While many are criticising the Bank of England's decision to take historical figures off banknotes, when we asked the public what they most wanted to see on banknotes, 63% picked something other than historical figures - including 59-60% of Tory and Reform voters
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I could cry 😢 AI toys teaching toddlers how to communicate? Please please just spend time with and talk to your children please 🙏🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Declaring “no quarter” is a war crime. Pete committed a war crime this morning. bsky.app/profile/bcfi...
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.
Local elections the other year, lady speaking to her husband as they’re walking out of the polling station. “I couldn’t see Nigel Farage’s name on the list”. Doh!
Still from a promotional video under a tweet from Kwasi Kwarteng: Kwasi Kwarteng We are delighted to welcome @Nigel_Farage and @blockchain as strategic investors in Stack. Nigel's long-standing support for British business and his belief that Bitcoin will play an expanding role in global finance align closely with...
A detail which would have been rejected by any self-respecting writer as too on the nose: his promotional video spells "credibility" wrong:
A private jet used for Farage’s Chagos stunt is reportedly linked to a billionaire donor who has given £12m to Reform
Huge money can buy political influence.
The #ElectionsBill must go further. Democracy shld be shaped by voters not the biggest cheque.
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I’m embarrassed that I ever voted for this man.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
We were talking about this at work earlier this week. 4 of us, all said that we’ve been struggling to sleep.
Constantine on the eve of battle in 312 - as a sign appears in the sky. His biographer said that Jesus visited Constantine in a dream that night, telling him to carry a cross into battle to ensure victory and further his imperial ambitions.
And still it goes on…
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
Almost nobody in the media reported on the former Tory Government's sweeping power grab of the electoral commission. This week Labour have announced that they will reverse what Boris Johnson did and return the commission to independence.
Ofcourse Labour will get absolutely no credit for doing this
WAR CRIME BY THE US.
An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.
The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.
THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.
This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
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Keir Starmer, "President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes"
"But it is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest"
"That is what I've done and I stand by it"
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So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.
Absolute charlatans.
There's more information in this one post than in most news programmes on the situation.
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.
Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
This is racism, pure and simple. It’s also a test. The UK press needs to describe it for exactly what it is: that Reform’s candidate made a racist and inflammatory losing statement
If Nigel Farage is angry about voter fraud, wait until he hears about the millions of pounds Arron Banks paid Cambridge Analytica to influence the Leave EU campaign, fronted by *checks notes*
Nigel Farage…
In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law
BREAKING: Angela Rayner response to Gorton and Denton by-election result
The most hilarious thing about today is Reform blaming their loss on Islamists…
…who famously always vote in their masses for women and gay Jewish men.
What is happening about Johnson Farage and Rees Mogg working with Bannon and Epstein to bring down May?
I expect to be told. And quickly.
