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7 months

When I was 14, I lost my Dad to alcohol. This year, it will be 15 years since we got that phone call. In his memory, and to raise money for one of his favourite charities, I will be giving up alcohol for January, I would appreciate any donations.

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JK Rowling being asked to name a midwesterner:

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Miss Idaho Potato, 1935.

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My kids speak to me

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Men what’s stopping you from dressing like this?

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None of your nuanced takes on Lolita will ever be as good as the Google summary of the 1997 adaptation

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Was listening to a podcast about Supersize Me the other day and a key detail is that the doctors are like "wow, your liver is fucked, what is in McDonalds?" and the creator goes "wow, McDonalds kills livers" and about 5 years later he admitted he'd been an alcoholic at the time.

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There's this myth that McDonalds is the very worst food you can eat, far worse than any other food and it's actually not much worse than something like Subway or indeed M&S sandwiches. It's just processed food like fucking everything we eat. Supersize Me was a scam.

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About a decade ago, we got burgled and they stole my laptop. Luckily, I had installed tracking software, and could give the police the address of the fence they had taken it to. They went, told me it looked like a legitimate IT guy, and he told them it wasn't stolen.

James Ball

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I got mugged at knife point not all that long ago, by four guys who also beat me up for passwords/PINs. Police promised me it was a “high priority crime” and then didn’t even manage to collect relevant CCTV footage, which both they and I had confirmed existed.

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I sort of assumed she stayed in hotels

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Leicestershire council given £77k to tailor swift nesting sites

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To use one example: Mo Farah was trafficked to the UK at age 9. He was made to work as a child slave in the house for 2 years. He was only rescued when his the PE teacher helped him access social services. He would no longer have any recourse. He would be deported.

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@RishiSunak

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If you come to the UK illegally: ➡️ You can’t claim asylum ➡️ You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections ➡️ You can’t make spurious human rights claims ➡️ You can’t stay

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Ed Davey has it booked for the next week

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What is preventing you from doing this?

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Wasted in politics, should have been a sound engineer

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Welcome to #Dover . #VoteLabour

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Can't believe he's going to build HS2

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@SFXmagazine

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Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says an upcoming episode features a idea from 2010 that was too expensive to make at the time

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Blue scarf lady opening with "well, you did have to save" and ending with "I inherited my house when my Mum died" is proper chef's kiss...

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The cognitive dissonance an entire generation has worldwide about the housing crisis needs to be studied for a century:

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Hot Fuzz, a movie from 2007, makes a joke about how the official vocab guidance is police officer.

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Cops told to ditch phrases like 'policeman' and 'victims of' in 'woke' new guidance

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9 months

Pretty uncontroversial to say that the BBC's choice to frame this, quite sweet story, about a muslim farmer finding joy in the countryside and wanting to share that in this way is deliberate and racist.

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82% of burglaries go unsolved. 96% of bike thefts 93% of assaults 96% of sexual assaults. 98% of rapes.

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@metpoliceuk

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Yesterday a woman attended a police station, after a picture on social media showed a placard depicting two politicians as coconuts. The 36-year-old was interviewed under caution on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence. Thank you to all who have assisted.

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7 months

A lot of people wonder how their dishwasher actually works, so I've run mine with the door open to show you it in operation

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11 months

Facebook is handling the burning of the Crooked House very, very normally...

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The government's current position is that it's not a breach of human rights to send someone to Rwanda but is a breach of human rights to send them to a state school.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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🔴 BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law, The Telegraph can reveal The Labour leader risks falling foul of ECHR law over the policy, one of Britain’s top constitutional and human rights lawyers has warned

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3 months

In Tory Britain there isn't even any money left to launder

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3 months

Two of the phone and vape shops on my high street have shut down due to rent increases. It’s over

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9 months

The police are bad. They're racist, sexist, violent, and insular, but they are also just terrible at their actual jobs, and always have been.

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1 year

I'm not kidding when I say that a lot of the radicalisation of the elderly in the UK has a lot to do with daytime TV.

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1 year

Should there be a minimum age for MPs? Last night Keir Mather became the youngest MP in the House of Commons, aged just 25. Is that too young? @JJAnisiobi | @toryboypierce | @StormHuntley | #StormHuntley

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9 months

This was actually 2010, as my Mum got me the laptop so I could do my GCSEs, so I take people's point about the police no longer investigating things, but my wider point is that the police have never been that bothered by investigating things.

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1 year

Worth remembering, he belittled the student in front of class, wrote their deadname on the board, entered them into a female maths contest, then began simply ignoring them. His harassment amounted to gross misconduct and he was found guilty of a breach of the student's dignity.

