'A Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush
And I'll never change my mind'.
And I'll never change my mind'.
There have been many attempts at lampooning Elton John over the years, but the brilliance in Neil Innes' approach from RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION is to emulate Elton's musicianship while gently ribbing the oft-times endearingly flowery/nonsensical nature of Bernie Taupin's lyrics...
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'A Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush
And I'll never change my mind'.
And I'll never change my mind'.
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Every once in awhile, when I fear being overwhelmed by... everything... this Neil Innes tune pops into my head.
Let's sing a song together...
Let's sing a song together...
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Every once in awhile, when I fear being overwhelmed by... everything... this Neil Innes tune pops into my head.
Let's sing a song together...
Let's sing a song together...
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16 November 1910 | A Ukrainian, Roman Polutranka, was born. A clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 20 July 1942.
No. 49737
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
In #Auschwitz from 20 July 1942.
No. 49737
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
16 November 1910 | A Ukrainian, Roman Polutranka, was born. A clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 20 July 1942.
No. 49737
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
In #Auschwitz from 20 July 1942.
No. 49737
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
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Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
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Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
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Labour Party member here, child of a stateless refugee and an "economic" migrant, forwarding with approval a thread from a Green Party member who is an immigration lawyer.
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour Party member here, child of a stateless refugee and an "economic" migrant, forwarding with approval a thread from a Green Party member who is an immigration lawyer.
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Retail workers are at the heart of our communities and they deserve to be treated with respect - violence and abuse toward shopworkers is not okay.
#RespectWeek #FreedomFromFear
#RespectWeek #FreedomFromFear
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Retail workers are at the heart of our communities and they deserve to be treated with respect - violence and abuse toward shopworkers is not okay.
#RespectWeek #FreedomFromFear
#RespectWeek #FreedomFromFear
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026 - BBC News share.google/CgU3zFUU58Yn...
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026 - BBC News
The government confirms timeline for reforms to England’s rental market, including ending bidding wars.
share.google
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026 - BBC News share.google/CgU3zFUU58Yn...
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A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.
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I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
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🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
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Really interesting interview with TUC leader Paul Nowak, by @josiah.writes.news bsky.app/profile/byli...
🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Really interesting interview with TUC leader Paul Nowak, by @josiah.writes.news bsky.app/profile/byli...
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Greece: Authorities must ‘drop baseless charges’ against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Greece: Authorities must 'drop baseless charges' against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December 2025, Seán Binder will stand trial in Greece for his work as a volunteer rescuer helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea
www.amnesty.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Greece: Authorities must ‘drop baseless charges’ against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state’s health department said — as vaccination rates drop.
Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Texas, quadrupling last year's numbers
Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year.
abcnews.go.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state’s health department said — as vaccination rates drop.
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Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
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In Paris, you can get a monthly public transport pass for the city and its surroundings (Île-de-France) for less than 100€/month, and your employer has to reimburse at least half of it.
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In Paris, you can get a monthly public transport pass for the city and its surroundings (Île-de-France) for less than 100€/month, and your employer has to reimburse at least half of it.
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
The Heritage Foundation is exporting its MAGA agenda to Europe, allying with far-right parties to push pro-natalist, anti-abortion, and anti-trans policies—sparking warnings it’s spreading authoritarian influence across the EU
The Heritage Foundation is exporting its MAGA agenda to Europe, allying with far-right parties to push pro-natalist, anti-abortion, and anti-trans policies—sparking warnings it’s spreading authoritarian influence across the EU
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
The Heritage Foundation is exporting its MAGA agenda to Europe, allying with far-right parties to push pro-natalist, anti-abortion, and anti-trans policies—sparking warnings it’s spreading authoritarian influence across the EU.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
The Heritage Foundation is exporting its MAGA agenda to Europe, allying with far-right parties to push pro-natalist, anti-abortion, and anti-trans policies—sparking warnings it’s spreading authoritarian influence across the EU
The Heritage Foundation is exporting its MAGA agenda to Europe, allying with far-right parties to push pro-natalist, anti-abortion, and anti-trans policies—sparking warnings it’s spreading authoritarian influence across the EU
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If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
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10 November 1912 | A Czech, Arnold Nawrat, was born in Frenštát. A lawyer.
In #Auschwitz from 18 January 1943.
No. 89792
He perished in the camp on 23 February 1943.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
In #Auschwitz from 18 January 1943.
No. 89792
He perished in the camp on 23 February 1943.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
10 November 1912 | A Czech, Arnold Nawrat, was born in Frenštát. A lawyer.
In #Auschwitz from 18 January 1943.
No. 89792
He perished in the camp on 23 February 1943.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
In #Auschwitz from 18 January 1943.
No. 89792
He perished in the camp on 23 February 1943.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
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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 6:56 AM
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
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Didn’t happen over this labourlist.org/2019/11/bbc-...
BBC accepts "mistake" in editing out laughter from Johnson video - LabourList
The BBC has said that “a mistake on our part” was made after being criticised for editing a…
labourlist.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Didn’t happen over this labourlist.org/2019/11/bbc-...