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Tbh, all of them. Their military is far better than anyone's else's on their borders.

Social media seems to be saying the USA had fore warning as the American university of Beruit new system went live on the 29th of August.

Seems an odd coincidence.

The USA, UK and EU supply of weapons.

Exactly

James O’Brien, despite holding supposedly opposite views, has no problem working for a media company which has given Farage a platform since 2017.

And why is Farage not doing surgeries in Clacton?

Probably because he doesn't give a flying fuck about the constituents of Clacton

On sea.

Let's be factually correct.

(That was meant as humour, but is it funny he is such a grifter?)

Without a doubt but he convinced enough that he did to get elected.

I’m sure that some have buyers regret but others that feel that “Nigel” is raising the profile of Clacton by speaking for more than an annual minimum wage salary in America

And how many fronts can they feasibly fight on?

The over-all policy is, potentially, to pull the US in to fight directly, so over-extending and creating a moment of genuine vulnerability which makes the US choose whether to help or let Israel lose would be a logical thing to do. Risky, but then peace is an existential threat to the power of the current government, so - constant conflict it is.

Personally I think it's highly likely that any pets or guard dogs , their collars, I'd also worry about imported live stock might explode any minute , surely they could shop at Harrods?

Can you find a mainstream media that doesn’t have commentators representing both sides? What is your suggestion, that anyone with a decent set opinions should step down from a media channel where someone reprehensible like Farage is a presenter?

I really don’t understand your point. Should all left wing journalists leave the BBC because of Laura Kurnsberg?

Yeah, he used that platform to quite majestically call him a cunt pretty directly to people who may have tuned in to listen to the cunt.

+100

Why the fuck should he be the one to cede ground / the airways.

I think Kurnsberg/Farage is a false equivalence. Farage’s views are so pernicious and stir up so much hatred and LBC is the one media outlet that has consistently given him a platform. I don’t think this is about ceding ground it’s about taking money from an organisation which will happily promote racist views. Why not leave and take your 1.4m listeners with you? Surely that does more good than slagging him off to a bunch of people who won’t change their views and think you’re a woke lefty.

He’s the token dissenting face for LBC, a useful tool.

My wife worked at Selfridges when I met her in the early 90's and Mohammed Al Fayed being handsy and worse with Harrods staff was an open secret in retail.

She worked for Wolford and told them there was no way she would ever work their Harrods concession.

I’d argue he has more potential to move the needle by being on LBC than moving elsewhere and shouting into an echo chamber of his established sympathetic listeners.

I see it as similar to Pete Buttigieg regularly going on Fox News in the USA and being an effective communicator and challenger to right wing bullshit.

I am sure there are many instances where the BBC has been overtly racist. Should no left of centre work journalists work at the BBC for fear of taking money from a racist state broadcaster? Given the levels of institutional racism in the UK can no one work for an organisation or company if there are any signs of institutional racism or discrimination?

One of my closest female friends from university worked at Harrods in the float team, meaning that she was often working in close proximity with him.

We often joked at the time that she got to where she was because of his gropiness & worse.

In hindsight, of course, that was a horrific thing to be joking about.

My (male) flatmate's experience working in Harrods, again in regular proximity with Al Fayed, was markedly different.

^ On a related note, I recall some of my mates at uni (ca. 2000) being warned off even looking at jobs at Harrods because of behaviours at the store.

It's always amazing how open a lot of these things are.

A mate works in film and was talking to her older female boss during the Weinstein case. They confessed that they'd avoided projects because of his well know behaviour - it was basically info passed along like general career advice to other women in the industry rather than a problem.

Hm my wife and some of her friends worked in Harrods but probably a little later than that. I’ve not heard anything from them about Al Fayed, just a lot about how women they worked with would get propositioned to go on a group night out with someone old(er) and rich, then come home with envelopes of cash.

Similarly, I don't remember Al Fayed being mentioned at all, but the general vibe/warning was "You don't want to work there".

The same mates were already pretty wary because we lived in a certain notorious road near Paddington Station in our first year and a few of them were harassed multiple times by men looking for sex workers (one of whom featured in the reality show Paddington Green and bought us all drinks in the pub when the show aired - csb, etc.)

The widely used wordfreq database will no longer be updated, because generative AI has made that a pointless exercise.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/20/jobs-risk-construction-firm-isg-heads-for-collapse-administration-sites

Nigel tells core supporters to fuck off

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20j3428vyyo