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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/victoria-secret-karen-charges-black-142344258.html There’s 2 clips. Each quite long. A summary: (white) shopper gets into altercation with (black) shopper / shop assistant....
I never bothered downloading the App for fear that I might get pinged because I may have been in the vague vicinity of somebody who may or may not have been infected, but if the reports are true,...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57848266
I think he has to expel the loonies first to have any sort of path to credibility. The 4th Labour leader to win an election may still be in school!...
Boris has appointed an old friend from his Bullingdon Club days to a lucrative position at Whitehall . Ewan Fergusson has been given a post on " The Commitee of standards in Public Life".. To examine...
For some reason doesn't seem to be in a lot of the press just yet ut looks like the French dont like Macrons draconian diktats. Good on them I say (The French protestors) For those that dont like...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57657520 Brexit was decided in 2016 and implemented 18 months ago, surely they've had ample time to apply to the UK or go back to the EUSSR? Labour want the...
Scotland ....continue to wear them to protect the clinically vulnerable...says the 1st minister... "who" are the clinically vulnerable? Would have thought they've all had a double vaccine by now ???...
Poor old Gary (highest paid BBC presenter) is much too dim to understand satire. Should go back to selling potato crisps ;-) https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gary-lineker-bbc-football-racist-101613914.html...
Literally how daft is this? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2021/07/15/now-wokeism-going-birds-insects/ For those of you without a subscription the article reads, Of all the havoc gypsy moths...
I am in two minds about this. On the one hand it cannot be denied there is a big problem and one that could easily break the NHS as we know it. On the other hand I dislike this knee jerk reaction to...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57837003 "Labour has been calling for the law to be changed after England players were subject to abuse on social media." PM: "Online racists to be banned from...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57832053
I think this is totally irresponsible. Why copy a popular kids construction toy to make a real gun?...