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And it's not a cycling thing, He's been good (in some way vital) for cycling, or at least his money has. No issues there. It's his awful world view which I detest: one in which only riches count, and at all costs. Every obligation to society is as nothing. He, and his billionaire ilk, make me sick,

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was.
He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"

Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget

Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"

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Gwych! Amazing result.

Da iawn Lindsay Whittle a’i tîm.

Come on Caerffili.

Plaid Cymru WIN

😊

Tomorrow's front page: 'I filmed Israeli fan violence - Starmer is wrong'

Starmer, you’re an idiot.

The Starmer Effect.

How I feel about Starmer undermining UK police decisions on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.

This.

Andrew Bailey, "For the foreseeable future, the impact of Brexit on economic growth in the UK is negative"

"Making an economy less open, restricts growth"

Caroline Lucas is wondering why Michelle Mone is still a member of the House of Lords

And most of us are wondering the same as well!

But if Mone is going to be removed from the Lords, there are others too who fail to meet the standard and should be removed as well

For shame. 😡

Local council debts in the East: a continuing challenge Local councils provide services that we all feel, but new figures on council debt show a failing system

New figures show councils have been racking up large debts to cope with growing demands and shrinking government support. It's time government reformed the system.

The debt is a ticking time bomb. 💣

“Seafood” isn’t ‘fish’.
Invertebrates are NOT fish.

Karl Marx said that Capitalism inevitably leads to Fascism, and in the last 200 years he has only been proven right about 20 times.

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Pine Marten

Old Fox

Pine Marten & Old Fox were sitting together having tea & toast-and-butter in the parlour. Pine Marten had been very quiet, then suddenly said, Where do we go, after we die, Old Fox?

A very beautiful place, said Old Fox, where there is no fear nor cruelty nor regret nor pain.

Greens held the chair of [Merseyside] Pensions [Fund committee] until May 2023.

It was October 2023 that Hamas launched its awful attacks on Israel, and Israel launched awful awful attacks on Palestinian people, who are dying in their thousands.

It is a genocide.

For some reason I think of: "A chance to do the right thing? I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by."

people may call me just a dirty leftist radical, but I think the Bsky team will never realize what they had and could have had as they strive to be an everything app

🇪🇸 Spain: RTVE Calls For Urgent Debate on Eurovision Televoting - Eurovoix RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, has called for an urgent debate on the televote at the Eurovision Song Contest.

🇪🇸 Spain: RTVE Calls For Urgent Debate on Eurovision Televoting eurovoix.com/2025/05/18/%...

A screenshot of my laptop a woman in the centre of the screen speaking saying hello everyone vote for number 14. Eurovision 2025

I just got a YouTube ad asking me to vote for a Eurovision contestant, no country mentioned. I looked it up. It’s Israel. They’re running paid ads to win votes while hiding who they are. You can’t whitewash genocide with a song. Especially when the song is trash 🗑️

Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:

Unfortunately, I Think This Is True….

UNBELIEVEABLE.

Cyclists who kill could face life sentence in proposed law change The amendment would also see increased sentences for deaths and serious injury caused by cyclists.

This is ridiculous. Drivers of motor vehicles kill five people a day on average. None of them receive life sentences
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Queen Elizabeth 'refused to allow Israeli officials inside Buckingham Palace' Former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin says late British monarch thought every Israeli was 'either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist'

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YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (16 April 2025)

Moscow seems pleased. One Russian paper today: “Soviet leaders’ dream of driving a wedge between the European part of Nato & the US has come true.” Another: “Trump is destroying the world created by US liberals…the changes in the global system serve [Russia’s] interests.” #ReadingRussia

Sweden turns up Eurovision heat with wacky sauna song Sweden is getting up a head of steam for what could be a record number of Eurovision wins this year with a humorous sauna act.

Sweden turns up Eurovision heat with wacky sauna song