Badenoch tripling down in defending a Nazi on the Today programme. I genuinely think she should be forced to step down over this. It’s fully, fully revolting.
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
This investigation relates to one first reported by myself and the team of BBC Radio 4's The Naked Week last autumn... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Tice says the complaint related to a debate on Israeli influence and whether he should have referenced his register of interests.
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🤮 Rupert the Unbearable – What makes Restore UK’s leader tick? 🤮 Our panel look at Rupert Lowe, the leader of the hard-right blood-and-soil party that’s trying to out-Farage Farage… and now wants to cut a deal with him 🤮 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
What a brilliant, brilliant musician Moore was. That we don’t bang on about him enough is truly shameful.
My daughter’s university scrutinizes each essay for evidence of AI. The goal is to get a 0% score. This AI-hunting is done by… AI. A recent essay scored 17%. She questioned what the AI thought was AI, since she hadn’t used it. The answer: the uni-issued cover page showing student ID, faculty etc. 🤦🏻♂️
As of this Sunday, users of generative AI will be legally obliged to add the "AI-generated" mention on their products throughout the European Union. More restrictions (metadata, production of "adult" content) will be introduced on 2 December.
Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 3d agoIntelligence artificielle : la mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE
The world is run by the most depressing people who have ever lived.
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
Sharp, brilliant and super funny short by @garethceredig.bsky.social — SO MUCH to like. Ear you thither. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Short Works - Take It to the Bridge - BBC Sounds
A brand-new satirical comedy by Gareth Ceredig. Read by Rebecca Front.
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Yes, that *is* Nadine Dorries in a bikini in the episode artwork. But don’t panic. We didn’t go there. Wherever that is.
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 “Yes Mr Burnham, we are open to discussing your social care package, however DEATH TAX!!!!!!!!” 💀⚰️🪦 🚨 @zoegrunewald.bsky.social @seththevoz.bsky.social @jasonhazeley.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social on the deranged response to Burnham’s plan 🚨 Listen – linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
This is a week tomorrow. I’ll be one of the lucky ones playing 412 chords per minute for an hour. www.bbc.co.uk/events/efm6gw
Steve Reich at 90 (Bristol)
The Paraorchestra brings an immersive take on Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, presenting this seminal work with the players distributed across Beacon Hall
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Excellent Withnail & I reference in Endeavour. Four floors up on the Charing Cross Road and never a job at the top of them.
The trouble with being a typography nerd is that even modest mistakes scream at you. Every time I walk past this house, my brain itches — because that’s not a six. It’s an upside down nine. I should probably stay in more.
This is an actual holy grail.
Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · last wk.Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...
This is best collage of what America is and who Americans are I’ve ever seen. So entertaining, surprising and, dammit, reassuring. Everyone in it is allowed to be themselves. The filmmakers haven’t gone looking for a line. And it’s *so* rich for it. RECOMMENDISSIMO sliceoflifedoc.com
Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts. [OFFICIAL WEBSITE]
Available to rent/buy May 27, 2025
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Burnham arrives promising a “cost of living” government but can he make it happen? And does his mix of ideas add up? @nndroid.bsky.social, @jamesrball.com, @hannahfearn.bsky.social discuss this plus A.I. turmoil and more with guest @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
‘People will always be tempted to wipe their feet / On anything with "welcome" written on it’ — XTC, ‘Snowman,’ written by Andy Patridge
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
Yesterday’s insets on BBC News were just a pull-out-to-reveal-more-of-the-world-but-not-of-the-details.
🔑 NEW EPISODE 🔑 Well, he’s finally in No.10. Now what? 🔑 We look at Burnham: Day One with @seththevoz.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @jonnelledge.bsky.social 🔑 Listen: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life