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Improving Clarity In News Category Titles And Openings

To enhance the quality of our discussions, please ensure your question titles and openings in the News category are clear and specific and do not contain abbreviations or nicknames. This helps... ...

How Could A Supporter Of Israel Condone This?

It's not Gaza where murder is so frequent it almost goes unremarked. This is the West Bank. https://youtu.be/976BJmmyJ9o?si=8l8ezN1CA8JNjieF ...

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It Looks Like President Trump Is To Give Up On His Pledge To End The Russia/Ukraine War

...before he entered the White House; on day one, or any other day for that matter. Perhaps time to impose swingeing tariffs (100%+) on Russian goods until Putin comes on board with the peace plan... ...

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Teaching Union Will Make Labour Pay ‘High Political Price’ Without Improved Pay

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/teaching-union-will-make-labour-pay-high-political-price-without-improved-pay/ar-AA1D6jm2?ocid=entnewsntp \\ The country’s largest education union will campaign... ...

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Uk Risks Energy Crisis As British Gas Halts Activity At Fuel Storage Site

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A S D A Fights Back Against Shoplifters....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14577177/Asda-launches-trial-live-facial-recognition-technology.html It's a breach of privacy perhaps but worth it to nail theiving scum. Has been used n the... ...

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Why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78j1514974o ...

Labour Is Trying To Reverse Brexit,,Says Mogg.

This revelation comes as proposals are being discussed ahead of the First UK-EU Summit set to take place in London in May. Aimed at defining a new future between UK and the EU .I don't like Mogg... ...

Thanks To Labour. Inflation Has Dropped Again.

Uk inflation fell again for the second month in March .Will interest rates be cut now ?. Looks like Labour have managed to fill that massive black hole they inherited from the crooked Cons then... ...

Where Are We Going To Find Enough Common Sense?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84054nqnyo ...for a whole country full of trobscites in local authorities. I can just see the bonfire of the loo signs now! ...

It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Known It.

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/ I've always thought the universe was teaming with life. I hope this is another step towards... ...

Anti-Semitic Problem

Now here's a problem for all those who refer to critics of Israel as anti-semitic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77ndzkz778o ...

Are French People Strangers To Soap And Water?

I would have thought there was no truth in the old canard. Was I... ...

Since When Did We Consider Prisoners' Feelings On Security Checks?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2042729/Jails-security-prisons-officers-crisis-Abedi-Manchester-bombing Oh sorry I forgot, when they are muslims. For gawd sake when are we going to stop... ...

What Is A Woman?

the UK is scheduled to find out the answer to that today:- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-rule-legal-definition-woman whichever way the learned m'luds lean, there... ...

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Not Stop The Boats Starmer

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/asylum-seekers-hotels-barges-labour-b2731083.html \\The government has awarded a contract which allows for hotels and barges to house asylum seekers... ...

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Murder Arrest Over Fatal House Explosion

Reported yesterday as a gas explosion, but apparently not. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ywpd59pvo ...

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Jean Marsh Dies Aged 90

Farewell Rose. A fine actress - now upstairs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c045dk29xqqo ...

Could The Fellers Have Targeted The Wrong Tree?

I can't think of any other reason this happened https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tree-felling-whitewebbs-wood-enfield-police-investigate-london-sycamore-gap-b1222509.html ...

How Can We Possibly Be Short Of Coal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x1qqyz8vo FGS we live on an Island largely made of it, yet we are importing it on diesel powered ships? How is that helping climate change? Stop this net zero... ...

Worrying Times For Starmer

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34466460/reform-labours-red-wall-election-starmer-farage/ Current polls suggest that 68% of people polled, believe that Britain is broken, and that Reform would sweep... ...

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