Cosmoiselle

Making his way slowly southwards, is he? 😉

Is there a picture? I can't find one 😔

That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.

Maybe the 'good for the soul' part mitigates the 'not so great for the longevity of the body' aspect 🙂

Although, now I'm confused as to the difference between nitrites and nitrates (probably very similar 💀)

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Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found

Always wise to avoid buying cooked meat containing nitrates as far as I understand 🙏
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Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.

Turn out was just 16%

Greece accuses British Museum of ‘provocative indifference’ over pink ball Event seated guests near Parthenon marbles, which Greece wants returned, and raised £2.5m for museum

Just looking at this rogues' gallery of attendees on George Osborne's invite is enough to make one's blood boil, let alone if you're watching it all being flagrantly played out in front of your stolen national treasures 🤷‍♂️

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Reminiscent of Turkey (amongst similarly 'challenged' democracies) 👇

What I don’t understand is why the British press don’t hang Brexit around Nigel Farage’s neck like a stockade.

It was the single worst act of economic self harm in modern British history.

Why doesn’t the British media force him to own that?

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Oh look... that's two weeks in a row GB News has done that, with similar results :)

That's not strictly true though. And a lot of Plaid support apparently came as a response to them standing up to Reform ideology.
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The current Labour Party's contempt *for people who actually voted Labour* does not bode well here.

It's far too early to be writing off Reform based on potential for tactical voting, but it's hugely uncertain what the electorate's mood will be in 2029. Labour could fight back to ~30% or it could be polling worse than now. Very obviously the state of the economy and public services matters a lot.

Lib Dem gains from Labour, Conservative and independent as Reform lose everywhere Gains for the Liberal Democrats from Labour, Conservative and independent in council by-elections as the Greens fails surge, again.

Lib Dem gains from Labour, Conservative and independent as Reform lose everywhere

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store | Will Hayward Predictions of a Reform win were wide of the mark. But Labour’s crushing byelection defeat offers important lessons too, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

Essential reading from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social 👇
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Starmer may drop key green pledge in effort to keep energy bills down Exclusive: Promise to remove almost all fossil fuels from UK’s electricity supply by 2030 may be abandoned over cost

Here we go again. Another concocted row over climate policy that damages investor confidence and policy clarity, but practically changes very little.
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My humble request would be that all those U.S. journalists who spent the last week credulously reporting on Trump's "success" in the Middle East simply because he gave a grotesquely premature victory lap unanchored by any actual accomplishment retire permanently from the practice of journalism today

Someone should do a video of him dropping cash on Milei.

The ‘no lobby journalist had challenged it in those first 24 hours’ seems to me to be particularly unfortunate…

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

You know I lived in London when the nail bomb went off in the Admiral Duncan on Great Compton Street twenty five years ago. I worked around the corner. Even then I couldn’t imagine something like this happening. Absolutely. Fucking. Horrific. humanists.uk/2025/10/09/h...

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

You only had to read his (apparently, self-penned) Wikipedia page to realise this wouldn't turn out well... a leader amongst men... a manager who could do no wrong...

Governing is harder than campaigning…

It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences

Racism is so fucked up it is driving people to pretend that they like British food.

Lib Dems sweep through Surrey by-elections The blue wall has crumbled a bit further with the Liberal Democrats having completed a clean sweep in Surrey, winning all six by-elections in a county once seen as the beating heart of Conservative Br...

Lib Dems sweep through Surrey by-elections
#Surrey
#LibDems
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