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'Life is so cruel': racing mourns former jockey Tom O'Brien, who has died aged 39 nickluckdaily.com/2026/11/11…
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Multiple Grade 1-winning jockey Tom O'Brien has died aged 39 after a battle with cancer.
🔗 - racingpost.com/news/people/j…
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Hadley Freeman did not like Russell Brand's revolutionary posturing.
But she thought he was "bright and funny".
She credited him for "making politics seem sexy for teenagers."
She wrote: "Brand is, I have no doubt, one of the good guys."
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Hugo Rifkind in The Spectator.
From the piece:
"He has a direct line to parts of the electorate most politicians cannot get close to."
"Brand’s heart is in the right place, almost certainly"
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Janice Turner has attacked me for chairing a Guardian Live event and my columns.
Here is what Janice Turner said about Ed Miliband's Russell Brand video.
She deleted the tweet.
The internet never forgets.
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I was wrong to think Russell Brand could engage disillusioned young voters in 2015.
It was also an opinion widely shared at the time.
Let's start with John Rentoul.
How shameless can you get.
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One of the excerpts from my speech at the German Bundestag on November 4, 2026:
NATO membership aspiration has been introduced into Ukraine’s constitution after 2014 annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Donbas. It has been presented to the public as a near-sacred idea that would serve as a shield and protection for Ukraine. But many years later, after hundreds of thousands lives lost, millions of refugees and the devastated country, it is time to tell the truth: the idea of NATO membership for Ukraine is dead. The alliance was created to provide security, deter invasion and in this way avoid war. In Ukraine instead it became one of the main reasons for the war. People in Ukraine cannot keep dying today for the hypothetical idea of entering NATO sometime in the future. An idea that is being refuted almost daily by NATO’s biggest members themselves.
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I won’t claim great powers of foresight and insight here, but my view was always “annoying, prancing tit” and I don’t recall forking over cash for anything the guy was in, so I don’t feel included in “we”.
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So now we can say the thing that we couldn't say before: that Russell Brand's barrister's arguments on his client's behalf were utterly disgraceful and seemed rooted in the misogynistic past
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Tortured deserters and beaten children in a secret Azov facility. Intestines dripping onto mattresses, nationalist thugs, hundreds of civilians destroying police cars, throwing eggs and spitting at Azov war heroes.
As usual, it’s all the Russians’ fault. Or is it?
I collected all videos and statements on what happened here, along with analysis of the competing theories of what happened. It doesn't look good for those Ukrainians and western 'analysts' with such high estimates of Russian psyop capabilities.
eventsinukraine.substack.com…
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The only foreign journalist, as he claims, at the scene of secret military prison riots outside Kyiv yesterday was not even from a foreign media outlet, but Kyiv Independent.
The coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war for Western audiences has blind zones so wide, it hardly matches reality.
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Young inmate taken out of torture prison for draftees in Petropavlivska Borshchahivkka outside Kyiv. There were clashes at the scene between civilian protesters, police and titushki-type hired thugs. Zelensky’s chief of staff Budanov was also in attendance trying to calm people down.
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Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
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This loser has been a funded campaigner for the gambling industry for the past 14 years and has failed at every turn because he can’t come to terms with the fact the public doesn’t think gambling liberalisation is particularly good public policy.
His previous organisation the IEA (somehow a charity) were in receipt of gambling industry donations, and he regularly went on TV and radio to defend their interests. He has now left the IEA and is complaining to the ref about the “true motivations” of campaigners.
The gambling industry would be better off if it didn’t listen to people like this who tell them what they want to hear and instead embraced a harm reduction and consumer rights agenda. Otherwise it’ll be a continued target for tax increases and regulatory clampdowns.
Ten years ago there was an orchestrated panic about B2 machines, AKA fixed odds betting terminals, which, controversially, had a £100 stake limit, meaning you could lose £100 in 20 seconds. Campaigners demanded a £2 stake limit to prevent gambling “harm” and they won. B2 machines disappeared and gamblers migrated to B3 machines.
Now, a £2 stake limit is portrayed as problematic because gamblers can lose £100 in 5 minutes.
These people just hate gambling. It’s never going to end.
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Obviously lots of porn being made technically illegal doesn't necessarily mean the cops will be battering down your door at every little offence. But that just means they have broad discretion to selectively enforce it against people they dislike.
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A statement on yesterday…..
Everything I said in that interview was true. However, rest assured I’m doing my best to turn things round.
I have been in a mental health clinic for the last 10 weeks, finally discharging so I could attempt to play in Belfast
I owed that to my family, in particular my daughter to see me play for what could be the last time….. I also owed it to the fans who have supported me throughout my 21 years on tour
I also owed that to World Snooker who have been amazing from day on in all this, in particular Simon Brownell and Neil Tomkins who have remained in touch regularly, even Simon paying me a visit in the clinic itself
I’m not ok, but I’m ok in that itself. I’ve been much worse in the last few months than you saw yesterday. I literally didn’t see a future in anything…..
My daughter kept me going, the therapists, staff and all the other patients were amazing and helped me through some really dark days
I see the light now that I couldn’t see before but I do now. I also know it won’t happen overnight. I’m a work in progress!!! My fight and determination on the table has always been there for ones to see. I need to show those same fighting qualities off it now for a while
Please don’t detract anything from Jordan yesterday, he’s been aware of my struggles and that can’t have been easy to play in but he handled it with grace and skill as I knew he would. Im proud to call him a friend
I hope the rest of the event is a success and I will continue my treatments going forward and then see what’s ahead
Thank you to every single message I have received on here, instagram, Facebook, text messages and WhatsApp’s, I’ve seen them all but a bit overwhelmed to reply right now. Just know that they have helped me a lot but I’m not going anywhere just yet!!!! I have so much to live for and this is only the beginning of my new journey
Also, I was not made to do any interviews, I was simply given a choice and felt I owed it to everyone to speak. The media team at WST have been incredible through all this too
Thank you all x