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1 year

My teachers quite happily called me by my gender ambiguous name for years without it being a fucking ‘thing’. And this was in the 80’s.

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10 months

The thing about these stories where a teary-eyed parent bemoans the fact their child came out to the teachers before them is that they basically always prove the kid right.

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@Maoskyist

10 months

this article is just completely disgusting. uncritically repeating one parent’s attempt at abuse and control next to another parent’s story about their kid’s school doing nothing while their child got bullied for being trans

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@TPGRoberts

7 months

If we're spending £169k per person, it would be cheaper to: - Hire them their own caseworker - £30k - Cover their rent - £18k - Send 2 of their kids to school - £15k - Feed and clothe them and their family for a year - £10k (generous) But, crucially, that wouldn't be cruel.

Sunder Katwala

@sundersays

7 months

Rwanda costs are £120 million + £20 million + £100m paid, plus £50 million agreed. (£290m). PLUS two more payments (undisclosed). Could estimate £50m + £50m) THEN £169,000 per person if anyone goes, ie *another* £50 million if send 300 people, on top of £390 million for nobody!

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1 year

Not sure if I mentioned at the time for fear of being in the Mail, but the way I found out was the boss at the bowling alley I was in for a work event turned off Toxic to deliver the news over the tannoy in his best solemn voice only to be interrupted by someone bowling a strike.

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@SkyNews

1 year

King expected to mark anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death privately

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5 months

Seriously, well done to whoever in Stoke flogged him that.

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@MirrorPolitics

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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis says he's put 'bulletproof clingfilm' on home amid security fears

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Failing my compulsory maths A-Level because I was too busy on my compulsory national service

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1 year

And this isn't to make any judgement of those struggling with alcohol, but it's ridiculous to not mention this whilst trying to discuss health impacts of "poor food." Also, he sexually harassed several women, so fuck him.

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4 months

This, as a piece of art and history, is far more interesting than it ever was in place.

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@TPGRoberts

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Honestly, I don't really think you can call 90% of official portraits art if I'm being totally honest. They're more of a historical record?

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3 months

Skill issue

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I stopped being a veggie and started eating meat six months ago - it’s changed my life, writes @johnnyljenkins for LBC Views 'It’s not a bad thing to cut down on meat, but if you’re considering becoming vegetarian, be prepared for boredom!'

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7 months

Oh Adrian

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11 months

"Please my mortgage, it's gone up by 60%" "Best I can do is get rid of those nice lockable individual cubicles work installed"

Sky News

@SkyNews

11 months

The government has confirmed it is working to reverse the "rise in gender-neutral toilets" as part of its wider efforts to protect single-sex spaces

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8 months

For all the awkwardness of some lines, the depiction of Sylvia as loving and accepting but anxious about getting things wrong, and when she gets things wrong being gently corrected, not scolded, is far closer to how trans people react to mistakes than the claims of cancellation.

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It is very on brand for the Guardian to have this debate be between a woman who hates drag and a woman who hates drag queen story time.

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5 months

I feel like I'm going mad. The replies are basically just TERFs complaining that a woman is depicted potentially saving a man?

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💚 You can approach someone you're worried about. 💚 You can just ask a question and make small talk. 💚 You can just say 'Hello'. 💚 You can save a life. #SmallTalkSavesLives

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17 days

Just bookmarking this for 10pm on Thursday

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It’s not over until it’s over.

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I want whatever job Ed Davey thinks he has

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Unlucky morning for Ed Davey — it started pouring with rain just as he was about to go down the slip n slide (he braved it anyway)

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3 months

I respect Zoe for phoning in about 1 in every 5 columns, but this is a very good paragraph

The Guardian

@guardian

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My 16-year-old does not own an iguana. But he’s hoping to convince the GCSE examiners that he does | Zoe Williams

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1 year

Meeting my partner's brothers new girlfriend, a landlord, and already been told off for calling her "the parasite"

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2 months

Between storage, wastage, and paying for pick-ups, the cost to businesses of using cash is 3-6%, Visa charge 1.0-2.5% and Amex 1.5-3.5%. This is almost certainly about disclosure to the tax inspectors...

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I have seen more and more gentle nudging towards cash from small businesses these days, I live in Saskatchewan. Has anyone else noticed this trend? I figure I should start carrying more bills..

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Genuinely, the fact this has happened over and over again because he cannot stop standing in front of blank things astounds me

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Thanks for the plug, Rishi 👍

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@keewa "This Dell Inspiron 15, the same year, spec and model, that is currently locked by the same security software the owner told us was on it, is probably nothing"

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The thing about the way the UK does tuition fees is that it operates effectively as a graduate tax that rich people can buy their way out of. If your parents can stump up, then you earn 9% more than someone whose parents couldn't. It's entrenched inequality.

