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If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Wild London is Sir David Attenborough's latest documentary.

It shows how our rewilding is "securing a brighter future for both animals, and us, too in our unique metropolis - the world's greenest major city." 💚💚💚

Watch it on BBC 1 on New Year's Day.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why Sir David Attenborough wouldn't live anywhere else but London
In a new one-off documentary, the broadcaster and conservationist comes home - to London.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🚨🚨 OBAMACARE DAM BREAKS

Four House Republicans rebel against their leadership, teaming up with Democrats to sign a "discharge petition" to force a 3-year extension of enhanced ACA funds to a vote.

Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan, Mackenzie.

+ 214 Dems.

It has 218.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Centrist Republicans revolt, signing a petition to force a vote on Obamacare funding
The Affordable Care Act subsidies are still expected to expire at the end of this year, however, raising insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The first, direct answer is yes. Trump has said defamatory things about the BBC. He may have committed other wrongs against them.

So: yes the BBC *can* countersue.

But.

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December 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This is perfectly accurate.
McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Watching UK accounts on social media and YouTube (mostly with numbers in the account profiles) cheering on Trump vs the BBC or our govt is so depressing. Many are likely overseas accounts, but the odd far right types who aren't are the worrying ones. They hate their own country vehemently.
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Another person who puts money above everything else. Quite sad to see. Left his club in limbo despite everything and off to a regime that kills journalists, executes gay people and subjugates women.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Brendan Rodgers confirmed as head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah
Al-Qadsiah have hailed a ‘landmark moment’ after appointing Brendan Rodgers as their head coach
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.

Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Not a moment too soon. As @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social and others have warned, this is a threat do our demogracy (as it is across Europe)

BBC News - Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Minister orders probe into foreign financial interference in UK politics
Communities Secretary Steve Reed says the country
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Allowing Islington to pull the plug on hire bikes when they have transformed green mobility in London, with requirements that are impossible for bike hire firms to enforce, is madness. Would unwind the excellent work of @willnorman.co.uk and @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Islington Council puts e-bike hire operators on
The council said e-bike hire operators Lime and Forest must tackle dangerous parking and riding.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Legal adviser to Rachel Reeves quits after advising plans to rip up planning laws could jeopardise trade with the EU and lead to widespread habitat destruction

The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months
Exclusive: Catherine Howard’s exit comes amid disagreements at top of government about how far to push deregulation agenda
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Trump is now blocking the US-UK trade deal unless we lower food standards and stop trying to regulate the worst excesses of big tech.
The answer is simple: tell America to go f*ck themselves and rejoin the EU customs union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Absolutely delighted to join Cllrs Brenda Dacres, Louise Krupski & Will Cooper and the Lewisham Council team to celebrate the opening of the amazing new cycle lanes along Deptford Church Street.
🚲protected lanes
🌱☔️ planting & rain gardens
🚦pedestrian crossings
🚌bus stop bypasses
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Trump didn't want to waste a thought or prayer.
Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
December 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If European governments, including the UK, don't do more to hold social media companies accountable for hosting outright fake news, much designed to boost the extreme far right, then democracy itself will die
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.
Robert Tchenguiz hopes Liz Truss-fronted club will help pay off debt to Reubens
Companies linked to financier owe property moguls £130mn for mortgage on Leconfield House
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Eight months ago vs today. 🤡

@atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Football fan? Come to the USA. We will charge you the cost of a small car to see a match and might intern you and stop you seeing it if you have criticised Trump on social media in the last five years. F**k that.
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM