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When Trump was elected in November 2023, the conversation in discrete circles went “Do the American people realise that they’re never going to be able to get rid of him? There are many vested interests behind this regime!” Byline Times refers: Byline Times www.bylinesupplement.com?utm_source=n...

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So it has emerged that Farage was given state funded security including a. 8 man team and two cars, when he was elected as an MP. A year later Farage declined state funded protection. Of course, with state protection comes scrutiny of where you go and who you meet up with.

I started by wondering - after Jenrick’s car-crash stand-in appearance for James O’Brien, why Reform puts this hapless guy out there to speak on its behalf. His assertions appear shrill and unconvincing, and when his interviewer starts to raise doubts, he hastily and loudly talks over them 1/6

I am on holiday in Apulia, or the ‘heel’ of Italy. The South of Italy is widely considered to be much less prosperous than the North, in a similar way as the situation exists vice versus in the UK. However, I look around and it occurs to me that this ‘unfashionable’ region of a country less

Could it be that Trump, having launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran that has: - ended or destroyed the lives of many thousands of civilians, including over 150 schoolgirls, - plunged the world into an economic crisis - threatened the world’s energy supplies - resulted in …

The child abuse scandal has been brought up by unhinged right wingers and amplified by lightweight Tory ministers who should know better but it seems to the rest of us that the current Labour government has done more in 6 months than the stories could be bothered to in 14 years