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The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions.
Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
September 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM
The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions.
Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
Feeling second hand embarrassment for the whole US
Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America, and became the one-trick pony of geographical trolling – 27 scathing takedowns www.thepoke.com/2026/08/28/d...
August 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Feeling second hand embarrassment for the whole US
Seriously unimpressed that the powers at @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social and @stpancreas.bsky.social see fit to remove the trolley from Platform 9 3/4 when they can't make money from the shop being open. One very disappointed 9yo when we arrived at 7am
August 12, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Seriously unimpressed that the powers at @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social and @stpancreas.bsky.social see fit to remove the trolley from Platform 9 3/4 when they can't make money from the shop being open. One very disappointed 9yo when we arrived at 7am
Actual competitive football going on so naturally BBC Sport's main headline is a friendly
August 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Actual competitive football going on so naturally BBC Sport's main headline is a friendly
Ok, but who cleans them? Smaller robots that are also solar panels? Who cleans them? Where does it end!?
August 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Ok, but who cleans them? Smaller robots that are also solar panels? Who cleans them? Where does it end!?
Is it that we've learned nothing from trashing our own planet, so now we're gonna do it to every other bit of space rock we can find?
August 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Is it that we've learned nothing from trashing our own planet, so now we're gonna do it to every other bit of space rock we can find?
Ooh. I wonder who will win? #ObsessedWithWrexham #RyanReynoldsDoesntWantToBeYourFriend
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Blackpool, Ipswich, Milton Keynes among nine finalists for UK City of Culture 2029
The nine-strong longlist of cities will receive a £60,000 boost of funding to develop a full bid plan.
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March 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ooh. I wonder who will win? #ObsessedWithWrexham #RyanReynoldsDoesntWantToBeYourFriend
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Delicate little flowers. Nobody should be abusing forecourt staff because it's nothing to do with them, but EVERYBODY knows petrol firms rip off motorists
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Petrol retailers in row with government over 'rip off' accusations
They have pulled out of a meeting, accusing ministers of using
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March 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Delicate little flowers. Nobody should be abusing forecourt staff because it's nothing to do with them, but EVERYBODY knows petrol firms rip off motorists
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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You might want to sit this one out, Tony
March 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
You might want to sit this one out, Tony
In case anyone hasn't noticed. That Trump guy's a little bit thick and 100% evil
BBC News - Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
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BBC News - Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
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Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
In case anyone hasn't noticed. That Trump guy's a little bit thick and 100% evil
BBC News - Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
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BBC News - Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just a thought, but maybe what world leaders should be worrying about in the Arctic Circle is STOPPING ALL THE ICE FROM MELTING
"That's what's really, really worried them..."
Nick Watt reveals how Donald Trump’s weekend intervention on Greenland has raised alarm bells within the UK government.
#Newsnight
Nick Watt reveals how Donald Trump’s weekend intervention on Greenland has raised alarm bells within the UK government.
#Newsnight
January 20, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Just a thought, but maybe what world leaders should be worrying about in the Arctic Circle is STOPPING ALL THE ICE FROM MELTING
She certainly knows how to deal with that pathetic, whining man baby
BBC News - Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting - BBC News
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BBC News - Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting - BBC News
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Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it
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January 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
She certainly knows how to deal with that pathetic, whining man baby
BBC News - Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting - BBC News
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BBC News - Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting - BBC News
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Reform, taking on the establishment by taking in members of the establishment
#ReformAreNotYourFriends
#ReformAreNotYourFriends
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Reform, taking on the establishment by taking in members of the establishment
#ReformAreNotYourFriends
#ReformAreNotYourFriends
Just when I think I can't love @markruffalo.bsky.social more
Mark Ruffalo easily won the night —
@markruffalo.bsky.social: I’m not feeling so great. We have a woman, Renee Good was murdered in our streets of America. And as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening.
#GoldenGlobes
@markruffalo.bsky.social: I’m not feeling so great. We have a woman, Renee Good was murdered in our streets of America. And as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening.
#GoldenGlobes
January 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Alexa's weather predicting ability is second only to me phoning a guy in Arkansas I've never met and asking him when it'll rain in Shrewsbury by licking the first rock he sees.
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Alexa's weather predicting ability is second only to me phoning a guy in Arkansas I've never met and asking him when it'll rain in Shrewsbury by licking the first rock he sees.
Listening to the Gloria Gaynor classic "Never Can Say Goodbye". She literally says it five words into the song.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Listening to the Gloria Gaynor classic "Never Can Say Goodbye". She literally says it five words into the song.
From Russia, with love
Nigel Farage shared his video letter to ‘Broken Britain’, and the enormous self-own was not lost on the nation – 21 frank replies.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
From Russia, with love
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Please note, this film ends at midnight. #blackfriday
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Please note, this film ends at midnight. #blackfriday
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"...
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Trump says US will pause migration from 'third-world countries'
The president did not name which countries would be affected, but vowed to remove anyone
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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"...
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"She started it..."? Grow up. Sick & tired of playground politics. Jeering at the Budget was embarrassing. As was the name-calling/personal attacks. We deserve better than this infantile nonsense.
BBC News - Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
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BBC News - Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
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Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
The Conservative Party leader says she was "channelling" public anger when she accused the chancellor of "whining about mansplaining".
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"She started it..."? Grow up. Sick & tired of playground politics. Jeering at the Budget was embarrassing. As was the name-calling/personal attacks. We deserve better than this infantile nonsense.
BBC News - Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
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BBC News - Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disappointed that I’m not allowed to use an Uzi 9-millimetre to build this bookcase.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Disappointed that I’m not allowed to use an Uzi 9-millimetre to build this bookcase.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
People said the film The Day After Tomorrow was unrealistic, but it's the story of a climatologist who tries to tell the rich and powerful that the world is heading for disaster, and they all ignore him until it's too late, and millions of people end up dead, so...
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
People said the film The Day After Tomorrow was unrealistic, but it's the story of a climatologist who tries to tell the rich and powerful that the world is heading for disaster, and they all ignore him until it's too late, and millions of people end up dead, so...