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Joined March 2014
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I don't know. Ferrari are absolute clowns
Lewis Hamilton pitted for inters. One one the last ones to pit. He is in P9 and has lost position to Leclerc. 📻 | Lewis Hamilton: “ah man… you didn’t say it was raining… I thought I could keep going… I was fine on track… Where am I now?” 📻 | Santi: “I don’t know.” #BrazilGP 🇧🇷
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I would never forgive my parents, but that's just me...
In 1997, Paris Hilton's parents paid strangers to abduct her from her bedroom. They wanted to cure her teenage rebellion. She had been sneaking out of the house and staying out late. Her parents hired a youth transport company to teach her discipline. At two in the morning, two large men entered her room. They grabbed her, pinned her arms, and dragged her out of the house. She screamed for her parents, but they let the men take her. They threw her into a van and drove her to Provo Canyon School in Utah. Her parents paid tens of thousands of dollars to lock her inside until she learned obedience. The facility was a psychological prison. If she cried or broke a rule, they dragged her by the hair into a bare concrete cell with no mattress. Nurses forced her to swallow psychotropic pills. If she spat them out, they held her down and injected her. Every phone call was monitored. Every letter was read by staff. If she complained, they hung up the phone and sent her to isolation. She stayed there for eleven months. She learned to fake compliance to survive. When her parents visited, staff stood behind her and watched her every word. She smiled and told them she was happy. They believed her. After she left, she built a global brand and became the most photographed woman on Earth. She never told anyone about Provo. The trauma gave her chronic nightmares and a lifelong fear of doctors and hospitals. In 2020, she finally broke her silence in a documentary. She showed her medical records and described the physical abuse.
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The privatised ones are in grey
Nationalise the railways to improve performance, right?
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This should not be a public vote. Ever again. The first #brexit vote proved how fucking stupid people are. Leaving something as important as this "to the people" when they are wholly unaware of the far reaching consequences. This is why government employs policy professionals
Michel Barnier, "The door is open, it will the sovereign choice of the UK (to rejoin the EU), as it was the sovereign choice for the UK to have Brexit itself" "We have so many ways of acting together, to increase the co-operation between the UK and the EU, and in the current world which is unstable, being together makes us all stronger" My view: Barnier offers the clarity Lisa Nandy couldn’t: Britain can choose to seek EU membership again. Accession would require agreement from EU members, but deciding whether to make that case is a matter of political will. Nobody pretends rejoining would simply restore our old terms or resolve every domestic problem. But voters deserve an honest discussion about what closer integration could deliver, what obligations it would involve, and whether it would improve their lives. The referendum was an exercise in democracy, not an instruction to stop thinking forever. Britain is entitled to assess the results, reconsider its direction and choose a different future. With the door open, we need politicians willing to make a case for walking through it.
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British Gas resumes force-fitting prepay meters months after £112m settlement. With escalating energy, rents and food bills; more people will struggle to heat or eat. More pressure on GPs, hospitals, public services. Squalor is a political choice. theguardian.com/money/2026/n…
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This was obvious @andyburnham Changing the goal posts retrospectively was shameful The daughter of migrants doing it, even more tragic How about labour acknowledging the value migrants have to our country instead of trying to appeal to the populist far right who will never vote for you?
The Home Office's treatment of Turkish businesspeople applying for ILR through the Ankara Agreement is outrageous and reminiscent of the Windrush Scandal. Callous and careless mistakes are being made with devastating impacts. The Home Office must act now. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Crickets from the extremist far right politicians in the UK on the terrorist attack in Poland. They espouse the same far right ideology. Spout the same evil. Why has the media not called on them for comment.
The Kraków shooter was reportedly inspired by FAR-RIGHT ideology. Let that sink in. Where are Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and Tommy Robinson? Where is the outrage? Where are the demands for answers? If you are vocal about extremism when it suits your politics but silent when the trail leads to the far right, you are not standing against extremism. You are selectively exploiting it. Extremism is extremism. No excuses. No double standards.
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What is the UK government doing to counter this extremism here? We have multiple political parties spreading this hate in the UK, and it's literally crickets. Scary stuff
Poland's Interior Minister and police have confirmed that the terrorist was a Polish citizen who was "fascinated by far-right ideologies" and held radical "ultra-nationalistic views". *Some random far-right account creates an AI-generated image of a trans flag.* All the far right: "See, he was a lefty who wanted to destroy Poland."
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Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1. £8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees. PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m. news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
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Zamachowiec z Krakowa był inspirowany poglądami prawicowymi, prorosyjskimi i kultem broni począwszy od... domu. Jego ojciec był działaczem prawicowej i prorosyjskiej partii Normalny Kraj. Dezinformatorzy z prawicy próbują ukryć inspiracje zamachowaca przez skrajną prawicę!
