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It's finally happened. Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up. www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...
a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
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Reform, with 0.6% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins flip.it/okxIhl
Reform, with 0.6% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
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Damn. This is refreshing. Worth listening to the whole thing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoRo Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
This is the firm handling our NHS data. #KickOutPalantir
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last yr.New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
There is no Brexit dividend. This by @lewisgoodall.com is very good on why not. Weird it needs to be said. But there we are.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · last yr.Three minutes from me on why the Trump tariff “Brexit dividend” idea is the weirdest take of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98A...
It's interesting that Trump and Johnson both had a history of being groomed by Russia, and were both under the control of a technocrat or minder, in Dominic Cummings for Johnson and Elon Musk for Trump. The vulnerabilities are curiously parallel: a formula that served the KGB very well.
👀🇺🇸🇺🇦 After yesterday's meeting with Zelensky collapsed, J.D. Vance fled on vacation to Vermont, where hundreds of angry protesters were waiting for him.
On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:
Why are so few people talking about this? Either they don’t know, or they’re pretending not to know …and I don’t know which is worse.
Nathan Gill, 51, ex UKIP, ex Brexit Party, and the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been charged with nine bribery offences after an investigation led by the Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism command. It gets better apple.news/AZFUaz-S1REu...
Former leader of Reform UK in Wales charged with bribery offences — The Guardian
Nathan Gill to appear at magistrates court after investigation led by Met counter-terrorism command
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Couldn’t love this story more. Told to make her lead 20 years younger, screenwriter Katja Meier set up her own production company to film the pilot of her series. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘The industry is broken’: TV writer funds pilot after being told to cut female lead’s age by 20 years
Katja Meier was told to make the protagonist of her television series 20 years younger … so she decided to find funding and film the pilot herself
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Googling photos of Tehran in 1970s is a lesson to all of us women about how freedoms once won have to be protected, respected and, if necessary, fought for every single day. Progress in women’s rights is so easily lost. #America #Women #Mybodymychoice
