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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
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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
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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So much winning...
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer | East Anglia Bylines
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
So much winning...
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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"A senior Reform UK figure in Lancashire has been suspended by the party after posting in a far-right Whatsapp group calling for expelled hardline anti-immigrant MP Rupert Lowe to lead the party and saying Reform is deliberately downplaying its immigration policy to be palatable to the public."
Exclusive: Calls for anti-extremism investigation of suspended Reform councillor after "hardline" posts in far-right WhatsApp group revealed
Lancashire councillor Tom Pickup claims the party is showing a different face to the public
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Wow, he looks just like him!
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wow, he looks just like him!
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Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
Martin Shipton A Reform UK failed council candidate has been accused of disrespecting the public and veterans after disturbing wreaths during a Remembrance Sunday service in Monmouth in order to promote...
nation.cymru
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
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Democracy is the foundation of our freedom.
Democracy is the foundation of our prosperity.
Democracy is the foundation of our security.
The European Democracy Shield will protect and reinforce free speech, independent media, resilient institutions and a vibrant civil society.
link.europa.eu/C7TDFT
Democracy is the foundation of our prosperity.
Democracy is the foundation of our security.
The European Democracy Shield will protect and reinforce free speech, independent media, resilient institutions and a vibrant civil society.
link.europa.eu/C7TDFT
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Democracy is the foundation of our freedom.
Democracy is the foundation of our prosperity.
Democracy is the foundation of our security.
The European Democracy Shield will protect and reinforce free speech, independent media, resilient institutions and a vibrant civil society.
link.europa.eu/C7TDFT
Democracy is the foundation of our prosperity.
Democracy is the foundation of our security.
The European Democracy Shield will protect and reinforce free speech, independent media, resilient institutions and a vibrant civil society.
link.europa.eu/C7TDFT
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way.
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way.
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
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Higher taxes on gambling probably would cost some jobs. But employment has to be weighed against other social costs.
That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax
The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Higher taxes on gambling probably would cost some jobs. But employment has to be weighed against other social costs.
That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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About to order a book from a small UK bookseller. They are currently not able to ship to the EU due to some safety regs, and the US because of tariffs. (Yay for Canada.)
Gotta love the modern frictionless trade system.
Gotta love the modern frictionless trade system.
October 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
About to order a book from a small UK bookseller. They are currently not able to ship to the EU due to some safety regs, and the US because of tariffs. (Yay for Canada.)
Gotta love the modern frictionless trade system.
Gotta love the modern frictionless trade system.
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Fans of Israel's football team Maccabi Tel Aviv interrupting the minute's silence for the victims of the Valencia Floods at last year's Match in Amsterdam
youtube.com/shorts/zmQn1...
youtube.com/shorts/zmQn1...
🤬 Maccabi Tel Aviv fans refuse and boo during minute of silence in honor of flood victims Valencia
YouTube video by INM
youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fans of Israel's football team Maccabi Tel Aviv interrupting the minute's silence for the victims of the Valencia Floods at last year's Match in Amsterdam
youtube.com/shorts/zmQn1...
youtube.com/shorts/zmQn1...
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Ohhhhhhh
The grand old Duke of York
He borrowed 12 million quid
He gave it to someone
He’d never ever met
and for something he never did
The grand old Duke of York
He borrowed 12 million quid
He gave it to someone
He’d never ever met
and for something he never did
October 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ohhhhhhh
The grand old Duke of York
He borrowed 12 million quid
He gave it to someone
He’d never ever met
and for something he never did
The grand old Duke of York
He borrowed 12 million quid
He gave it to someone
He’d never ever met
and for something he never did
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October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM