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It's shifted Epstein from the front-page lead to down-page, or even inside?

Er ... that's it.

Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead

Brexit costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending

Still a different level of charges? I'm out of ideas otherwise. But I checked, and it's the same in my state in Australia (local rather than crown court, of course).

Privacy concerns, because CC cases are more serious than magistrates?

Yes. The entire world.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of …

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🤔….could it be? …….

Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.

Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱

This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)

1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

“Dear Don, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin', I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom. I visited Mar-Lago, you must not've known I was there.”

Free, for a limited time, are some research articles about opera, ballet, music, and performance culture from @ucpress.bsky.social!

The Anatomy Lesson, 1632: seven students watch as a man in a black hat dissects a body

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

Qantas hikes international airfares citing volatile oil prices from war in Middle East Airline reports spike in ticket sales for flights to Europe in March, as passengers with carriers affected by flight chaos rebook * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Qantas has announced is increasing the price of its international airfares amid oil price volatility caused by the war in the Middle East, while the airline also reported higher-than-normal ticket sales for flights to Europe. While the company hedges against change in jet fuel prices, it was not fully covered for the spike seen in the wake of surging oil prices, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Qantas hikes international airfares citing volatile oil prices from war in Middle East

Iranian women soccer players' hotel escape aided by Australian police Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the ​team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said on Tuesday, as details of their ‌escape from Iranian go...

Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said, as details of their escape from Iranian government minders emerged reut.rs/4czjbwD

Rising water bills see pensioners in poverty skip baths Water bills will go up again on April 1. Pensioners like Judith are already feeling the pinch, rationing showers and laundry loads.

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise.

Full state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.

2m UK pensioners live in poverty.

In 2024-25, 88,000 pensioners died in poverty.

Govts don't curb profiteering.

Poverty is a political choice.

$6.9 million of lobster tail in a month????? What would you even do with that much lobster

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

'About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday'. 1/2

The entire Coalition's buggered, in the best possible way 🤣🤣🤣

Temu Trump, tells cheap and nasty lies that fall apart when tested.

What the ...???

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

The definition of insanity.

Too good not to share

More proof that it's impossible to satirise him.

More glaring right-wing hypocrisy. Should be unbelievable, but it's actually just typical #auspol

Which is precisely why the far right hates the education sector, as well as the arts, and independent journalism. We hold a mirror up to them, and they can't stand their own reflection.

The flags are very small, and I am originally from the UK! I can't explain it either. As you would know, it's not a new, internet-led virus, but the www certainly has helped to spread it exponentially (oops, that was 5 syllables 🤣)

Australia, but we have the infection here too. Some are just miserable racists, some are literally trumpists.

Ah, okay. Must just be here in Australia, then.

I've never actually bothered to argue back on the internet, but that's a good point, and it's also encouraging to hear that some of them are actually amenable to reason.