Peter The Pensioner

Just had a week in Morocco coinciding with French All Saints school holiday. My hotel had a lot of French families staying. I got friendly with one family through a love of rugby and got talking (in Eng) about the riots. They and their friends were 100% in favour. Macron is putain de merde

Zelensky is awesome 👇

18 October 1923 | A Polish woman, Janina Bałoś, was born in Kojszówka. In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943. No. 32138 She perished in the camp on 11 March 1943. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

I’d forgotten just how good this was.

Bless these students! ❤️

This place is becoming as bad as the other place. Blocked for disagreeing and arguing your point of view. (Pleasantly and without rancour.)Twice this week. Is it my haircut and beard?

Am I the only person to experience the rancidity and toxicity of the wide spread male Reform support in the north of England? This weeks "expose" has had zero impact whatsoever. The "exposed" attitudes and language is normal. Probably the same elsewhere. We are being complacent to think otherwise.

“From hosting anti-black racists to courting white supremacists, from lunching with anti-semites to speaking at platforms supported by neo-Nazis, Reform UK’s leadership has for faced little to no scrutiny about the normalisation of racism at the top of the party.” bylinetimes.com/2026/10/16/h...

Why on earth is everyone so surprised by the ITN Reform expose? What do people think working class men who form the vast bulk of Reform membership and support talk about? I experience similar language every time I go to the gym, to rugby or to a pub. It is endemic and utterly poisonous.

#BLM OTD 1964 Dr. MLK, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35, making him the youngest man ever to receive the honor. He was recognized for his leadership of the Civil Rights Movement & his commitment to nonviolent resistance vs racial inequality. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

Actor and comedian Russell Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile broadcasters, was a ruthless predator who raped or abused six women despite their protestations to satisfy his voracious ​sexual appetite, prosecutors said on Wednesday. www.reuters.com/world/uk/com...

Big Bob Jenrick visited the village yesterday. He went straight to the pub,knocked back 8 pints of Stellas & called us all slags. He tried it on with Jill in the village shop & said he’d nailed loads of birds in his time. After urinating in the duck pond he left flicking the Vs.😳

Britain to accelerate delivery of anti-drone missiles to Ukraine. #news #uazmi #war #ukraine The United Kingdom will accelerate the delivery of British-made Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMM), which have proven highly effective against jet-powered ...

Getting there at last 190kg

Certainly touched a nerve hasn’t it?

Left: Kemi Badenoch acknowledges a £35 billion black hole in public finances then criticises Labour for increasing trade with the EU Right: Andy Burnham explaining how that trade would generate over £10 billion a year, addressing the £35 billion a year black hole

🪶♥️ #indigenouspeoplesday freedom for both ~ always ♥️

Politico reporting Nigel Farage claiming he would take a "keen look" at UK support for "corrupt" Ukraine shows a complete subversion of allied solidarity. Parroting Kremlin talking points to undermine democratic defence isn't patriotism. Why echo Russian propaganda? 🤔 #FBPE

Phyllis Shafer Pennyroyal Retreat, 2013

The idea that rejoining the EU would take the UK a decade is a myth. Finland went from application to full membership in less time than it took us to negotiate and sign a trade deal with India. https://bestforbritain.org/uk-rejoin-eu-single-parliament/

Andy Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

10 October 1944 | SS detained four female Jewish prisoners: Ella Gartner, Róża Robota, Regina Safir & Estera Wajsblum. They were involved in smuggling explosives that were used by the Sonderkommando prisoners during their revolt on 7 October 1944. The women were hanged on 6 January 1945.

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

10 October 1900 | A Polish Jew, Abram Cukier, was born in Warsaw. A hairdresser. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 22725 He perished in the camp on 20 March 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

10 October 1939 | A Polish Jew, Shlomo Arie Hordiner, was born in Rzeszów. He was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Sosnowiec in July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Interview with the Bard of Salford aka the great John Cooper Clarke. “The defining nature of art is its uselessness. As soon as it becomes useful, it's something else” @johncooperclarke.bsky.social Q&A by Ursula Kenny www.thenerve.news/p/john-coope...

Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.

I wrote about this in Notorious. Peru has more "Hitlers" than anywhere else on Earth. None in Austria and Germany and the surviving members of the dictator's family changed their name.

We blame David Cameroon and Nigel Farage for Brexit, but I also lay some of the blame at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn who was always a Euro-sceptic and never could really come out fully for Remain because we all knew that he was an EU sceptic. Let's not forget the Corbyn affect on Leaves success.

This morning I am still struggling to understand how a nation, that from my first memories in the late 1950s, offered the dull, grey of post war UK, a vision of a shimmering future of what life could offer, has transformed into a vision of a new barbarism that only offers a sensation of dread.

Traitor.