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Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... FAFO.

exist or existed?

follow the money, Tice owns property for a starter. People in offices give an opportunity to extract money in rent. None of this is about what is good for employees, or employers, it's about money and how to make more.

And if it were zero, he’d find another scapegoat, Brexit, immigrants, ECHR, NATO, UN, etc etc, he will never take accountability for his actions, it will always be something else. Yet the media, with one task, never hold him accountable.

Burn the planet then wonder why there are lots of asylum seekers looking for some where to live

illegal immigrants, why are they illegal? Has a judge ruled they've broken the law. Or is this more performative BS aimed to inflame hatred of people fleeing war, climate change, poverty. Maybe the UK government should be honest about why people move. About the choices.

uber woke, net zeroist, it is a platform to run on, it is something a party should be able to sell. I accept some will oppose, but isn't it better for a party to have a set of policies, rather than relying on what focus groups think. What are Starmers policies?

Labour won by not being the Tories, from that starting point they just had to exhibit competence and start to make people feel better off, and yet....

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

And Gasman is a lecturer pretending to be a politician?

A very eye-opening follow-up: the account owner openly admits they were posting hateful content simply to develop, and monetise, a big TikTok account bsky.app/profile/jim....

From memory, Alistair Campbell said in relation to his own experience, if the aide is the story they have to go.

What makes a traitor? Interviews with Ukrainians who fought for Russia reveal how they became Putin’s soldiers—and the agonising duty of those tasked with upholding their r...

Are they traitors or victims? Compatriots or foreign enemies? Those coming face to face with Ukrainians who fought for Russia hear tales of forced conscription—and Kremlin propaganda, writes Jen Stout

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

I assume he means to tax white women? can’t have non whites breeding…..

Sadly looking at the behaviour of ICE, can't really argue against there being plenty of people who would be happy to do anything.

I guess that is an education process so should ease with some more training.

From a different tack, we know war and climate change drive migration. It isn’t going to suddenly stop, those people aren’t going to vanish. So what is the plan?

Depressing part. They’ll call out a foreigner but still showcase Farage.

Who will think of the tulips.

Time to ban tufton street for a starter. US fronts already have to much airtime.

Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a

‘I saw kids being shot, women, old people’: how a massacre unfolded in one Iranian city The Guardian has constructed a timeline for the terrible events of one night of protests in Rasht, based on first-hand accounts, video and photographs On Thursday 8 January, Iran went dark. In the midst of massive national protests, the government shut down the internet, phone calls, and almost all communication out of the country. That evening a violent crackdown began. In some cities, government forces opened fire on crowds, killing thousands – according to some estimates, possibly tens of thousands – in two days of bloodshed. The internet blackout has meant that a clearer picture of what happened – drawn from witness reports, videos, photographs and testimony from hospitals – has taken time to assemble. When the violence began, there were demonstrations taking place in more than 200 cities, according to human rights groups. This is the story of what unfolded in one of them. Continue reading...

‘I saw kids being shot, women, old people’: how a massacre unfolded in one Iranian city

which makes a bit more sense, but as a new driver if you get 6 points I believe you lose your licence.

And the west imposed sanctions on South Africa for Apartheid.

I just want to know where this goes, a proper investigation, there are hints Russia, Israel State involvement, then Thiel, Musk, Rowling, Andrew, Bannon, etc etc. etc. where did Epstein get his money, etc.

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Punch and anti-Irish sentiment in nineteenth century Britain: blog post by Jack Wise. Introduction

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Bollocks was it, it’s a core of a large part of the “working class”, otherism, don’t get ideas, don’t mix outside your class, the tribalism of football.