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Northern remainer elite and immigrant, aviation addict, Independent Company and war waffler, Miami Dolphins since superbowl XIX

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British expats who fled Gulf desperate to avoid huge tax bills after London return The tax implications of a return to the UK are ‘troubling’ expats who have flown back to the UK from tax havens like Dubai

If you’ve spent years abroad paying little or no UK tax, it’s reasonable to pay Capital Gains Tax when you return.

You’re coming back to the roads, hospitals and schools the rest of us have been funding.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

14.03.2026 05:58 👍 242 🔁 82 💬 22 📌 1

We could just start calling generative AI by its more accurate name, Mediocre White Male Talent Simulator.

11.03.2026 11:29 👍 59 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1

Waiting for the public release, apparently 16th April.

13.03.2026 08:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Some early cockpit progress on the DBMK 1/32 Sea Fury. Overall, though, this is one of the most detailed and parts-heavy out-of-the-box cockpits I've encountered, and there's quite a way to go yet!

#scalemodels #histscalemodels

12.03.2026 06:50 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

@nmtdambusters.bsky.social

13.03.2026 08:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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He didn't last time he pulled that scam.

08.03.2026 22:01 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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"I said it's quite bold of Nigel Farage to go to the US to side with Donald Trump against his own country. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a treacherous self-serving sack of shit"

07.03.2026 19:38 👍 1000 🔁 306 💬 14 📌 4

This image is taking the Buccaneer low flying trope a bit too far.

06.03.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doncaster?

06.03.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”

06.03.2026 15:25 👍 880 🔁 252 💬 26 📌 7
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

05.03.2026 02:26 👍 20670 🔁 5877 💬 659 📌 278
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I’m surprised I haven’t seen this today. THE Spitfire flypast. A firm favourite of all Spitfire fanboys. I’ve fortunate to hear an explanation of the events from Ray Hanna’s daughter.

youtu.be/4iOoiEbtf2w?...

05.03.2026 22:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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If these people are found to be working for a foreign power, Keir Starmer will be personally responsible. Whereas when a senior Reform colleague is jailed for ten years for taking bribes from Russia, that is nothing to do with me.

04.03.2026 18:17 👍 489 🔁 130 💬 14 📌 1

That was her response, what was her answer?

05.03.2026 00:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

04.03.2026 20:25 👍 4259 🔁 1054 💬 41 📌 46
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Everyone knows about the massive influence that "Blue Monday" from New Order had upon dance music, but let me offer a contrary take. "New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)" from Simple Minds which came out in 1982, before Blue Monday, deserves its rightful place in EDM history. youtu.be/GWAC4UeWGd0?...

01.03.2026 20:50 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“The fact that this Latino man was upset about Black people moving into his neighborhood and then threatened to call Trump on the Black family is absolutely infuriating and nuts. It shows the insidiousness of racism. (cont.)

www.theroot.com/latino-man-t...

01.03.2026 19:50 👍 92 🔁 48 💬 11 📌 1

Apologies for the AI spellcheck inserted apostrophe 🤬

01.03.2026 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

White Christian’s. Most churches in Britain today are propped up by immigrants who are far less atheistic than native British.

01.03.2026 13:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Commonwealth and Irish citizens are the people who only came to Britain after Britain first went to them.

01.03.2026 13:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A disproportionate number of reform type men seem to be married to immigrant women.
Once again immigrants are brought in to do the tasks Britains view as beneath them.

01.03.2026 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a superhero costume with a belt that says kepler Alt: Homelander, the villain in the tv series The Boys. A man with superpowers wearing a blue costume with red and gold accents, the same colour scheme as genuine US Government Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles

The colours on the vehicle look familiar

01.03.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed, I’ve worked in the US and the mentality always felt like that of a European (including English) village r whose life revolved around the home and who had a strong distrust of outsiders and outside influences.

01.03.2026 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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01.03.2026 12:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, 
Reform leader says allowing non-British
citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy
FOREIGN-BORN
VOTERS STOLE
BY-ELECTION
BLASTS FARAGE

that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday
by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton
By Glen Owen
Manchester by-election.
by-election among British-born voters'.
Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud
And he vowed that if he becomes Prime
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and sectarianism contributed
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Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn

Truly, truly, truly disgusting.

Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

01.03.2026 10:44 👍 4041 🔁 909 💬 337 📌 79

To be fair, this is a small account doing some engagement farming, but this is good advice and worth a share.

01.03.2026 11:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail 
 
I would rather 
eat Quavers that are six weeks stale, 
blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale, 
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail, 
than read one page of the Daily Mail. 
 
If I was bored 
in a waiting room in Perivale, 
on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail, 
halfway through a circumnavigational sail, 
I would not read the Daily Mail. 
 
I would happily read 
the autobiography of Dan Quayle, 
1001 Things You Can Do With Kale, 
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail. 
 
Far better to 
stand outside in a storm of hail, 
scratch a blackboard with a fingernail, 
be swallowed by a humpback whale, 
than have to read the Daily Mail. 
 
If I was blind  
and it was the only thing in Braille, 
I still would not read the Daily Mail. 

 
Brian Bilston 

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

20.08.2025 09:06 👍 964 🔁 303 💬 31 📌 32
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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

01.03.2026 06:35 👍 4021 🔁 1071 💬 237 📌 84

Last year I wrote a short film, two screenplays and three sitcom scripts. Are there any production companies out there who’d like to read any of them? Let me know. Thanks!

18.02.2026 21:53 👍 108 🔁 47 💬 10 📌 5