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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... ...

Credit Where It's Due.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq0x30kkldo No doubt Lammy's just making the expected noises but yes we must increase defence spending. 2.5% GDP is a start but really we should be looking at... ...

Why Are Labour Trying To Shield The Muslim Rape Gangs From Inquiry?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1i4v711/robbie_moore_mpi_have_just_been_to_an_event_in/ "Robbie Moore MP:I have just been to an event in Keighley and a former Lord Mayor of Bradford,... ...

For Those Who Ask Why Migrants Head For The Uk...

A small village in Essex is to see the capacity of its local former RAF station, which currently houses asylum seekers, expanded to take... ...

Clone

Today's Stabbing

I was going to put it on my other thread but decided to create a new thread for the nice people to ignore. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew5v48w54qo ...

naomi24

British Couple Held In Iran

The couple, named as Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who are in their early 50s, and were on a trip across the world to Australia on motorbikes, were arrested in Iran in January on unspecified security... ...

Zelensky Calls For "Armed Forces Of Europe"

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/volodymyr-zelenskyy-calls-for-creation-of-armed-forces-of-europe-13309703<br /> ... seeing as the US is no longer a dependable ally.
good idea or not? ...

webbo3

Reeves Blows £8Bn Hole In Council Budgets With Tax Raid

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/14/rachel-reeves-blows-black-hole-council-budgets-tax-raid/ \\Rachel Reeves will blow an £8bn hole in council finances with her record Budget tax raid,... ...

Gas Field That Could Fuel U K For A Decade Discovered......guess What?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2014840/ed-miliband-ban-fracking-lincolnshire-gas-field-discovery Milliband will build a few windmills instead! ...

Khandro

A Tremendous Speech.

J.D. Vance's speech in Munich will go down in history as one of the best and most precient political speeches of all time, - surely ? https://www.youtube.com/live/pCOsgfINdKg ...

Echr- World's Paedos Welcome In Britain

So, a Zimbabwean paedophile was allowed to stay in Britain because he would face "hostility" if he was deported back to his home country. Thank you ECHR. An immigration tribunal judge blocked his... ...

Hostage Exchange

Can anyone explain why the ratio of Israeli to Palestinian hostages is so great - 3 Israelies to 100 Palestinians. Seems odd to me.

Vance Attacks Uk Over Free Sppech & Immigration

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33383727/jd-vance-britain-free-speech-europe-immigration/ Vice President Vance has launched an attack on the UK in the way free speech is being stifled. Also on his... ...

Fake News?

The video of a knife wielding man featured in a now missing post begs the questions: Why bother getting a knife if you're going to kick,punch and spit on your target? And How can the citizen... ...

First Time House Buyers Rose

First time house buyers rose by a fifth in 2024. Get those houses built KS, buyers waiting. It appears first time buyers can afford their own homes.

Are The Electorate Now Taking Any Chance To Hammer Labour ?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2014341/reform-wales-council-victory Sorry it's an Express link, funny the BBC don't seem interested. Anyway the voters now have clearly had enough and are... ...

Conservatives Fall Further Behind.

Is the writing on the wall for the Conservative party as they fall behind Labour and Reform in the latest poll by Techne UK. With senior Tories asking is Badenoch up to the job.?

Clone

The Suspects, All Afghan Asylum Seekers Who Arrived In The Country In Small Boats Last Year

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-02-13/four-teenage-asylum-seekers-arrested-on-suspicion-of-school-rape Our politicians are absolutely useless. ...

Jonah Revisited

Kayaker "eaten" by whale then spat out. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/watch-kayaker-cheats-death-being-105722453.html ...

Starmer Runs From Farmers

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33361876/keir-starmer-ditch-visit-farmers-protest/ A visit by Starmer to a building devlopment was blockaded by angry farmers. Rather then face them he scurried off... ...

webbo3

Grenade Thrown Into Bar In French City Of Grenoble Injures 15

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250213-grenade-blast-in-french-bar-wounds-12 \\"There's nothing to make us think it's linked to terrorism," he said, calling it an "act of extreme violence"... ...

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