"As of 2026, the #UK has paid approximately £25.7 billion of its post- #Brexit financial settlement (commonly known as the "divorce bill"), leaving a remaining net liability of £5.3 billion."
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What happens if the internet goes down? 💻 📻📡 BlackSky - the UK's emergency backup plans - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What happens if the internet goes down? BlackSky - the UK's emergency backup plans
A Black Sky event could leave millions without power, water and communications. So how prepared is the UK?
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#Canada should sanction the United States for breaking their own sanctions against russia! #US Treasury sanctions Canadian money services firms over Iran-related transactions share.google/5C0QAdqdXlN8...
US Treasury sanctions Canadian money services firms over Iran-related transactions
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The US Treasury said on Friday that it had imposed financial sanctions on eight money services firms based in Canada that it alleges have facilitated transactions with
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Carolyn Gelenter, a Holocaust survivor’s daughter, arrested under the Terrorism Act today outside the Supreme Court while protesting for the de-proscription of Palestine Action. She told us why she and many other Jews are risking their freedoms in opposition to the proscription.
Hero of the people, enemy of state control. BBC News - Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, jailed for 10 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #HongKong
Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, jailed for 10 years
Wong, 30, is among hundreds of Hongkongers detained under the controversial national security law.
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44 years ago today British television welcomed Channel 4. It opened while new avenues for programme makers and educated us in many ways. I was such a geek fan, I bought the theme music on vinyl and collected every TV Times for several years! Channel 4 was my chosen topic for my English Oral exam.
✖️UK free speech...... unless the government says so 🤐 ✖️ #Palestine 🇵🇸 www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/...
UK bars Swedish academic in latest crackdown on pro-Palestine speech
The UK Home Office revoked the travel authorisation of Swedish academic Andreas Malm, claiming that his presence is "not conducive to the public good."
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My stress levels have been rising this week at work, close to the point where I feel I am going to explode (or implode). So I've thought about things that help and look outside the box etc. Deep breaths and refocus on what really matters and what doesn't.
One American idiot is responsible for higher fuel prices, bills and increased inflation. Remember that at the ballot box. 🗳️
Stop! ,🫸🏽🫷🏽 They could do a 2 Become 1 offer. ✌🏽 This bar will Spice Up Your Life! BBC News - Plans lodged for 90s-themed bar Wannabe in Lincoln city centre - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #SpiceGirls
Plans lodged for 90s-themed bar Wannabe in Lincoln city centre
The bar, named after a Spice Girls hit, will celebrate "the best decade ever", say its developers.
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The reign of Queen's Philip and Rochelle be tumbling like Jenga. That would be two evictions we'd welcome #bbuk
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HSBC bank have announced a $1,000,000,000 share buyback. That 1 billion should be used to improve UK infrastructure for the benefit of all, instead of wasted on shareholders. Tax the banks super profits.
When the local council started charging (on top of the already expensive council tax) to collect garden waste, I stopped sweeping up the leaves. 🍂🍃 Looking a bit messy out there now!
Time To Call Putin's Bluff www.independent.co.uk/independentp... #Ukraine 🇺🇦
We cannot fight until the last Ukrainian – it’s time to call Putin’s bluff
The surge in civilian casualties in Ukraine shows how the West, including the UK, must defend Kyiv’s airspace or face worse in the future, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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Next week I am going to buy #eggs, boil them and keep them in the fridge.
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I think I'm stocked up on nuts & dried fruit for a while.... ready for emergencies
I've FINALLY watched episode 1002 (04/10/1991) of #Brookside - the one where Sue and baby Danny were pushed off the scaffolding. Dramatic storyline for 1991. player.stv.tv/episode/50ru...
Watch Brookside - Episode 1002 (04/10/1991) | Stream Free on STV Player
A day off work leads to a disaster for Sue.
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The truth is: we can't trust politicians and we definitely cannot trust billionaires controlling tech.
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Who thinks we should stop turning the clocks back/forwards?
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Oh Yasmin, how quickly you have fallen in our estimations. You mopped about all last week when Killer Nominated. Said it wasn't personal yet still haven't let go of it (nominating Sam this week). On top of that you literally got into bed with the bullies. 🙄 #bbuk
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When UK banks say taxing them harms investment, Barclays announced today that rather than investing the £500,000,000 in businesses, it is spending that money buying back their own shares. The economy is rigged towards the 1%>
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