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The Frank Report LXXXI

Welcome to the latest edition of The Frank Report where, contrary to form, the laughs are a bit thin on the ground. In fact, you find us in mourning. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were brutally slain in Southport earlier this week; the latest in a long line […]

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Keir Starmer

Starmer Picks a Side 

In the first big test of his premiership, Keir Starmer has addressed the ‘far-right’ riots in response to the Southport murders. For anyone vaguely familiar with the concept of cause and effect, it was always obvious which part of the equation Starmer would be most keen to highlight. Statesmanship and leadership are ethereal concepts at

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Silence

Other People’s Noise

I’m sure other people’s noise didn’t use to bother me nearly as much as it does now. For a while I assumed it was simply a facet of age; and yet when I bring this up with my close friends, none of them report a similar experience (at least those who heard me ask the

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The Frank Report LXXX

This week saw the opening of Parliament, and the swearing in of MPs old and new. Freshly-appointed Minister for Jihad, Naz Shah, pledged her allegiance to King Charles III (peas be upon him) via the Koran. Clive Lewis, Minster for Arseholes, whined that the nod to the Monarchy really went against his principles, but not

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The Frank Report LXXIX

I am most grateful to all the fans of The Frank Report, who have written in to demand its reinstatement. Please understand that while I do my best, I am beset from all sides by unruly children, distempered dogs, disobliging fishwives – and that’s just the newly-assembled Starmer Cabinet! That said, we’re all here now

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David Tennant

The Ugly Sin of Identity Politics

(Photograph: DavidDjJohnson at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As someone infamous once said (me, need you ask?), ‘The truth is not mediated by the identity of the speaker’. If it were, one could sidestep debate entirely by identifying the ultimate victim status and taking umbrage accordingly. Increasingly devoid of argument, the Critical

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