Rachel Boxall
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“To be British…is to be tolerant & compassionate; and we’re proud of that”
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A welcome intervention by the PM, calling out the "toxic division of Reform & others."
He says:
"Some of the racist & divisive rhetoric we're hearing, I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics. It makes people feel very scared. We have to stand up to that racism."
He says:
"Some of the racist & divisive rhetoric we're hearing, I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics. It makes people feel very scared. We have to stand up to that racism."
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“To be British…is to be tolerant & compassionate; and we’re proud of that”
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In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
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Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants
EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
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A 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed through the window of a moving vehicle by ICE agents in Chicago. She was briefly hospitalized.
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed through the window of a moving vehicle by ICE agents in Chicago. She was briefly hospitalized.
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
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Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
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The fix is in.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The fix is in.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
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The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood.
And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.
And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood.
And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.
And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.
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“In the longer term, such abuses will tend to undermine support for the pardon power itself and the vital role it can play, when employed in a principled fashion, in checking excessive punishment and prosecutorial overreach.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A classic authoritarian tactic’: outrage over Trump’s pardons for friends and allies
Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president ‘meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“In the longer term, such abuses will tend to undermine support for the pardon power itself and the vital role it can play, when employed in a principled fashion, in checking excessive punishment and prosecutorial overreach.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This was a story from just last week.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This was a story from just last week.
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I suspect the pushback will only come once all is lost.
And it will come in the form of handwringing and regret from those in power who did nothing to stop all this.
And it will come in the form of handwringing and regret from those in power who did nothing to stop all this.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I suspect the pushback will only come once all is lost.
And it will come in the form of handwringing and regret from those in power who did nothing to stop all this.
And it will come in the form of handwringing and regret from those in power who did nothing to stop all this.
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Timeliness of Trumps tweets leading up to him inciting the insurrection. 👇
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Timeliness of Trumps tweets leading up to him inciting the insurrection. 👇
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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Well that's odd. I thought we were told immigrants were taking all the jobs, which we'd immediately get back once we left the EU. It's almost as if they were, I don't know, lying.
BBC News - Job market weakens as unemployment rate rises to 5% - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Job market weakens as unemployment rate rises to 5% - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Job market weakens as unemployment rate rises to 5%
It is the highest rate since 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Well that's odd. I thought we were told immigrants were taking all the jobs, which we'd immediately get back once we left the EU. It's almost as if they were, I don't know, lying.
BBC News - Job market weakens as unemployment rate rises to 5% - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Job market weakens as unemployment rate rises to 5% - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA