At a speech given by Donald Trump last week at the Al Smith Dinner in New York, he said "We have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who... ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/israeli-settlers-eye-return-to-gaza daniella weiss is the leader of nachala, an organisation which campaigns for resettlement of gaza by jews. she has... ...
Absolutly bang on budget getting every aspect of it right in every possible way and very well thought out. Hospitals, schools and carers, have been crying out for some proper action for 14 years.... ...
Last week the Serious Fraud Office investigated the building of a hotel and conference centre in Birmingham by the Unite Union, using £112 million of its members money: the complex has since been... ...
//Farmers across the UK have met the news that inheritance tax relief for farms will be limited to £1m with anger. The National Farmers' Union said it had been a “disastrous budget” for family... ...
Just spoken to mum, bearing in mind she was born in the 20s, in 4 months time she will be 104 years young. What did she say? Its about time the purse strings were tightened. Keep on giving and you... ...
I'm going to Brazil(Rio & Recife) for three weeks. I have a holiday budget of £2,100 ie £100 per day whilst I am there. Now, Rather than exchange the whole amount into Brazilian R$, how much... ...
Because I bought a quite expensive poppy pashmina type scarf from the National Memorial Arboritum, paid quite a lot for it and wear it a lot. I figure that's my contribution till the day I die... ...
Does anyone follow astronomy/space? No one I know seems that interested in astronauts going to space etc. I find it fascinating but people do have mixed views. I guess it would be good to ask do... ...
having a chat with a mate in the pub, he asked what would it take to cause another general election to get rid of the labour party, got me thinking erm mass civil unrest, a war ? not really sure... ...
Labour’s false claim over the Tory’s financial incompetence will be exposed tomorrow with the release of the OBR’s independent report into the fiasco – as my mate Phil... ...
For contempt of court for approx 18 months "Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee. Robinson, whose real... ...
Do any of you have any chronic bodily/health issues going on which you can always feel and make you more irritable? I have ongoing non allergic sinus disease/polyps and although its mostly managed... ...
Stumbled across this: https://x.com/benhabib6/status/1850955613888709079/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1850955613888709079&currentTweetUser=benhabib6 Should be good for a heated AB discussion. ...
Despite me dissing him on here,i had a wee bit of respect for Alec.I met him a couple of times,and he was always"hail fellow,well met".He always stood up for us North Scotlanders.RIP Alec.
If we agree that the NHS and social care services aren't what they might be, how are improvements to be funded? If we want better services shouldn't we be prepared to pay for them?