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What's the Monarchy For? - Series 1: Episode 1 With access to political players and royal insiders, broadcaster David Dimbleby asks: how much power does the monarch really have – and is it more than we tend to think?

If you've not already done so, do watch this 3 part documentary about the monarchy by David Dimbleby.

Excellent broadcasting.

We desperately need to reform our constitutional arrangements, and certainly how public money flows to these unelected billionaires.

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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.

So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.

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Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

How did those presenters keep a straight face

Anyone being pursued for non payment of taxes, should not be able to donate to a political party, although they aren’t really a political party but a Ltd company, so 🤷‍♂️

'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

So do we have an English King under her new rules?

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Everyone needs to hear this:
Research by University College London found that from 2010 to 2023, energy from windfarms has lowered the consumers bill by £104.3bn - even after green subsidies have been paid.
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Unfortunately the previous government destroyed the Russian report & probably destroyed the data it was based on. I’m sure there was a lot of shredding going on during the election!

“Expose the Truth. Defend Our Democracy.” www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/expose-the...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Farage isn’t a politician, he doesn’t understand the consequences of his proposed policies. If he sends back settled Europeans & they do the same, what happens to all the Reform voters happily retired in Spain etc? If this policy also apply to sports, where would England football & rugby etc be 🤷‍♂️

The finest visual demonstration of Brexit that you will ever see.

‘He broke Britain then went to the US to talk about how broken we are. Well thanks a lot’.

Emily Maitlis on Nigel Farage.

Wales -Aberystwyth

Salem's Lot 1979, I watched it alone when my parents & brothers were out, I was 10, absolutely terrified

UK HAS NO MORE ROOM
UK has 280 people per km2 compared with 7000 (Hong Kong), 8100 (Singapore), 22,000 (Macau)

IMMIGRANTS ARE STOPPING YOU GET A HOME
The housing shortage is because of the sell off of council homes/failure to build more, and transition from housing for living to housing for profit

Absolutely agree 100% 👍

No point calling a nurse, they don’t have the authority under the mental health act, but she’s definitely a danger to herself/others, so someone should intervene 🤷‍♂️

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How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

How Britain privatised itself into failure

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble

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It’s amusing that the right are following the narrative that has worked in the US, drain the swamp, destroy the establishment. Although the current UK structures, civil service etc were put in place to protect the monarchy & aristocracy, so ultimately they are putting themselves in the cross-hairs.

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Facts Have Never Been a Speed Bump for Nigel Nigel Farage is at it again, and the BBC are dancing merrily to his tune, argues Russell Jones

🔴Russell Jones's Week Moment: Facts Have Never Been a Speed Bump for Nigel

Nigel Farage is at it again, and the BBC are dancing merrily to his tune, argues @russincheshire.bsky.social

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And yet you hide your identity, but you aren’t a fake??

I started nursing in 87, we had funding for beds, social care, education, accommodation etc. The public voted to take that away, to reduce taxes on the rich. 1 year can’t fix that, it took 12 years last time, not 12 months. It’s not just about wages & it takes time, please, when reporting do better!