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The IRA detonated a 3,300lb lorry bomb on Corporation Street, Manchester, at 11.20am #OTD 1996, the biggest bomb detonated in Britain since WW2. Four coded warnings meant that no one died, but 220 were injured and damage to the city's retail and commercial core was extensive.

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I know there’s endless problems in the world but the real question is when are Kinder guna start making giant Happy Hippos.

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Farage wants to tie us into dead-end climate wrecking fossil fuel industries because he's in the pocket of oil and gas giants - instead we need a genuine Energy Jobs Plan to futureproof British industry and secure a long-term livelihood for workers news.sky.com/story/farage...

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The government has promised a fundamental reform of adult social care in England, with the establishment of a ‘National Care Service’. So what progress is being made? Our latest Government Tracker page takes a look 👇

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When the violence causes silence we must be mistaken. - The Cranberries

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Liverpool kids, 1964, by Astrid Kirchherr (1938-2020).

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just checked on some of the young Reformers I interviewed for a previous piece who were standing as council candidates & one's now deputy leader aged all of 22, found a 19yo cabinet member for children's services, sure this is going to be...fine in an era of unimaginably tough budget settlements

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Retrospectively applying immigration rules in bad faith can ruin lives, as we saw with the Windrush Scandal. It would be totally irresponsible for the government to pull the rug out from under people who have worked, paid taxes and built their lives here.

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Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.

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I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

submitted 37 days ago • 113 comments

A comprehensive comms success.

submitted 38 days ago • 80 comments

Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.

submitted 38 days ago • 163 comments

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Confusion for family and friends of Fatou Tamba as she is driven back from airport after another deportation plan is scrapped

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I guess it would be too much for them to ask whether it would improve the country rather than whether it will win votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fatou has been moved in the night from Hassockfield to Yarl’s Wood ahead of her impending deportation scheduled this weekend. Deporting an innocent woman, a mother and a beloved member of the community is inhumane. Fatou’s solicitor, family, and friends are doing everything they can #freefatou

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there are, in fact, a ton of positive role models for masculinity out there and if teenage boys choose the whiniest and most hate-filled versions that's at least somewhat on them

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Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free". Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors

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#Protest

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Well done to every single person involved who helped to stop Fatou from being deported yesterday! The fight is not over, she is still in detention but the fight for her freedom continues. On this St George’s Day, those fighting for Fatou & others in similar positions are the best of British 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿

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Numbers Labour could publish on foreign born people instead of criminal history: 😀Windrush without compensation 😀People who have experienced hate crime 😀Stats on NRPF that they refuse to publish 😀Stats on race/ethnicity that they refuse to publish 😀Visas denied due to racist decision making

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Fatou Tamba is set to be deported today to The Gambia, where her friends and family says she will face huge danger. They are desperately fighting to stop this evening’s flight from taking off. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Of course you have every right to disagree with absolutely anything I say — but you don’t have the right to insult or threaten or abuse me, or my colleagues, or the outfit I work for. If you do, I’ll block you; so why not disagree in a civilised fashion?

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#StopTheBoats

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@jonnybbc.bsky.social please can you help? Fatou is a pillar of the community in Liverpool & a mother. She is detained to be deported to Gambia on Monday. Home office refusing to comment. Community is desperate. Story in Liverpool Echo here Full story: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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@zoegardner.bsky.social I’d be so grateful for your help with this - Fatou is a pillar of the community in Liverpool & a mother. She is detained to be deported to Gambia on Monday. Home office refusing to comment. Story in Liverpool Echo here Full story: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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@theguardian.com A pillar of the community in Liverpool & a mother Fatou has been detained, being deported to Gambia Monday. Home office refusing to comment community doing what they can to stop this from happening! Liverpool Echo have this please can you help www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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@colinyeo.bsky.social this is terrifying for Fatou, what could be done at this late stage? We really don’t want her to be deported and lose her family and community in Liverpool 🙏🏼 www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

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The Trump administration signaled on Sunday that it would pursue new tariffs on the powerful computer chips inside smartphones and other technologies, just two days after it excluded a variety of electronics from the steep import taxes recently applied on goods arriving from China.

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On a train to Lincoln to honour my father’s 90th. 30 years in the RAF, MBE for service to this country — a proud son of the #Windrush generation. Yet today’s Mirror reminds us the Windrush compensation scheme remains heartbreakingly ‘broken’😢 @dailymirror.bsky.social 👏🏽 @mrjamesob.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 17 comments

Is it a) woke b) Meghan c) the EU d) cancel culture

submitted 75 days ago • 15 comments

Not going to waste my time on April Fool’s Day when the whole world is already a joke 🌎

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I totally get that Reeves has security and can’t sit in regular seats. If these were tickets that couldn’t be paid for as she said on #kuenssberg this morning, then from a PR point of view wouldn’t it have been better if she made a charitable donation to a UK charity supporting musicians/creatives?

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