My new studio album, 'The Million Things That Never Happened' is out now on CD and Digitally. BBragg.lnk.to/TMTTNH
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The ironic thing is that Joe Lycett is not the comic in all of this; he's the straight man looking at all the chaos around him thinking WTF while everybody else plays the farcical part assigned to them.
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Big fan of @joelycett refusing to take an unserious person seriously
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Really excited to be on this new version of Would I Lie To You
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will be with us, along with Labour's Emily Thornberry, Comedian Joe Lycett and former No 10 staffer, Cleo Watson, along with our full interview with Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska - @BBCOne, 9am tomorrow - hope to see you there!
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The people who are annoyed comedians are on politics shows believe politics as we know it is a ‘serious’ game with ‘sensible’ players. It isn’t. Truss becoming PM is the epitome of how ludicrous the system has long been. We need more pundits pointing that out, not fewer.
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This is how it starts.
Attacks on scientists publishing peer reviewed work in journals that supports a conclusion the right doesn’t agree with.
And then they have the audacity to talk about cancel culture.
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Mate, the main reason we joined the European Union was to get rid of the f***ing tariffs
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If you’re marching around the place pretending that we haven’t become the first country in the world to impose economic sanctions on itself or that pretty much every problem we face hasn’t been exacerbated by Brexit, then I imagine it’s easy to claim that Johnson did a good job.
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So Republicans have been calling Democrats ANTIFA for years and now they are surprised to learn it means anti-fascist?
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In South Korea 🇰🇷, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.
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Good to have something positive to think about as the nights draw in.
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Brits were also the most likely to agree that the cost of living crisis made the case for accelerating the transition to renewable energy, we've found similar in our focus groups with people saying it's the only way to 'stop us relying on madmen like Putin' (12/n)
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For anyone still thinking we just need to "tough out" this winter because that's what used to happen in the olden times, I have a chart for you
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Brexit campaigners and the Prime Minister repeatedly denied that leaving the EU would be used as a means to strip workers of their rights, and attacked anyone who suggested otherwise.
It turns out that doing just that is now one of the government's number one priorities.
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I really hate that guy-in-a-hotdog-suit meme and yet...
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The fact that we're talking about rationing energy, kids dying from the cold, thousands of businesses facing closure, millions unable to afford to keep warm this winter, should be a matter of national shame.
None of this just "happened".
It's the result of political choices.
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ON JOE BIDEN OFFENDING THE AMERICAN RIGHT BY SAYING DEMOCRACY IS GOOD
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1/2: In 2020, Trump called Democrats "fascists" in '20 while surrounded by military officials.
No one remembers it bc Dems didn't feel threatened by his false claim.
Today, MAGA Republicans are angry at President Biden for a similar remark. Because they know it's true.
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Paul & Jacqui UK tour dates selling fast! All tickets £30! The tour features very special guest including shows at Manchester & London . Remaining tickets available now from gigst.rs/PHJA22
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This Labor Day we're honoring workers, our unions and the struggle for equality. Hear from Village artists as they speak about the songs that push the movement forward this Sunday 10pE/7pP on Ch. 17.
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This is even more incredible given the seriousness of the economic situation.
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Throughout the divisive Conservative leadership race, one subject has reigned supreme – trans exclusion.
We need better from our next Prime Minister they must stop using trans & non-binary people as a political football to score points with.
As I said in @PinkNews
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As Boris Johnson does a victory lap at the conclusion of his reign in No.10, it is important to remember that he leaves in shame, forced out by his own MPs - no-one else - after a tenure characterised by deceit, elitism, cronyism, bigotry, and predictable ignominy. Remember him.
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Boris Johnson, who illegally shut down parliament, brought in Voter ID laws that risk disenfranchising millions of voters, and has restricted the right of people to protest against his own government, warns that attempts to hold him to account risk "endangering democracy".
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Biden's speech is old school. But it is also revolutionary. Because it is sending the message that at this moment, we cannot afford to deflect or tiptoe around the threat posed by MAGA, we must call it what it is, step up to the fight and defeat them.
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I took on the NRA in 1994 and passed the assault weapons ban the last time. Mass shootings went down.
But in 2004 when Congressional Republicans let the ban expire, mass shootings tripled.
It’s time to ban assault weapons in this country.
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Tickets for the & Jacqui Abbott Tour - with me as special guest - are now on sale billybragg.co.uk/giglistings
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The message from some Starmer supporters seems to have moved from ‘he didn’t lie in the 2020 leadership election!!’ to ‘he did lie but it doesn’t matter’.
I don’t think even the most vocal allies can say that Starmer didn’t lie to those who had the power to make him leader.
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The thing is, I’ve had a lot of the usual abuse from Keir Starmer’s very well coordinated online army, but none of them responding to the actual substance.
It’s because they can’t refute the accusation - Starmer’s leadership campaign was dishonest - that they resort to abuse. twitter.com/OwenJones84/st…
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Was out in Bridport this morning doing Woody's work, playing some soildarity songs for picketing postal workers #StandByYourPost
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@CWUnews Bridport DO standing with the CWU
Great support on the picket line including a surprise visit from @billybragg #Bridport #StandByYourPost
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⭐️ POP AND POLITICS: a love letter to don’t try this at home by ⭐️
betweeen dec 2021 & jan 2022, i was going through one of the most difficult periods of my life. listening to don’t try this at home truly helped to soothe some raw wounds that, at the time, (1/3)
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Biden: It's semi-fascism
Trump: It's late August 2022 and I demand to either be declared president or have an immediate 2020 election do-over before the FBI gangsters charge me
Assorted pundits: My goodness, I can't believe Biden went there. A very divisive rhetorical choice
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Paul & Jacqui's UK tour ticket pre-sale is now SOLD OUT. Tickets go on general sale at 9:30am tomorrow morning from gigst.rs/PHJA22. All tickets £30! The tour features very special guest including shows at Manchester & London .
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Whether or not you agree with public ownership, Keir Starmer is talking nonsense here.
Attlee nationalised rail, coal, electricity, gas and more when debt to GDP ratio was around 200%. Today it's under 100%. Public debt is not an obstacle to purchasing revenue-generating assets
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Trump is demanding a redo of the 2020 election. Cool. I demand a redo of the 2016 election.
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So far the Rwanda deal has cost the UK £120m, has yet to find a single migrant who can be lawfully extradited, has done nothing to reduce human trafficking and now - cherry on top - has made at least 40 young Rwandan genocide survivors homeless.
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Approval of labor unions now stands at 71%, according to a new poll from Gallup.
That’s the highest approval rating since 1965.
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I'm constantly baffled by how people in media & politics can freely call leftists trots, thugs, antisemites, woke snowflakes, virtue signallers & moronic children with student politics, and no one EVER says "Hey careful now, you need to persuade these people to vote for you!"
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That is certainly true (though it does raise the likelihood that many of their parents vote differently). And, to extend the thought, some of their parents at least need to be persuaded to not vote Conservative. Which the Lucy Powell shirt won’t do.
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1.3m people attend Notting Hill carnival and 38 people get arrested. [0.0029%]
“Nationwide headlines”
105k daily Reading and Leeds Festival and they have a 16 y/o dying from Ecstasy, 50 people were ejected for “serious disorder” [0.04%] and tents were set on fire.
Silence…
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Andy Burnham - Liz Truss & Rishi Sunak are calling for more Thatcherism,but that's what got us into this mess in the 80s... we sold off the gas, electric, water, buses & trains... & now people can't afford these essentials now...
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This Mumsnet post by one of the protesters who tried to stop the Cardiff Pride march at the weekend suggests that anti-trans activists are starting to realise that, despite their claims, they don't speak for the majority of women.
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Apparently, she'd stand up to Putin, but is scared of Nick Robinson.
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This is extremely important and totally correct.
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I think it's time we start covering Trumpism for what it is now.
It's no longer a political movement. It's a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies.
Feds could've found a body in those Mar a Lago boxes and followers wouldn't care. It's about retribution, not facts.
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