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Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Middlesbrough-born musician had hits with Driving Home for Christmas, On the Beach and The Road to Hell
Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter whose hits included Driving Home For Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family said.
The statement said that he died “peacefully in hospital … following a short illness”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
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Sky saying Chelsea have now joined the race for Semenyo.
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sky saying Chelsea have now joined the race for Semenyo.
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Happy 9th birthday to the greatest ever Christmas tweet.
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy 9th birthday to the greatest ever Christmas tweet.
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Mone company liquidated and unlikely ever to repay money obtained for supply of defective surgical gowns sold during the pandemic
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Mone company liquidated and unlikely ever to repay money obtained for supply of defective surgical gowns sold during the pandemic
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨🚨Major very welcome news of the day: EU’s #Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since #Brexit. Hopefully a return to more constructive EU-UK relationship. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m
Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨🚨Major very welcome news of the day: EU’s #Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since #Brexit. Hopefully a return to more constructive EU-UK relationship. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Really good and thoughtful write-up of one of the most positive changes Labour is attempting to make, this:
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Really good and thoughtful write-up of one of the most positive changes Labour is attempting to make, this:
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🏆 And the EU Access City Award 2026 goes to… Zaragoza, Spain!
Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone.
You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe!
More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB
Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone.
You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe!
More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🏆 And the EU Access City Award 2026 goes to… Zaragoza, Spain!
Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone.
You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe!
More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB
Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone.
You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe!
More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB
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The economic impacts of Brexit: new research from my @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social colleague Paul Mizen et al brings together macro (top-down) and micro (bottom-up) evidence.
They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity.
ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...
They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity.
ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...
Brexit’s impact on the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka, and Gregory Thwaites argue that there is evidence that Brexit has had a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity i...
ukandeu.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The economic impacts of Brexit: new research from my @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social colleague Paul Mizen et al brings together macro (top-down) and micro (bottom-up) evidence.
They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity.
ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...
They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity.
ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The teams are out.
Here's Percy's look ahead to what promises to be an emotionally-charged afternoon in Stratford.
youtu.be/D54gGZyUWSY
Here's Percy's look ahead to what promises to be an emotionally-charged afternoon in Stratford.
youtu.be/D54gGZyUWSY
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The teams are out.
Here's Percy's look ahead to what promises to be an emotionally-charged afternoon in Stratford.
youtu.be/D54gGZyUWSY
Here's Percy's look ahead to what promises to be an emotionally-charged afternoon in Stratford.
youtu.be/D54gGZyUWSY
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Hard to believe that this species once roamed the tundra, the desert and the jungle, felling mighty beasts with intelligence, teamwork and guile. Now it has to look at me like this in the desperate hope of some cheese.
Mind you. She did get the cheese.
#DogsOfBluesky
Mind you. She did get the cheese.
#DogsOfBluesky
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hard to believe that this species once roamed the tundra, the desert and the jungle, felling mighty beasts with intelligence, teamwork and guile. Now it has to look at me like this in the desperate hope of some cheese.
Mind you. She did get the cheese.
#DogsOfBluesky
Mind you. She did get the cheese.
#DogsOfBluesky
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.”
The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.”
The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen"
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen"
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
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Amazing capture by Brad Dennis
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Amazing capture by Brad Dennis
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
Michelle Mone would rather you did not see this £75mn restraint order
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Michelle Mone would rather you did not see this £75mn restraint order
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Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government.
Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
https://bit.ly/46RjgY4
Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
https://bit.ly/46RjgY4
The PPE scandal is far from over | Good Law Project
The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.
goodlawproject.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government.
Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
https://bit.ly/46RjgY4
Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
https://bit.ly/46RjgY4
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It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU"
- maybe call them Brexit boats?
- maybe call them Brexit boats?
September 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU"
- maybe call them Brexit boats?
- maybe call them Brexit boats?
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August 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM