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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 05/08/2026

In fact, as someone who grew up thinking he was basically half English, a quarter Scottish, and a quarter Irish, the DNA thing has been revealing ... Turns out I am basically typically British!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 31/07/2026

I'm no fan of Reform, but I have to say that I side with them on this one - if you are feeding kids to police, you could at least make a nominal charge for them ... (Headline - Mirror)

Newspaper headline reading: Reform council chief threatens to report cafe owner who fed kids for free to police.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Well, your post is the last one making it onto my feed at the moment 😂

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 06/04/2026

Happy to say my Google seems a little more civilised ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 10/03/2026

It's changed a bit since 48 hours ago!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 20/01/2026

Not quite sure what this guy has seen smoking, but he should market it. As far as I can tell from the footage I have seen, selective though it may be, this is exactly how ICE is behaving. Little boys with big toys ...

X Post from Senator Chris McDaniel, saying: "Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close."

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 10/01/2026

By coincidence, we have one of each right at this moment. Not the best view of the spectacular tail, but there you go ... they are hard to photograph!

Bluetit and long-tailed tit on bird feeder by window

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 08/01/2026

I got a similar shot I was quite pleased with a few months back :)

Woman with umbrella standing on Millennium Bridge in London, with the tops of the skyscrapers behind her obscured by mist

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 04/11/2025

Not sure he's the guy I'd put in charge of human rights, but there you go ... 😉

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 12/10/2025

Incorrectly drawn flag, as usual ... not reversed or inverted, but just wrong. Top right diagonal red bar of the St Patrick saltire should come to a point beneath the blue, not alongside it. Farage has done this before - some patriot! 😀

The official specification design for the Union Jack flag, from the Flag Institute

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 12/09/2025

Amazing what a difference 24 hours can make, plus discovering that it was likely a white Republican dude ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 09/09/2025

For the record - Farage's "flag" and the correct specification beneath ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 04/09/2025

And another thing - has nobody queried why Farage rocks up to a hearing wearing what appears to be an air steward's suit?

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 02/09/2025

Loving the domain name that is hosting this content ... 🤣

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/09/2025

Because in the current climate one cannot be too careful 😉 I will mention that the post I saw making the above assertion has now vanished, so direct support for this joker may or may not be on offer from JKR, but I will leave this two-year-old promise of general support as an indicator

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/08/2025

This is why Farage is a dribbling traitorous imbecile - clearly even he believes that he is unfit to stand in front of our flag, so he knocks up some approximation of it. The bottom half is the Flag Institute specification - spot the difference. What a patriot ...

Nigel Farage standing in front of an incorrectly structured Union flag, with the correct design shown beneath.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 16/06/2025

We saw the quilt yesterday - this particular piece caught my eye, as it really doesn't feel like anything has changed except the focus ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 24/04/2025

I discovered one which seems to be suggesting that St George was a member of the Red Cross, which was a new one on me 😉

Graphic of St George killing the dragon, but his tunic displays a Red Cross emblem as opposed to the cross of St George

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 03/03/2025

Shall we ask someone who knows?

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 03/03/2025

That's a new one 😂 I think the "reference source" for the salute might be a good starting point. Out to the side, or straight ahead? You decide ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/03/2025

If we're talking outfits and lack of respect, Trump's absurd, poorly fitted, badly cut, and cheap-looking white tie outfit which looked like a child's party costume on his last State Visit might just make the cut, as it were ...

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