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...the Chancellor is right and the competition she won is the only credible girls chess championship.
So who's opinion do you believe? A business professor or a chess master and chess magazine editor?
The whole thing is nonsense.
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So who's opinion do you believe? A business professor or a chess master and chess magazine editor?
The whole thing is nonsense.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
...the Chancellor is right and the competition she won is the only credible girls chess championship.
So who's opinion do you believe? A business professor or a chess master and chess magazine editor?
The whole thing is nonsense.
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So who's opinion do you believe? A business professor or a chess master and chess magazine editor?
The whole thing is nonsense.
3/3
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Starting to feel like Labour's steady hand repairing our country is starting to pay off.
The OECD yesterday upgraded the UK's expected growth for next year from 1% to 1.2% with 2027 now expected to see 1.3% growth.
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The OECD yesterday upgraded the UK's expected growth for next year from 1% to 1.2% with 2027 now expected to see 1.3% growth.
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UK set for faster growth in 2026, slower inflation, OECD forecasts
Britain's economy will grow faster than previously expected next year, the OECD said on Tuesday, citing the impact of finance minister Rachel Reeves' budget on consumption and drag from global uncerta...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Starting to feel like Labour's steady hand repairing our country is starting to pay off.
The OECD yesterday upgraded the UK's expected growth for next year from 1% to 1.2% with 2027 now expected to see 1.3% growth.
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The OECD yesterday upgraded the UK's expected growth for next year from 1% to 1.2% with 2027 now expected to see 1.3% growth.
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Coming soon:
"Why this could be bad news for Reeves", by Chris Mason...?
"And Starmer" by Laura Kuenssberg...?
"Why this could be bad news for Reeves", by Chris Mason...?
"And Starmer" by Laura Kuenssberg...?
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Coming soon:
"Why this could be bad news for Reeves", by Chris Mason...?
"And Starmer" by Laura Kuenssberg...?
"Why this could be bad news for Reeves", by Chris Mason...?
"And Starmer" by Laura Kuenssberg...?
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Labour's David Lammy: 90% of cases handled by magistrates, not their fantasy America-style juries.
youtu.be/YZbDsU4iq9w
#ukpolitics
youtu.be/YZbDsU4iq9w
#ukpolitics
Magna Carta? Tories only remember the bits that suit them
YouTube video by Politics In The U.K.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Labour's David Lammy: 90% of cases handled by magistrates, not their fantasy America-style juries.
youtu.be/YZbDsU4iq9w
#ukpolitics
youtu.be/YZbDsU4iq9w
#ukpolitics
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Hackers are Moving to “Living Off the Land” Techniques to Attack Windows Systems Bypassing EDR
Hackers are Moving to "Living Off the Land" Techniques to Attack Windows Systems Bypassing EDR
cybersecuritynews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hackers are Moving to “Living Off the Land” Techniques to Attack Windows Systems Bypassing EDR
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Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
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The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry.
In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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Co-op to cut prices of 1,000 products after Autumn Budget announced
The grocer has announced major plans for the chain
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry.
In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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Mansion tax will be paid by less than 1 in 200 homes.
145k out of 30.4m homes.
For every home that will pay something under the new tax, 199 won't.
It's a tax on the 0.5% and 99.5% of us will not pay it.
145k out of 30.4m homes.
For every home that will pay something under the new tax, 199 won't.
It's a tax on the 0.5% and 99.5% of us will not pay it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mansion tax will be paid by less than 1 in 200 homes.
145k out of 30.4m homes.
For every home that will pay something under the new tax, 199 won't.
It's a tax on the 0.5% and 99.5% of us will not pay it.
145k out of 30.4m homes.
For every home that will pay something under the new tax, 199 won't.
It's a tax on the 0.5% and 99.5% of us will not pay it.
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UKTBC Chair Andrew Lewin MP:
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
UKTBC Chair Andrew Lewin MP:
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
Happy thanksgiving to all those people who celebrate being the ancestors of undocumented immigrants to the land they forcibly claimed.
a cartoon of charlie brown and snoopy holding a turkey and the words happy thanksgiving
ALT: a cartoon of charlie brown and snoopy holding a turkey and the words happy thanksgiving
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy thanksgiving to all those people who celebrate being the ancestors of undocumented immigrants to the land they forcibly claimed.
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OBR has issued a statement taking full responsibility for their mistakes and breach in releasing their response to the Budget BEFORE it was given by the Chancellor.
Chancellor was not happy when speaking about this just now before starting the Budget speech.
Chancellor was not happy when speaking about this just now before starting the Budget speech.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
OBR has issued a statement taking full responsibility for their mistakes and breach in releasing their response to the Budget BEFORE it was given by the Chancellor.
Chancellor was not happy when speaking about this just now before starting the Budget speech.
Chancellor was not happy when speaking about this just now before starting the Budget speech.
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They’re desperate bless ‘em. They’ve burned their bridges in public. Things aren’t quite working out as they expected (Your Party), infiltrated the Greens to realise they won’t win enough seats, now talking about a Green/Lib Dem join up! They’ll vote Labour come the day and lie about it.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
They’re desperate bless ‘em. They’ve burned their bridges in public. Things aren’t quite working out as they expected (Your Party), infiltrated the Greens to realise they won’t win enough seats, now talking about a Green/Lib Dem join up! They’ll vote Labour come the day and lie about it.
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People stop banging on about ‘rejoining’ the EU.
I still can’t get my head around why people can’t see why it’s not happening just now.
Insane.
And no I’m not explaining to you if anyone is going to ask.
You have the world at your fingertips and hopefully a brain,try that.
I still can’t get my head around why people can’t see why it’s not happening just now.
Insane.
And no I’m not explaining to you if anyone is going to ask.
You have the world at your fingertips and hopefully a brain,try that.
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
People stop banging on about ‘rejoining’ the EU.
I still can’t get my head around why people can’t see why it’s not happening just now.
Insane.
And no I’m not explaining to you if anyone is going to ask.
You have the world at your fingertips and hopefully a brain,try that.
I still can’t get my head around why people can’t see why it’s not happening just now.
Insane.
And no I’m not explaining to you if anyone is going to ask.
You have the world at your fingertips and hopefully a brain,try that.
That is a terrible decision, taking 5 minutes to overturn a decision with no clear spike. labuschagne had a decision in his favour with a similar spike. #Ashes
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
That is a terrible decision, taking 5 minutes to overturn a decision with no clear spike. labuschagne had a decision in his favour with a similar spike. #Ashes
