Mark Llety'r Deryn

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

80 years ago today the United States dropped a single bomb which obliterated the entire city of Hiroshima. Less than a kilogram of uranium underwent nuclear fission.
It was sufficient to kill around 80,000 and wound a similar number. Most of the buildings were damaged or destroyed.

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

And S4C!

I was there ......!

I won't 'like' it. What a shit!

Why is gambling exempt from VAT? It’s a scourge in this country and costs people everything.

Tax it.

Really?

Parents beat VAT on private school fees raid by paying £500m up front Large scale of advance payments could impact government plan to raise revenue, tax experts warned

"People who are 'too poor to pay tax' find a spare half billion quid to pay UPFRONT for something that's entirely voluntary."

There, I fixed it for you.

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Labour’s Best Start Family Hubs will be rolled out in every local authority by April 2026.

Backed by over £500 million, Hubs will provide wide-ranging help for families.
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This support is part of Labour’s strategy to ensure that all children get the very best start in life

Better with Labour 👍

Putin is meeting Trump envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin right now.

Most likely outcome: Trump extends his deadline by 90 days after Putin makes a half-assed “promise” to explore talks.

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Ah that's lovely news.

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Health Secretary RFK Jr has announced he’s cancelling $500 million of vaccine development projects.

As Farage's star continues to rise I can't help but detect exactly the same mistakes being made all over again. In so routinely prioritising Farage's rhetoric and personality over the substance of his policies, actions and record, the British press is once again failing to properly hold to account a man who the opinion polls now suggest has a serious chance of becoming Prime Minister in just a few years time. If that chance does become a reality then he will quickly prove, as Johnson did before him, how utterly unsuited he would be for such a position. Yet by that point much of the damage of a Farage premiership to our national public services, economy and global reputation will already have been done, with many of the same news organisations who helped to get him to that point, only belatedly bothering to point out why he had never been suitable for the job in the first place.

“Whatever happens, the damage that has already been done by the constant media indulgence of Farage and his divisive, inflammatory and outright racist views will take many years for this country to recover from.”

Yes. A disgraceful, unforgivable failure.

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ealth Taxes introduced by Labour to date 1. Companies House confirms identity verification rollout from 18 Nov 2025. 2. Changes to make Land Registry transparent on land/property ownership 3. Increase stamp duty on purchases of 2nd homes up to 5% from 3% in total 4. Abolishing Non Dom status 5. VAT on private school fees 6. Changes to pension inheritance tax 7. Increase to Capital Gains tax 8. Discussions with Isle of Man and HMRC to stop tax avoidance and loopholes 9. New HMRC team focused on ensuring the wealthy pay the correct amount of tax 24/25 yields additional c£1.5bn 10. New powers in Companies tackling economic crime and improving data 11. Air passenger duty on private jets up 50% 12. Changes to IHT on agricultural estates

Some quiet changes that are targeting the wealthy and creating lots of angst in the media. Labour are focused on equality and moving the benefits to ordinary people. What’s not to like?

Yvette Cooper slams Reform's immigrant policy - 'All they do is shout at the sea' "Farage is a fake patriot who does not care about this country"

Yvette Cooper has slammed Reform UK’s immigration policy, accusing them of just “shouting at the sea” without a coherent plan

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/yve...

Unsuspecting fact about your home can ‘double’ risk of Parkinson’s Pesticides used to keep golf courses in perfect condition may be causing the disease, according to researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona

And aside from golf courses' massive water use, which you highlight, there's this too:

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The crimes behind Reform How I uncovered a network of new crimes involving Nigel Farage's most loyal financier. It could severely damage Farage.

Read this. Repost it. Ram it down every throat that ever bought Farage’s bullshit. Send it to your mates, your nan, your MP - this could blow the whole rotten Reform racket to hell. Farage isn’t a leader - he’s a conman in a blazer, and his empire’s about to crumble.

They needs us m…oh…

Nasturtiums are easy to grow and totally edible—flowers, leaves, and seeds! 🌼🌿 Plant in full sun, poor soil, and water sparingly. Pick blooms when fully open for the best flavor—peppery like rocket. Toss into salads, stuff with cream cheese, or use as a vibrant garnish. #edibleflowers #gardenchat

More electricity pylons 'crucial' despite cost to bill payers - BBC News Transmission network operators plan to spend £32bn over the ten five years upgrading lines

So not content with charging us more for our own power than they pay for it, the Union now wants us to subsidise the SE of England even more by upgrading the pylons used to take even more of our power south. 😳😳😳😳 WTF. You Yes yet?
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Nigel Farage says he has never worked in a prison so he is unable to answer a question on prison policy. On that basis he will have no views on health, defence, culture, energy, education, farming, transport, law… or anything other than lying and grifting.

Reform’s 19-year-old council leader risks contempt of court over rape case comments | Western Morning News Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailGet our free View from Westminster emailA Reform UK council leader risks b...

Has Reform UK’s leader of the council’s naivety potentially screwed a court case?

Reform’s 19-year-old council leader risks contempt of court over rape case comments

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The ITV documentary about Lucy Letby is very good. Old school, public interest broadcasting which assumes the intelligence and the conscience of its audience. Anyone with the slightest interest in the case should watch it.

Netanyahu's Government have just voted to fire the Attorney General investigating Netanyahu for corruption.

The 'only democracy in the Middle East', is actually just another Fascist Dictatorship.

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

TV entertainer and inexplicably NASA interim administrator Sean Duffy wants to make the moon a little brighter.

If I was looking at the 2 teams and someone told me it was 1972, I wouldn't argue!

A row has broken out between Labour and Plaid Cymru over the treatment of autistic children in Llanelli✍️ Martin Shipton buff.ly/kl6jK2j

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

‘…the number of independent schools still rose slightly over the same period.’
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Man arrested on suspicion of GBH after video appeared to show activist Tommy Robinson walking near scene A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm in connection to an alleged assault at St Pancras station on 28 July.

Criminal mastermind outwitted by Ryanair passenger manifest.

#TommyRobinson