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Seen at the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris. « Anglais: Un Monsieur qui gêne les autres chez lui, mais qui ne se gêne pas chez les autres. »

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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

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New from YouGov: Most (61%) Britons say that Brexit has been more of a failure than a success Those who see Brexit as a failure are most likely to blame the Conservative Party (88%) and Boris Johnson (84%) Almost two thirds (65%) of Britons now want to see a closer relationship with the EU

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Left, La Grande Motte, France, 1970s. Right, "A is for Architecture" plans for Folkestone, 2025. Interesting to see modernism emerging as yet another mimetic historicist style...

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President Macron’s visit to Greenland sends a strong message: Europe stands by Greenland’s autonomy and its people.At a time when strategic interests in the Arctic are growing, the EDP supports a Union that protects sovereignty, respects self-determination, and promotes responsible global engagement

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A great win, with national implications. At last, councils will have to take into account the cumulative effects of livestock factories on river catchments. It's all about increments of excrement. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“the president is a kind of super-citizen with total impunity and no meaningful accountability and his aura extends to armed men acting on his behalf” is precisely the opposite of constitutional government

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The heritage document for the proposed London Liverpool Street Station demolition/redevelopment amounts to "We're demolishing much of the building to raise money to save it". This massively destructive application should be refused. Object now! www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new...

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Lee Anderson, never one to miss political scoring points, forgets he was part of the Tory government when they ignored multiple reports and recommendations around child grooming and exploitation Cooper reminds him.

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Unregulated and Unsafe: The Threat of Illegal Electric Motorbikes #FTFY All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking appgcw.org/resources/in...

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I propose we stop addressing them w/questions. No more questions prompting discourse for which they've conclusively failed to demonstrate in anyway being capable of or interested in taking part w/good faith. Give only full conclusions. Not teeing up for gaslighting. Conclusion. End of discussion.

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UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

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Trump in 2011: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective..." This video aged well because it reminds us that Trump has always done Nazi 101 and accused his opponents of what he actually does.

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I’m not sure USA has ever faced such a moment. Wholly unprepared to deal with calamity on the world stage. We have a Putin ass-kisser at Sec of State, a drunk at Pentagon and a dipshit asshole sitting in the Oval Office Adderall tweeting. He pulled out of Iran deal, lethal moron.

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Hearing this from quite a few people in Reform UK-controlled councils. From a local reader: "There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"

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“America…. is flailing, insulting its allies for no purpose, and flattering its enemies for nothing in return” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/374...

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How do we shift the perception that it's ok and acceptable that car drivers cause incredible amounts of harm?

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This is important. A UCL report* a few years ago showed that virtually no research is being done on interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians and people on bikes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits... #PMQs

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"more than 80% of all donations since the party’s Brexit Party days in 2019 have come from just five people: Richard Tice, Fiona Cottrell, cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne, financier Jeremy Hosking, and metals magnate David Lilley." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...

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Reeves: "Nigel Farage may be playing the friend of the workers now. But some of us are old enough to remember when he described Liz Truss' mini-budget as the best Conservative budget since the 1980s. They've learnt nothing."

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“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy” And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

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"We should encourage epistemic diversity, not monocultural nostalgia masquerading as virtue." www.brainpizza.com/p/against-ci...

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Sounds familiar? "every time we see that somebody has been poisoned or shot, apparently for their criticism of the Kremlin... we always tell ourselves some story about why that can’t happen to us. And I know it’s a thin story, but that’s how you cope." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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INTBAU's 25th anniversary! Global conference in London in October this year. INTBAU 25: Progress in Tradition | INTBAU www.intbau.org/wc25/

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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Which US president was it again who was too old and unfit for office?

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I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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Breaking: UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is to restore winter fuel payments to all but 2mn pensioners with incomes of more than £35,000, in a U-turn that will cost the Treasury £1.25bn

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When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

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"The success of Reform is bad news for the UK because populist-nationalist parties are essentially propaganda machines, peddling fake solutions for real crises." (Keir Starmer is the UK's Joe Biden) archive.ph/H11pF#select...

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She is a tourist from Chile, and these cops left her teenage daughter on the streets of New York City alone. Why anybody would come to this country right now blows my mind.

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