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Dad of 2, Boro fan, born and bred Teessider, love my sport especially F1, footy, cricket and Golf.
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So, the anti-trans crank and the guy who wants the public to shop their fellow citizens? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and Icleand boss Richard Walker among new peers
Downing Street announced 34 new peers to "correct" an imbalance against Labour in the House of Lords.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So, the anti-trans crank and the guy who wants the public to shop their fellow citizens? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I wish the UK had the balls to do this.
Imperfect, hard to enforce, blah blah blah.
Still way better than the current global approach of 'acknowledging it does harm, doing nothing about it'
Kids and phones is our generation's 'smoking on planes', I'm convinced of it.
Imperfect, hard to enforce, blah blah blah.
Still way better than the current global approach of 'acknowledging it does harm, doing nothing about it'
Kids and phones is our generation's 'smoking on planes', I'm convinced of it.
Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
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Australia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for users aged under 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts.
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and TikTok are expected to have taken steps from Wednesday to remove accounts held by users under 16 years of age in Australia, and prevent those teens from registering new accounts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I wish the UK had the balls to do this.
Imperfect, hard to enforce, blah blah blah.
Still way better than the current global approach of 'acknowledging it does harm, doing nothing about it'
Kids and phones is our generation's 'smoking on planes', I'm convinced of it.
Imperfect, hard to enforce, blah blah blah.
Still way better than the current global approach of 'acknowledging it does harm, doing nothing about it'
Kids and phones is our generation's 'smoking on planes', I'm convinced of it.
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200 Billion Pounds. Imagine the investment into our infrastructure that money could've been used for. Instead, I suspect the majority of it is sat in some offshore bank account never to be spent on anything remotely useful to society.
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
200 Billion Pounds. Imagine the investment into our infrastructure that money could've been used for. Instead, I suspect the majority of it is sat in some offshore bank account never to be spent on anything remotely useful to society.
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
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Saving juries by abolishing juries.
The absolute state of this.
The absolute state of this.
David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to announce that he is scrapping jury trials for ‘either way’ cases, including those for assault and burglary ⬇️
David Lammy: ‘I don’t want to scrap juries. This is about saving them’
David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to announce that he is scrapping jury trials for ‘either way’ cases, including those for assault and burglary
www.thetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Saving juries by abolishing juries.
The absolute state of this.
The absolute state of this.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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Everyone in the chain of command of this operation, from Hegseth to the combatant commander, to the drone pilot who fired on this boat, should be court-martial for murder.
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Everyone in the chain of command of this operation, from Hegseth to the combatant commander, to the drone pilot who fired on this boat, should be court-martial for murder.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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The blind spot to their own hypocrisy and ignorance is so massive that his 2022 comments are still up on the website
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The blind spot to their own hypocrisy and ignorance is so massive that his 2022 comments are still up on the website
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2/2 Until we tackle the extraction economy at its root, living standards won’t recover and the promise of “change” will remain unfulfilled.
This Budget steadies the ship but doesn’t change its course.
This Budget steadies the ship but doesn’t change its course.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
2/2 Until we tackle the extraction economy at its root, living standards won’t recover and the promise of “change” will remain unfulfilled.
This Budget steadies the ship but doesn’t change its course.
This Budget steadies the ship but doesn’t change its course.
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Donald Trump approves the release of The Epstein Files. They will be released just as soon as the Tipp-Ex has dried.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Donald Trump approves the release of The Epstein Files. They will be released just as soon as the Tipp-Ex has dried.
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It's very hard to disagree with Ellie here.
Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It's very hard to disagree with Ellie here.
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It's the new, "those immigrants want all your biscuits".
The inevitable next step; politicians responding not to the critical causes, but to the phoney "fury" & "rage" in the right wing press every single day.
Lies & misrepresentations that are then amplified by the BBC.
#r4today
The inevitable next step; politicians responding not to the critical causes, but to the phoney "fury" & "rage" in the right wing press every single day.
Lies & misrepresentations that are then amplified by the BBC.
#r4today
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It's the new, "those immigrants want all your biscuits".
The inevitable next step; politicians responding not to the critical causes, but to the phoney "fury" & "rage" in the right wing press every single day.
Lies & misrepresentations that are then amplified by the BBC.
#r4today
The inevitable next step; politicians responding not to the critical causes, but to the phoney "fury" & "rage" in the right wing press every single day.
Lies & misrepresentations that are then amplified by the BBC.
#r4today
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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Oh, and the only reason I parked at the leisure complex is because the only bus from near my house to do the 6 miles into Leeds takes 80 minutes in the morning
The productivity problems of the north of England are a real mystery
The productivity problems of the north of England are a real mystery
A lovely little illustration of how shit the public transport is in Leeds.
I need to get a bus from the city to a leisure complex in Kirkstall.
My options are the half hourly A1 airport bus or the 875 and 876. Their schedule shown below:
I need to get a bus from the city to a leisure complex in Kirkstall.
My options are the half hourly A1 airport bus or the 875 and 876. Their schedule shown below:
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Oh, and the only reason I parked at the leisure complex is because the only bus from near my house to do the 6 miles into Leeds takes 80 minutes in the morning
The productivity problems of the north of England are a real mystery
The productivity problems of the north of England are a real mystery
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What we're seeing in the US, & to a lesser, but still devastating degree in the UK & EU, is the inevitable destination of free market capitalism
Money is power. The power to control what the public sees & hears. The power to control politicians. The power to make the law
And we welcome it
#r4today
Money is power. The power to control what the public sees & hears. The power to control politicians. The power to make the law
And we welcome it
#r4today
Billionaires should not exist, but while we have them they should be restricted in how much they can donate to political parties & how much of the national news media they are allowed to own/control
Billionaires & multinational corps should have their political influence curtailed for all our sakes
Billionaires & multinational corps should have their political influence curtailed for all our sakes
The DNC has fallen far behind in the cash race.
Big donors have pulled back from giving to the party, and small donors are not growing enough to make up the gap.
Big donors have pulled back from giving to the party, and small donors are not growing enough to make up the gap.
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What we're seeing in the US, & to a lesser, but still devastating degree in the UK & EU, is the inevitable destination of free market capitalism
Money is power. The power to control what the public sees & hears. The power to control politicians. The power to make the law
And we welcome it
#r4today
Money is power. The power to control what the public sees & hears. The power to control politicians. The power to make the law
And we welcome it
#r4today
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"Working at the BBC, I felt that there was a strong awareness to be checking potential liberal left biases – and very few from the other direction," says Lewis Goodall.
Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
Inside the BBC bias allegations | The News Agents
The News Agents, all of whom spent years working for the BBC, discuss the “existential moment” facing their former employer, with top-level resignations after allegations of systemic bias in its…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"Working at the BBC, I felt that there was a strong awareness to be checking potential liberal left biases – and very few from the other direction," says Lewis Goodall.
Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour