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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... ...

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Businesses Warn Of Job Losses Threat As Starmer Hopes To Get 2M Back Into Work

//Sir Keir Starmer is in a new row with leading company bosses as his government attempts to force around 2 million young people back into work. As work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall unveiled... ...

China Has New Puppets....

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1981072/iain-duncan-smith-china-david-lammy-keir-starmer Talk about Niaive, Xi must think it's christmas come early. ...

Starmer Continues With "Grossly Wasteful" Helicopter Junkets..

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1981225/labour-helicopters-rishi-sunak Is there any form of hypocrisy they won't indulge in? what happened to "grossly... ...

Is The Penny Dropping......?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98dzyy850jo are people finally realising that electric cars are not viable for most? They are great if you live near work and never go very far but the... ...

Starmer In Jobs Push.....right Oh!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxwv3n87g4o Pity Rachel from accounts has just put out the most anti jobs budget in history! Should their right hand introduce itself to their left hand? ...

What Is A Woman?

we are supposed to be finding out the answer today - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgv8v5ge37o although, what's the betting the learned m'luds fudge the issue? ...

Power Of Social Media Put To Good Use

The insurance company behaved disgracefully until faced with the adverse reaction from X. So occasionally social media pressure is a power for good against the bullying giants of the corporate... ...

B B C Late To The Party And Of Course Wrong!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2r4g98gjo 100,000? It's 2.3m you eejits! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143 ...

Perhaps The Prince Should Sort Them Out.

First they try to make the traffic crawl "everywhere", now they try to wreck their own tourist trade. Maybe residents should hold a referendum regarding scrapping their regional... ...

Ed Sheeran Admits He's A ***.

Yes a lot of us have thought it for years, after the game yesterday he disrespectfully interupts new Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim post match interview after his first game in... ...

Who Told Vorderman People Care What She Thinks?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1980300/carol-vorderman-general-election-petition-eu-referendum the other week she was slating labour... ...

Credit Where It's Due.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp35r0v7q95o Get the work shy scum off their sofas, great. ...

Assisted Dying, Here's Where It Leads.....

https://news.sky.com/story/depressed-and-desperate-to-die-has-assisted-dying-in-canada-crossed-the-line-13258336 "But although Canada's MAiD was originally intended to be used in exceptional... ...

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Petition For Another Election

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143 Call a General Election - Petitions Call a General ElectionI would like there to be another General Election.I believe the current Labour Government... ...

Theblip

Evil Leaders

A handful of evil men on this planet are causing so much death and destruction and global insecurity, and other consequential problems. They are like real life Bond villains, only a lot worse.... ...

Theblip

Should We Be Taking Nuclear Threats More Seriously?

Russia has been threatening to nuke the UK, and they have the support of Iran, North Korea, and China. Some of our politicians dismiss Putin's threats as bluff and sabre-rattling. Yet he has... ...

Hymie

Death Of Three Young Ladies Backpacking In Laos, Due To Methanol Poisoning

Maybe whoever substituted the alcohol with methanol was unaware of the dangers of ingesting methanol – even small amounts can cause blindness and/or paralysis. A tragedy for those who died and... ...

webbo3

Starmer's Approval Rating Plummets,

https://news.sky.com/story/as-starmers-approval-rating-plummets-farages-is-on-the-rise-can-labour-turn-things-around-13257768 Can Labour turn things around, only with a miracle . ...

Quite An Achievement In 5 Months.....

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1979604/rachel-reeves-cv-chancellor-farmers-economy Rachel from accounts is the worst chancellor in history! She can update her CV with that! ...

Recession Risk As Britain Reels From Reeves’s Budget ?

Economists have sounded the alarm over a UK recession after data showed Britain’s economy was reeling from the effects of Rachel Reeves’s tax-raising Budget. Britain is now “close to stagnation”... ...

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