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I don't know why this makes me sad, but it does... 📻 ☹️ 'The BBC has ended its long wave radio broadcasts after almost 100 years. BBC Radio 4, which was the last long wave radio station in the UK, had the service permanently switched off at 1am on Saturday.' www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-...

BBC ends its long wave radio broadcasts after almost a century

BBC Radio 4 had its long wave service permanently switched off at 1am on Saturday.

standard.co.uk

Not sure who's sillier on Twitter, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava

Sorry state we’re in when the president of the United States can call a reporter a bitch for asking a legitimate question about gas prices and the media says nothing… ? Shameful 😔

I do wonder whether Christopher Harborne (aka Chakrit Sakunkrit) is the only person to have secretly gifted an eye-wateringly enormous sum of money to Nigel Farage shortly before he changed his mind about running for office…

It's a cliché, but isn't it funny how "making tough decisions" in government always involves hurting people who are in no state to fight back, rather than those who would feel no pain through being taxed?

“[Cuts to public services] might look like saving money here and now, but it makes all of us poorer and more insecure in the long term.”   Common Wealth’s Senior Research Fellow Eleanor Shearer on BBC Politics Live

“Foreign shareholders get money every time you pay a water bill ... it seems to me that the only time people start getting up in arms about it is when it’s poorer countries ... asking for their fair share.” Common Wealth’s Eleanor Shearer on BBC Politics Live.