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I ain't afraid of no Congestion Charge. Ghostbusters hearse by relux at Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

No. What’s breaking Labour is Labour forgetting to be Labour.

What’s breaking Labour is Blue Labour.

😂

Is there _anything_ that Dominic** Cummings has been right on?

**Nearly typed that as Cominic Cummings. Should have left it.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Late Afternoon Colours. 15°C overlooking the Vale Of York. Sparrows.

Late Afternoon Colours. 15°C overlooking the Vale Of York. Sparrows.

Here’s a look at Zohran Mamdani’s policy ideas | CNN Politics Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the city’s mayoral race, has multiple proposals that have garnered significant interest throughout the campaign as he aims to make the city more a...

People of North Durham! Your MP Luke Akehurst has said, over on the shouty site, that newly-elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani's policies would go down like 'a cup of cold sick' with you. Take a look at Mandani's policies attached, and tell me what you think.

edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

A Brief Glimmer. 14°C on a rather bleak afternoon. A few sheep.

A Brief Glimmer. 14°C on a rather bleak afternoon. A few sheep.

Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.

Astonishing how headlines are just 'Samir Zitouni' for the name of the guy who saved people during the stabbing incident, and not 'X-Born Samir Zitouni' or 'X-British National Samir Zitouni' like they would if he was the suspect?

It's almost like the race is only important when they want it to be.

New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Tag yourself.

Or you could have left it for another person who needed an emergency charge.

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Whish there was a LOL emoji in the responses for this. So true, so true.

A cluster of ladybirds.

A loveliness (!) of ladybirds, Limb Valley, Sheffield.

If Trump finds a constitutional loophole that allows him to run for a third term, that constitutional loophole will also apply to Obama (unless they say that it doesn't apply to black people, or something).

Just saying.

In the Telegraph, I suspect.

If you think that 'they' are lying to you, well, yes. 'They' are.

Interestingly, this cartoon posted by Claude Littner over on the shouty site shows a crime trend that is absolutely the opposite of what has actually happened. I can't comment on the immigration trend.

A link to crime statistics in the UK because the chatter on the socials is such that I suspect that a lot of refutation is just about to be needed. I think you can probably find e.g. ten year stats (i.e. from just before Brexit) through this page as well.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

You know you are going to be excoriated by people who aspire to have an Aga and are deeply resentful of people who do have an Aga; and consequently blame the middle class for everything and you for reporting on middle class concerns.

<Full disclosure: I do not have an Aga and I do get the joke.>

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

I'm jumping on a badwagon here, but this really is the most appalling wu. There's nothing wrong with being connected to nature but I don't believe you can measure it by measuring spirituality.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

Six months on from the locals…

Reform is losing councillors at an “unusual” rate

PolHome analysis finds that Farage’s party has lost over 5% of all cllrs elected in May

In Kent, its 14%

@matildamartin.bsky.social’s deep dive www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK? – Full Fact This widely-circulating figure appears to be based on a think tank estimate that is both out of date and based on flawed methodology. We don’t know with any degree of certainty how many unauthorised m...

More on this here: fullfact.org/immigration/...

However, because they are undocumented, we cannot know how many there are. As soon as you know someone is an illegal immigrant they can be deported or put into the queue for asylum processing.

Sources of undocumented immigrants are students outstaying their visa and sex traffickers. 2/n

How many illegal immigrants are there in the UK? When people say 'illegal immigrants' they usually mean asylum seekers. These people are not illegal in any sense at all. They are documented and awating processing.

There are some undocumented immigrants that could be considered 'illegal'. 1/n

Yeah ...

Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.

Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not in Wales, though. Diolch Caerfilli.