What a Bonehill to have died on. Tories now look even more ridiculous.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 4h agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash
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Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 4h ago
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From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog
This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.
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Never been so glad to report that it's absolutely pissing down with rain on the north Wales coast
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
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)
In 2027 we hit double figures and turn 10! We are planning some more community events to support comedy across the country. Watch this space…
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I’m not normally one for documenting dreams but 1) charging Timothy West and Prunella Scales for an extra night after they come back to my B&B, drunk and go to sleep in the wrong room and 2) assisting a former colleague in his attempts at the world “horizontal high jump” record, deserve a mention.
Is it too early to know in any detail the deleterious effects of combining the BBC 'home' News Channel with the international service? From watching it (which I do, occasionally) it now feels much more like those vague international news channels you got on hotel TVs on holiday in the 90s/2000s.
I booked Rod Liddle as a guest on a show, many years ago, just after he left Today and had started as a columnist. He was a massive arsehole from the moment he arrived till the moment he left. A character trait he went on to demonstrate publicly, in print and on screen till, well, today.
Seeing both Jonathan Ross and Jeremy Clarkson, catastrophically irrelevant in 2026 and still trying to be 'edgy', and you want them to be fired out of cannons, really.
According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I love the smell of righteous anger in the morning.
Gareth Ceredig@garethceredig.bsky.social · 2y agoSimon Heffer has written his classical music article again.
Reform announced yesterday that this would be "Immigration Week". They will stage events, and the media will report them. #R4Today
Our Su Pollard’s comic timing has always been a joy to watch - but this ‘blink and you’ve missed it’ example is my favourite. It makes me laugh every time I see it. Fabulous!! 🤣
“We’re not losing you completely, then?” “No.” Oh balls. #TheArchers
We’ve all done it at least once.
Chortle@chortle.bsky.social · 4d ago'I vomited on a TV commissioner'
Prosecutors dropped charges against former Olympian David Hearn, accused of vandalising the Reflecting Pool, admitting the damage was "the result of flawed installation by the contractor" (Trump's pool guy). Good luck Jeanine Pirro, Trump will be big mad at the truth, he had said it was vandals.
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged, but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.
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Tell me your parents never loved or communicated with you without etc
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
I can't explain exactly why, but Phil's amuse bouche is doing 2,000 words worth of voter analysis that psephologists could only dream of
