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BBC issues correction after exaggerating Scotland drug death figures

The BBC has been forced to issue a correction after exaggerating the number of drug deaths in Scotland 👇

Spanish defence spending has more than doubled under Sánchez, and the US has been permitted to station more naval assets at Rota. And most Spanish people, left and right, see Spain's security challenges coming from the south not from the east, because geography

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

A US cultural revolution is underway. anti fascists who were the pride of the world in WW2 are now chased as terrorists. This is Maoist China with personality cult, show trials, and intellectuals harassment. And this kind of feeble reporting is complicit. It will not end well.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

i think the entire progressive left UK movement is just hoping Farage collapses due to liver failure be4 the next GE

I'd argue it is more a call to start actually getting things done rather than staring at Farage like a deer to the frontlight of a truck.

Starmer is the one centrist politician in Europe who has an absolute majority and four years to act, and still seems as powerless as Scholz in his last days.

'It will all be fine, the election is 4 years away' only works as a source of comfort if you think it's more likely that things will improve rather than get worse.

not true, nightclub industry did

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

that it's important to have a fuck ton of money when suffering burnout

Long may it continue. At this rate Spain will soon become the richest country inside the EU

The First Law of Spanish politics confirmed again today: Pedro Sánchez Always Wins

A decade on, it's going to be Leave vs Remain and Reform all over again.

2015 just a few tweaks to the EU treaties to help us see off Farage
2025 just a few tweaks to the ECHR to help us see off Farage

Quiet Riot Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter

28% of those planning to vote Reform in the next GE think Brexit has been a success, according to Best for Britain. Even if that's 5 points off, it makes you wonder who Labour are chasing with their red lines.
From Quiet Riot podcast.
pca.st/podcast/5b15...

How many A-Levels do you have. Ten, yah? I only respect men who've built a wall.
Have any of you built a wall? I've built a fucking wall!
Returns to his stool.
Followed by an hour of occasional squawks from the bar. HAVE YOU BUILT A WALL?

Young Conservative: 'Party girls can do politics' Emily Hewertson is an aspiring politician who wants to change the perception that you need to smarten up your social media to get there.

I didn't know this person I heard mentioned but the BBC had me covered with this hagiography of one of its Question Time stars.
www.bbc.com/news/av/stor...

Matthew Syed, who recently wrote a long read about why he just joined the Conservatives, objected to his BBC introduction including this fact: "Yes, I just joined the Conservatives, but I still see myself, first and foremost, as an objective journalist, if I may say so."

Phew! Glad that's settled.

Me too. Putting Ireland in its place was part of the Brexit impulse.

"we want your money, not your people" fool proof plan

Haha he is a genius

Oppo leader Feijóo tells him he'll have to appear before a Senate committee investigating corruption and fires all sorts of accusations at him. Sánchez just says," Ánimo, Alberto!" sth like, "Hang in there, Alberto!" or "You can do it!" in reference to the discontent with his leadership in the party

Feijóo cita a Sánchez en la comisión del ‘caso Koldo’ del Senado y este le responde: “Ánimo, Alberto” El líder del PP anuncia que llamará al presidente a comparecer este octubre. El jefe del Gobierno contrapone sus medidas en Sanidad y sobre el aborto con la mala gestión de comunidades del PP

Sánchez isn't Cicero but he's very good indeed at replies in parliamentary debates, watch to the end if you don't understand Spanish you'll get the point. I'll explain in the next tweet

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

Kemi Badenoch: "Poland are experiencing more economic growth than the UK!"

also Kemi Badenoch: "We are the party that took us (the country) out of the European Union!"

That's the fundamental difference between him and Starmer, after the first more formally correct reply he has the confidence and mental agility to dish out a second one like that on seeing the discomfort on the oppo benches. I don't want to be all mystical but he has the inner fire and KS doesn't

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

And Brits can’t go to Poland to find opportunity due to…

Just fck off Clegg