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If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget
£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
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Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
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No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
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Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
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The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
www.newyorker.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
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We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
August 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
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People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
August 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
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We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Job Vacancies - Recruitment - Ralph Allen School
Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-o...
www.ralphallenschool.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
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For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
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#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
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🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
June 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
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Kiefer Sutherland has a younger brother called Kief and an older brother called Kiefest.
June 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Kiefer Sutherland has a younger brother called Kief and an older brother called Kiefest.
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Who do I have to pray to to get Trump to tarrif the fuck out of Elon, triggering all his debts to be called, before sending him back to South Africa and Musk to provide the workings of how they rigged the election and where all the money has gone.
June 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Who do I have to pray to to get Trump to tarrif the fuck out of Elon, triggering all his debts to be called, before sending him back to South Africa and Musk to provide the workings of how they rigged the election and where all the money has gone.
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If I was planning to launch a centrist party I would simply avoid spending a year associating myself with the Far Right.
June 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If I was planning to launch a centrist party I would simply avoid spending a year associating myself with the Far Right.
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Folk-Inspired hand painted eggs by Dinara Mirtalipova, self taught illustrator and designer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan #WomensArt
April 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Folk-Inspired hand painted eggs by Dinara Mirtalipova, self taught illustrator and designer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan #WomensArt
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London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
April 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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Imagine spending hours defending Trump’s garbage tariff policy — including to me — only for your boss to reverse it an hour later.
No strategy. Just vibes, sycophancy, and a thirst for power. These people will torch the country if it keeps them in charge.
No strategy. Just vibes, sycophancy, and a thirst for power. These people will torch the country if it keeps them in charge.
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Imagine spending hours defending Trump’s garbage tariff policy — including to me — only for your boss to reverse it an hour later.
No strategy. Just vibes, sycophancy, and a thirst for power. These people will torch the country if it keeps them in charge.
No strategy. Just vibes, sycophancy, and a thirst for power. These people will torch the country if it keeps them in charge.
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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Poor old Trump. Truss could have told him. Those markets so woke.
April 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Poor old Trump. Truss could have told him. Those markets so woke.