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When we talk about the need for a Hillsborough Law and for a change in the culture of the police, you only have to look at this tone-deaf, brazen and offensive response to the IOPC Hillsborough report from the South Yorkshire Police Federation
Police federation told 'shame on you' after Hillsborough comments
Families blast statement from police officer organisation which called IOPC report a 'waste of time and money'
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When we talk about the need for a Hillsborough Law and for a change in the culture of the police, you only have to look at this tone-deaf, brazen and offensive response to the IOPC Hillsborough report from the South Yorkshire Police Federation
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A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
It's pronounced 'Arch'
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's pronounced 'Arch'
'No person with a disability should be denied accommodations' is not a statement that needs qualifiers or ""balancing"" imo
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'No person with a disability should be denied accommodations' is not a statement that needs qualifiers or ""balancing"" imo
Devastated to learn they're not bringing back Michael Masi for one last job
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Doc 1 - Event Notes - Pirelli Preview #AbuDhabiGP
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Devastated to learn they're not bringing back Michael Masi for one last job
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This one weird trick: beg, lobby, and threaten the state until they let you massively increase bills on your captive customer base with no other supplier to go to.
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
Thames Water has reported a leap in half-year profits to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third, even as it warned it faced huge funding uncertainties that could result in a rapid collapse into government control.
Britain’s biggest water company on Wednesday said it had swung into profit for the six months to September, after losing £230m in the same period in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This one weird trick: beg, lobby, and threaten the state until they let you massively increase bills on your captive customer base with no other supplier to go to.
Really springing into action there eh?
Europe reaches deal on phasing out Russian gas imports by 2027 reut.rs/4owlFOC
Europe reaches deal on phasing out Russian gas imports by 2027
The European Council said on Wednesday it reached an agreement with the European Parliament on phasing out Russian gas imports by 2027 as part of an effort to end dependency on Russian energy.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Really springing into action there eh?
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Reading Lenin in Russia gets you 20+ years in a high-security penal colony, yet libs (especially US "resistance" libs) will continue to insist it's a communist country. Probably through the medium of AI-generated slop images.
www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/russ...
www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/russ...
Russia: Marxists face 20-year sentences for studying Lenin’s “State and Revolution”!
A new peak of anti-communist repression is unfolding in today's Russia. On 25 November 2025, during the closing hearings at the Central Military Court
www.idcommunism.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reading Lenin in Russia gets you 20+ years in a high-security penal colony, yet libs (especially US "resistance" libs) will continue to insist it's a communist country. Probably through the medium of AI-generated slop images.
www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/russ...
www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/russ...
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
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No food banks when I was a kid that I can recall, unless you were a striking miner’s family. Times change, I guess.
"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months"
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
No food banks when I was a kid that I can recall, unless you were a striking miner’s family. Times change, I guess.
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The highest crime you can commit in British society is to make someone with more social status than you embarrassed or upset.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The highest crime you can commit in British society is to make someone with more social status than you embarrassed or upset.
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
"Not saying grace before eating your meal deal? That's a popeling"
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Not saying grace before eating your meal deal? That's a popeling"
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Here it is with the byline and alt text
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here it is with the byline and alt text
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My friend Billy had a ten-foot willy and showed it to the girl next door. She thought it was a snake, and hit it with a rake, so now it's only five-foot four.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My friend Billy had a ten-foot willy and showed it to the girl next door. She thought it was a snake, and hit it with a rake, so now it's only five-foot four.
Bum cat
Bum cat
It's a bum cat
Mauling your anus because you stopped to do a sneeze
Bum cat
It's a bum cat
Mauling your anus because you stopped to do a sneeze
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bum cat
Bum cat
It's a bum cat
Mauling your anus because you stopped to do a sneeze
Bum cat
It's a bum cat
Mauling your anus because you stopped to do a sneeze
Sorry if I'm being thick, but is the threat that they will take the physical assets with them when they leave? And if not, why do we give a shit?
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Sorry if I'm being thick, but is the threat that they will take the physical assets with them when they leave? And if not, why do we give a shit?
What to expect in budget 2025
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What to expect in budget 2025
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John Redwood was my MP growing up, he came to our school just after 9K fees were passed and we just spent the whole time he was meant to be speaking to our year bollocking him about the Iraq War and tuition fees and he was so owned he cried about it on his now defunct blog.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
John Redwood was my MP growing up, he came to our school just after 9K fees were passed and we just spent the whole time he was meant to be speaking to our year bollocking him about the Iraq War and tuition fees and he was so owned he cried about it on his now defunct blog.
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
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Imagine spending years extolling the virtues of A FoRmEr HuMaN RiGhTs LaWyEr only for him to take away your right to be judged by a jury of your peers.
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Imagine spending years extolling the virtues of A FoRmEr HuMaN RiGhTs LaWyEr only for him to take away your right to be judged by a jury of your peers.
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The thing is, you can criticise the US political-economic-media ecosystem, but at least they have the decency to cite the Laffer Curve, as opposed to this smug bullshit British pundits do so people don’t realise they’re citing an economic theory that was scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin.
The Labour Government: there to serve the
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The thing is, you can criticise the US political-economic-media ecosystem, but at least they have the decency to cite the Laffer Curve, as opposed to this smug bullshit British pundits do so people don’t realise they’re citing an economic theory that was scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin.
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If this is true now, why was it not past year when Labour suspended MPs for wanting to end it?
Kevin Maguire on scrapping the 2 child benefit cap: "It is better for the country.. they'll do better at school & they'll become more productive adults in later years"
Kevin is right, child poverty impacts on economic chances in later life (it also affects health outcomes too)
Kevin is right, child poverty impacts on economic chances in later life (it also affects health outcomes too)
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If this is true now, why was it not past year when Labour suspended MPs for wanting to end it?
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see