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FBI Director Patel is busy talking about his romance with his girlfriend on Katie Miller’s podcast at 6pm.
Manhunt for Brown University shooter stretches into fourth day, leaving residents on edge reut.rs/4oWdnj2
Manhunt for Brown University shooter stretches into fourth day, leaving residents on edge
The manhunt for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and injured seven more in a classroom shooting stretched into a fourth day on Tuesday, leaving the campus and surrounding neighborhood on edge.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
FBI Director Patel is busy talking about his romance with his girlfriend on Katie Miller’s podcast at 6pm.
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The big, big self-delusion at the heart of almost everything Labour is doing wrong is that through some old-time Labour economics you can avoid having an electoral coalition that looks a lot like 'Labour in 2024, Australian Labor in 2025, the Canadian Liberals in 2025' or indeed 'Harris in 2024'.
There’s more writing than wall at this point.
❗ Reform GAIN from Labour
Red Hall and Lingfield (Darlington) council by-election result:
REF: 38.4% (+38.4)
CON: 17.2% (-22.7)
LDEM: 17.2% (+17.2)
LAB: 16.6% (-37.2)
GRN: 9.7% (+3.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
+/- 2023
Estimated turnout: ~28% (-3)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Red Hall and Lingfield (Darlington) council by-election result:
REF: 38.4% (+38.4)
CON: 17.2% (-22.7)
LDEM: 17.2% (+17.2)
LAB: 16.6% (-37.2)
GRN: 9.7% (+3.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
+/- 2023
Estimated turnout: ~28% (-3)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
December 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The big, big self-delusion at the heart of almost everything Labour is doing wrong is that through some old-time Labour economics you can avoid having an electoral coalition that looks a lot like 'Labour in 2024, Australian Labor in 2025, the Canadian Liberals in 2025' or indeed 'Harris in 2024'.
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Well, this is fucking bad
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Well, this is fucking bad
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This map asks the question: Who is the greatest football player alive: Messi, Ronaldo or Nuno Taveres?
The FBref maps are here! ️⚽️🗺️
Nearly every U.S. state had either Messi or Ronaldo as their most-viewed player page on our site this year.
See all the maps (and much more) here: info.fbref.com/25_fbref_sea...
Nearly every U.S. state had either Messi or Ronaldo as their most-viewed player page on our site this year.
See all the maps (and much more) here: info.fbref.com/25_fbref_sea...
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This map asks the question: Who is the greatest football player alive: Messi, Ronaldo or Nuno Taveres?
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Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
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It's never not embarrassing when owners do this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom
Reporters and photographers have been banned by the Premier League club, as a Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was in the public interest
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's never not embarrassing when owners do this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.
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@stephenkb.bsky.social In case you haven't read share.google/X6Iay6FStehf...
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
@stephenkb.bsky.social In case you haven't read share.google/X6Iay6FStehf...
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Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
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Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
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People know exactly what‘s going on.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
People know exactly what‘s going on.
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the roblox ceo finds the problem of predators using his program to find kids "interesting"
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
the roblox ceo finds the problem of predators using his program to find kids "interesting"
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This guy spent years chasing me through the Guardian complaints system. I'd reported that his news agency had spread a wildly viral but denied claim that a Dutch teenager was legally euthanised at a clinic. He was so unhappy after his complaint was rejected he launched his own media regulator.
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it – says agency boss. Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/w...
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it - says agency boss
Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This guy spent years chasing me through the Guardian complaints system. I'd reported that his news agency had spread a wildly viral but denied claim that a Dutch teenager was legally euthanised at a clinic. He was so unhappy after his complaint was rejected he launched his own media regulator.
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Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
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Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government
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This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.
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A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
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Did anyone who voted for Labour vote for this? If it does actually end up being proposed I hope the party finds its backbone.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Did anyone who voted for Labour vote for this? If it does actually end up being proposed I hope the party finds its backbone.