Recent content by Keith Cocker

Pseudo pineapples from beginning to end

How others see us: New York Times

Odious comment and quite clearly a sexist, classist arrogant ad hominem attack. You should be ashamed of yourself. Do you have a daughter, wife, niece. Think about it.

A woman gets in an elevator in Trump tower and Trump walks in and she pushes the stop button and she says to him “Oh Mr Trump, I’ve always had a huge crush on you and if you don’t mind, I’d like to give you a BJ right here” To which he replied “Great! What’s in it for me?”

But Reform are not “right of centre”. They are truly “Right Wing”. I respect a range of political views in society. It’s healthy but there are extremes to right and left that are dangerous and wrong. Reform are extremist right just as some groups are extreme left. I deplore both.

Fortunately, Reform will struggle to get a single MP. They, and many of their supporters are odious, racist, ignorant bigots.

Who d’ya fancy? Adolph, Benito, Uncle Joe, Mao, Genghis? Be careful what you wish for.

My books are nicer to see than most peoples children. 🤪

The distinction between avoidance and evasion is clear. The problem is that to take advantage of legal avoidance you already have to be quite rich. So it’s fundamentally unfair.

Perhaps the Rev Vennells began her management meetings with “Lettuce pray 🙏 “

The similarities between Reform and the German National Socialist party of the early 1930s shouldn’t be overstated but they are evident. Both made a play for people worried about their financial futures and more general feelings of uncertainty. Both have very rich self interested behind the...

Reform are going to have difficulty fielding candidates as they have just had to get rid of over 100 of their candidates (quietly they hoped) who had very murky track records on racism, mysoginy and worse. They are a party of very unpleasant people.

Why on earth should you have a problem with that? 🤔

I’m so sorry you are having these difficulties. My experience of new governing regimes in school is mainly anecdotal but Academy Trusts seem much worse than the old local authority education departments. Having said that you naturally have to deal with the world as it is rather than how it...