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Kraków Shooting Sunday morning update: Some pretty grim details have emerged overnight. Police have found three bodies at the gunman's home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, about 150 km northeast of Kraków. They are believed to be his mother, father and sister, although their identities have not yet been formally confirmed. The suspect's sister normally lived in Kraków and had apparently returned to Ostrowiec to visit her parents. Neighbours described the parents as friendly, sociable people. One said they had celebrated New Year's Eve together. They also knew about the family's interest in firearms. According to one neighbour, the father and son regularly visited a shooting range together, sometimes every Sunday morning. The suspect is 24 years old and had a firearms permit. Polish media report that he was a member of the Świt shooting club in Starachowice and had two legally registered firearms. His father reportedly owned another eleven. That means the father and son had thirteen registered firearms between them. The suspect reportedly trained as a lathe operator at a vocational school in Ostrowiec. The defence minister has confirmed that he never served in the Polish military, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. As for his possible motive, there's still very little new information. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said yesterday that the gunman held very radical views and appeared to be fascinated by far-right ideologies. But we haven't yet been told what investigators found to support that assessment, whether he had links to any extremist organisations, or whether those beliefs motivated the shooting. We also know more about the two police officers who confronted him. They've been named as Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański. One suffered three gunshot wounds and the other was shot once. Both underwent surgery, and overnight reports described their conditions as stable, although their injuries are serious. Jakub Kulik was previously a soldier with Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade and had only recently joined the police. His former military unit has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations, specifically AB Rh-positive. On how quickly the police responded: The first emergency call came in at exactly 15:00:15 yesterday. Police say the first patrol began responding just 23 seconds later. By approximately 15:03, officers were already exchanging gunfire with the attacker. Thirty police patrols were deployed altogether. Six people were killed in Kraków, four women and two men. Three Polish women and a British citizen have been identified among the dead. The identities of the other two had not been confirmed at last night's briefing. Reports on the number injured range from 15 to 17, including the two police officers. Five of the injured are foreign nationals, from Austria, Germany, Portugal, Russia and Britain. The gunman was also wounded and remains in hospital. Poland is observing two days of national mourning today and tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Kraków has declared mourning until Wednesday. tvpworld.com/96362392/one-fo…
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"AUKUS costs a minimum of $33 million a day for the next 30 years!! PASS IT ON.
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Someone said “Dana White for press secretary” and meant the former Pentagon spokesperson. Trump heard “the UFC guy” and went with it. And we’re expected to believe this dumb motherfucker aced three cognitive tests?
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Long overdue tbh
Andy Burnham says he will look at how rape cases are conducted in court following Russell Brand’s conviction, to ensure women are not made to feel as though they are the ones on trial when they come forward and seek justice.
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This is awful
"I knew I was being assaulted." Evelyn Yang was 7 months pregnant and alone in her gynecologist's exam room. She was dressed and ready to leave. He said she might need a C-section, pulled her toward him, undressed her and examined her without gloves. About six weeks earlier, police had arrested him in his office for assaulting another patient. It should have been over right there. Instead, Columbia University let him go back to seeing women. In the video below, she tells CNN what happened in that room. "I was dressed and ready to go." "I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights." "I remember trying to fix my eyes on a spot on the wall and just trying to avoid seeing his face." She told no one. Not even her husband, Andrew Yang, who ran for president in 2020. It got worse. 18 women gave statements to the Manhattan DA. She testified to a grand jury. Then the DA's office cut a deal: he gave up his medical license and didn't spend a day in jail. "He was getting off with a slap on the wrist." It was the same DA's office that had once argued to lower Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status. In 2020 she told her story on national TV. Federal prosecutors charged him. In 2023 he got 20 years. More than 500 women have now accused him. Columbia and its hospital have paid more than $1 billion in settlements. Nobody at Columbia has faced criminal charges. Should the people who sent him back to work be in prison too?
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Why are wealthy people such bastards to their children. These people really shouldn't be people society idolises. All of them are truly awful.
Steve Jobs was worth over $200 million at 25. He paid his daughter $385 a month. Her mother cleaned houses and went on welfare. The county had to sue him to pay it back. In the video below, his daughter Lisa talks about growing up with him. Jobs was 23 when she was born. He helped pick her name. Then he denied she was his. A DNA test said he was the father. He told Time magazine that 28% of men in America could be. The same year, Apple went public. He became one of the richest young men in the country. He named a computer after her: the Apple Lisa. For years, he refused to admit it. One day her mother was on the phone with him, sobbing, begging for money. Lisa, a little girl, took the phone and said: “Just give her some money.” Then she hung up. Another time, her mother asked him for a house. He said yes. Then he bought one for himself. At 14 she moved in with him. His condition: she couldn’t see her mother for six months. Years later, he was dying of cancer. She sat by his bed. “The thing he kept on saying is, ‘I owe you one, and I’m so sorry.’” Did she forgive him? “I think not at the time.” “In many ways, yes.” When her memoir came out, his widow and his sister released a statement: her story “differs dramatically from our memories.” The case for Jobs: he was young, he came back, and he tried to make it right before he died. The case for Lisa: a billionaire’s daughter shouldn’t have grown up on welfare. He named a computer after her. He wouldn’t say she was his. On his deathbed, he said, “I owe you one.” Was “I’m sorry” enough, or did it come 30 years too late?
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So you're telling me 22 of the world's best drivers CAN run in full wet conditions without any major issues
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