Below the Line Comments in newspapers

I recently wrote an article about what I learned from answering hate mail after co-authoring the National Trust
report on the colonial connections of its properties. In response there are over 1,300 comments below this article, much of it…

So if Boris Johnson hadn’t broken the Covid restrictions that Boris Johnson brought in because Boris Johnson hadn’t brought in the Covid restrictions that Boris Johnson broke then Boris Johnson, who went after lying about Chris Pincher, would still be PM. I think I understand.

Hi Mike, There’s this bloke who accessed the very highest levels of UK government & spent a lost weekend with a ‘former’ KGB spy currently sanctioned in Canada for being a member of Putin’s inner circle. He even put the ‘former’ spy’s son in the House of Lords! DM me for his name

Who radicalised him?

This is so disingenuous, bordering on disgusting. The objection is not to ‘African’ countries it is to countries judged ‘unsafe’ & a scheme judged ‘unlawful’ by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. If you have to lie to justify support, you probably shouldn’t be supporting.

💥Israeli National Security Min Itamar Ben Gvir has been taken to hospital after his official vehicle ran a red light, was hit by a car legally crossing in green, and overturned, causing a chain collision. He is fine. That's security under a convicted terrorist for ya.

Oh.

The Taylor Swift effect… the best-ever album by a Scottish band is re-released

I should probably give it 24 hours to let my reaction settle but I can’t currently express just how powerful Civil War is. An stunning & harrowing cinematic feat. Can’t remember the last time a film left me feeling so dazed.

I just saw this in the cinema. It’s incredibly powerful.

The paperback of James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain will contain new material on the latest disasters, YAY! Preorder before 1 May and you could win a signed copy and a framed original pencil illustration drawn and signed by chris riddell: bit.ly/4aFQZnR

If you're wondering how someone as objectively useless as Chris Philp can not only achieve ministerial office but also waltz away unscathed when that uselessness is exposed on national TV, then this is the paperback for you...
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More Tees, anyone?
New Private Eye Magazine reveals how the loudly-tumpeted plan to bring steelmaking back to Teesside has been captured by the same private interests that are cashing in on Teesworks. Online version here; full story in the mag.
private-eye.co.uk/news

CONTENT WARNING: This is quite distressing footage. Posting again because it's important for all to see. Please share widely.

Love this. Sort of thing Top Cat would do.

'That's when we realised we had no chance.'

Caller Mike pinpoints 2012 as the moment he realised there was 'no point phoning in a shoplifting offence', prompting James O'Brien to recall the time Damian O'Reilly lambasted Theresa May for causing community policing to 'collapse'.

'I don't think any of them really know what this policy does.'
'This is absolutely shameful.'

James O'Brien criticises Chris Philp's 'extraordinary ignorance' after being unsure if Rwanda and Congo are two different countries.

They should put this in the National Gallery.

A #bbcqt audience member originally from Congo cites conflict between Rwanda and DRC and asks if UK would send refugee from DRC to... Rwanda.

A confused Chris Philp: 'Well, Rwanda is a different country from Congo, isn't it?'

Just got tickets to How They Broke Britain (spoiler - it was Tories) with James O'Brien at The #DalkeyBookFestival in June. Tix on sale today, can't wait for this one.

Might be worth a mention on the show today though I'm sure it'll sell out.

Immigrants and their kids: John Burn-Murdoch on the remarkable success of the UK.

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