Britain’s shoplifting epidemic is bad, but is it really a sign of societal breakdown? This is the predictable result of downgrading enforcement of lower-value thefts. It can be fixed.
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"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!" - Bob Monkhouse
No one laughs at the hottest administration on the planet
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Nobody’s laughing 🤣
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
Investigating the market for private dental services looks like a distraction from the real problem - the failure to fund NHS care properly
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The Victoria and Albert Museum accepted demands by a Chinese firm that publishes its catalogues to delete maps and images from at least two recent exhibition catalogues, according to documents released to the Guardian after freedom of information requests
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So much good news to celebrate
Matthew Goodwin spoke in Budapest this afternoon - to an audience of 18 people, including @jonworth.eu He has given no indication on X that he is in Hungary after a major general election, finding nothing at all to say about the 2026 result
Good things happen sometimes
Er, right
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
“Odey faces a seven-figure liability for the FT’s legal costs on top of his own...
In its defence, the FT had pleaded the accounts of 15 women willing to come to testify in court on its behalf. That included three women whose allegations had not previously been reported.”
Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims
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How to not interfere in Hungary’s election
“Our investigation concluded there was no evidence that Zac’s death was suspicious.” - Met spokesperson
This is such utter bullshit, based on what the Met itself knew and uncovered
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Thanks!
Just finished London Falling after reading straight through with a break only to sleep. Utterly riveting and harrowing. Patrick Radden Keefe is a spectacular writer.
When has Trump *ever* stopped repeating his lies after having the truth pointed out to him. I think the answer is never? This is what he does. Leopards, spots
Wide wide wide publicity for these plans please
Pictured: JD Vance not interfering in Hungary’s election
It is sad when the vice-president of the United States sees his job as spreading Kremlin propaganda.
Have had the same thought many times
Irony alert
Living in China, I regarded the regular warnings about “hostile foreign forces” with scepticism. It’s discomfiting to realise that Britain too worries about the destabilising impact of malign overseas influence operations.
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‘England,’ said Ribbentrop, ‘is finished. She is no more use as a Power’. ‘If that is so,’ said Molotov, ‘why are we in this shelter, and whose are these bombs which fall?’ ”
A Chelsea-Leeds semi-final then. Oh my word. hiStoRy
“Sock it in the net sack you crazy kickball b******s,” as Roman Roy said in the Succession episode where they bought the wrong football team for dad. And no one called him mad.
Uh ok
…Lemssouguer said in an interview at the 400-year-old Tudor estate outside of London where he and his wife live with their child and 160 rare parrots.
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