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What a relief! Lulaās unexpected victory gives hope for the Amazon. He has dramatically cut felling, while Bolsonaroās plans would doubtless have taken it past its tipping point, ensuring total eventual destruction with huge global consequences.
euronews.com/2026/10/19/amazā¦
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The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging.
ā The referendum ballot did NOT ask: āShould Britain end freedom of movement?ā
It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU.
Nothing about leaving the Single Market.
Nothing about the customs union.
Nothing about ending free movement.
And during the referendum prominent Brexit campaigners openly cited Norway and Switzerland as models for Britain outside the EU.
š³š“ Norway is in the Single Market and accepts free movement.
The Leave coalition contained several completely different versions of Brexit. The public was never asked to choose between them.
So it is simply not accurate to retrospectively turn 17.4 million Leave votes into 17.4 million votes specifically against free movement.
That interpretation came afterwards.
And if Britain is now deciding what relationship it wants with Europe, voters are perfectly entitled to decide again with the actual choices made explicit.
āToo many people in this country are choosing to rely on benefits, on taxpayersā money, on your money, my money, to get by.ā
Suella Braverman, 2022
Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/sā¦
The crazy thing is it never used to be like this. 20 years ago there was the Tote giant screen past the winning post PLUS another at the bend that used to be bigger. I understand that cost cutting measures are necessary, but it shouldnāt be at the expense of customer experience.
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Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
standard.co.uk/news/politicsā¦
You mean like doing a sketch for Yes, Prime Minister at the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association Awards?
facebook.com/BBCArchive/videā¦
Or perhaps her appearance on Saturday Superstore?
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It has to get to a point where artists are more heavily involved in matters like ticket pricing and how much fans are being charged to watch their favourite artists or bands. Too many snouts in the trough, people donāt realise how little the talent is consulted or indeed earns.
Sam Fender speaks out over the prices of his latest tour, prices to be changed.
Man of his word, massive respect.
@samfendermusic
#samfender #unitedkingdom #tour #price
JB retweeted
A longer read on BBC cuts:
-BBC not halfway to Ā£500m goal
-More radical savings required
-BBC Sounds under threat?
-Bosses mulled axing CBBC
-1,200 of 2k layoffs confirmed
-Industrial action threat lingers
-Concern at charter talks urgency
deadline.com/2026/10/inside-ā¦
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'Three people linked to the Conservatives, including the party's former director of campaigning, have been given suspended sentences after admitting to cheating at gambling on the 2024 general election date.'
news.sky.com/story/three-peoā¦
Remember: never bet on the flat before the Guineas and never bet on the jumps before the Mackeson. š
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The forced choice heads to heads give you perhaps the starkest picture of how Burnham outperforms Starmer right now. Starmer was less preferred than Davey or Badenoch and tied with Farage/Polanski. The shift of Burnham vs Polanski is particularly stark from 50-50 under Starmer to 80-20 for Burnham.
These are not the primary reasons why a Tote monopoly wouldnāt work in Britain, there are many cultural, economic, technological and legislative barriers that would need to be overcome way before compliance became an issue.
Ruby Walsh on how the Tote-based model cannot work in Britain & Ireland due to compliance rules
š£ļø "Some people are obsessed with the idea that far away hills are greener, and some long for a Tote-based model. Unfortunately, that doesnāt always work either. It does in Hong Kong, the world's only growing Tote-based market, but its compliance rules differ.
"Hong Kong residents have fewer opportunities to gamble, racing has less competition and it races only twice a week at two courses. France, by contrast, is under pressure. The PMU has a ā¬45 million hole to plug and the French answer is effectively to close 24 courses in the coming years to balance the books.
"Funding the bottom will be a major issue for racing; compliance and competition started the derailment, and taxation has just forced sharp business minds to look elsewhere"
Racingās factional in-fighting costs another high profile executive their job. The revolving door at the top, losing good people in the process, cannot benefit the sport long term. A strategy needs to be built on consensus, through stability and continuity, not constant chaos.
Wilf Walsh will leave his role as Racecourse Association (RCA) chair on December 31 after resigning from the position
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Was the stunned silence at the end of NAZA's screening our discomfort at the soldier who readily confessed that Israel had committed a āgenocideā in Gaza ā and that from the outset his goal, and that of everyone he worked with, was to kill as many Palestinians as they could get away with.
In his words, he personally used Israelās military AI systems to oversee the killing of āthousandsā of Palestinians. He called this period of his military career āinsanely funā.
Another interviewee who was responsible for the mass-murder of Palestinians observed that, not only was he serving in Israelās most prestigious intelligence unit, 8200, but that he had secured one of the unitās most prized jobs. He noted how envious other officers were of his position in the automated killing machine.
Was the stunned silence our revulsion at the fact that interviewee after interviewee rationalised their participation in the slaughter and maiming of many tens of thousands Gazaās children with variations of the excuse āI was just following ordersā? One called himself a āsmall cogā in the machinery of murder.
Was the stunned silence our unease at the participant who noted that he had been raised to hate Germans because of the Holocaust, but then admitted that he was now struggling to see the difference between what the Nazis did and what he had done in Gaza?
Was the stunned silence borne of audience recognition that AIās frictionless, impersonal acts of surveillance, target selection and execution in Gaza are already being rolled out much closer to home?
That clever, career-minded, obedient young people, just like the ones who engineered Israelās AI system of absolute control, of inescapable surveillance, of unfeeling murder are designing the same automated system of judge, jury and executioner for us?
What we see on the screen is the prototype for a new kind of AI-enhanced security state, one that will serve as a Pitiless Panopticon in which we are all prisoners. One where even the democratic pretence of rulers being accountable to the ruled collapses.
This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. Itās about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ā¬ļø
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NAZA shows us the prototype for a new kind of AI-enhanced security state, one that will serve as a Pitiless Panopticon in which we are all prisoners. One where even the democratic pretence of rulers being accountable to the ruled collapses.
My latest: middleeasteye.net/opinion/naā¦
The dominance of certain trainers is clearly not just an issue limited to the UK & Ireland, but as @LydiaHislop warned I think weāll see more of this, just as we have in the Irish Ces and Troytown. Not good for the game. racingpost.com/news/internatā¦
Who could have seen this comingā¦?!
(Everyone bar the GC it would seem).
The Gambling Commission's own research has identified friction caused by bookmaker requests for personal data as one of the primary factors pushing punters towards the black market
š racingpost.com/news/industryā¦
Iāve said it many times before but it bears repeating: populism = divisive. That is why politicians like Farage and Polanski will never get anywhere near office in the UK. Itās simply not how our party political system works. You have to build broad consensus.
October leaderboard
šPolanski receives his worst favourability rating since becoming leader of the Greens (16% favourable, 52% unfavourable,-36 net)
šFarage and Polanski are the politicians where the majority are unfavourable- 56% Farage, 52% Polanski,
šBurnham is the only politician with a net favourable rating (39% favourable, 31% unfavourable, +8 net)
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(Fieldwork October 9-13)
