Bryce Wilcock

Check out this 10 bedroom country house for sale on Rightmove 10 bedroom country house for sale in Queen Marys Drive, Barlaston, Staffordshire, ST12 for £2,895,000. Marketed by Jackson-Stops, Alderley Edge

this absolutely outstanding Palladian pile is up for sale and you’re all gonna have to bear with me because this one gets a whole thread

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Keep up the great work. We need fair, impartial reporting more than ever

CM: Help our viewers then understand who you are as a Conservative. You referred to previous Conservative leaders. Your shadow chancellor yesterday, Mel Stride, eviscerated Liz Truss and his argument being that she trashed your party's reputation for economic competence. Why not-... throw her out the party? We saw Keir Starmer throw Jeremy Corbyn out the party as a badge of saying the party has changed. Why not do the same for Liz Truss? KB: Is she still in the party? CM: Well, you tell me. KB: Well you tell me. You're the one asking the question. CM: You're the party leader.

fair to say Kemi Badenoch’s last interview on BBC wasn’t a storming success

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

I wonder if this means we’ll start seeing crypto bros swap their corporate branded gillets and Huel for tweet blazers and pints of John smiths? That would be some turn around

Starmer’s post-Brexit reset offers clear benefits – but there is political risk too While getting UK-EU deal through parliament should be easy enough, cries of ‘betrayal’ may chime with some voters

“The Govt acknowledged, for the first time, what successive British governments have spent years denying – that Brexit has damaged Britain. It laid out the figures: the UK has suffered a 21% drop in exports and 7% drop in imports. Finally, the charade is over.”

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Maternity pay has gone too far, says Kemi Badenoch - BBC News The Tory leadership candidate says the government should be reducing regulatory burdens for businesses.

‘Kemi Badenoch urges Britons to have more kids’

Also Kemi badenoch:

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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live ‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

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Can’t help but picture Michael the Geordie from Alan Partridge whenever Clattenburg speaks

Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.

BREAKING NYT:

Pete Hegseth's personal phone number — the one used in a recent Signal chat — was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

No probs. Listened to sad oligarch and loved it so have been looking forward to this. Any other of those in the pipeline too or was that it?

Is there any way I can watch this, or subscribe to watch it? Or is it not out yet?

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.

So refreshing to hear millionaire Mark Campbell calling for a wealth tax on the ultra rich on @bbc5live.bsky.social this morning.

If even the millionaires can see the impact it’ll have, why can’t the ministers?

Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics

Musk is now weighing in on the upcoming German election by campaigning for the far-right AfD. It’s as if the man is hell-bent on reshaping global politics, no matter how extreme the parties he is endorsing may prove to be.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Amazing to think we even had him. Love seeing him finally get a chance there and seizing it. He’s pure class on and off the pitch

“It was incredible. It was Fergie time, I believe in it… something magic happened.”

Ruben Amorim is a brilliant communicator. You can see how he apparently won over Ratcliffe from the off

Big North East related scoop by @thetimes.com today.

With ample room for expansion, it could grow significantly with the right level of investment.

Here’s hoping whoever wins the bidding does just that.

FT front page has a story that billionaire financier Michael Spencer whining that top CEOs should be "paid like footballers" to make us competitive.

It then notes the average Premier League salary is £2.1m and the average FTSE 100 CEO earns £4.1m.

Talk about lenient sentencing...

Any other industry you'd be facing the sack. The whole place is an absolute shambles.

What startles me most about this is how many FB memes I've seen this past week trying to debunk the shift to renewable energy. Think Tanks have a lot to answer for.

This is how football should be played. What a first half.

This is farcical. United is an absolute basket case of a club.

Governments are falling and changing left, right and centre. The world is in absolute chaos

Rupert Grint: Harry Potter star to pay £1.8m after losing tax battle - BBC News The former Harry Potter star is ordered to pay the sum after losing a tax appeal.

Reevesy clamping down on tax loopholes so hard even wizards can’t magic themselves out of them 🪄

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Yep, exactly that. I was reading at the weekend that over 50% of farm land sold in the UK last year was acquired by non-farmers, which just goes to show how much the loophole is being exploited. Surely if they really cared about the future of farming, they'd target those buying up the land?

If this was any other protest group or demographic there'd be absolute outrage.

Funny how when it's farmers it's seen as perfectly normal behaviour.

Teesside should not risk its clean energy future by fighting [FREE TO READ] The net zero transition gives the region’s port a historic chance to grow if territorial tensions ease

A trip down the River Tees, into a world of net zero aspiration riven by high court warfare

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‘Stuff of nightmares’ statue of Harry Kane unveiled after five years in storage England star hails ‘proud moment’ as £7,200 sculpture, which has elicited mixed response, finds permanent home

They’ve finally unveiled the Harry Kane statue of Paul Hollywood dipped in chocolate.