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"George Finch, 18, will lead Warwickshire County Council" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

Wishing Warwickshire County Council all the best, and especially 18 year old interim Council Leader Cllr George Finch, now that the elected leader Cllr Rob Howard has stepped down from his role as Council Leader after six weeks in the job.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Every time I read these stories I cant help but think of Vance who came to Munich to tell Europe that we have freedom of speech problem.

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

submitted 15 hours ago • 214 comments

Q: "Can you give us a preview of what you'll say to Zelensky?" Trump: " We'll discuss his difficulty. He's got a little difficulty, Zelensky. I assume we'll talk about Ukraine... I've spoken to Putin a lot and he actually was very nice."

submitted 20 hours ago • 126 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Mamdani ending his victory speech with this quote from FDR. This is potentially a consequential moment for US politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

submitted 1 day ago • 1600 comments

A week ago, a tipsy Pete Hegseth told President Trump the Iranian site would for sure be totally obliterated. Trump is going to find out the truth today and Hegseth may not survive it.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Latest on “checks and balances” and “separation of powers”.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's actually contemptible that grifters like this get rewarded with airtime by our public service broadcaster.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Liz Cheney’s plan 💪🏼 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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If this is the case, then there looks like a route for the US and Iran to climb down, at least for now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

Fascinating historical background, & personal insights 👇 Unlike anything else you might read during this crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi is en route to Moscow to meet with Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Starmer's statement is perfectly clear and is explained in the post below. Furthermore, comparisons with Iraq in 2003 are nonsense.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Every accusation is a confession with him!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Nice idea, cc @jayrayner1.bsky.social We don’t have ICE but we have weirdos banging on about white Britons

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you read down this Mail article long enough, you get to this grudging admission: "76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths. That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England." . archive.ph/wip/lmv8G

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional, in a win for civil liberties groups who say the mandate violates the separation of church and state

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Amid everything yesterday you may have missed this. It is absolutely massive. At last the local government funding formula will recognise that Sandwell, top ten most deprived in the country, with mostly As and Bs on council tax, has to get more help than somewhere that can raise more locally

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

This sounds great! We currently test all new borns for 9 illnesses. But as part of the Labour's 10 Year Health Plan, we will start testing for hundreds of preventable or treatable illnesses. Patients being offered personalised health care to prevent ill health before symptoms even show!

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

Private Eye

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Need to be better, Washington Post

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Judge Farbiarz, now in writing, orders the release of Mahmoud Khalil on bail TODAY. AND—happy surprise—he reconsiders and adds a line forbidding electronic monitoring, as Judge Sessions did for Rümeysa Öztürk. He also forbids monetary bond due today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Trump’s EPA wants to lift a ban on asbestos. Asbestos is banned in over 50 countries due to comprehensive research showing that it causes cancer. This is another policy move that will make America sicker.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Has a paper ever been more out of step with its market? (Not to mention racist and idiotic)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The misleading article on Spain's blackouts was written by Telegraph energy editor Jonathan Leake — who until two years ago was head media at oil and gas lobby group OEUK (formerly Oil and Gas UK).

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Birbalsingh lives in an echo chamber and the only audiences she like are the ones that hang on her every word. I'm no Mystic Meg but this might be a very bad move on her part.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

Read the speaker as Roger McGough. Would have been interesting

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing says freedom quite so much as the state scrutinizing your every offhand remark for wrongthink.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Credit to them for publishing the correction, at least

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In my view Starmer has quickly become a very useful, well respected and influential world leader. It has been a long long time since the UK has had one of those.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

I luv it when they eat each other alive 😂😂😂

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment