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New YouGov poll: - 66% would support the UK having closer relationship with the EU - This includes half of both Leave (52%) and Reform UK (54%) voters - Majority (53%) support Britain rejoining the European Union - Six in ten believe Brexit has been more of a failure than a success

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Quite the opposite. First brave thing he's done.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

I don’t understand the celebration about being able to use the e-gates at passport control. This never went away in some airports (eg, Venice Marco Polo), it’s having the queue to get the stamp after you’ve been through them which is the issue.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I can’t wait for #SanMarino to lift us out of the gloom #Eurovision

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“All of the bombs will explode sooner or later…” Our series Half-Life continues on BBC Radio 4 this morning, as @joedunthorne.bsky.social visits Oranienburg, the town where his great-grandfather used to work www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

Ian sums up how I feel.

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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

"It's magic really isn't it? I want to do it again now." www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

I once asked my mum why there’s Mother’s Day and Father’s Day but no Son’s Day. ‘Every bladdy day ees Son’s Day!’ In this photo, she’s with her much loved nieces at a family do.

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Happy birthday to Anna Maria Mazzini, the Italian singer Mina. 85 today and in fine voice and still so huge that the young ones want to duet with her. If you don’t know her, have a look on YouTube.

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Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

You need to read this!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

St Joseph’s Day. The Italian Father’s Day. I have traditional zeppole from the local Sicilian bakery 😋

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Forster is the most humane, perceptive and liberal of the great English authors. This collection sounds amazing.

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

I wrote about the cruising row on Hampstead Heath, the craze for crocuses in my local park, and being called a c*nt in the street by a stranger.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us. healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

submitted 71 days ago • 41 comments

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

submitted 73 days ago • 62 comments

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

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