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Opinion: The tragedy is not that these industries are evil, but they are absorbing some of the best brains of a generation at the very moment we can least afford to lose them on.ft.com/4hkFpmb
Anglophones do seem to be averse to bilingualism.
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Incredible stuff. Penguin and Club biscuits now have so little cocoa content their coating can no longer be described as “chocolate”.

www.thetimes.com/article/2144...
Is this because they lost their Royal Warrant as "Purveyors of Alibis"?
How do they perform in terms of storage efficiency and battery life, and recyclability?
Performance on revenue may be more a result of advertising and sales promotion
Sounds as if William is worried that we might decide to pull the plug on the whole monarchy system
I was very disappointed with Milliband's take on this, especially after the MSM's thinly-veiled antisemitic attacks on him when Labour leader ( bacon sandwich, two-kitchens).
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European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera said Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on Spain over its lax defense spending made "little sense" and called for the EU to stand firm against the US president's "outbursts."
Ribera says Trump’s tariff threat against Spain makes ‘little sense’
Competition chief said the EU must stand firm in the face of the American president’s “outbursts.”
www.politico.eu
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I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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So Gary Neville is apparently a traitor despite employing 600 Mancunians, paying all his taxes and opening his hotel to front line workers during COVID lockdowns.

Sounds like much more of a patriot than those who criticising him who just spend their time talking the UK down.
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More seriously, the UK Prime Minister and most politicians have made absolute idiots of themselves in linking violence around a particular football team to antisemitism, but that might be better than the alternative of riots and deaths in Birmingham in a couple of weeks.
I hope Starmer sends a strong complaint to the Israeli government asking them to let the match go ahead, and if they refuse, he calls them out as antisemites
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Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
It is not a no-go area for Jews, just for violent Maccabi Tel Aviv fans.
Basic rate income tax is at its lowest since I started work in 1973.
At that time NICs were a flat rate of 57p per week, which was 7.6% of my weekly wage of £7.50.
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This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Refuk can win next week in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, yet the Lügenpresse are doing zero scrutiny of the candidate - Llyr Powell - his relationship with his former boss and friend, and most importantly,
Kremlin r🐀t Nathan Gill, bribed by the butcher of Ukrainians, Putin. #ukpolitics
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Hang on… Victoria Derbyshire says no country has raised serious money with a wealth tax.

Then says Norway only got £2.7bn.

But it’s 1/12th the population of the UK!

Scaled up that would be £32bn. That’s serious money.

Now…
Aren't most of the "UK" online gambling outfits based in Gibraltar or Isle of Man?