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What? Mani?
Aw for fuck sake. 😢

🚨 NEW: The UK saw the largest increase in relative child income poverty of 37 high-income countries between 2013 and 2023, an increase of 34%, new research from UNICEF UK shows.

If the two-child limit stays in place, child poverty will continue to rise. Is this really a record we want?

...but given the EARLIEST games might not start until 17:00, with games at following 20:00 / 23:00 and West coast venues maybe not kicking off until 02:00 in the morning, if you're giving everyone a full-days 'run-up', you'll need to declare the following day a holiday as well to sober up.

I appreciate the sentiment, but it's maybe a bit embarrassing to be declaring public holidays just for FINALLY making it back to the party. Maybe save it for when we play our first-ever game in the knockout phase? 🤞

Let's see who / where & when we're playing our opening match...

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie Trump vs The BBC

Trump vs The BBC.
Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril.
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God, there's a face you could never tire of punching.

YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Half Man Half Biscuit - Peel Session 1985

#HMHB Peel Session 10/11/1985. Tracklisting: D'ye Ken Ted Moult? /Arthur's Farm / Dukla Prague Away Kit /Trumpton Riots / Ol'Tige (Jim Reeves over)

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That's an impressive first interview, and I hope Lutz's infectious enthusiasm spreads throughout the club, the city, and beyond.
You can see why @raecomm.bsky.social was so keen that he came to AFC.
Vorwärts und aufwärts!

"Road racing in the UK — it’s withering on the vine a bit"

A standout season for Handsling-Alba — built on a development-first ethos — yet Bob Lyons warns that without urgent reform, British racing will struggle to keep the talent it produces.

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Was that the 1st or 2nd gig they played at The Capitol?
I remember the crowd turning on Astbury at the end of the 2nd gig when he announced that they wouldn't be coming out for the encore unless the crowd made more noise.
Didn't go down well. 😄

Personally, I'd send Aouchiche back to Wearside in January to give Clarkson more game-time.

After the Hitler news, Thursday just seems to be wall-to-wall knob gags.

What with that, AND being one bollock down, no wonder he was perpetually angry.

😂

"Coup d’Twat" 😂

The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️

Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.

The Guardian article with headline: UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests.

Starmer's climate vandalism continues.

Our planet needs action, not warm words from politicians. 🌍

#COP30

The UK lost £11 BILLION to multinational corporations cheating on their taxes from 2016 to 2021.

Who's robbed us? Our govts know— they have the tax records— but have kept them from the public due to a US-backed global gag order. #NameTheTaxCheaters

Report from @taxjustice.net 👉 bit.ly/taxjustice25

The Angles and the Saxons themselves were immigrants from Northern Germany in the 3rd / 4th centuries.
So, unless Alex Jones can demonstrate that he's descended from an ancient Pictish / Celtic tribe of pre-Roman times, he can shut his stupid racist pie-hole.

If you listen closely, you can actually hear Sarah Pochin's piss boiling.

Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim Samir Zoutini, a heroic GNER staff member whose incredible bravery saved lives during the mass stabbing on Saturday, has confounded racists by being a Muslim.

🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim

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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

If the ball got past Willie, then the man certainly did not.
Different times.

Sad news indeed.
Not the greatest player to pull on the famous red shirt by any means, but when you're a Dons-daft 9 year old, he might as well have been Franz Beckenbauer.

Aw, apparently Willie Young's deid.
I still remember him hurling his shirt at Jimmy Bonthrone after getting hooked with us 3-0 down, and striding up the track to the tunnel, while Alickie tried to placate him.
Was out the door within days...😂

His style would do well in German football.

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● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession.

●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed

● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years

● Sleep well serfs.

● Know your place.

L.....O.....and I can't stress this enough.....L

1. time for a rethink A gloomy economic outlook is making it more likely that the Chancellor will need to increase taxes at the Autumn Budget. She should take this opportunity to protect workers' pay packets, pay packets, at the same time as brining in revenue and making the tax system fairer.

2. fairer share Currently, earnings from employment are taxed twice - in the form of National Insurance Contributions (NICS) and Income Tax. Other forms of income, like the income landlords earn from rent, only face Income Tax. Cutting NICs by 2p while increasing income tax by the same amount would have no impact on most employees.

3. A helping hand Under this proposal, a pensioner with an income of £25,000 would pay around £250 a year more in Income Tax. The New State Pension will be rising by over £500 next April. For pensioners with both incomes below £40,000, that boost would be bigger than the tax rise, so they would still be better off next year than this.

4. Delivering fairness and fiscal stability The policy would raise £6 billion a year while protecting the payslips of 30 million employees. This is a change for the Chancellor to provide fiscal reassurance alongside long-lasting beneficial tax reform.

Switching 2p from National Insurance to Income Tax could raise £6 billion while protecting workers’ pay packets.

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