Lois
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Deranged nihilist, heathen husk, accidental croneburger
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Rafael Behr
about 8 hours ago
I canât help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is ânot much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feetâ.
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Sardonicus
about 9 hours ago
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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Rose Ruane
about 22 hours ago
Adverts for Valium from a 1971 Graphis magazine feature on La Roche pharmaceutical companyâs advertising campaigns
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Suggested this to coughing relatives with disappointing results
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about 22 hours ago
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raisin bird
3 days ago
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
2 days ago
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely.
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
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Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sandie-peggie-v-fife-health-board-and-another-judgment-and-summary/
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Thames looked floody today, so close to the Millennium bridge you could hear it gurgling
3 days ago
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Guillaume D.
3 days ago
Martin Parr (1952-2025). Disparition dâun photographe extraordinaire : celui des gens ordinaires et des bords de mer. đ€
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John-y-Cash
3 days ago
Car le running, c'est épuisant !
#Photography
#Dog
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Scotland drawn against Brazil again. What were the chances
5 days ago
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Sophie Pedder
5 days ago
According to French media reports the đ«đ· navy last night shot down five drones flying over the Ile Longue, in Brittany, home to Franceâs SNLE nuclear-armed submarines, the naval component of Franceâs nuclear deterrent
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Nearly missed my flight due to Ryanair helpfully sending me a push notification to go to gate 25, instead of gate 4 at the other end of the airport
6 days ago
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Nicolai von Ondarza
6 days ago
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
GardaĂ are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
https://www.thejournal.ie/drones-dublin-ireland-hybrid-warfare-russia-6893104-Dec2025
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Buccleuch Street channelling the 1900s this morning
7 days ago
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
7 days ago
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Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
https://c.org/bHVbnP5dXC
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Charity shop playing a jolly C&W number 'Hang me, oh hang me'
7 days ago
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Horizontalsrich
7 days ago
Lost toy elephant đ Crystal Palace Station platform 2.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Overseas students drop by 52%
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University of Essex to shut Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
The Southend-on-Sea campus is home to the award-winning East 15 drama school.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vmnq0j393o
7 days ago
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Once in royal Davidâs Cakey
8 days ago
The BBC doing a story about a cut down tree framed by two cut down trees. (For balance)
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Rose Ruane
9 days ago
So in love with this BBC archive report from Nationwide. Itâs called supernatural hat makerâs fantasy world, itâs like a little giallo written by Beryl Bainbridge, every frame looks like this, how you could you fail to be smitten?
youtu.be/2u-K7sM-xgk?...
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'Santa's key worker was discovered on the dunes of Formby beach using thermal binoculars' - Buddy quite a tech savvy reindeer, probably part of his job
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One of mum's neighbours is walking her dog with an anorak over her nightie, bare legs. I might have to wear two pairs of trousers inside. Must have gone soft in the south
9 days ago
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Strains of Bela Lugosi's Dead from the High Street over the choir in St Giles. Uber Gothic
10 days ago
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Marsh Davies
10 days ago
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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Just been told a pair of trousers are unisexual but they're not that hot
10 days ago
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Adam Macqueen
10 days ago
âWoman-lovingâ.
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After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a bleak book - it seemed romantic when I read it in my twenties
11 days ago
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Gabriel Milland
11 days ago
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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Bouba's Delivery Service
11 days ago
Eat your heart out Schrödinger
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Autocorrect changed Mozart mass to massive. My new name for Morningside
11 days ago
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Tom Reaganâs Hat
12 days ago
âIt had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre. When a doctor told me Iâd come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: âYou just donât understand theatre.â
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John Leavitt
13 days ago
Truth coming out of her cup oânoodles to shame mankind
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Gabriel Milland
13 days ago
I'm going with either the Ark of the Covenant or a Betamax VCR.
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Toby Miller
13 days ago
In the Cycle Shop waiting for my fixed bike. A lady walks in with a puppy Jack Russell, which gets free and runs about; she sniffs me, darts away, back to sniff, retreats again. âDonât be silly Molly. Heâs a nice man. A safe man. Look..Iâm stroking himâ And this stranger starts stroking my jumper.
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Sitting in the emergency exit on the flight - so close to the crew that I got whacked round the head by the stewardess's dreadlocks
14 days ago
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I know of a social worker who was suspended for using that word in 1985
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14 days ago
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BNO News
14 days ago
BREAKING: At least 36 people killed, 279 missing after fire rips through apartment buildings in Hong Kong, official says
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Kate Bevan
14 days ago
the detail in the story is somehow even worse than the headline suggests
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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âI didnât even know this type of attack existedâ: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/26/women-allege-drugging-by-senior-french-civil-servant
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Adam Bienkov
15 days ago
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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JOHN NIVEN
15 days ago
What the actual fuck is going on?
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jenny tightpants
15 days ago
jesus honly christ
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal
16 days ago
Udo Kier đ
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Matthew Sweet
16 days ago
Udo Kier - cinemaâs fallen angel and an embodiment of the screenâs delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,â he once told me. âHave no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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Alan Rusbridger
17 days ago
Sound of penny dropping at the BBC
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row
Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie Gibb
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/23/bbc-to-expand-standards-panel-and-add-deputy-director-general-after-bias-row?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Is there a good language teaching app? Duolingo insisting that I'm saying café wrong unless I'm practically doing a Kenneth Williams camp version is driving me mad
17 days ago
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Sandy Ego
17 days ago
There is no way to win đȘ
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
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Angus Main
19 days ago
*lashes self to mast*
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Nick Hune-Brown
21 days ago
A few months ago
@thelocal.to
got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publicationsâThe Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era.
thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalismâs AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/
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iucounu
19 days ago
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a âstereotypeâ. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is âclichĂ©â
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Stan Carey
19 days ago
The word SNEEZE used to be FNESE, as in "He speketh in his nose And fneseth faste" (Canterbury Tales) FNESE faded out in the 15thC, superseded by NESE/NEEZE. Then an s- was added, maybe to strengthen it or to align with other nose-related sn- words Anyway I think we should bring FNESE back
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