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‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’

More of this please 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This significant investment across the Greater Manchester region, including Manchester Central, will help deliver our commitment to more social and affordable homes.

Which one is more English?

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Someone hire me to write a movie script about the sandwich trial titled 12 ANGRY INCHES

Someone has heated fish up in the office microwave

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

Farage and Co. must be absolutely tying themselves in knots over the actions of this absolute hero.

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic

Should have posted this sooner but didn’t Birmingham and HS2. Both hopeless, supposedly. And yet they’re both obviously not on.ft.com/47wTRmD

Absolute perfection. #Reform

Happy Sheikh Mansour Day to all those who celebrate.

the British Royal Family this week

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

O’Brien & Lineker live on stage. Tickets available here. All proceeds to Global’s Make Some Noise. (Don’t tell the Daily Mail.) uk2.emma-live.com/FullDisclosu...

Private Eye.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

2011 - 2025. You gotta play the long game but eventually the world catches up New issue of The Eye on sale now

That poor Andrew can’t catch a break. bsky.app/profile/bbcn...

auntifa

This is why pushback matters. When forced to actually defend racism they get into a muddle. (See also Tory ILR plans).

Genius from David Squires www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.

New York, be careful about Mamdami. We Londoners elected a Muslim mayor and now we have a lower murder rate, higher GDP and have air that we can finally breathe.

Farewell message to Farage from the people of Caerffili...

It should be illegal for people's birthdays to be between the 23rd and 27th of December. If you're born on one of those days, your parents should be legally required to choose either 22nd or 28th as your alternate birthday.

I found this on Reddit and had to share. Simpsons quotes that could be Morrissey song titles.

That’s no ballroom…

Stephen Kinnock explains the Dublin agreement where the UK could send asylum seekers back to the first country they stepped into the EU, when we were members of the EU With Brexit, when we left the EU, we were no longer able to do that

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

Cary Grant in 1978 looks like Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett’s lovechild

Peaky Blinders is TV for people who one day aspire to drive a Range Rover.

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down. The facts show a very different picture.

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

1.1bn barrels of oil, nearly £100bn worth has been discovered in the North Sea. Aren't you glad Margaret Thatcher sold it and the £3tn already removed for just £13bn. Wasn't that such a great deal?

No Kings march in full swing in downtown Chicago. Large crowds headed east toward Grant Park and the lakefront.

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Chicago - no kings

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

#A_NewHope ✊