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“Lots of boys said things they'd regret today,”
Yes, but he doesn’t regret it, does he.
He has very pointedly refused to say he regrets, or is sorry about, any of it.
Yes, but he doesn’t regret it, does he.
He has very pointedly refused to say he regrets, or is sorry about, any of it.
Nigel Farage declines to endorse Richsrd Tice's claim that the recollections of 20+ of Farage's school contemporaries of his teenage racial slurs are "made up twaddle" and instead suggests he may boycott the BBC until it apologises for Alf Garnett!
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Farage accuses BBC of double standards after racism allegations - BBC News
The Reform UK leader turns fire on the BBC as he faces further questions about allegations of teenage racism.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Lots of boys said things they'd regret today,”
Yes, but he doesn’t regret it, does he.
He has very pointedly refused to say he regrets, or is sorry about, any of it.
Yes, but he doesn’t regret it, does he.
He has very pointedly refused to say he regrets, or is sorry about, any of it.
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I just charge. $1 if you ask. $2 if I have to get up to find it. $3 if it was exactly where I said it was, and yes, the fees do stack. My son has stopped asking, he's scared of being negative on his allowance.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I just charge. $1 if you ask. $2 if I have to get up to find it. $3 if it was exactly where I said it was, and yes, the fees do stack. My son has stopped asking, he's scared of being negative on his allowance.
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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"A ticking time bomb"
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"A ticking time bomb"
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
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December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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New evidence in support of universal basic income. This is via the Rx Kids program that's going to babies for their 1st year of life. The $500/mo has led to a 32% reduction in allegations of maltreatment among infants compared to the control group. This has also been seen as a result of Alaska's UBI
» New research shows Rx Kids reduced infant maltreatment allegations in Flint
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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New evidence in support of universal basic income. This is via the Rx Kids program that's going to babies for their 1st year of life. The $500/mo has led to a 32% reduction in allegations of maltreatment among infants compared to the control group. This has also been seen as a result of Alaska's UBI
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"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj
Tim Davie misled audience about the BBC’s supposed leftwing agenda | Good Law Project
Speaking at a book festival, the former director general suggested the BBC newsroom was full of BLM T-shirts and Kamala mugs. But that’s fake news.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj
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Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.
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The Cook County, IL budget for 2026 that just passed sets aside $7.5 million per year from the county budget for a permanent guaranteed basic income program, making it the largest permanent county-level GBI program in the US. No details yet on design, just funding. It could pay 1,250 people $500/mo.
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The Cook County, IL budget for 2026 that just passed sets aside $7.5 million per year from the county budget for a permanent guaranteed basic income program, making it the largest permanent county-level GBI program in the US. No details yet on design, just funding. It could pay 1,250 people $500/mo.
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New report uncovers cause of shocking string of whale deaths 🐋
NOAA data shows that since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by fishing lines, many linked to commercial crab operations. 🦀🎣
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NOAA data shows that since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by fishing lines, many linked to commercial crab operations. 🦀🎣
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New report uncovers cause of shocking string of whale deaths: 'Our current safeguards are not enough'
"This report paints a clear picture."
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November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New report uncovers cause of shocking string of whale deaths 🐋
NOAA data shows that since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by fishing lines, many linked to commercial crab operations. 🦀🎣
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
NOAA data shows that since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by fishing lines, many linked to commercial crab operations. 🦀🎣
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
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Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
🧵 1/2
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
🧵 1/2
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When we sampled bathing waters around England, with @sascampaigns.bsky.social, river groups + @alistairboxall.bsky.social we found antibiotic resistance genes at all but one site tested. We are creating ideal conditions for untreatable diseases to arise.
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UK bathing sites polluted by ‘genes that could create superbugs’
Samples collected from 25 rivers and lakes also contain high levels of harmful bacteria and medicines used to treat diabetes and seizures
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
When we sampled bathing waters around England, with @sascampaigns.bsky.social, river groups + @alistairboxall.bsky.social we found antibiotic resistance genes at all but one site tested. We are creating ideal conditions for untreatable diseases to arise.
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Labor organizers formed a multi-ethnic committee and translated organizing materials into 25 different languages. They marched outside to demand better pay, but instead of meeting their demands, mill owners turned on their fire hoses. City officials called in the local militia to break up marchers
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Labor organizers formed a multi-ethnic committee and translated organizing materials into 25 different languages. They marched outside to demand better pay, but instead of meeting their demands, mill owners turned on their fire hoses. City officials called in the local militia to break up marchers
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
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In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
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It's almost as if 2024's massive rejection of mealy-mouthed, downward-spiral, centre-right, blame-the-poor, end-game-capitalism, austerity-obsessed politics was a signal to Labour that the country was desperate for something else.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It's almost as if 2024's massive rejection of mealy-mouthed, downward-spiral, centre-right, blame-the-poor, end-game-capitalism, austerity-obsessed politics was a signal to Labour that the country was desperate for something else.
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This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.
GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.”
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October 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.
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Attention @cam.ac.uk. You may feel the legal risks are all one way - of being sued by Russian/ US Evangelical/ JK Rowling proxies.
We are here to tell you, if, out of weakness you betray your trans students, we will help them fight back.
We are here to tell you, if, out of weakness you betray your trans students, we will help them fight back.
We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Attention @cam.ac.uk. You may feel the legal risks are all one way - of being sued by Russian/ US Evangelical/ JK Rowling proxies.
We are here to tell you, if, out of weakness you betray your trans students, we will help them fight back.
We are here to tell you, if, out of weakness you betray your trans students, we will help them fight back.
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Fantastic list of attractions at a Wakefield fete in 1894.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Fantastic list of attractions at a Wakefield fete in 1894.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
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Seolyeon Park (CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE, A MAGICAL GIRL RETIRES) and me at City of Sanctuary Sheffield, courtesy of Juno Books Sheffield. A loving, lovely space 💜
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Seolyeon Park (CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE, A MAGICAL GIRL RETIRES) and me at City of Sanctuary Sheffield, courtesy of Juno Books Sheffield. A loving, lovely space 💜
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Ostensibly the party of law and order with a plan to deport migrants even if they’ve done nothing more than live here legally and claim support to which they’ve contributed and are entitled. Years of targeting migrants disguised as concern about legality paving the way to this and open violence.
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ostensibly the party of law and order with a plan to deport migrants even if they’ve done nothing more than live here legally and claim support to which they’ve contributed and are entitled. Years of targeting migrants disguised as concern about legality paving the way to this and open violence.
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Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Excuse me but, what the f*** is the point of targets to build homes that only the wealthy can afford? How does it help anyone who is not a property developer? And why does Labour care more about property developers than families? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...
Leaked memo reveals Labour plan to slash affordable homes target
A requirement for developers to build affordable housing in London is set to be cut from 35% of new homes to 20%, in a move councils fear will spread across Britain
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October 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Excuse me but, what the f*** is the point of targets to build homes that only the wealthy can afford? How does it help anyone who is not a property developer? And why does Labour care more about property developers than families? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...