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Today's ethical question: which is worse - dodging a fare or claiming public money for the same journey twice?

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

Ordinary people "feel like mugs" for paying when others feel they can get away without doing so, says Robert Jenrick, who was found to have falsely claimed £122 in travel expenses, and used his own office to help a Conservative donor avoid paying £45m in tax www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!" We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

📍 in London for the first-ever EU–UK Summit. We’ve got a real chance to turn the page and write a new chapter in our relationship. Working together to deliver on the security of our shared continent and the prosperity of people on both sides of the Channel.

submitted 20 days ago • 81 comments

Ursula von der Leyen: "Thinking back of my times as a student here in London, I know the first place abroad you go when you're a young person, it's an impression for life. You fall in love with the city and the country and for the rest of your life you are the best ambassador for this country." ~AA

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled. If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.

submitted 20 days ago • 104 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 32 days ago • 686 comments

Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right. As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.

submitted 36 days ago • 194 comments

🤞

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NEW EPISODE: 'The Simmer of Discontent'. Why discontent of last summer's riots is still smouldering... Peter Oborne join @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This reminds me of Brexit and “blue passports”

submitted 62 days ago • 46 comments

Oh do fuck right off. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

THE BRITISH PEOPLE WANT THE EU NOT TRUMP! Trump isn’t going to give Britain a ‘special deal’. We do 17% of our trade with the US and we get Trump tariffs. We do 45% of our trade with the EU and we erected Brexit trade barriers. WE’RE NUTS! CHOOSE! GET BREXIT UNDONE! rejoincampaign.uk

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

Happy Radio memories! Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

(S)he who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Schimel lost.

submitted 67 days ago • 2543 comments

submitted 67 days ago • 27 comments

This is what corruption looks like.

submitted 69 days ago • 2805 comments

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

submitted 80 days ago • 616 comments

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... If Starmer refuses to admit that Brexit has been a FAILURE, and start process of rejoining the EU, then Labour deserves to lose support of the electorate, as they're just as bad as the Tories.

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

submitted 80 days ago • 2925 comments

Because of Brexit, the U.K. is blocked from the €150bn EU defence fund. Leaving the Single Market will go down in history as the greatest act of British self harm this century. www.thetimes.com/article/baae...

submitted 80 days ago • 25 comments

Sic transit Gloria Swanson...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Crawford: "I'm speaking, please."

submitted 83 days ago • 13 comments

The USA is not a place I feel inclined to visit anymore…

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submitted 83 days ago • 365 comments

Elon Musk's company is currently suing our state. Now he's trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to help his bottom line. Watch Judge Crawford chat with @briantylercohen.bsky.social on Musk's meddling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCq...

submitted 91 days ago • 18 comments

I wonder if Boris Johnson wrote two pieces about the situation in Ukraine. One in which he showed a modicum of integrity and the one he ended up submitting. I doubt it. I think the time when he toyed with integrity, even as a thought experiment, is long gone.

submitted 91 days ago • 20 comments

Indeed. A continued deafening silence on this matter since the GE. Why, I wonder...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Oh myyy

submitted 91 days ago • 3703 comments

Breaking: Trump appoints new senator

submitted 92 days ago • 18 comments

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

submitted 93 days ago • 10611 comments

This is the MOST DELICIOUSLY EMBARRASSING THING you will see all week, if not all month. Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from. It truly deserves to go viral.

submitted 94 days ago • 101 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 94 days ago • 2038 comments

End this nightmare soon...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Your reminder that each one of these people helped Putin by enabling Brexit. #NeverForgiveNeverForget

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Javier Milei just deleted from his socials every trace and photo of this June 2024 visit, during which he awarded Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of Freedom medal. ~AA

submitted 95 days ago • 106 comments

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

submitted 97 days ago • 227 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 98 days ago • 5964 comments

That's more like it

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments