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My god this is stupid.

I don't know Chris, I just think maybe Labour MPs need a different position on 'is the country on the brink of race war' rather than suggesting that the people saying this isn't true are oblivious to being eaten by a snake. I am very aware of where the snake is, quite frankly.

Moronic take. 🤦‍♀️

I wonder if the Mail mention inside which party left jails dangerously full and failed to build any while ramping up sentencing?

Mum says severe pregnancy sickness leading to abortions in women Sarah Spooner's husband once called an ambulance as she could not get off the floor due to the pain.

Mum says severe pregnancy sickness leading to abortions in women

I was horrendously sick when pregnant. I only put abt 3lbs on for 1st baby - I looked like a skeleton with a belly. My boss moved my office to next door to the loos because I was sick so often.
And I wasn't considered a severe case so cld understand women with worse symptoms wanting it to end.

The biggest and worst thing to happen in politics over the past decade is the mainstream right losing its mind. Actual reasonable centre right conservatives are like giant pandas. We’re going to have to breed them in captivity

It is quite something to see much of what was once the mainstream right predicting, hoping for, braying for “revolt/revolution”.

Ray Brooks, voice of Mr Benn, dies aged 86 He also starred in ground-breaking drama Cathy Come Home, as well as primetime shows Big Deal and EastEnders.

Sad news.
Sounds like my kind of guy.
When starting out as an actor, if someone had said you could have a career like Ray Brooks… you’d have snatched their hand off.
Well played, Ray! 👏
RIP.
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Watching Went The Day Well (1942)....again. One of the best war movies ever made imo. That's Thora Hird holding a machine gun.

More granular hotel protest info.
Suggest media look into

1..Why so few asylum hotel protests [+ no arrests in 2025] in 30 areas that saw riots a year ago?

2) "why are the few large 2025 protests in different types of place - more affluent/less deprived, tilting south - to 2024 disorder?

Biddy Baxter in the Blue Peter office.

We are sad to report that longtime Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter has died at the age of 92. We salute a true pioneer, who navigated changing times in the television industry with instinct, tenacity and style.

Aww. That's incredibly touching. 🥺

Like pigeons flying head first into a glass window, English newspapers that lobbied so vociferously for Brexit continue to be taken entirely by surprise by the real world consequences for everyday British people of the UK leaving the European Union #DontBuyTheDailyMail

My favourite pithy politics post in a very long time.
Bang on the money.

Sweden, Norway and Denmark to donate $500m in arms to Ukraine Sweden, Norway and Denmark will donate equipment and munitions worth $500 million to Ukraine, under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, Stockholm said on Tuesday.

Sweden, Norway and Denmark will donate equipment and munitions worth $500 million to Ukraine, under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, Stockholm said on Tuesday.

Anti-polls articles come down to 3 main types, none of which are actually to do with polling itself:

1) I don't understand polls

2) I don't like how pundits write about politics and polls link to thay

3) I don't like the publics views and polling reveals them

3 ie the most common

RFK Jr saying medical decisions should be based on the wellbeing of the person, not a government mandate

Government mandates issued by RFK's party actively prohibit OBGYNs from making medical decisions to protect women. They have been doing so for decades, but have gotten measurably worse since the Dobbs decision.

Posted this before: but was properly shocked during the Me Too years by finding out that basically every single female person I knew had been seriously sexually assaulted in one way or another.

We still haven't reckoned properly with what that means about our society: or men generally

Thetford Town FC pays tribute to family in Portugal holiday crash Town hall officials in Mourao have declared two days of mourning, starting today.

Thetford Town FC pays tribute to family in Portugal holiday crash

If that's so, then aren't you releasing the files? 🤔

This doesn't really work as a line of attack because no-one really cares if left-wing politicians are exposed. It is only Trump supporters who bought into Epstein conspiracy theories *and* the idea that Donald Trump was fighting pedophiles are vulnerable to having their beliefs changed.

🤣 God they are getting really desperate now. 🤣

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Over the coming years other large buildings will then be able to connect up to it & even homes can, depending on numbers wanting to in a specific area.

The building will have living walls & as seen here, is situated outside a multistorey carpark, so definitely improves the look of the street.

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Thought you might like this picture.

It shows the construction of a tower and building for the large air source heat pump for Worthing's new low carbon heat network.

Once completed next year it will initially supply heat and hot water to public buildings like the town hall, hospital and museum.

Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

I agree re OotP. Such a boring book but a cracking film.

French fires: our wine will taste of smoke, says family who lost it all

It is estimated that around 2,000 acres of vines were destroyed, threatening the survival of family businesses that have shaped this landscape for generations

India Cancels Planned Purchase of P-8I Anti-Submarine Warfare Jets Amid Rising Tensions with U.S. The Indian Defence Ministry has suspended negotiations for the procurement of six Boeing P-8I Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, in response to escalating tensions with

India has blocked the purchase of Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft because of the 50% Trump tariffs.

The order was valued at $2.42 billion.