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EXCL: Keir Starmer will abandon Labour’s commitment to abolish university tuition fees within weeks

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2 months

You are a national journalist, you know what this is actually a dog whistle to.

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Labour is starting to use suffragette colours on some of its campaign material …

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Fun fact, this was also true at the time

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The BBFC have issued ratings on films since 1912, they have been legally required since 1985.

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“When I was young we never had trigger warnings for shows” Actor Ralph Fiennes “the impact of theatre should be that you’re shocked” and that he thinks audiences have gone too soft #BBCLauraK

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I don't necessarily think Peter's wrong, but "Wetherspoons as de facto social centre" is proper failed state stuff.

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Wetherspoons pubs also act as a de facto social centre (with beer) for lots of older people, & a low-cost dining option for many families. The chain has also won lots of awards for how it treats it staff. I’m not saying they’re without fault, but they’re successful for a reason.

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Liz Truss is relatively young so we probably have about 40 years of her appearing at these events, increasingly lost to history, until people become convinced that the Truss itself is a ceremonial role, like the Black Rod or kidnapping an MP for the opening of parliament.

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All of the former prime ministers (and Rishi Sunak) gathered at the cenotaph,

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1 year

An under-appreciated detail about Rishi is that he is violently American. This wave of "car as freedom, side of the motorists, love your boiler," is so rooted in current American culture that it just feels alien in a UK context. He'll be ranting about gas stoves soon.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

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Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover. Earlier I spoke to @Telegraph about how important cars are for families to live their lives. It’s something anti-motorist Labour just don’t seem to get. And it’s why I’m reviewing anti-car schemes across the country.

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1 year

Absolutely stunned they got this through legal

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Labour is the party of law and order.

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In 1996 a small group of women broke into an aircraft hanger and used hammers to smash the canopies of fighter jets sold to Indonesia for use in perpetuating the genocide in East Timor, their defence hinged on the fact under UK law you can use reasonable force to prevent a crime.

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Remarkably little is being said about how juries keep letting these guys off, clearly persuaded by their case that vandalism is morally correct in the face of crimes against humanity.

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Time to be honest, David Irving didn't exist, or at best was wildly exaggerated. A lot of evidence for his wretched existence is circumstantial, and doesn't actually confirm that such a cunt existed, or at least wasn't planned.

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Inflation in Argentina is currently somewhere around 20-30% per month (estimated at 250% per year), 60% of the population are below the poverty line, up from 40% when Milei took office, and their currency was just devalued by 50%.

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Horrible feeling that Lord Hannan of imaginary walks has just written a column that is going to age like feta in a hot power shower.

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Now that, that's passive aggression.

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This has made me well up a bit, it's genuinely awful to see a young and happy life cut short so abruptly.

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I think you can glean a lot about Britain's broken understanding of economics from headlines like this

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Boost for Brits' wallets as inflation falls dramatically to 3.9%

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One of the few things I find charming about Starmer is his ability to make his genuine, deeply held love of football look like it has all the sincerity of David Cameron in Greggs.

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For too long, football fans have been treated as an afterthought. If I’m Prime Minister, I’ll make sure the European Super League doesn’t happen. It’s time to start putting fans first.

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For anyone under the age of 25, they’ve likely never seen it in their lifetime – as the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction.

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this pic of bruce springsteen is wild

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"No votes have been counted, but it is clear its much much closer" HOWWWWWWWWW

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What's going on in the London Mayoral race? No votes have been counted yet, so hold on to your hats.. but it is clear tonight that the race is much much closer than some polls had suggested...

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There's an underlying nastiness to so much of 00s British culture that feels uniquely cruel with distance. Even in shows I remember fondly, that cruelty feels provocative and pointless. I loved Nevermind the Buzzcocks, but actually, Preston was right to walk out.

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Every time I raise an eyebrow at the censorious finger wagging of nowadays discourse I do try and remember we're still reacting to the 00s era of berserk boorish amoralism, a time in which rottweilers in eyeliner were routinely celebrated as fey indie geniuses

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So, did a bit of reading on this (I'm travelling, don't judge) and , the company they cite, does not provide vetting services, it sells a licence to use its platform to perform your own vetting. This may be why they didn't vet the candidates...

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Reform paid a vetting company £144k to carry out candidate checks. Not a single piece of work was delivered. Colin Bloom has links to the Tory party & has very serious questions to answer. Lawyers have been instructed. We do not rule out police action.

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Think it's weird to present her as just a headteacher when she's actually a truly deranged far right partisan

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"Why would you want to spend the money giving wealthy children free breakfast?" Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh asks what is Labour's thinking around free school meals and whether the policies have been thought through #Newsnight

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Channel 4 News

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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As @DarshnaSoni reports.

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You know how you can tell that no one was actually bothered about trans people at parkrun? They show three interviews here, and they all say, "Make sport feel inclusive." If they had had a single interviewee who disagreed, they would be in there for "balance."

Sky News

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Parkrun is facing a backlash over its decision to scrap all-time records after a row over transgender athletes taking female records. Sky's @mattuthompson has been speaking to runners in Clapham this morning to get their reaction 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

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Been mostly trying to avoid petty dunks due to the seriousness of what's going on, but the inept attempt to portray Greta as anti-semitic is really straining that rule.

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There's a moment here where they cut to Sunak, and you can see him clearly recognising this guy is fucking nuts, but he knows that if he says that then he will immediately lose the audience, so he has to indulge it. Just a fundamentally cowardly person.

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Rishi Sunak confronted by angry audience members over adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. #GBNews

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7 months

An underappreciated factor in why Starmer's Labour have gone a bit weird lately is that they're still focus grouping undecided voters to try and develop messaging, and the only undecided voters left are mad bastards and embarassed tories.

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Am I really misreading the public mood here? Are most people nodding at this, saying yeah get those bloated NHS bastards

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"She's not a police woman" "She is, I've seen her...bra" "She's a police officer, her gender has nothing to do with it."

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James Bond introduces himself everywhere he goes, twice, just to make sure they heard his surname.

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@broztitute

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all I’m saying is a black James Bond can’t blend in or disguise himself successfully in Moscow

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10 months

Nah, Suella said that a lot of people pretend to be gay to try and get in. How can we be sure you're actually gay and not just pretending to be gay in order to get cheap shots?

Thomas Smith

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10 months

I was one of the people thrown out of this bar - for no other reason than being a @Conservatives . I’m a proud gay man and a proud Conservative. No one should be treated like this @LGBTCons

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@Adrianics4k So, the podcast also covers a number of other details: He usually walks a lot, but he cuts his steps to 5000 (what he claims is the average for an American). He lies a lot about the calories he eats, claiming 5000 a day, but you can't do that just eating 3 "meals" a day.

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There's a lot of reasons to believe it will be a January 2025 election: Sunak is cowardly, they're praying something turns up, the economy might improve, but arguably the most convincing is: It means he goes on Wikipedia as Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister (2022-2025)

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1 year

Anti-trans people just have a pet billionaire, the Governing party, the Opposition party, the editorial alignment of every paper (including "liberal" ones like the Guardian), several think tanks, the American Right's money and endless credulity from TV press, they are smol beans.

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This is nonsense. The trans lobby exercises huge influence in higher education, publishing , public services and the corporate sector. The idea that ‘people like’ @jk_rowling have an unfair advantage is wilful blindness

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I'm sorry, I think I love him

ITV News West Country

@itvwestcountry

2 months

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey is visiting Somerset today as part of his election campaign. The rain didn't seem to get in the way as he tried out the 'Ultimate Slip N Slide' in Shepton Mallet. He's just been told he is not allowed any more goes.

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Ian Dunt

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Nothing has become Rishi Sunak like the loss of power. He’s gone from a snide, petulant prefect into a something resembling a genuine statesman

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There is something distinctly unfeminist about the veneration of the womb as something other than an organ. The obsession with the womb as sacred is tied more into anti-abortion rhetoric than anything emancipatory.

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Just as an observation on the whole is "X salary rich" discourse, I think my real observation is that when you earn above a certain amount you get to stop worrying about certain things, and that's a shift that doesn't make you feel rich, but is a genuine luxury people forget.

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"Have we tried putting wind farms underground?"

Pete Kennedy

@PeteKennedy

10 days

@seandsmyth You know there are other options than pylons, right? Offshore grid, tunnelling. These haven’t been properly considered.

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Genuinely bonkers local news story where one of those big "win a house" draws culminates in them declaring "well, we made a loss, sooooo here's five grand and fuck off."

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Being left wing in this country is mostly just watching centrist talking heads act stunned at the obvious things you'd summised three years ago.

Robert Peston

@Peston

1 year

Another shocker. Look at all the work on pandemic flu preparation that was stopped just a year before Covid19 emerged. #CovidInquiry

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"How is she radicalised?" "Well, she, a billionaire, just endorsed the Communist Party of Great Britain, a tiny cult of less than 2000 members because they were maybe transphobic enough."

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The reality is, Brianna was happy, transitioning made her happy, and the government has committed themselves to robbing every other trans child of that. They didn't kill Brianna, but they're the reason her killers thought she'd be an easier target, and that's not nothing.

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Rest in Power, King.

CNN Breaking News

@cnnbrk

11 months

Steve Harwell, former lead singer of the rock group Smash Mouth, has died at age 56

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@christapeterso @KatyMontgomerie It just looks like a vibrating pad, similar to massage guns, because if we all know what's good for babies it's being shaken!

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Cross dressing??? In Shakespeare???

Ann Coates Single X🦕🦖

@setoacnna

11 months

Mumsnet are getting upset about actors playing the opposite sex in Shakespeare. " kids were in the audience. It felt a little like finding yourself in a recruitment party for a transgressive sex cult, when what you really wanted was Shakespeare." Who wants to tell them?

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The Beebs' habit of elevating random people just to criticise strikes is absolutely mad, where did they even find this guy?

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7 months

In the grand scheme of WWE turned actor: Bautista: genuine talent, real depth, just an absolute joy to watch. Cena: Not got Dave's range, but there's a capacity to make fun of himself that elevates every performance. The Rock: Fun, but limited.

Casey Explosion

@CaseyExplosion

7 months

Finished up watching Peacemaker again, and god I never skip that intro

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He is not going to survive a general election campaign.

Scott Bryan

@scottygb

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BBC Radio Tees: “When is the general election?” Rishi Sunak *starts laughing* BBC Radio Tees: “why are you laughing?”

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What's Cancer?

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

3 months

This is wonderful news and it’s so good to see the King and Queen seizing the moment to raise awareness of cancer.

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10 months

This is just a description of radicalisation, coupled with the self rationalisation for radicalisation.

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1 year

Why has Pride Month gone woke? It should go back to its focus on what's important: straight women's feelings.

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

1 year

“The pride movement has been so taken over by corporations doing their woke-washing by planting their rainbow flags on social media.” Oxfam is ‘woke washing’ Pride Month, says columnist @HadleyFreeman . @MattChorley | #TimesRadio

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Fundamentally, the only time anyone under 25 appears on current affairs programmes is to act as a mouthpiece for a shady far right think tank, and the Beeb should be more proactive in questioning that.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

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George Monbiot(Guardian) rips into Reem Ibrahim(Institute for Economic Affairs) over their funding. "You're from the Institute for Economic Affairs, which is funded by oligarchs & cooperations... & the BBC says the funding should be revealed... " #PoliticsLive

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The thing is, this student was doing his A Levels so would have been between 16 and 18, Mr Lister is in his 50s. He consciously took actions intended to hurt that student, knowing they would hurt him, and did so repeatedly in front of other students.

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Assuming for a second that this didn't have a trans angle and was just about a teacher using a nickname the student didn't like, we'd recognise that as bullying, right?

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Truly deranged. Impossible to build a compromise with someone like this, who has radicalised themselves far, far beyond any semblance of rational concern and into delusional obsession.

Steven Swinford

@Steven_Swinford

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EXCLUSIVE: JK Rowling has accused Sir Keir Starmer of 'abandoning women' who are concerned about transgender rights In an article for The Times the author criticised the Labour leader for taking a 'dismissive and often offensive' approach to feminist concerns She said she can

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As ever, the main point of HS2 is, and has always been, to free up capacity across the existing mainlines to allow them to be used for more local and commuter services across the entire rail network.

Philip Proudfoot

@PhilipProudfoot

10 months

HS2 was always a waste of money for the North, anyway. If you want to get to London 30-minutes earlier, leave 30-minutes earlier. The problem is connections between and within Northern cities. Leeds is the biggest city in Europe without a light-rail or metro system.

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If you want to understand what's going on in British media, you could do worse than GMB running heavily with a story about Meghan Markle being appointed to Diane Feinstein's seat, a seat that was filled two hours before GMB started airing.

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4 months

Wait, HMRC is only spending about £500 per laptop?

City A.M.

@CityAM

4 months

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) spent more than £82m on remote working devices for its workers, City A.M. can reveal.

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"Austerity is the radical idea that the 2008 global financial crisis was caused by Wolverhampton having too many libraries"

ollie cole

@ProducerOllie

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🚨Rachel Reeves walks Labour back from going into govt with an immediate £28bn a year green spending commitment… Now says party will “ramp up” towards £28bn instead. Shadow Chancellor tells R4 “I have always said that our fiscal rules are non-negotiable.”

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And this is just a very high profile example of the sorts of practices this enables. Young Mo would face a choice, return to slavery or be sent to a country he left at age 9. That's the power this Government has given to modern slavers.

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