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In case you missed it, Nigel Farage said Reform would vote against scrapping the two-child benefit cap because some of the families who will benefit include people who are “foreign-born”.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
In case you missed it, Nigel Farage said Reform would vote against scrapping the two-child benefit cap because some of the families who will benefit include people who are “foreign-born”.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
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there you have it
FIRST Minister John Swinney has said his Government was not informed of the US operation to use a Scottish airport during yesterday's seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2574936...
FIRST Minister John Swinney has said his Government was not informed of the US operation to use a Scottish airport during yesterday's seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2574936...
John Swinney not informed of US using Scottish airport in military operation
Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has reacted to yesterday's US operation to seize a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic
www.thenational.scot
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
there you have it
FIRST Minister John Swinney has said his Government was not informed of the US operation to use a Scottish airport during yesterday's seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2574936...
FIRST Minister John Swinney has said his Government was not informed of the US operation to use a Scottish airport during yesterday's seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2574936...
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This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.
Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.
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A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
Espresso is neither bean nor roast.
It is a method of pressurized coffee brewing that ensures speedy delivery, and it has birthed a whole culture.
www.openculture.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
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Farage confirms he’s glad his (schoolboy) racism has been exposed, that he’s enjoying the electoral kickback it’s given him amongst his racist supporters and expresses absolutely no shame or guilt about it at all.
Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters.
(iPaper)
Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters.
(iPaper)
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Farage confirms he’s glad his (schoolboy) racism has been exposed, that he’s enjoying the electoral kickback it’s given him amongst his racist supporters and expresses absolutely no shame or guilt about it at all.
Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters.
(iPaper)
Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters.
(iPaper)
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What’s the SNP ever done for Scotland… #VoteForHopeIn2026 #VoteSNP #ScottishIndependence 🏴🏴🏴
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What’s the SNP ever done for Scotland… #VoteForHopeIn2026 #VoteSNP #ScottishIndependence 🏴🏴🏴
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Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.
Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
Care workers lobby Parliament - UNISON National
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers
www.unison.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.
Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
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NEW: Protesters have vowed not to leave a prison's gates until a hunger striker alleged to be near death receives medical aid
Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield. An IRA hunger striker in 1981 died on the 46th day 👇
Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield. An IRA hunger striker in 1981 died on the 46th day 👇
December 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
NEW: Protesters have vowed not to leave a prison's gates until a hunger striker alleged to be near death receives medical aid
Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield. An IRA hunger striker in 1981 died on the 46th day 👇
Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield. An IRA hunger striker in 1981 died on the 46th day 👇
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Reform are the party of the super rich, polluters and landlords.
Greens will oppose any attempt to roll back the rights of renters.
Greens will oppose any attempt to roll back the rights of renters.
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reform are the party of the super rich, polluters and landlords.
Greens will oppose any attempt to roll back the rights of renters.
Greens will oppose any attempt to roll back the rights of renters.
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The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
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Palantir has its slippery tentacles all over NHS England.
It has no dealings with NHS Scotland and must not have any involvement with NHS Scotland in future.
Next.
It has no dealings with NHS Scotland and must not have any involvement with NHS Scotland in future.
Next.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Palantir has its slippery tentacles all over NHS England.
It has no dealings with NHS Scotland and must not have any involvement with NHS Scotland in future.
Next.
It has no dealings with NHS Scotland and must not have any involvement with NHS Scotland in future.
Next.
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Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".
He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
Conservatives Promote JCB's 'Revolutionary' Pothole Machine While Taking Millions of Pounds in Donations from the Company
Senior Conservatives have repeatedly promoted a pothole repair machine made by a company which has donated huge sums to the party and its MPs
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".
He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Drought isn’t divine punishment.
It’s climate reality. It's a mismanagement of water resources.
Prayer and oppressing women won’t make it rain.
#WomenLifeFreedom.
iranfocus.com/iran/55938-s...
It’s climate reality. It's a mismanagement of water resources.
Prayer and oppressing women won’t make it rain.
#WomenLifeFreedom.
iranfocus.com/iran/55938-s...
State Cleric Blames ‘Women Not Wearing Hijab’ For Drought in Iran - Iran Focus
As Iran’s water crisis worsens and the regime fails to manage its water resources, a member of the Assembly of Experts claimed that the regime’s desired form of mandatory hijab not being observed in t...
iranfocus.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Drought isn’t divine punishment.
It’s climate reality. It's a mismanagement of water resources.
Prayer and oppressing women won’t make it rain.
#WomenLifeFreedom.
iranfocus.com/iran/55938-s...
It’s climate reality. It's a mismanagement of water resources.
Prayer and oppressing women won’t make it rain.
#WomenLifeFreedom.
iranfocus.com/iran/55938-s...
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Tulips and Fruit https://www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/tulips-and-fruit-1919
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tulips and Fruit https://www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/tulips-and-fruit-1919
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BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
LONDON CALLING: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
YouTube video by London Calling documentary
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
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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 US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham | Murder at Sea
Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971, US policies of mass incarceration at home and interdiction and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Hillary was right. Deplorable.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Hillary was right. Deplorable.
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November... four historians consider the extraordinary longevity of the #BonfireNight celebration and the memory of #GuyFGawkes.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
Why Has the Gunpowder Plot Been Remembered for Centuries?
www.historytoday.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Remember, remember, the fifth of November... four historians consider the extraordinary longevity of the #BonfireNight celebration and the memory of #GuyFGawkes.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.