Tom Batty
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Grandad, enjoy the Arts, theatre, music etc. North Northants.
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This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.
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Peter Stefanovic
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BREAKING: Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
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BladeoftheSun
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Abolish the House of Lords, RT if you want it gone. Tear it down.
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Just watching Carols from Kings, bloody woke BBC. They’ve completely edited out our saviour Tommy Robinson, makes a mockery of Christmas. I’m off down to my nearest spoons in protest.
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Private Eye Magazine
6 days ago
Labour has good idea shock From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas with my favourite Robin photo. (Taken one frosty morning in South Luffenham, Rutland)
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Jonathan Portes
7 days ago
This is a very simple coordination problem. No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary. Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺
7 days ago
😂 Did make me laugh
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More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/22/animal-welfare-farming-labour-conservatives-latest-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Neil Mackay
9 days ago
‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’ The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society In
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The Nativity, Frew says, is about “a refugee child who had to go to Egypt for safety'
The Rt Rev Rosie Frew has composed a special Christmas reflection for Herald readers. She talks to our Writer at Large about the need to love those…
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25714414.jesus-refugee-kirk-moderator-condemns-hate-scottish-society/
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This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Neil Mackay
14 days ago
You know what, Robinson? Jesus would have stood on a beach handing out hot tea and warm blankets to refugees The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate My
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'Christ would be on a beach giving tea and blankets to refugees'
Extremists like Tommy Robinson are trying to pervert Christianity for their own political ends, disgracing the good that Jesus represented, argues…
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/25698601.christ-alive-today-far-right-hate/
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The Contrarian
15 days ago
“The legacy media’s refusal to recognize Trump’s mental and emotional unraveling cannot conceal a stark reality: Trump has lost it,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.
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Trump is Losing it
A wounded, humiliated Trump may be the most dangerous of all
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-is-losing-it
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I have finally ditched twitter and feel better already. What a sordid, nasty, racist platform Musk has made it. I know it’s been like this for some time but I can’t and won’t take it anymore. 🚿👌🥳
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Cold War Steve
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Mark
about 1 month ago
‘Labour are still utterly shit scared of provoking the Hard Right and their Little Englander followers by addressing this’, analysis by Mark on his Sofa this morning suggests…
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Reform Party UK Exposed
about 1 month ago
Reform UK in Leicestershire Council are paying consultants Newton £1.4m to do the job they claimed DOGE would do. Thats £4.72 per Council Tax paying household. It could rise to £30m they are paying Newton. Thats £101 per household in Leicestershire.
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It’s St Cecilia day today. Who remembers Corby band, St Cecilia’s hit from 1971, Leap up and Down (Wave your Knickers in the Air)?
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Alex Hall Hall
about 1 month ago
Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!
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dag
about 1 month ago
Quite the correction indeed.
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Raider
about 1 month ago
"An inspired piece of genius." Los Angeles
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Canadian Liberal
about 2 months ago
Right wing fascists would have us believe that hatred of Netanyahu and his government is antisemitic. It isn't, any more than hatred of Trump and his catch-farts is hatred of all Americans. Evil should be called out wherever it appears.
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Martin Lewis
about 2 months ago
They didn't want my blood, but they probably want yours! I went to give blood today, but due to a v minor medical issue they couldn't take it. Yet they told me they do need donors. As I couldn't help by giving, instead, I thought i'd publicise this...
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Zoe Williams
about 2 months ago
If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's
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The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/reform-uk-voters-revealed-slapdash-coalition-nigel-farage-labour
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Sarah Murphy
about 2 months ago
The Panorama edit was clumsy. But the facts remain. It was a violent insurrection to upend a democratic vote. Looking at the wild outrage here, we’d be forgiven for thinking Jan 6th never happened. In terms of bias, this is off the scale worse. With Farage delighting in the damage. (Extracts iPaper)
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UK Politics
about 2 months ago
Fagman Farage didn't save Kent. (From Private Eye)
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A photo for Halloween, barbers shop in Cromer from the archives. Oddly reminiscent of last nights ‘Traitors’.
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James O’Brien
about 2 months ago
The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.
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BrexitPirates
2 months ago
Love it! 🤣
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James Meek
2 months ago
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Last nights rain certainly hastened the leaf drop. They look fantastic though at some point I’m going to have to collect them to make leaf mould.
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Murshed Zaheed
2 months ago
👀 The
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Mike Galsworthy
2 months ago
Suggest you jump in on this poll. —>
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
2 months ago
A Maccabi club source told the UK Jewish News that the intervention of far right political activist Tommy Robinson pledging to attend the game as a Maccabi fan was the "final straw" for their decision about the risks of accepting tickets amid this row
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Everywhere is looking wonderful this autumn, luckily for me I can look out onto this in my garden.
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Mike Galsworthy
2 months ago
The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has some choice words… …for a PM who aggressively inserted racially-charged accusations into a local safety issue, seeking, seemingly on personal whim, to override well-informed local law & democracy mechanisms, and risking public safety.
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UK Politics
3 months ago
Nathan Gill, Farage’s political crony from UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform, pled guilty to 8 counts of bribery. Briber? Oleg Voloshyn. And here’s Farage posing with Voloshyn’s wife. Pure coincidence, right? Farage stays mute. How much filth did he wallow in - and who else got paid off?
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Farrukh
3 months ago
Richard Gere, "President Trump is not only crazy, he's a dark presence. It happened so quickly. In six months he's almost destroyed our country"
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Dug up in the garden, part of a Smith &Co ginger beer bottle.
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Jim Pickard
4 months ago
I mean this seems like a legitimate question from
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Eoin O'Callaghan
4 months ago
And all Trump really wants is the nobel peace prize. What a total moron. BBC News - Trump to rebrand Pentagon as Department of War
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Trump to rebrand Pentagon as Department of War
The US president has sought to refocus the department on "warfighting" and a "warrior ethos".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo
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Prem Sikka
4 months ago
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings
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Jim Pickard
4 months ago
“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
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It’s been a good year for the roses. No idea what this variety is, we inherited it with the house but it just keeps flowering. Blooming lovely.
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Jonathan Calder
4 months ago
"The already daunting task facing officers this weekend is made infinitely more challenging by the grotesque hypocrisy of populist politicians who, until they were voted out at the last general election, had been arguing for – and swiftly advancing – the very thing they are now denouncing."
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I’m glad I’m not policing this ‘bank holiday weekend of discontent’
Two dozen anti-migrant protests across the country, a million-strong Notting Hill Carnival using controversial facial recognition cameras for the first time – and officers are banned from dancing… my ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/asylum-hotels-protest-notting-hill-carnival-met-police-bank-holiday-weekend-b2812907.html
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Neil Mackay
4 months ago
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Sarah Murphy
4 months ago
This is all so dangerous. Starmer needs to step up - urgently - and make the alternative case; the case for immigration, the case for respect and dignity, the case for not become a cruel, shrivelled-up nation of threatening, flag-waving, prejudiced wankers.
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