The motorist, who had previously received penalty points for using his phone at the wheel, was banned from driving for three years
“No idea how he hadn’t seen him”: Van driver avoids jail after killing cyclist riding with two rear lights
A van driver who killed a cyclist after failing to see him on the road, despite the 54-year-old riding with two rear lights, has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence.Graham Nash was riding...
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Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
"What an outrageous tweet! This is the tweet of someone unfit to sit in Parliament. A pointless talentless grifting nonentity! Absolutely clueless"
Richard 'Tricky Dicky' Tice clearly does not like answering questions about the dodgy, dark funding of Reform. www.gbnews.com/politics/ric...
Richard Tice fumes he is ‘absolutely raging angry’ over ‘establishment' standards probe
A Reform source described the investigation as 'baffling'
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🚊 By lowering the cost of travel for young people, this Government is not only providing Portsmouth's families with the breathing room that they need but also ensuring that local teenagers will still be able to access crucial opportunities👇🏻 www.stephenmorgan.org.uk/students-acr...
Students across Portsmouth to benefit from cheaper travel - Stephen Morgan MP
Stephen Morgan MP has welcomed the announcement that students aged 16 to 18 across Portsmouth are set to benefit from half-price rail fares from this September, helping them on their...
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The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?
100%. Where are the Rod Liddle-esque comments on Rod Liddle? Where are the contrarian takes beyond the 'he was a great guy' & 'I don't care he was convicted of assault as I had a great time on his show'? Is misogyny, sexism, racism, islamophobia & hating poor people all just fine for some folk?
Zoe Williams@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · yesterdayIf Rod Liddle, RIP, were editing this Today obituary about himself, he would say 'what the fuck are you thinking, having two bros agree what a great guy I was? You're not even going to include a voice that mildly objected to me? Have you forgotten that my life's work was as a contrarian?'
New post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The right way to tax wealth
A 10 year programme for an incoming government
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The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
Ofc she doesn't. She has the IQ of a satsuma.
Pawel Swidlicki@pswidlicki.bsky.social · yesterdayDoes she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?
Fascinating people, famous or not, have come from all parts of the isles. Explore their stories in 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales'.
As the popularity of Nigel Farage & Reform UK plummets, Rupert Lowe posts his application to fascism funding oil, tech & media billionaires to be their next number one far right saviour
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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Farage is running out of time to clear his name over the deepening donations scandal engulfing his party, Labour warns today It follows the Sunday Times reporting Farage struck a secret deal to seal his return as party leader months before the 2024 General Election. Farage has a press conf this AM.
Oops. I just confirmed that I discussed returning to politics before I received the £5m from my crypto chum, putting a hole in my argument that I didn't need to declare it because I had no involvement in politics at that time.
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.” - Navalny
Paris continues to raise the bar for cycling infrastructure. The 1,200-space bike parking at Gare du Nord draws on Dutch expertise to create a seamless connection between cycling and rail travel. With direct access from the cycle network, smart wayfinding and a user-friendly design: buff.ly/uP5S5g5
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.
We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
"It's life, eh". No Primoz you got hit by a car 😅 This man is too chilled for his own good
Tonke@tonke.bsky.social · 5d agoThe reason Primoz Roglic isn’t starting tomorrow, he got hit by a car 😬
The world the Daily Telegraph inhabits has little relationship to reality & the present-day UK. Today's Daily Telegraph: "Britain's most persecuted minority? Millionaires" by Luke Johnson.
Pre-Burnham winning Makerfield the political consensus was Reform were a shoe-in to win the Manchester mayoral race. Now Reform are certain to finish a distant second. Looking like another by-election where the 'Reform bandwagon' stalls after Makerfield, Gorton & Denton and Caerphilly.
