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For some reason hapless Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, Alex Davies Jones thinks that the potential for victims to come to harm as a result of the Labour government's early release scheme is a laughing matter. Put appropriate funding/safeguards in place!

BBC News - Princess Eugenie gives birth to baby girl in Portugal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Whoopy fucking do...your mum was complicit in your Gran & Grandad's dodgy grifting...When you're old enough ask them who Jeffery Epstein was...

Princess Eugenie gives birth to a baby girl in Portugal

The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson welcomed her third child on Monday.

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BBC News - Oil prices fall on hopes Strait of Hormuz could reopen - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Fuck's sake... "You put your oil price up, you put your oil price down you do the Chumpy Trumpy, that's what it's all about."

Oil prices fall on hopes Strait of Hormuz could reopen

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both announced talks had progressed to allow shipments to resume.

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The Mail: "Lock them up , flog them, ban them, hang them." The Mail when someone breaks a law they don't like : "TYRANNY!" For context La Plante got caught 5 times in six months breaking the 20 mph limit to add to the 9 points already on her licence.

Went for a lovely walk down the Severn near home yesterday & saw this rather worrying sight - no one anywhere near it. I'm sure someone could would have had a field day with it. "Farage claims there is a Severn Valley small boat crisis."

These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.

The latest in a less than occasional series. "Things that only happened in Trump's head #10,456,675,900."

Donnie Duce pulls out again - I just wish he'd learned how to before he conceived Donald Junior...

Make no mistake, this woman is a shit-stirring idiot.

Great! Just fuck off you despot supporting, grifting narcissist. 👋🏼

And even when he does answer questions you can't trust a word that comes out of Honest Bob's creepy lips.

Hey Donnie Taco, I thought you told us you'd won the war in March? Why you still wasting money & lives attacking a defeated opponent? 🤔

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... Very sad news. A wonderful singer songwriter...the movie Once was a sweet & joyous paean to the redemptive, unifying nature of music. RiP Glen.

Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash

Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once

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If Sycophantini is so keen on preventing the spread of hate why does he constantly suck up to some of the most murderous, hate spreading, despotic rulers on the planet?! Like his buddy Trump he's just another self serving narcissist.

World Cup 2026: Gianni Infantino tells Fifa critics to 'meditate, pray or watch football'

Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about him and the World Cup.

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Farage in The Telegraph: ‘If voters think I’m a crook, they can get rid of me.’ It’s not how the law works but, even so, I’m assuming if Farage is serious he’ll allow the voters of Clacton to look at all his finances, speak to all his donors, and put himself up for rigorous questioning?

Everyone who uses "smart glasses" to be legally required to strap one of these to their head and light it up when the camera is on

The mask is coming off. Andy Burnham used to support rent controls because "there was a significant crisis in the rental market" Sorry, what? Apparently now renters are just fine? Labour won't support renters properly. The Green Party will. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Angela Rayner says the govt won't be introducing rent controls because they can lead to higher rents.

How about politicians, Nigel? Do you think that MPs and party leaders who consort with and promote rapists and paedophiles should also be jailed ... meme via The Raging Left

I've always said i would welcome Labour when they do the right thing, and today's business relief for venues and pubs is a welcome respite for an industry at the heart of our communities.

Vacuous performance by Miatta Fahnbulleh on @channel4news.bsky.social just now. Started answers with "Now listen..." 4 times "Now look..." twice then for good measure threw in a "laser focussed" to really underline the vapid modern politician vibe...& she's one of Labour's rising stars?! Really?!

Absolutely it can't. The Hundred only exists because no one at the ECB was smart enough to ™️ T20 so when the IPL & other T20 competitions became huge, knowing it couldn't compete, the ECB came up with the wretched shambles of a format that is The Hundred & the excruciating hype surrounding it.

Starmer: "I go with good grace." Sacked useless nonentity Darren Jones: "What's good grace?"

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j... The Matterface factor...

BBC defeats ITV again in World Cup final viewing figures

BBC’s average audience was 9.7m, four times as much as its rival – similar to its lead four years ago

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IMO Mahmood remaining in the cabinet is an indication of the price Burnham will pay for the Faustian pact he has entered into with Josh Simons. I suspect that Simons could turn out to be to Burnham what Dominic Cummings was to Boris Johnson; his nemesis.

Very sad to learn of Kevin Keegan's death. I remember seeing him play for Scunthorpe against Albion in a 3rd round FA tie at the Hawthorns in 1971. In a largely forgettable 0-0 draw he stood out even then; a Scunny fan had told me & my dad he was destined for great things & so it proved. RIP Kev.

BBC News - Shakira, Madonna, Justin Bieber and BTS perform at colourful World Cup half-time show www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Colourful"? Translation: This was a load of cack.

Shakira, Madonna, Justin Bieber and BTS perform at World Cup half-time show

Robbie Williams and Jennifer Hudson also performed, with Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet among the celebrities in the crowds.

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Fuck me how disappointing no crappy show before World Cup final extra time...

Handy World Cup Final guide... Donald Trump. A Muppet ⬇️. ⬇️

Fantastic! The Muppets are at the World Cup Final...