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A bit more dashing and a bit less dining on the menu might help for these two...

Good to see the Green Party doing well and almost doubling the number of seats they won. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68956733 Carla Denyer said her party had capitalised on disappointment from Labour voters over its U-turn on green investment, as well as its position on public ownership of public ...

A total 2,495,621 votes have been cast in the 2024 mayoral election - a turnout of 40.5%

Sadiq Khan likely to win but not by as much as the polls predicted.

Counting of votes doesn't start until tomorrow morning, and might even spill into Sunday if it is close. Today has been the verification process from the 3600 polling stations to make sure everything is accounted for, and collating all the ballot boxes across the 3 elections being voted on. https://...

Sadiq Khan blames violent crime on all kinds of things. Sadiq Khan blames spate of violence on school holidays, long days and heatwave https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/sadiq-khan-london-walthamstow-metropolitan-police-government-b2147756.html One thing that he doesn't blame it on is Sadiq Khan.

Sadiq Khan has apologised to the Chief Rabbi after hinting that Islamophobia was behind comments made about a ceasefire back in October. In a statement issued to the Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis on Friday, Mr Khan said he apologised for his remarks, "which I deeply regret". https://www.b...

He's not wrong though. Falter is a vocal supporter of the massacre in Gaza, including children. He is also a very active supporter and fundraiser for settlers illegally seizing land from Palestinians in the West Bank. I was not defending Falter, and illegally seizing land from Palestinians in the W...

A useful summary of the scam that was being perpetrated by a vociferous advocate of genocide. This time it failed. https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1782370001007050883 Useful summary? Or an anti-Jewish and anti-establishment rant by someone who blames Falter for Jeremy Corbyn's downfall? Cook m...

The Met threatened to arrest a man who they described as being "openly Jewish" near a Palestinian peace protest last weekend. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/police-threaten-to-arrest-openly-jewish-man-for-walking-near-pro-palestine-protest/ar-AA1niaL5 They then issued as statement on...

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:59 pm For God's sake this is people traffiking now, why cant they get a grip on these gangs?

They are...two people jailed only yesterday for people smuggling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgynkjzj0go

Matt Ridley's book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19" is a good read for anyone interested in the lab leak theory. He's got some interviews on YouTube too, but since most of the interviewers are from the "far right" they won't appeal to all. The Brendan O'Neill one is...

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:10 pm

faldO wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:56 pmIt's started...

Didn’t it start the other day?

Didn't it start in 1948?

It's started...

After listening to sensible Political commentating on the BBC it seems this is a case of " Move along, nothing to see here". Yes, thank goodness for the sensible political commentating on the BBC, and well done to them for sticking up for one of their own. As David Lammy said this week, A...

Domestic Streaming From the 2024/25 season onward, this agreement makes more matches available to stream and will effectively replace the current Sky Sports EFL red button coverage and the EFL's domestic streaming option provided via iFollow and club streaming services. Domestic streaming audio serv...

Some people just love to tease and researchers think they have found out why. They believe people who goad others to incite an angry response may have an unconscious need for power linked to high testosterone levels. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL15479019 Common causes of high testoterone lev...

If all you have is accusing me of “shunning” (who have I “shunned”? Example please?) or “ridiculing” (yep, I will indeed ridicule an ideology that takes itself very seriously despite being ludicrous), then you’ve learned absolutely nothing. Useful tip: when dealing with Max B Gold's posts - especia...

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:24 pm I've found Reform a new recruit

And another...

McCoist has bottled it and now says he won't be going to the game after all as he has "family commitments".

Are Hamas freedom fighters? Yes they are fighting to hold on to their homeland from European colonists. Are their terrorist methods correct or acceptable? No, but Israel knew that when they encouraged and funded their growth when using them to drive a wedge between the Palestinians and Fatah. Claim...

I believe we have now unanimously agreed that what is happening in Gaza IS a genocide and that the counter arguments of "But Hamas" and "youse are all jew hating antisemites" has not survived scrutiny. Zionists are Nazis, Netanyahu is Hitler, Hamas are freedom fighters, Israel i...

https://i.postimg.cc/x8PV3hvS/20240119-084239.jpg Fake news. This was debunked by the Australian Associated Press as recently as last week, and indeed every time it resurfaces. https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/assassination-quote-falsely-attributed-to-ex-israeli-pm/ The same quote has even been att...

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:45 pm What Hamas did on 7th October isn't a justification for the genocide in Gaza. The dehumanisiation and oppression of the Palestinians didn't start on 7/10/2023.

When did the genocide start?

There is death, destruction, and misery for Palestinians in Gaza. But it is not genocide. Hamas brought this on the Gazan people with their actions on 7th October. Just for you. The meaning of genocide. the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with...

The only people i hate are those that murder 32,000 innocent civilians, and then starve the ones they didnt happen to kill with the bombs Where does the figure of 32,000 civilians murdered come from? Its the figure ive read in 4 newspapers in the last 2 days. Why , do you dispute the figure, and if...