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Bon viveur, raconteur, llanast. BBC Radio Wales's film guru (their words, not mine). Some people are beloved, I'm betolerated...just.

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As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

07.10.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6
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Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

07.10.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 900    πŸ” 309    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 21

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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07.10.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

β€œI do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

05.10.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2696    πŸ” 1124    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 128
Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to ALISON BOSHOFF

β€œI left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

06.10.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7460    πŸ” 956    πŸ’¬ 599    πŸ“Œ 873
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Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard.

…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.

05.10.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 547    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 12

Silence of the RAMs
Hard Drive Angry
Byte of the Living Dead

05.10.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes.

It's still there.

05.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1603    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 58
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Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

05.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2757    πŸ” 1129    πŸ’¬ 326    πŸ“Œ 71
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Claire's Accessories closing down, but you will NOT predict the reason given.

05.10.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 53
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1069    πŸ” 822    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 74
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FIFA has decided to take no action against Israel.

President says "FIFA cannot resolve geopolitical issues."

FIFA has and still bans Russia.

FIFA is a disgrace, Israel need to be banned.

03.10.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 700    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 25
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At least some people are thriving in Donald Trump’s economy. How about you?

03.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1309    πŸ” 570    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 43
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Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Today, from 2.30, on BBC Radio Wales with Eleri - reviews of The Smashing Machine, Him & Urchin, and my 3 of the best Dwayne Johnson AND/OR Emily Blunt films. Joiwch.

03.10.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government Β£122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that Β£122m...

Thread:

02.10.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 940    πŸ” 517    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 126
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Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has β€˜betrayed’ hacking victims.

He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.

02.10.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 815    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 16
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Exposed: Reform UK national director planned β€˜physical resistance group’ for β€˜gorillas by night tactics’ – HOPE not hate Reform UK national director Adam Bounds tried to recruit members to a β€œphysical resistance group” for β€œgorillas by night tactics” and promoted far-right and conspiracy...

🚨NEW: After last year’s general election, Nigel Farage promised that β€œβ€˜bad apples’ that have crept in will be gone” from Reform UK.

But our team has exposed yet another so-called β€œbad apple” who has worked for the party since the election. πŸ‘‡

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/01/e...

01.10.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

Didn’t make them uncomfortable. The hats were weirdly brought out in the middle of the meeting about shutting down the govt for a photo. I think they thought it was a stupid & bizarre stunt that appeals only to old fools and Fox viewers, which are pretty much the same thing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

01.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 939    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 8
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RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

01.10.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5969    πŸ” 2146    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 71
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The police seem inexperienced with how to arrest a dangerous terrorist in a wheelchair.

Well done Yvette Cooper. Slow hand clap. πŸ‘

29.09.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 557    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 18

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

29.09.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1242    πŸ” 326    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 17
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Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

β€œOne is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

β€œThe second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

29.09.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2228    πŸ” 432    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 41

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

29.09.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15148    πŸ” 4685    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 86
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My new play!
Vibes wise- The Mercury Theatre War Of The Worlds meets Late Night With The Devil. Or Me and Orson Welles meets Ghostwatch.

When a troupe of radio actors in 1930s New York begin performing their Halloween output they get more than they bargain for in the chilling tales.

29.09.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist?

Like if he is.
RT if he is Donald Trump's little bitch.

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This is the most insane clip we could ever have they are all standing there on their phones doing nothing, see a random person that’s a shade of brown, and then fucking full tilt sprint at them just bc. There is nothing happening it’s just a horde going around imprisoning people

29.09.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1342    πŸ” 540    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3
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Reform keeps arguing immigration is an issue when it isn’t.

There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there.

BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK.

We need to debate based on facts not scaremongering.

29.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

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