Father of 4, husband to 1. Patron of fine ales and wines. Despiser of Southern Rail. So mote it be. All thoughts and comments are my own.
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2Lt Paul Syred (1 RTR), Sgt John (Jonah) Jones (1 RRF), WO2 (CSM) Evan Thomas Webb (20th Battalion KRRC), WO2 Colin Hill MBE (RE) & Cpl Shawn Bostock (RE).
We will remember them.
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Objectively the -2 for Labour and +3 for the greens is much more notable.
And yet the headline refers to the tiny change in the Tory-Reform gap.
Do you need anymore proof of the bias amongst these pollsters?
🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨
Reform's lead over the Conservatives narrows to just 1 point, its smallest since April 2025.
Labour has a 7-point lead over Reform.
🌹 LAB 28% (-2)
➡️ REF 21% (-1)
🌳 CON 20% (n/c)
🌍 GRN 11% (+3)
🔶 LD 10% (n/c)
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Today’s Guardian finds it "astonishing" that Russell Brand, convicted of one count of rape and three sexual assaults yesterday, was “embraced as a serious social commentator” when he returned to Britain in 2013. Embraced by whom, sorry?
The paper gives its own role in promoting brand Brand one single line, noting he had already written columns for it. Yesterday’s big Guardian piece on TV insiders said "Brand’s case has led to difficult questions for the BBC, Channel 4 and the production companies that worked with him." Hilarious...
On an unrelated note Russell Brand's 137 written contributions to the Guardian are still online - 17 of which are after 2013 and which concluded in February 2015.
Long after the Andrew Sachs voicemails, the paper ran his opinion on Thatcher the day after she died, ran a GQ awards column over a large chunk of the front page in September 2013, and ran his column blaming Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death on “extremely stupid drug laws.” Not to mention the fawning praise from Owen Jones and the entire Labour establishment, including the now-Prime Minister...
Today’s piece also sniffs that critics lavished praise on his memoir, quoting its tale of Brand trailing a classmate 200 miles to Wigan as an early warning sign.
That particular book was serialised in the Guardian.
In October 2014 the paper put on a ticketed Guardian Live event, with Owen Jones interviewing Brand. It was broadcast live from the Emmanuel Centre.
That day Jones penned a piece in the Guardian attacking the “all-too-smug, seen-it-all-before snottiness” aimed at Brand. Two months later George Monbiot named him a hero of 2014, calling him “the best thing that has happened to the left in years”.
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor from 1995 to 2015, claimed in Prospect Magazine in 2023: "I only met him once, when he was writing a popular football column for the Guardian, along with the occasional commentary piece." Funny, seeing as the football column was pre-2010 and there is a photo of them snugly on the sofa together at the Guardian’s morning conference in August 2013...
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Sickening scenes as we take a look back at when Russell Brand was courting the Labour Party, oh look Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP is eager to talk to him.
In true form, back then, he has a go at the Conservatives when talking of the victims of crime.....
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"This is BBC Emergency Radio. The national grid has failed. Please remain calm.
Before the water rationing guidance, a content note: some listeners may find news of the blackout distressing. Support is available, though not by phone, as the phones are down.
Our top story. The blackout has had a disproportionate impact on marginalised communities. Our LGBTQIA+ correspondent is live from a candlelit drag brunch in Brighton, where performers are bravely carrying on, unplugged.
We'll also hear from Gaza, where the UK's power cut has been described by local officials as 'not our biggest problem today'. We'll bring you that full context, at length.
Next, an expert explains why the darkness is a legacy of empire, and whether candles are culturally appropriative.
Now, the water rationing guidance. Each household may use 3 litres a day. Before you start, please check you're not reinforcing harmful stereotypes about who fetches the water.
On toilets: if they stop working, a pronoun-inclusive, multilingual leaflet is available in 47 languages. English copies are temporarily out of stock.
Food: eat perishables first. Our cultural affairs desk recommends falafel.
Finally, a reminder that pointing out that the generator ran out of diesel may count as misinformation. The diesel is fine. It is simply on a journey.
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An additional 1.4 million migrants will be given the right to access the welfare state between 2026 and 2030.
But is his biggest betrayal still in the offing? Does the PM still believe that we should "abolish the no recourse to public funds policy"?
migrationcentral.co.uk/p/and…
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Fury as Ed Miliband snorkels in Caribbean as Brits struggle to make ends meet'
thesun.co.uk/news/40942923/e…
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Ian Milne was a Provisional IRA member in South Derry who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of UDR soldier James Speer. After his release under the Good Friday Agreement, he became a Sinn Féin councillor and later represented Mid Ulster at Stormont.
* IRA years. Milne operated in South Derry alongside Francis Hughes and Dominic McGlinchey. In a 2006 interview with An Phoblacht, he described escaping from Portlaoise Prison and being arrested in Lurgan in 1977. The interview gives his own account of those years. Milne’s interview.
* The murder of James Speer. Speer was shot dead on 9 November 1976 while working at his car repair business in Desertmartin, County Londonderry. Milne received a life sentence in 1977. In 2017, Speer’s family brought a civil action against Milne over the killing. I couldn’t verify the outcome of that action.
* Political career. Milne chaired Magherafelt District Council. In April 2013, Sinn Féin selected him to fill the Mid Ulster Assembly seat vacated by Francie Molloy. He had previously stood in the constituency in 2011 and received 2,635 first-preference votes. He left the Assembly on 3 December 2018.
Sinn Féin is standing 4 candidates to win in the next Assembly election in Mid Ulster.
I am honoured to have been selected to stand alongside Emma Sheerin, Linda Dillon, and Ian Milne.
This election is the most important in generations.
It is an opportunity to support the strong leadership of Sinn Féin and show that change in the North is unstoppable.
To send a message to those who want to drag us back to the past, that there will be No Going Back.
Every vote will count.
Together, let’s make history.
Let’s make it 4 Sinn Féin MLAs in Mid Ulster!
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Abdul El-Sayed and his wife.
He wears jeans and tight shirts, while she has to dress like a Bedouin from the 7th century.
This is what women’s oppression looks like.
You will remember Labour in the 90’s and 00’s continuously increased Quangos.
Increased bureaucracy has never achieved anything bar use more of tax payers money.
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It’s just for your safety … here’s what her post didn’t say.
Today, Labor had confirmed plans for a new legal framework that goes FAR beyond police catching criminals. (That’s just what she wants you to think)
▪️ Facial recognition - Expanding the use of technology that can identify ordinary people in public spaces.
▪️ Other public bodies - The framework won’t just cover the police.
▪️ Private companies - Facial recognition for crime prevention and detection will also fall within the framework.
▪️ Behavioural surveillance - Technology that analyses behaviour and draws inferences about individuals. (Er …)
▪️ Government databases - Proposals include targeted biometric searches of databases held by other public authorities.
A legal infrastructure for a surveillance system, creating the ability to identify, analyse and track ordinary, law abiding citizens …
just incase you say something the government doesn’t like? Who knows?
Retarded they are absolutely retarded.
But if you are a Somalian family who doesn’t work and rapes the system it is a perfect electorate call.
#PMQs Asked whether she agrees Emma Reynolds that employers aren't working people, Louise Haigh says Labour are for "people who don't have savings" and "rely on good public services". Is this a new definition of "working people"?