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We're delighted to share that the soldiers and Military Working Horses injured in London in April, continue to make remarkable progress in their recovery. (1/5)
ALT Two horses, one black and one white, touch noses over a fence.
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The next Bond has to be black, charismatic, a hit with the ladies and always ready with a one liner.
There's only candidate for the job.
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Sure the Superbowl half-time show had a galaxy of stars but can it compare to Bruce Forsyth at the 1974 FA Cup final?
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Can always relate to Jordan Pickford because I too am filled with rage when asked to do my job
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Imagine painstakingly planning a daring escapade, breaking out of a Category B prison, surviving on the run for three days and nights, only to be ruthlessly mocked by everyone on Twitter for only making it as far as Chiswick:
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Don’t worry what A level results you get, you still won’t be able to afford a house
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Vaxxed?
BREAKING: The world's oldest man has died at the age of 112
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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Gordon Brown asked by Sky on whether he will do a Cameron-style comeback: “I’m too old to be a British politician and too young to be an American politician.”
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Finally, a Middle Eastern autocrat meets their match: British council officials
🔴 Dubai ruler installed solar panels ‘without planning permission’
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…
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Sensational line from Sky News on Boris Johnson being turned away today for not bringing acceptable photo ID:
“Polling station staff were forced to turn the former prime minister after he initially failed to comply with legislation he introduced while he was in Downing Street.”
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Clement Attlee on the higher standards faced by Labour:
“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.”
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Here is the video of a Bristol University cleaner breaking down in tears after students fundraised £1500 for him and his wife to go on holiday this summer
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Nice line from Kemi Badenoch: "Mr Speaker, I asked the Prime Minister what he believes in. He had to look in his folder to find out the answer."
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Can relate to this England side because I too produce two decent moments for every two hours at work
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Screaming, crying, throwing up at the realisation that an MP has just been elected who was born in 2002
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Classic British politics - over 80s are more dangerous drivers but lets go for the the easier under 25s. Because they haven’t been punished enough in recent years eh
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Rishi Sunak's account has just tweeted and deleted a video hailing his list of achievements from his first year in office. Included this gem:
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New Sunday Times MRP poll has Reform UK winning an election outright with a majority of 94
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Lord Mandelson must now be the first public figure to have been forced out office for three different scandals across four different decades
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Starmer lets Trump choose a journalist from the US:
“Bev, would you like to ask the first question?”
GB News star Bev Turner asks about free speech in the UK
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US election result viewers praise Emily Maitlis for eviscerating Boris Johnson independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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Farage is asked by a female journalist to define British values. Says “Well you’re here - I doubt you’d be welcome at that Angela Rayner meeting”
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Useful stat in the Sunday Times: Brazil was Keir Starmer’s 40th foreign trip since July 2024. “He has clocked up more air miles than any Prime Minister so far this century”
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If Nigel Farage isn’t outside a pub with a fag in hand within six hours, he’s not the operator I thought he was
Breaking:
Keir Starmer confirms to me for the pool in Paris that the government is looking at banning smoking in some outdoor spaces such as pub gardens, as per @JackElsom scoop
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg79…
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Tfw when an American says that the Suez Canal should be a European security concern
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🧵 Apropos of nothing, reminded of the 1999 GMTV encounter between Theresa May (future PM) & Teresa May (adult film star).
The two were brought together after the Tory MP was promoted to the frontbench & started getting letters of congratulation from appreciative young men 1/5
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Clip from the Question Time 2005 election leaders’ special in which voters complain to Tony Blair about being given doctors’ appointments sooner than needed
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Friend working as a primary school teacher has said they’re trying to stop pupils from running around the playground tagging each other and yelling “Coronavirus!” in place of the more traditional “It”
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Why is this being celebrated like a deadline day transfer deal…?
DISMISSED | We’ve sacked a ‘morally reprehensible’ officer after he sexually assaulted a child on duty.
We’ve asked the Deputy Mayor to appeal for PC Dempster to lose his police pension.
Full story: orlo.uk/3rPzm
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Tony Blair’s 2014 and 2023 Xmas cards look like they bookend a heartwarming decade-long Eastenders plotline about a local hard man who renounces his ways to settle down with family
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Matt Hancock has turned up with flowers in Westminster station to give to the TfL employee who helped him yesterday with a protestor. Gave her a hug too.
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Keir Starmer on Matt Hancock’s I’m A Celeb appearance: “a rare case of him eating bollocks rather than talking them.”
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Sunday Times claims Boris Johnson personally "despises" his opposite number. An ally says: "He genuinely does not like Keir. He sees this man as part of a privileged, metropolitan, narrow-minded elite uncomfortable with the raw instincts of the vast majority of British people."
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Telegraph notes that there will only be 4 Etonians in the new House of Commons
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Turns out, he really did
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🔥 Neil Kinnock on Iain Dale’s podcast about the last words he ever spoke to Arthur Scargill in 1985: “You are a quite remarkable trade union leader Arthur. You are the only one I’ve ever known who started a strike with a big union and a small house and end it with the opposite.”
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“Hold the fort”
I'll be supporting Serbia tonight. I won't support ANYTHING that you do, and I can't support a country that in turn supports genocice
Community note
Serbia committed genocide in Srebrenica and war crimes in Kosovo.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenic…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
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Seven weeks after sacking her, Keir Starmer says he is “delighted to be working with Lucy”
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Why in God's name would you visit Titanic Quarter
On a visit to the Titanic Quarter today, I asked the Prime Minister if he is captaining a sinking ship going into this election
@BelfastLive
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Tory MP on first day back at parliament: “It feels like we’re Slytherins in a Hogwarts full of Hufflepuffs”
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Ah the traditional Budget chopper shot. Sadly the BBC always blocks any FOI asking for the cost of it
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It’s 21 years this month since Jeremy Paxman asked Tony Blair the greatest two-part question in British political history
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For the first time in British history, no minister attending cabinet went to a private secondary school
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Gee wonder what Vance thought all those Brits were doing when he was out in Iraq
Bad news for Starmer and Macron. Vance confirms the only US security guarantee in Ukraine will be the mineral deal. He also plays down British & French peacekeeping troops as “20k troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
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🔥 New: the Speaker slams Rachel Reeves for confirming news of fiscal rule changes to "the world's media" before coming to the Commons
"Get your acts together all sides and treat Members with respect"
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Dozens of Labour activists went to help Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
In all four states, Trump gained thousands of voters:
spectator.co.uk/article/did-…
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I’m a Celeb star in 12 months
🚨 NEW: Lucy Connolly is considering standing against Yvette Cooper at the next general election
[@Telegraph]
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In January 1986, following a series of controversies, the BBC ran a campaign of licence fee adverts starring John Cleese.
“Is 16p a day really too much to ask?” was the pay off at the end.
Spitting Image parodied it the next week on ITV:
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Cries of "shame" from the Labour benches greet Chris Philp after the Shadow Home Secretary tells MPs "It is not far right to stand up for victims of mass rape"
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Robert Jenrick, the heat-seeking missile of the Tory front bench, has Lord Hermer squarely in his sights:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07…
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Flashback to 2018 when MPs were asked who would be Prime Minister in ten years’ time
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