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I think the hard answer is "all of the above". Some always wanted this, some are very malleable, some are tribal and partisan above all else, a bunch are opportunists.

Catalan Toast I first came across this in a tapas bar in Barcelona about 100 years ago. Rather different than, say, Italian bruschetta, where the tomatoes are chopped and tumbled on toast, Pa amb tomaquet (as this ...

#RecipeOfTheDay is what the Spanish call pan con tomate (pa amb tomaquet in Catalan) and what’s known in my house as Catalan Toast. It’s very simple, but you do need a proper, good, ripe tomato. And yes, I do like my toast charred at the edges! www.nigella.com/recipes/cata...

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

Before they remove her page, here is Dr. Erika McEntarfer's BLS bio page. She's a 20-year career official PhD labor economist.

“This is the worst economic jobs report since the end of the pandemic.” - CNN

Headline says 2 in 5 arrested for summer riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Turns out a lot of those who riotied last summer are violent morons who beat up their partners. Who could have guessed?

Pecksniff: Exclusive! We reveal far right plot behind Epping riots In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

"If East Anglia Bylines can find the evidence that the protests in Epping and Diss are merely organised right wing thuggery, how is it the rest of the media haven’t done so?"

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 15671561: On FESTIVALS.
There are over 800 literary festivals in the UK. Some are high-profile, international festivals like Edinburgh and Hay-on-Wye, others are smaller and more local. Some are subsidized by local arts councils; some have private sponsors. Or both.

The right to trial by jury is under threat As the law courts struggle with delays in hearing cases and pressure on prisons rise, is modernisation the answer?

Between 2012–2023:

Magistrates fell by 43%

Court staff by 20%

Judges & tribunal members fell 9%

Result: a 4-year wait for trials – Justice is grinding to a halt.

J. J. Jackson reports

Movers & Shakers: 100,000 Thank Yous! Creative campaigners made the Parky Petition fly

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... people from the Parkinson’s community and beyond did wonderful creative work to get 100000 signatures on the #parkypetition - and Gillian Lacey-Solymar herself a source of boundless creativity invited some of them to a party in her garden

GP practices have had £2bn removed from core funding by NHS England over 8yrs

Done by not increasing the budget per patient by £35

Instead the £ has been moved to ARRS additional roles PCN budget £1.6bn
Pharmacy First £650m

Resulting in no increase in GP access no Family Dr
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Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Yeah, I’m sure what Mike has in mind is to build affordable housing at those scenic vistas on federal land he wants to open up for development. That’s how he’s selling it, but we all know that they have different plans.

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Rupert Lowe, the multi millionaire MP, who stood as a Reform candidate, says he hates paying tax.

The whole reason for Reform’s existence.

Honesty at last.

On Instagram, a pictured ICE agent says he is "not picky" about who he deports.

This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all."

He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota.

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Opportunities to meet artists and authors, plus midsummer dreaming This week's Something for the Weekend reports on Open Studios across the region and book events in Suffolk, plus a Midsummer Night’s Dream is coming to Thorington on Midsummer Night

Looking for culture in the coming weekends?
👩‍🎨 Artists open their studios across East Anglia
📚 Crime & fiction authors gather in Southwold & Framlingham
🌙 Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream plays a forest stage on Midsummer Night

Kate Viscardi reports

'The Journalists Who Really Take Sides When Reporting on the Far-Right Are Its Cheerleaders in the Right-Wing Press' There's a big difference between impartiality and giving the politics of hate and deception a free pass, argues Julian Petley

🔴‘The Journalists Who Really Take Sides When Reporting on the Far-Right Are Its Cheerleaders in the Right-Wing Press’

There’s a big difference between impartiality and giving the politics of hate and deception a free pass, argues Julian Petley

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The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.

Don't give them one.

Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

🦋🦋🌺🌺

Please and thank you.

Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russians could always just go home.

It’s the fastest way to end the war.

Full cost of failed pandemic- PPE finally revealed after major fraud probe The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the £1.4billion figure in the first phase of his investigation into wasteful Tory spending during the Covid-19 pandemic

Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion.

The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic
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Letter: Pride panic season is here – here’s how to outsmart the outrage Letter to the editor

🌈 It’s June.
⚠️ Rainbows are out. So are the Very Online bigots.
Somewhere right now, a man named Keith is explaining how Skittles ruined Western civilisation.

Stay hydrated. Weaponise sarcasm.
Happy Pride.

Read The Bear’s letter to the editor ⤵️

Whoa - over 3,000 new signatures in the last 3 days! Thanks everyone- and let’s keep it up

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Nigel Farage's '£7 Billion DEI Savings' Don't Actually Exist The media is widely reporting Reform UK's claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer

🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist

The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer

bylinetimes.com/2025/05/30/n...

Sweden Boosts Ukraine’s Strike Power With New Aid Package Focused on Long-Range Drones A new military aid package from Sweden worth €441 million will boost Ukraine’s defense with long-range drones and other crucial equipment.

🇸🇪 Sweden has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine totaling approximately $500 million.

Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.

Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.

International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.