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This is extraordinary. Jack Smith is so careful about every single detail because if he makes the slightest mistake they're try to put him in prison. Then the exact moment when he thinks he's caught Jack Smith. The smug smile. Then the sheer incompetence 😂 youtu.be/V6aYumK9Xic?...
'A febrile moment for American democracy' | Simon Marks
YouTube video by LBC
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October 1, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is extraordinary. Jack Smith is so careful about every single detail because if he makes the slightest mistake they're try to put him in prison. Then the exact moment when he thinks he's caught Jack Smith. The smug smile. Then the sheer incompetence 😂 youtu.be/V6aYumK9Xic?...
You often hear the farming lobby talk of how the UK needs to be more self sufficient. If they were serious, would moving away from quite so much dairy and sheep be a good first step! 🤔
The vegan land conservation argument—that animal agriculture is an inefficient use of fertile cropland—is literally over two thousand years old (and arguably more true now than it was then!).
October 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
You often hear the farming lobby talk of how the UK needs to be more self sufficient. If they were serious, would moving away from quite so much dairy and sheep be a good first step! 🤔
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I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
October 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
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🚨Andy Burnham says "every option" is on the table for the UK-EU relationship.
The country's made it clear what option he should take.
Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership.
Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇
The country's made it clear what option he should take.
Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership.
Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇
Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
bestforbritain.org
October 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
🚨Andy Burnham says "every option" is on the table for the UK-EU relationship.
The country's made it clear what option he should take.
Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership.
Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇
The country's made it clear what option he should take.
Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership.
Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇
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Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
October 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026)
Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
September 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026)
Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...
Talking Dog from That's Life (1970s)... SAUSAGES!!
YouTube video by MostPopularClips2012
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September 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...
Sometimes I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg can be so terribly terribly rich when Facebook is so terribly terribly shite!
September 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Sometimes I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg can be so terribly terribly rich when Facebook is so terribly terribly shite!
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🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme
This is what they said
This is what they said
September 30, 2026 at 2:25 PM
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme
This is what they said
This is what they said
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“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR].
It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to”
Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to”
Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
September 30, 2026 at 5:25 PM
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR].
It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to”
Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to”
Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
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Time for this classic again.
September 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Time for this classic again.
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What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction.
What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!"
What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!"
What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
September 29, 2026 at 10:59 PM
What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction.
What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!"
What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!"
What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
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There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
September 30, 2026 at 8:36 AM
There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
The number of people buying farms to dodge tax is falling. Although you wouldn't know it if you followed the coverage www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
The withdrawal of inheritance tax relief on farmland is having the desired effect - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Doug Clark, Cononley, Keighley.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
September 30, 2026 at 8:52 AM
The number of people buying farms to dodge tax is falling. Although you wouldn't know it if you followed the coverage www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone.
Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐
Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐
September 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone.
Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐
Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐
Is there such a thing as too many flags???
September 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Is there such a thing as too many flags???
I walked in and there was this old racist guy spouting off on the news and I wondered why they were platforming him and it turned out he was a billionaire and that was why. A billionaire that backed Brexit and then fucked off abroad, while the rest of us suffer the consequences.
Gary Lineker: “I look at #MUFC and I see that the problems, you know, it's that thing coming down from the top. I must say that I must congratulate the Glazers on finding someone even worse than them that they can blame and getting him in there and getting all the stick, Ratcliffe [Rest is Football]
September 22, 2026 at 6:39 AM
I walked in and there was this old racist guy spouting off on the news and I wondered why they were platforming him and it turned out he was a billionaire and that was why. A billionaire that backed Brexit and then fucked off abroad, while the rest of us suffer the consequences.
Facebook. The place that is radicalising your granny to support the far right. The place that is weaponising attacks on heroes risking their lives to rescue people at sea, now consider women's equality too controversial to allow on the platform. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Facebook. The place that is radicalising your granny to support the far right. The place that is weaponising attacks on heroes risking their lives to rescue people at sea, now consider women's equality too controversial to allow on the platform. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.
September 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.
Having 'legitimate concerns' is the new 'I'm not racist, but ...'
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 21, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Having 'legitimate concerns' is the new 'I'm not racist, but ...'
I mean it's very funny, but also rather worrying...
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
www.thetimes.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:21 AM
I mean it's very funny, but also rather worrying...
Remember when Obama said the UK might struggle to get a trade deal with the US and all the Brexiters lost their collective minds at foreign interference in our elections.
Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.
Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.
September 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Remember when Obama said the UK might struggle to get a trade deal with the US and all the Brexiters lost their collective minds at foreign interference in our elections.
Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.
Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.
It's difficult to comprehend the delays in the court system, but the fact a man had just gone on trial for a planned protest at Boris Johnson's wedding all those years ago really puts it in perspective www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man 'planned paint protest at Boris Johnson wedding party', court hears
A court hears Tim Speers, from Cornwall, planned to write the word "Palestine" on the venue's lawn.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It's difficult to comprehend the delays in the court system, but the fact a man had just gone on trial for a planned protest at Boris Johnson's wedding all those years ago really puts it in perspective www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Welcome to WTAF Is Wrong With Roughly One-Third Of People, Episode 4,629
Britons tend to feel the masked demonstrations over the weekend were not a legitimate way of protesting, by 38% to 31%
Note: Only a minority of the public report following the news closely
Note: Only a minority of the public report following the news closely
September 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Welcome to WTAF Is Wrong With Roughly One-Third Of People, Episode 4,629
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This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle.
www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
Man charged with public order offences – Oxfordshire
Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, a man has been charged in connection with 14 offences in Oxfordshire.
www.thamesvalley.police.uk
September 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle.
www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...