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Alex Andreou

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I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

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Alex Andreou 4d

Of course. Who should be the one person still clamped onto the MAGA sow's teat and refusing to loosen her rancid grip? The carpetbagger who parachuted herself to the safest Republican district in Colorado, only to lose it. Lauren Boebert. Pronouns: has/been. www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebe...

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Lauren Boebert's Team Flags 'Unusual Voting Patterns' As She Trails Rival
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Alex Andreou 5d

It's been a bad few weeks for the right wing grift bros, globally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

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Russell Brand found guilty of rape and three sexual assaults
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Alex Andreou 5d

We all have views and favourites, but it is worth reflecting what it means for men with good intentions to say, essentially, no women need apply for Dem presidential nominee, "because the US has a sexism problem". It is, in large part, women who delivered this win. How about we listen for a change?

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Alex Andreou 1w

"The entire forty-one-minute live BBC coverage of that Farage/Jenrick event did not generate a single headline. Of course it didn't. Here were two men, who had given themselves imaginary titles, responding to a document they had not read. That's not political coverage. It's Tales of The Unexpected."

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Alex Andreou 2w

Telegraph reports Farage's latest bit of victimhood - without even the most basic check with their lobby colleagues, ofc. Dozens of MPs, from every other party, call out his nonsense. It's really astonishing how poor a liar he is, given how many years he's been at it, 24/7.

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Alex Andreou 2w

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

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Alex Andreou 2w

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

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Alex Andreou 2w

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Alex Andreou 2w

Looks like a rough night for the populists in many places.

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Alex Andreou 2w

Student List has existed as a movement lass than a year-and-a-half and as a party six weeks. Six. Weeks. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Wild scenes of celebration in Belgrade as Vučić concedes Serbian election – Europe live
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Alex Andreou 3w

The question was why there was no public information campaign here, as there is in most European countries, about what simple steps people need to take and provisions to keep, in case of some disruption; why is the British public so peculiarly infantilised on this issue? Today we have our answer.

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Alex Andreou 3w

Three moths ago, after the Open AI/Hugging Face incident, I half-joked that AI firms had solved the conundrum of all profit projections coming nowhere near the colossal sums invested, by pivoting from AI-as-Hero to AI-as-Menace, from which only more AI can give protection. Joke has aged pretty well.

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Alex Andreou 3w

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

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