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“The Food Standards Agency (FSA) estimates that approximately one in 28 people suffer from some form of foodborne illness every year in the UK. Not great. But in America, around one in six people experience some form of food poisoning ever year. Definitely much worse.”

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Navarro doesn't understand the deal they signed. The text reads: "The United Kingdom and the United States affirm that imported food and agricultural goods must comply with the importing country’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and other mutually agreed standards."

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

Fair play to Chris, it can't be easy to write an article and grit your teeth at the same time.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

"Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a U.K. vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts. This hurts American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers."

submitted 6 days ago • 165 comments

Trump just fired the three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC regulates the safety of everyday consumer products. Guess who recently sued the agency and claimed that it's "unconstitutional"? Amazon. Connect the dots.

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing

submitted 8 days ago • 331 comments

Solar panels are to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027, under plans to be announced by ministers. This is a BIG CAMPAIGN WIN! 👏 Now let’s get rooftop solar rolled out across warehouses, car parks, and existing homes. 🌞 Agree? Tell Ed Miliband..... tinyurl.com/yc539rxp

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The Prime Minister of a sovereign country came to the United States today and actually had to tell the President of the United States - to his face - that his sovereign country wasn’t for sale. And would never be for sale. That actually happened today.

submitted 9 days ago • 772 comments

This Starmer quote on Churchill is utterly dreadful. We give Churchill a lot of credit in Origin Story, but he was unquestionably racist & imperialist & responsible for the Bengal famine. Many British people dislike him for entirely justifiable reasons. Questioning their decency is outrageous.

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

submitted 9 days ago • 1122 comments

The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

Old photo: Lichfield Cathedral was completed by 1330, after a century of construction works, although its highly decorated West Front underwent heavy restoration in Victorian times. It is the only English medieval cathedral to have three spires, collectively known as the 'Ladies of the Vale'.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Our children are growing up on violent, misogynistic, and paedophilic-adjacent pornography online. That's why I've tabled amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill to ensure parity between offline and online pornography regulation. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#UTFT Let’s get Niall home. €4k raised out of €7.5k needed. 💙🕯️🙏

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova, three Bulgarians all now convicted of spying for Russia, were present at a Brexit debate in a House of Commons committee room in May 2016. They. Knew. What. They. Were. Spying. For. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

submitted 11 days ago • 476 comments

Ali France just became the first person to unseat an opposition leader at an election. Despite Peter Dutton’s fear-mongering and culture wars that strategically and deliberately harm minorities, Australians didn’t buy it. And a woman with a disability showed him the door.

submitted 12 days ago • 53 comments

🇺🇸 Non-MAGA Americans - listen up! At the Bylines Network (UK), we've a new project to amplify non-MAGA American voices at a time when US media are not adequately capturing the chaos, fear & disruption in people's lives. But we're collecting the stories. This is citizen journalism. Take a look. 👇

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Using your vote to protest against the Government in local elections won't really damage the Government particularly as Labour are defending fewer than 300 seats. Same for those voting Reform Party Ltd rather than Tory, the only people you'll hurt are yourselves and your local services.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Watching Dr Strangelove again. Had forgotten that the cigar chomping, square jawed crazy all American general who starts WW3 had a head full of John Birch society ideas and thought that flouride in water was a commie plot... Now where have I heard that recently?

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

submitted 16 days ago • 241 comments

Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US" "When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"

submitted 16 days ago • 198 comments

Giles Coren calls out the president of the British Board of Deputies for the refusal to allow criticism of Israel's war in Gaza "while not a genocide, it has become a quite wanton slaughter." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING NYT: Pete Hegseth's personal phone number — the one used in a recent Signal chat — was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 252 comments

“We believe in breaking taboos”. Yeah right, new Observer. The kind of taboos Clegg’s Facebook broke when it allowed Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica to hack my profile and direct messages (along with 77 million others). Who needs laws, eh? They’re just taboos.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Who did this? 😂

submitted 19 days ago • 1705 comments

Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

this is well put and really worth watching: www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 271 comments

Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 19 days ago • 281 comments

After MONTHS of shilling for Trump and angrily lecturing that OF COURSE Trump doesn't mean what he says, OF COURSE he's not on Russia's side, OF COURSE he's got Ukraine's back... Johnson now flips, with nary a word to acknowledge that he got this as catastrophically wrong as everything else. ~AA

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

📍In London to prepare the EU-UK Summit with Keir Starmer. We are friends. And we are Europeans. It means that we share interests and democratic values. And that we are ready to face global challenges as like-minded partners.

submitted 21 days ago • 116 comments

this polling shows why Farage & Badenoch both made a strategic mistake chasing the pro-Trump vote a few months ago

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

China canceled 13 BILLION worth of U.S. Soybeans. They will now buy soybeans from Brazil. Way to go, asswipe!

submitted 24 days ago • 551 comments

If you know, you know

submitted 24 days ago • 505 comments

This is way overdue.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A vote for Farage is a vote for chlorinated chicken. bsky.app/profile/theg...

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

In today's let's bash Labour news, in a long article on trade Rachel Reeves apparently said MP's wouldn't have a vote on any US trade deal. MP's have never had a vote on trade deals, the awful Australian deal for example. But it's led to another round of insults by tedious posters.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

submitted 26 days ago • 434 comments

Worth reminding ourselves of the problems Tony Blair had within his first 6 months in office. A rebellion over cuts to single parent benefits, the Blair/Brown governments were the most successful in years, making life better for millions of us.

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