Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
If you go back 900 years, then a very high percentage of the people who read this post will also be descended from this man's ancestor.
I'm almost certainly descended from him.
Why don't I get a seat in the House of Lords?
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My little dog keeps biting on my guitar pedal. Well, he is a chewwahwah.
"Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old
The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago and kept in a chest ever since"
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Yay!
Bill removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords finally passes www.gov.uk/government/n...
WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at a Reform UK petrol station They have pledged to reinstate the 5p fuel duty cut in their first Budget
Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy.
So much dignity going on.
This is intended to be polite. I was attempting to be funny. Why do people think that I don't understand what is involved? I do understand. I just don't generally enjoy oval racing.
Fair enough. I'm glad you enjoy it. Unfortunately I didn't.
Each to their own.
Rather than reply, they seem to have blocked. Oh well...
I shall just state that enjoyment and understanding are not the same thing.
You can enjoy something whether or not you understand it.
You can understand something whether or not you enjoy it.
And vice versa.
Why do you think I didn't understand what was going on?
Each to their own likes, but that is the very race that I'm attempting to watch
Yes/No.
Oval tracks on TV - dull; in person (I went to Rockingham when it came to UK once), it was great as I could see everything.
Non-ovals on TV - better than oval.
Still, it depends what you like. This is going to get me an instant block: personally I can't stand football (soccer)
Currently trying to watch some American Indycar short-track-oval racing.
Turn left
Turn left
Turn left
Turn left
Turn left
Repeat approx 65 times
Pit
Repeat above until lap 250
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
there's a theory that if only Britain exploited North Sea oil we'd be secure from a global energy price shock
which totally ignores (or doesn't understand) the fact that energy prices are global and a rise in UK production (from a declining basin) would have negligible impact on that global price
If Trump has to have a third term, should it be as a Prisoner or as the President?
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Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
Guardian headline: Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales
When you're trying to make huge changes to the justice system, "unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced" is not the verdict you want to hear.
Labour are about to make a(nother) dreadful mistake.
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)
If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.
This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.
Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.
Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
Paul, you've given us your answer but you need to show us your workings - how did you get to this point?
You’re looking at a 27-inch touchscreen… on a BOAT!
The kiwi-built drive train onboard packs 500 hp, 1100Nm and does 0-100 km/h quicker than many sports cars. On water. Silently.
🔋 Oh yeah, we also ran into the Vessev guys on the water and fun ensued. 😜
Video out soon!
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
