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Uk to rejoin Erasmus scheme - set to be confirmed formally tomorrow
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The poets and the dreamers are remembered long after the despots are gone. Goodnight good people.
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I can’t believe there isn’t a huge volume of votes sitting there, waiting for the first party leader to pledge a second referendum. The Remain vote would obliterate the ridiculous and corrupt Leave position.
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?

Odd that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Since its inception in 2017, the Sensory Santa event at the University of Galway has given children with additional needs a chance to enjoy a bespoke Christmas experience
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Sensory Santa event offers unique experience for children
Children from around the west of Ireland are making their way to Galway this weekend for Santa visits with a difference.
www.rte.ie
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you

The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.

He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.

Farage would have been about 33 at time.

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"

"Today we have 46,000 a year"

"And do you know why?"

"Brexit"

"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"

*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Finally, the media aren't letting the wide mouthed frog off the hook. He is in deep doodoo because he simply cannot call, over 20 , people liars without being dragged into court by at least some of them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The scale of the Brexit damage forces the less dishonest Brexiters to admit reality.

(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)

“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Great interview with Luke Akehurst MP, Lab moderate, by Luke O’Reilly www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC.

The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM