EU and sees cherry-picking as the only way forward. Sadly it hasn‘t worked for far and never will. More time wasted and another PM contender lying in wait for the inevitable Burnham failure www.ft.com/content/b08b...

UK business secretary argues against rejoining EU customs union

Labour’s 2024 manifesto position on the bloc ‘absolutely the right one’, says Jonathan Reynolds

ft.com

Miliband: “As foreign secretary, I will drive this agenda (having a stronger relationship with our European allies) into the heart of our foreign policy — because that is how we defend Britain's interests and values." www.politico.eu/article/ed-m...

Ed Miliband grabs Brexit reset role as he reboots UK Foreign Office

Britain’s new foreign secretary brings the U.K.-EU reset into his department’s ambit — and seeks advice from old foes across the political aisle.

politico.eu