Ben
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Ben
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I logged on in the 90's and haven't logged off since
Was it a £30Bn gap they are trying to fill in the budget?

Wonder how that happened

Brexit Is Costing The UK Up To £90 Billion A Year In Lost Tax
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
Brexit Is Costing The UK Up To £90 Billion A Year In Lost Tax
The Treasury is missing out on £250 million every day, new analysis shows.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Happy budget day! Is everyone ready to be made poorer while the likes of Amazon and Google pay no tax?
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They're seriously thinking about getting rid of jury trials? Honestly labour, what the fuck is the point of you? Just reform in red, you cunts
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I dunno, I'm not an expert in risk. Just seems to me that it would be more sensible to add capacity to literally any other airport in the UK than Heathrow

Remember when that fuse blew and the airport was fucked? Let's make it more important!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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jesus honly christ
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Why is it controversial that if your income is over £12570 you get taxed on anything above that?

How is pension income different from any other kind of income?
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Unbelievable the listing says this has had “the same family ownership for 35 years” like some sort of positive, when it looks like the family were dead the whole time and a group of squatters came in and opened a crack den alongside the dead bodies
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Cleaned the carpets, which now feels like a bit of a mistake
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad
The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.
www.sfgate.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Lockdown was so bad for comedy. There was the eyebrows guy who had one mildly amusing video & the industry was determined to make him a thing. Now I see that Rosie Holt was on the last leg last night. Again, one thing mildly amusing in lockdown. Can we please move on?
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Blimey, inflation is out of control. I would have assumed it would be a couple of quid at most. No wonder the number of readers is dropping

BBC News - Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Daily Mail owner agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m
The publisher of the Daily Mail says it is in talks to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £500m.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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It's a question they can only ask because they're refusing to listen to the answer.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Just watched this week's ALOTO. There's shit nicknames then there's paddy the baddie
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I am curious though, on the one hand all those lives would have been saved if lockdown happened a week earlier. But also apparently there was an opportunity that lockdown wasn't needed at all. I don't follow how both can be true
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Jesus wept. I know hindsight is an exact science. But every single one of the fuckers should be in jail. They wanted to get shit faced and party. They are responsible for an unnecessary 23,000 lives lost
'If a lockdown had been imposed on 16 March, a week earlier than took place, modelling suggests this could have cut the number of deaths in England in the first wave of the virus by almost half, equating to 23,000 lives saved'
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So, that farage piece that came out recently about what he was like as a child. I've not heard him deny any of it. Interesting that he's not responded, no?
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Quite tempted to get a new watch
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Love that I need to be awake in a couple of hours
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
There's no good reason for me to have woken up at this time
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Labour: YOU MUST INTEGRATE

Also Labour: we might kick you out in a couple years so don't get to comfy yeah
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM