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Thousands of retired council workers are receiving pensions of more than £50,000 a year and hundreds are scooping six-figures, a Telegraph Money investigation has found.Cash-strapped local... ...
BBC News - Decoding Donald Trump's new official portrait https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4mmrr7j8mo What do we think. Democracy in safe hands? Stable genius? Bear in mind this is the official... ...
https://news.sky.com/story/nazi-obsessed-knifeman-callum-parslow-jailed-after-trying-to-murder-asylum-seeker-at-worcestershire-hotel-13290612 I wish we would be more consistent though. ...
Very interesting analogy and a lesson in history thrown in: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tommy-robinson-and-the-chilling-echoes-of-the-dreyfus-affair/ Any comments ? ...
Eight years after kneecapping the economy with Brexiteers crowing "You lost get over it" The Cons have admitted Brexit was a big mistake and an act of wilful negligence by a govt that dragged... ...
..eyes and ears in Hollywood. The last star I remember who fawned before a President was Elvis with Nixon. Will Voight, Stallone, and Gibson, be shunned by other stars fearing the 3 might be informers?
After the world heard there was a deal between Israel and Hamas the IDF launched 50 attacks on Palestinian targets killing more than 70 people. No olive branches being offered by them apparently.
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/price-hikes-rachel-reeves-budget-marks-and-spencers-greggs-sainsburys-next-b1205212.html Who'd have thought it, Rachel from complaints messes up. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/uk-back-ukraine-beyond-terrible-war-100-year-pact-keir-starmer what is the point of making a 100-year commitment to ukraine? seems like an incredibly... ...
on local infrastructure can see an MP being dragged before the magistrates like some common guttersnipe. Not long ago, in John Prescott's day, he attempted to 'tap claret' when a political... ...
Kemi Badenoch has launched a stinging attack on the mistakes made by her predecessors over Brexit and immigration.Badenoch says.You Cons are now under a new leadership. In an attempt to distance... ...
organisation that is never far away from a scandal https://www.itv.com/news/2025-01-16/rapper-promoted-by-bbc-probed-over-lyrics-glorifying-jimmy-mizens-murder ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32829656/labour-mp-mike-amesbury-court-punch-constituent/ Will this indepenent MP be forced to resign his seat and trigger a by-election? He had a majority of over 14... ...
//All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card... ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14288935/Mother-not-told-police-husband-sexually-abusing-daughter-cultural-differences.html \\She lived with the 34-year-old defendant - who listened to the... ...