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YouTube video by TheKnackVEVO The Knack - My Sharona

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The Knack - My Sharona

YouTube video by acdcVEVO AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Live At River Plate, December 2009)

🎶🎶…Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder…🎶🎶

#Rock #HeavyMetal #AcDc

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Paris II

Agree

YouTube video by Mystify INXS - On A Bus

PS (to last post) ... And the INXS self-titled debut, of course. Gave this album an absolute thrashing in 1981 when I was 16 and in Year 11. Still like it!

Paris today.

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

Thoughts ?

Farage: epic grifter

Everything about his body language whenever a question is asked about the Russian bribes speaks of panic. Farage is vulnerable on this.

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Zia Yusuf might have something to say to this moron

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

Ed Davey, "I know members opposite are relieved, they're finally allowed to say the Conservative's Brexit deal is a disaster"

"Will the Prime Minister act now to repair the Brexit damage by negotiating a new UK-EU Customs Union to boost Britain's trade and grow our economy?"

Keir Starmer, "No"

Beggars belief why Starmer doesn't have guts to do this. Decent prosecutor in opposition, grand plans thats fizzled out once in government. Could solved the financial mess. But no, limps from one circumstance to the next with ineffective outcomes. @niadh127.bsky.social - Reckon you might agree

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

As his landmark Brexit has proved, Farage is a fraud.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BDO chief pledges fight over ‘falsehoods’ on First Brands work Firm leader says auditor may face years of scrutiny and will take ‘decisive action to protect our reputation’

BDO chief pledges fight over ‘falsehoods’ on First Brands work on.ft.com/47m0S9V

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Mollie O’Callaghan 200m freestyle short course world record, swimming World Cup, time, latest news, video - News Beep Australian Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a short course world record of 1min 49.77sec to win the 200m freestyle at the swimming World Cup stop in Westmont,

Mollie O’Callaghan 200m freestyle short course world record, swimming World Cup, time, latest news, video

https://www.newsbeep.com/195022/

Australian Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a short course world record of 1min 49.77sec to win the 200m freestyle at…

Grasmere - Done

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More like @laylamoran.bsky.social in our national discourse and a shit loud less from Reform and Farage and his sycophants @reformexposed.bsky.social

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first Energy companies have injected green hydrogen into Britain’s gas grid and used the low-carbon gas to generate electricity, in a landmark development for the UK’s climate ambitions. For the first time in the UK, a 2% blend of green hydrogen was injected into the gas grid and blended with traditional gas to fuel the Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire which generated electricity for the power system. Continue reading...

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns The planet has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. Continue reading...

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look: