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Star Trek / Paramount+

Paramount+ is here. £6.99/month. Means you can legally binge watch all the Star Trek you’ve missed. Star Trek: Strange new worlds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Star Trek: Picard (Season 2) ★ ★ ★ Star Trek: Discovery...
02:14 Wed 29th Jun 202213 answers, last by ToraToraTora 11:08 Thu 30th Jun 2022
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3 Tories In Red Wall Constituencies Consider Defection To Labour

After Wakefield, 3 Tory MPs with small majorities in the north are in advanced talks with the Labour Party about defecting. The story is in the Telegraph, behind a pay wall, so sorry no link. Labour...
07:05 Tue 28th Jun 202221 answers, last by Gromit 22:47 Wed 29th Jun 2022
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Should This Libdem Be Dissuaded From Wasting Police Time ?

// The Metropolitan police has been asked to consider allegations Prince Charles received €3m (£2.6m) in cash for his charities from a billionaire Qatari sheikh as part of the force’s so-called...
06:38 Tue 28th Jun 202212 answers, last by jno 19:53 Tue 28th Jun 2022
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The Northern Blue Wall Starts To Tumble

No surprise really that the Conservative have lost in Wakefield. The other new Tories that hold northern seats with small minorities will be pressing for Johnson to go, if they are to keep their jobs...
04:03 Fri 24th Jun 202213 answers, last by tomus42 20:39 Fri 24th Jun 2022
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Wordle Tuesday 15 June

Bad wordle answer today ?
11:29 Wed 15th Jun 202212 answers, last by sandyRoe 16:14 Wed 15th Jun 2022
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Number Crunching

A plane for (up to) 7 migrants had been chartered for £500,000. That works out at £71,429 per migrant just for travel. Last year 28,526 migrants came to our shores. So it would cost over £2Billion...
10:43 Wed 15th Jun 202213 answers, last by ToraToraTora 15:05 Wed 15th Jun 2022
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Sunak Blws £11Bn By His Incompetence

// Last year, when the official rate was still 0.1%, the NIESR urged the government to insure the cost of servicing this debt against the risk of rising interest rates by converting it into government...
01:08 Fri 10th Jun 20228 answers, last by Gromit 09:50 Fri 10th Jun 2022
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Gordon Brown Introduced Free Bus Passes For The Elderly

In a cynical ploy to woo elderly voters, the Labour leader brought in free bus travel for OAPs back in 2008. Good to see that Boris liked the Labour policy so much, he is now claiming credit for it....
10:18 Wed 04th May 202244 answers, last by ToraToraTora 09:18 Thu 05th May 2022
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Autumn Election?

Surely this is madness? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/30/rebel-tory-mps-fear-boris-johnson-could-trigger-autumn-general-election...
10:36 Sat 30th Apr 202221 answers, last by davebro 13:31 Mon 02nd May 2022
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Partygate To Drag On For Months

// Sue Gray expects to complete her report into Covid law-breaking parties across Westminster at the end of May at the earliest, the Guardian has been told. Sources said that the senior civil servant,...
07:43 Tue 26th Apr 202216 answers, last by ynnafymmi 17:40 Tue 26th Apr 2022
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An Interesting Development

// Large fires broke out early on Monday at two oil depots in the Russian city of Bryansk, less than 100 miles from the border with Ukraine, in a potential act of sabotage by Kyiv. Russian state media...
23:33 Mon 25th Apr 20224 answers, last by lankeela 23:52 Mon 25th Apr 2022
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Finally Some Good News For Boris

Wakefield by election delayed possibly indefinitely The Conservative MP for Wakefield convicted of molesting a child was expelled by his party last month. It was assumed a by election would be...
11:47 Sun 24th Apr 202220 answers, last by sandyRoe 19:23 Sun 24th Apr 2022
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The End Is Nigh…

Yesterday Boris Johnson lost his Party. - Tory MPs rebelled to force a Parliamentary Inquiry into Partygate. - A senior Tory told Boris ‘The gig is up’. - Downing Street tried to avert the disaster,...
06:45 Fri 22nd Apr 202249 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 20:06 Fri 22nd Apr 2022
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Sinking Of The Russian Cruiser Moskva

The Moskva sank on 14 April 2022 after being damaged by fire. Ukrainian officials said their forces hit Moskva with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles, setting her on fire in heavy seas. The...
08:51 Fri 15th Apr 202270 answers, last by davebro 16:56 Sun 24th Apr 2022
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Ukraine - Everyone Called It Wrong

Russia thought victory would take 48 hours. The US largely agreed. The EU put a lot of effort into diplomacy to avoid a war believing Ukraine would be no match for the Russian Army, and would fall...
07:41 Fri 15th Apr 202235 answers, last by Stargazer 14:37 Tue 19th Apr 2022
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Red Wall Tory Triggers By-Election

Wakefield might be an interesting by-election. Northern seat. red wall Labour for decades won by the Conservatives in 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61113265...
17:27 Thu 14th Apr 202219 answers, last by andy-hughes 15:46 Fri 15th Apr 2022
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Partygate - Met Police Useless

Sue Grey independently investigated lockdown restriction breaches in January, and amassed a great deal of evidence. She was about to publish her report before the Met Police belatedly launched an...
13:30 Tue 12th Apr 202265 answers, last by DTCwordfan 20:33 Thu 14th Apr 2022
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Has Sunak Blown His Chance At Becoming Prime Minister ?

// there is also a whispered agreement that there is another factor keeping Johnson in No 10 – the fast disintegration of Rishi Sunak’s reputation as a viable alternative. Tory MPs who spoke to the...
10:28 Sat 09th Apr 202225 answers, last by Togo 19:33 Mon 11th Apr 2022
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Flights Cancelled Because Of Perfect Storm

EasyJet and BA have cancelled hundreds of flights. // EasyJet expects to cancel hundreds more flights this week due to high levels of Covid-19 among its crew, amid wider disruption at airports and...
13:20 Tue 05th Apr 202234 answers, last by DTCwordfan 22:10 Wed 06th Apr 2022
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3 Years Of Bumbling Boris As Pm

Here is the result - Cost of living the highest for 40 years - Inflation the highest since the 1970s - Tax burden the highest since the 1940s - OBR cut this years economic growth prediction by half -...
10:36 Tue 05th Apr 202264 answers, last by dannyk13 14:56 Tue 05th Apr 2022

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