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Former environmental scientist: soil water processes; catchment hydrology Apparently, I represent a squalid chapter in UK history doing incalculable damage to the country; I've turned it into an island of strangers ~ Keir Starmer Little ol' me. Who knew..

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The reduction in the move on period has been shown to cause homelessness among refugees. It just is not possible for many to find a new place to live in 28 days, or for most people for that matter. It's a harmful, and cynical, manoeuvre by the government, and shifts support needs onto councils.

25.11.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah this is fascist shit

25.11.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Monty Python's Life of Brian.

25.11.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bought my last washing machine off their site, wonโ€™t be doing that again

25.11.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Farage: Teen comments were banter, not racism

Extract:

However, he added:
"I've never
directly racially abused anybody. No." Suggesting the motivation behind the claims was
"political disagreements" with some of his private school peers, Farage denied having "ever been part of an extremist organisation or engaged in direct, unpleasant personal abuse, genuine abuse, on that basis".
Pressed on whether he would say categorically he did not racially abuse fellow pupils, Parage said: "I would never; ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.
Asked whether he had said things to fellow pupils that he had not intended to be hurtful or racist, but they took it that way, he said: "I hope not.
And asked whether he had said things at school that people might have taken offence at, he replied: "Without any shadow of a doubt.
He said he would not apologise to anyone because he did not think that he had done anything that hurt anyone,

Farage: Teen comments were banter, not racism Extract: However, he added: "I've never directly racially abused anybody. No." Suggesting the motivation behind the claims was "political disagreements" with some of his private school peers, Farage denied having "ever been part of an extremist organisation or engaged in direct, unpleasant personal abuse, genuine abuse, on that basis". Pressed on whether he would say categorically he did not racially abuse fellow pupils, Parage said: "I would never; ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way. Asked whether he had said things to fellow pupils that he had not intended to be hurtful or racist, but they took it that way, he said: "I hope not. And asked whether he had said things at school that people might have taken offence at, he replied: "Without any shadow of a doubt. He said he would not apologise to anyone because he did not think that he had done anything that hurt anyone,

Bossy headline from The Times letting Farage insist his โ€œHitler was rightโ€ racism was just โ€˜banterโ€™.
If that were true, his politics now would be different and heโ€™d apologise. Heโ€™s defensive because this is what he is and always has been and heโ€™s angry with us for knowing that and for minding.

25.11.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 605    ๐Ÿ” 212    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Budget uncertainty hammers retail confidence; UK bank shares jump after โ€˜avoiding windfall tax raidโ€™ โ€“ business live Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Well, well

Looks like banks will get away with it again, while the ordinary tax payer bears the brunt in tomorrow's budget

Inexcusable and despicable

www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

25.11.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some would call it plagiarism.

25.11.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Perfect storm': RSPB and Wildlife Trusts warn Budget could push nature into 'freefall' Conservation groups warn Planning and Infrastructure Bill and proposals to water down Biodiversity Net Gain scheme are set to badly undermine Labour's pre-election promises to drive nature recovery ef...

There's real concern this Budget could be very bad for nature (and do little to actually deliver more homes) www.businessgreen.com/news/4522276...

25.11.2025 10:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜The narwhals stop callingโ€™: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels

โ€˜The narwhals stop callingโ€™: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

25.11.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 133    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

24.11.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 823    ๐Ÿ” 329    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it.

This was a *child*

25.11.2025 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1466    ๐Ÿ” 361    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Reformโ€™s โ€˜Trumpianโ€™ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farageโ€™s party rises in polls

"Reform UK barrister tries to bully NationCymru into removing top party officialโ€™s name from storyโ€.

The Nottingham Post was barred from speaking to the councilโ€™s leader and removed from media mailing lists by Reform-led Notts county council.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

25.11.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
telegraph article:
Wool of gay sheep passes woke test for New York fashion debut

Designer Michael Schmidtโ€™s I Wool Survive line uses fleece from rams โ€˜that prefer same-sex partnersโ€™

telegraph article: Wool of gay sheep passes woke test for New York fashion debut Designer Michael Schmidtโ€™s I Wool Survive line uses fleece from rams โ€˜that prefer same-sex partnersโ€™

am I even awake right now?

24.11.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5027    ๐Ÿ” 554    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 247    ๐Ÿ“Œ 156

When regular people look at the howling maelstrom of violence and cruelty being unleashed against minorities in the US, they are horrified. British newspaper columnists, on the other hand, are inspired.

24.11.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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well i guess iโ€™m gonna have to start smoking now

24.11.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1074    ๐Ÿ” 257    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71

Trevor Philips asking leopards if they like his face.

24.11.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

24.11.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 546    ๐Ÿ” 145    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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BBC News cover claims of Nigel Farage's racism

"One Jewish pupil said he was targeted by Mr Farage, who would tell him: Hitler was right and gassed them"

"Another public who was non-white was told to go back to where he came from"

24.11.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 196    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

He's so full of shit.
He's a needy fucking baby.
He's the richest man on Earth.
He's a Fellow of @royalsociety.org
He's a Nazi mass murderer.

24.11.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is ยฃ600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?

Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very โ€˜left behindโ€™ towns and cities that Labour talks so much aboutโ€ฆ

24.11.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 125    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

It was years ago.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not in a hurtful way.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not with intent.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not genuine abuse.

๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฑ ~AA

24.11.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 868    ๐Ÿ” 400    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 141    ๐Ÿ“Œ 126
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Toby Young to Address Orbรกn-Backed Group on UK โ€˜Censorshipโ€™ Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbรกn. Young is being interviewed by Mat...

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK โ€œcensorshipโ€.

Heโ€™ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbรกnโ€™s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the countryโ€™s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

24.11.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 513    ๐Ÿ” 243    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"

24.11.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 651    ๐Ÿ” 241    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 128    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

Robbie Gibb had "no editorial role" at the Jewish Chronicle in the same way as Rupert Murdoch had no editorial role at the media outlets he used to exert political influence for many years.

Gibb also had no editorial role at the BBC but still used his position to bully & browbeat BBC journalists.

24.11.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Comey and James cases dismissed. Because Lindsey Halligan.

No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trumpโ€™s political enemies, and one willing to failed.

Authoritarian abuses donโ€™t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they donโ€™t have.

24.11.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 614    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait

Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed โ€” and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to ยฃ1.3bn

Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor

Monday November 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times

Thousands of refugees who believed they were months from settlement now face 15 years of instability after it was confirmed that Shabana Mahmood's overhaul of asylum rules would apply retrospectively.

Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed โ€” and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to ยฃ1.3bn Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor Monday November 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times Thousands of refugees who believed they were months from settlement now face 15 years of instability after it was confirmed that Shabana Mahmood's overhaul of asylum rules would apply retrospectively.

Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

24.11.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 262    ๐Ÿ” 117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

Sometimes the truth hurts.

24.11.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump wants the MMR split. Kennedy rewrote CDC vaccineโ€“autism language. Sen. Ron Johnson says itโ€™s โ€œtime to apologize to Dr. Wakefield.โ€

Across MAHA/MAGA media, the movement has fully adopted the anti-vaxx fiction of Wakefield as a martyr and is elevating him again.

24.11.2025 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail

24.11.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
JAMES B. COMEY, JR.,
Defendant.
Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60)
On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with
making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28
U.S.C. ยง 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr.
Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. ยง 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
NORFOLK DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
LETITIA A. JAMES,
Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W
Defendant.
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22)
On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with
bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. ยง 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms.
James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. ยง 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

24.11.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2634    ๐Ÿ” 608    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101

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