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"Matt Goodwin
@GoodwinMJ

The Oxford Union’s incoming president appeared to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk just months after debating him.

In messages seen by The Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted: “Charlie Kirk go shot, let’s f---ing go”

Another message, believed to be on the student’s Instagram account, stated “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”, an exaggeration of the abbreviation “laughing out loud”

This “man” should not be representing the @OxfordUnion@UniofOxford

Utter disgrace (article below)"

https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1966183385019387920

Wow

Ironically Kirk spoke at the Oxford Union only in June and debated Abaraonye

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/

Oxford needs to move quickly. Utterly unacceptable

#pbfreespeech

Also, the Oxford Union is a private body, not related to the University; it is not the real Student Union. Which has caused a lot of confusion.

They have some form too.

This?

https://sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk/library-archives/capturing-the-inter-war-generation-3-the-king-and-country-debate-the-coming-of-war/

That, yes

My piccie for the day. Wet wipe island foreshaw in Hammersmith, which changed the course of the river. Now cleared - 5 million wet wipes flushed down the loo (I assume).

On Thursday, they announced that 114 tonnes of rubbish were cleared from the river and taken away in skips to landfill, including almost 200 cubic metres of wet wipes containing plastics.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/wet-wipes-thames-island-5HjdCrq_2/

It is simples: if your products contain plastic and are non-biodegradable, and are found as a significant part of this issue, you get a mahoosive fine.

That'll fix it.

Many of the offending products are labelled "flushable".

The manufacturers should definitely take at least half of the blame for this.

Not disagreeing with the sentiment - I'd read this stomachturning report a few weeks back:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/14/wet-wipe-island-london-river-thames-pollution-hammersmith-bridge

But presumably Thames Water do too, for letting them through the sewerage system? (And some, belated, credit for the new interceptor sewers.)

AIUI the bigger problem occurs in the sewerage pipes, when fat and other non-biodegradable items get clogged. As happened to ours recently (*). The resultant fatbergs are both amazing and amazingly gross. When you have that much coming through, it'll clog *something*.

This one weighed 130 tonnes:
https://hydro-cleansing.com/blog/the-whitechapel-fatberg-the-worlds-largest-fatberg

(*) *****ing shared sewage pipes, and ******ing Anglian Water....

"Matt Goodwin
@GoodwinMJ

The Oxford Union’s incoming president appeared to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk just months after debating him.

In messages seen by The Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted: “Charlie Kirk go shot, let’s f---ing go”

Another message, believed to be on the student’s Instagram account, stated “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”, an exaggeration of the abbreviation “laughing out loud”

This “man” should not be representing the @OxfordUnion@UniofOxford

Utter disgrace (article below)"

https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1966183385019387920

Wow

Ironically Kirk spoke at the Oxford Union only in June and debated Abaraonye

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/

Oxford needs to move quickly. Utterly unacceptable

@KevinASchofield

NEW: Bridget Phillipson has received nominations from more than half of those Labour MPs who voted, so approaching 200.

An ally describes it as "a bit of a rout".

Hmmm. I wonder if anyone can remember a Labour internal election where the candidate who received the fewest number of nominations of the four candidates among the PLP (a derisory 36 - just one above the threshold) actually went on to win pretty comfortably?

Obviously, Phillipson has to secure as many MP nominations as she can, and that's fine. I'm just not sure how much it means when it goes to the full selectorate. Indeed, it's perhaps a slightly mixed blessing to have the support of most Labour MPs when the mood in the party must be a bit gloomy about their collective performance.