Chris Gooch

I really don’t like wearing a tie with a crease. Not a contradiction, a preference

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

Another corporate scandal.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing.

98% of the the 23,000 homes fitted with botched external wall insulation need repairs.

Companies have vanished, people left with the problems.

Motherfuckers. Collective punishment is a war crime

Black and white portrait of a man in a white shirt and polka dot tie, looking to the side.

14 October 1913 | Pole Józef Garlinski was born in Kyiv. A lawyer. He served in the counterintelligence of the Home Army.

In #Auschwitz from May 13, 1943.
No. 121421
Transferred to KL Neuengamme. He survived.
Author of "Auschwitz Fighting" about the resistance in Auschwitz.

A chart showing how regular wages are growing after taking account of inflation. The first few months of the period starting September 2023 showed relatively slow growth, but there was consistent growth between February 2024 and September 2024, meaning wages grew by 2.4% over the year. This latter period is in contrast to the period starting September 2024, where growth has hovered around zero. Between September 2023 and August 2024, wages grew 2.1%, but in the same period a year later, they grew just 0.2%.

We are still at near zero real earnings growth since Sept 2024, 11th month in row. We had a very small rise in earnings in August 2025 on previous month, leaving earnings up just 0.2% on Sept 2024.

Our monetary capital is being mined and exported

Alexa, is it cold outside?

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

“The government created an overly complex system that ultimately failed.” It blamed “unclear and fragmented roles, responsibilities and accountabilities” among the scheme providers, the certification bodies, the regulator Ofgem, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

#r4today

Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.

The UK must stand up for human rights and reject calls to leave the ECHR - Sign the open letter

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Biden-era hostage outcomes 🇮🇱👇

≈89 released by Hamas:
≈8 rescued by IDF

≈97 Israelis returned alive — the result of both diplomacy and military action.

What a find. Faceache made my skin crawl, which was quite something, I had macabre tastes for a child

They should call the liquor bar Tail Chasers

Decades in prison and then $150k in medical bills.

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Thank you. Actually shunning the news today, waiting for a) the genuine facts to emerge b) every word out of his mouth is worthless garbage so why listen?

Hear hear

Actual laugh/cry interface

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
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Alexa, where is my nearest kebab shop?

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Reform caught disguising its local election candidates as 'independents' Reform disguises parish-level candidates as independents to win elections, showing that independent doesn't always mean progressive

Reform caught disguising its local election candidates as ‘independents’

Russians killed a married couple in Zaporizhzhia region with a drone.

They targeted a civilian car in one of the villages of the Polohy district. Inside were a 53-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman.

Rescuers retrieved their bodies from the mangled wreckage🕯

Bastards!

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

UN expert @unsrvaw.bsky.social calls for recognition of surrogacy as system of violence, exploitation & abuse, urges abolition.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...