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“Barry Fry of Peterborough said this was like David against Goliath, well David is giving Goliath a real fight” says someone on talkSPORT. Well…yes.

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In a rare bit of good news for everyone, the number of new podcasts being created is going down. on.ft.com/4ihZp86 Presumably because everyone already has one

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A Liberal Democrat MP has been refused entry to Hong Kong to visit her newborn grandson. Wera Hobhouse is believed to be the first parliamentarian turned away since China took control in 1997

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BBC understands UK govt officials are at the Scunthorpe site ready to take control once royal assent is given to the bill

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Who wants to see the order paper for tomorrow's Saturday sitting of the Commons? commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/939...

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Almost all of them from Fleet Street, I’m told

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Pontins Southport

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Can report it is a glorious evening up there lads

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REPORTER: President Trump looks healthier than ever before. I'm sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy and is he eating less McDonald's? LEAVITT: I can confirm the president is in very good shape

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If I were Prime Minister I'd give Stuart Broad a knighthood in my resignation honours, for services to rattling Australians

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Parliament is being recalled to discuss British Steel tomorrow, the BBC understands. A government source says it is looking “to take control”’ of the business. First recall since the one to discuss Afghanistan in August 2021

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I am honestly losing track: WHITE HOUSE TO CNBC: U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINA NOW TOTAL 145% AFTER LATEST HIKE

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Lots of amazing details in this, including this story about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reaction to the 2019 film Cats.

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Kevin Hassett says on CNBC that the expectation is for the 10% universal baseline tariff to remain in place over the long term. “It would take some kind of extraordinary deal to go below there,” he says.

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Pulp reveal their first new album in 24 years, and a single called Spike Island

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It's US Masters week so I can share maybe my favourite bit of sportswriting ever: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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Keir Starmer in Doncaster: "I'm not going to pretend tariffs are good news, it’s not true and you would not believe me if I said it”

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In “phrases you never hear outside the media” terms “bobbies on the beat” is right up there isn’t it. Imagine your friend says that to you at the pub.

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Massimo Taibi's crying, nice one mate

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If Universal Studios UK works out maybe there'll be investors for my plan to bring back Blobbyland

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The Italian national anthem is brilliant

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BESSENT: THEY CAN RAISE THEIR TARIFFS BUT SO WHAT -FOX BUSINESS NETWORK INTERVIEW (via Reuters)

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Whenever *I* look up in Parliament Jim Shannon is speaking 🤣 I'm not sure I've ever been in a debate he hasn't attended.

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Any time anyone says "two thirty": oh, same time as my dentist appointment. Usually leads to someone saying "you have a dentist appointment? You should have told Planning, you're messing up the whole afternoon"

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Kim Leadbeater has announced the next stage of the assisted dying bill, report stage, will be held on Friday 16th May NOT Friday 25th April as previously scheduled. She says it will give MPs "more time to consider" the amendments being made in committee. Also punts it past the local elections

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Every time I look up at BBC Parliament this afternoon Jim Shannon (DUP, Strangford) is speaking

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President Zelensky says two Chinese citizens who were fighting for the Russian army have been captured in the Donetsk region. He claims there's intelligence suggesting there are more in other units, and has demanded an answer from Beijing.

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