Craig Black

The dismantling of his lies is like taking sweeties from a wean

In London, hate will never win.

I believe this jacket is from Dobell, a company that produces their tailoring in Turkey. I'll show you some telltale signs of quality and where you can buy a tailored jacket made in Britain. 🧵

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Pam Bondi’s stats on Trump saving hundreds of millions of lives from fentanyl has her sounding high as f**k

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

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Ready for your new sports obsession? 3 hosts, global guests, 1 passion that brings us together.🌎 Our first episode drops tomorrow…🎙️ @TheToddHarris @nataliesawyer

1️⃣ DAY TO GO! "I CAN'T SPEAK, I CAN'T SPEAK..." 🤯 We think it is about time we watched the Greatest Leg of All Time again... Darts does not get better than this 🙌

The Trafalgar Square tree is a present from the people of Oslo remembering the support UK gave to Norway in 2WW. It is precious - a Norway Spruce which has come to symbolise the friendship of our two nations. In 1942 when Norway was occupied a resistance fighter on a coastal mission felled a Norway Spruce and brought it to UK where king Haakon VII was in exile. It was a focus for the 1942 blackout Christmas in London. The first Oslo gift was Christmas 1947, remembering 1942, and decorated in Norwegian style with straight lines of white lights. It‘s a Norway Spruce, which isn’t the commercial shape now expected of Christmas trees. The arrival of Oslo’s present is special. For me it’s a reminder that Christmas is just around the corner, marked by a gift from Oslo which is so in the Christmas spirit. It beats all the glitzy lights and the manicured Christmas trees. It is real.

Government must undergo a cultural shift towards long-term thinking. Recent years have been characterised by increased reactive short-termism and reduced transparency, made worse by a range of crises and rushed spending reviews. There are 8 lessons government must learn ⤵️ 1/5

EXCLUSIVE: New ad from Eric Swalwell depicts Donald Trump in the ‘home’ where he really belongs

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Blank Space (Donald’s Version) 🎶🗳️🤍 #NewVideo #TaylorSwift #BlankSpace #DonaldsVersion #Parody

I better go superviral for this...

#recap This Dutch comedy sketch of what ‘British sport looks like to everybody else’ is just the ticket thepoke.com/2024/03/11/dut…

Omg. I have to dance naked in Abbey Gardens!