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If there are Choc Hobnobs in the house, I'll eat the lot in one sitting. So the last time I bought a pack was 3 years ago. They cost £1. Yesterday, in the same shop: £2.50. Inflation is 5% Not 150% Should cost £1.16 Not £2.50 Sometimes you lose sight of just how badly you're being ripped off.

SAM NEILL — fineActor, wonderful human being.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

This brutal Obama-Trump supercut side by side from @meidastouch.com helps explain why Trump is losing it tonight 👇🏽

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights:

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

Has a pool reporter ever stood up on behalf of their colleagues when this happens?

“You’re making me hard” 😂

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burnham's promised "circuit breaker" must mean breaking the status quo. That means no more shifting money from one stretched public service to pay for another. No more tinkering around the edges.​ ‌Tax the super-rich. Our ED Faiza Shaheen on Newsnight last night 🎥

The absolute terror of car free 15 minute cities

ITV footage shows racist, sexual, violent rhetoric among Reform members. These lunatics say “King Charles is a f***ing Muslim… " and want him to be beheaded. They want concentration camps for migrants, violence against minorities. Return of the Nazis, 100 years after the Cable Street resistance.

George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"

On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.

Tories call for 5-year freeze on minimum wage to tackle youth unemployment. So, how will workers in retail, hospitality pay rent, energy, water, food bills? Impact on mental health, NHS, public services? Silence on corporate welfare, soaring exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

In the docky-wock.

63% of voters back wealth tax for mega-rich. Wealth tax can be: Tax on accumulated wealth Higher rates on dividends & capital gains Mansion tax Investment income surcharge Cap tax relief on pension contributions by the mega rich What will Chancellor get-off his bended-knees?

Rafael Behr dismantles Reform UK's asylum 'plan' in less than 90 seconds, exposing how the party blames immigration for the problems the UK is facing. "It's not actually a policy for the UK to function as a country."

... and Reform UK, full of lethal austerity-manufacturing ex-Tories, led by Thatcher worshipper, Liz Truss praiser Nigel Farage, will do the same ... meme via The UK Against Hate

@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "Are these Brexit benefits in the room with us now?" "Can anybody else see them?"👀

Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda. “It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”

Delighted that Navi Pillay, chair of the UN commission which found Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let Trump and Netanyahu splutter and fume: the truth becomes ever harder to deny.

Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

Made the mistake of going into a Starbucks today, waited ages, for two small black americano’s, they got them wrong first time, place was filthy, toilets were worse, blasting music, nearly £8 .. never again

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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Psychotruck driver kills again. 😢 Ford Ranger is an unsafe vehicle that should require special licence to use. Users of sensible vehicles pay the price with their children’s lives. Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

Water companies failing their basic duties? The Green Party has a simple solution. Special administration. Public ownership. ZERO compensation for shareholders.

The BBC is determined to ask every supporter of Zionism if Zionism is racism. Unfortunately it can't ask the victims of Zionism because they were all killed by Israel.

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

Police identified the motorcyclist accused of attacking Tenaya Stanford, but his name still has NOT been released. Stanford says he followed her for miles while her 1-year-old was in the car, smashed her window, grabbed her by the hair, dragged her into the street and beat her with a steering lock.

Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.

via Campbell Finnie