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All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

08.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 2652    🔁 779    💬 113    📌 35
Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult.
He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place.
To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles.
Sir Robert Buckland KC
Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult. He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place. To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles. Sir Robert Buckland KC Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

08.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 286    🔁 71    💬 18    📌 2

Walk Away, Sisters of Mercy

07.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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

07.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 13163    🔁 7163    💬 699    📌 654

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

06.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 1626    🔁 88    💬 39    📌 13

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

03.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 25923    🔁 6310    💬 118    📌 558
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windows 7 2025 edition leaked screenshots

03.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 577    🔁 70    💬 15    📌 2
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This is it #trumpshutdown

🎥: @warnock.senate.gov

04.10.2025 02:39 — 👍 6747    🔁 3286    💬 279    📌 246
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This is fascism.

04.10.2025 00:22 — 👍 16367    🔁 4915    💬 2407    📌 645
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Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

Take this shower of shit back into public ownership and prosecute all previous board members. This company was run into the ground and used debt to pay dividends. How that's even legal is beyond belief. Now they want legal exemptions to carry on polluting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

02.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The church shooter wearing a Trump shirt that says “Make liberals cry again.”

02.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1
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"Keir Starmer literally used the words 'take up arms.'"

No, Richard Tice, he literally didn't

02.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 130    🔁 49    💬 10    📌 5
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@apnews.com FIX YOUR HEADLINE.

01.10.2025 05:38 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I read that twice. Absolutely fucking mental.

30.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside Congress
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

THE BUCK STOPS HERE:

30.09.2025 14:12 — 👍 4476    🔁 1804    💬 156    📌 100
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Jesse Watters - I didn't say we are at war. That's what I said they said.

Checks tape.
"We're going to avenge Charlie's death."
"They are at war with us."
"This is a war we didn't ask for and this is a war they can't win."
🤔

30.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 310    🔁 80    💬 21    📌 2

These both look like fun but Cambridge or Norwich for an East of England audience would be great, ta

30.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, Justice Thomas said there's nothing sacred about precedent.

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

28.09.2025 05:40 — 👍 5240    🔁 2166    💬 366    📌 122
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Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.

28.09.2025 10:22 — 👍 174    🔁 76    💬 7    📌 8
4 panel comic

Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face.
Agent: STOP

Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm
Agent: BEING

Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester
Agent: POLITICALLY

Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head
Agent: VIOLENT

4 panel comic Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face. Agent: STOP Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm Agent: BEING Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester Agent: POLITICALLY Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head Agent: VIOLENT

28.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 16786    🔁 4473    💬 70    📌 67

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

28.09.2025 05:36 — 👍 22603    🔁 5337    💬 608    📌 260
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Majority in UK live in homes getting more benefits than they pay tax A record 35.8 million people live in a household receiving more in state handouts and services than they pay in tax, according to new figures laying bare the reality of benefits Britain.

Terrible article. Not a mention that most of these people will be in work with taxes subbing large corps to pay unlivable wages. Raise the minimum wage so businesses have to pay a living wage and the benefits won't be needed.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

27.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos.

This overshadowed another big announcement...

On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation.

Hello?

26.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 3125    🔁 1403    💬 121    📌 78
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Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID) Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

26.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Irony died yesterday

26.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 7016    🔁 1693    💬 716    📌 189

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

26.09.2025 08:27 — 👍 3704    🔁 1537    💬 139    📌 134

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

25.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 21175    🔁 7920    💬 680    📌 348

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