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Deaves
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I’m really just here to pick up my car. Used to be on twitter.
on.ft.com/4pbtQ3I BHP found liable over Mariana dam disaster - another blow to anyone wanting to see more companies list in the UK
BHP found liable over Mariana dam disaster
Lawyers in case at London’s High Court are seeking up to £36bn in damages for 620,000 alleged victims
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November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you’ve tried to recruitment in the last 12 months this will certainly ring true on.ft.com/4pc7DT6
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A must read post
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Jacob Zuma’s MK party sent members to Russia for “bodyguard training” only for them to be drafted into the war against Ukraine 🤡

www.news24.com/southafrica/...
SOS! MK Party members stuck in Russia-Ukraine war after bogus ‘bodyguard’ training | News24
Seventeen South African men are fighting for their lives on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine after they were sent to Russia by Jacob Zuma’s MK Party for what they believed was training to become p...
www.news24.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The salary sacrifice stuff is just totally doolally on.ft.com/3LVK6Hr
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Bond comes back to life all the time! It’s the main conceit of You Only Live Twice!
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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‘She knew how to love and be loved’: Julia McKenzie and Jonathan Pryce pay tribute to Pauline Collins
‘She knew how to love and be loved’: Julia McKenzie and Jonathan Pryce pay tribute to Pauline Collins
Fellow actors of stage and screen share their memories of working with the much-loved Shirley Valentine star
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A demand for a billion dollars from the BBC should hopefully snap it out of its hysteria of the last 48 hours.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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For all the talk of 'Broken Britain', so many things have got better.
Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Can I just shock you? I like the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 7d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A bit “umm are we in danger?” by not having to take a coat with you, let alone wear it, in NOVEMBER
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
The brass neck is pretty incredible.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. "
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The dawning realisation of this is either good, reigns them in, or… very bad, go gun ho and ensure it’s not possible to lose 2028
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy

There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It's easy to dismiss this as just a online thing - but increasingly the 'wealth tax/billionares will pay for it' is cutting through more generally

You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Helen Joyce raging that she's not allowed to sit in the media section of a New Zealand court, because she's not a New Zealand journalist. These people think the sea should part for them.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What a bizarre story for the bbc to publish www.bbc.com/news/article...
'My luggage was stolen while I breastfed at Gatwick Airport'
A French tourist has her luggage stolen while using Gatwick Airport's baby changing room.
www.bbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM