Accents: Northumberland ⏳️ The old Northumberland accent and its wider Northumbrian dialect originate from the early medieval Anglian speech brought to northern Britain by Germanic settlers in the 5th and 6th centuries. Northumberland's geographical position and its troublesome border history with Scotland kept its rural speech isolated, preserving conservative Germanic and Old English pronunciations that faded elsewhere.

The signs were right there.

If past precedent is anything to go by, Kemi Badenoch's £10bn British iron dome contact will either go to Michelle Mone or the landlord of Matt Hancock's local pub

He served prison time for perjury after extracting enormous damages in a libel case which destroyed a woman's life. He also lied relentlessly about almost everything. But he was a great friend of the people that matter, and that, my friends, is all that matters in this country.

I don't remember headlines like this when Starmer's Labour was expelling record numbers of Jews for opposing Zionism. Strange that.

Omid "i'm honestly not an Israeli asset" Djalili, everyone

When I was at university we had to write an essay about Starbucks and their tax avoidance. This was in 2012. Essentially they pay a ‘Royalty and Licence fee’ to a non UK company each year. This strips out their profits and enables them to avoid almost all corporation tax. I thought I would check whether things have changed since I wrote the essay back in 2012. This is the Corporation Tax paid each financial year: 2021: £5.4m 2022: £4.5m 2023: £7.2m 2024: £0m 2025 -£13.7m Total: £3.4m Royalty and License Fees: 2021: £26.5m 2022: £34.4m 2023: £40.4m 2024: £40.4m 2025: £43.2m Total: £184.9m Assuming a 25% corporation tax rate would be £46.22m in taxes brought in. If these loopholes were closed off, maybe our personal taxes would be reasonable.

It was a cis man, who initiated the assualt elsewhere, then chased the victim into the locker room. Rowling sharing weaponised, fact-free takes from the far right yet again

In 1979-80 the cost of local authority elderly residential care was £63 per week, which was 58% of an average wage. In 2026 it is £1298, or 184% of an average wage. Privatisation of care is basically a letter of marque. Licence for the depraved to prey on the desperate.

Andrew Tate is a nonce. The filing alleges that there are 10 Category B images/videos and 18 Category C images/videos. For the Category B material, the filing describes a video in which an adult male identified as Andrew is seated on a bed, speaking to the camera. A female child is present, wearing lingerie and holding what appears to be a championship belt. The filing says the child kisses him on the neck and remains in close physical contact with him. An adult woman then joins them on the bed and has intimate physical contact with Tate. The filing says the woman subsequently interacts with the child while Tate remains present, concluding that the child is presented in a sexualised context. The filing also shows Tate bragging on WhatsApp about selling videos of the child. Other WhatsApp messages recovered between Tate and the child show that he knew she was underage.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin, who said, “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people,” is now calling the Green Party racist and demanding that Green MPs be banned from Parliament. Sarah should sit this one out.

The Labour Party position was that isreal does have the right to ethnically cleanse Gaza up until about 20 minutes ago. Hardly going to take lectures from Labour.

"Is it representative of your impartiality to consistently call Israel an apartheid state?" "Its representative of the facts" ".. so you're.. saying Israel is a racist state?" "Yes" The head of Amnesty is clear. Israel is an apartheid state

In Britain, the establishment opinion, as we’ve learned over the last 24 hours, is that you can somehow build an exclusionary ethnonationalist colony on someone else’s land… without racism. And if you say, “I don’t know, that sounds pretty racist,” somehow you’re the racist.

He’s right, the world isn’t stopping them. The UK is busy condemning the Green Party and the US is busy condemning a Twitch streamer. Meanwhile, Israel does ethnic cleansing and war crimes out in the open; *brags* about it in fact:

Labour: we got it wrong, protestors for Palestine were right. Israel is committing ethnic cleansing. The party has change. Labour, one week later:

Some things the British media and political class have reacted hysterically to during Israel's genocide: - The Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban - Bob Vylan - Gary Lineker - The Green Party motion Something they have not reacted hysterically to: - The genocide

I think every Labour MP screaming that the Greens are now a racist, antisemitic party should directly explain why they think Stephen Kapos, a Holocaust survivor and supporter of the motion, is racist.

I explain here why I voted for the “Zionism is racism” motion at the Green Party conference. I now find myself, despite being Jewish, labelled “antisemitic” and “extremist” or sometimes worse. Obviously, I do not accept these labels Here is my thinking 1. The dominant Israeli and Western narrative is that Zionism means (a) the right for Jews to have a homeland in their biblical land and (b) the right to have a place of safety after persecution culminating in the horror of the Holocaust 2. ⁠This, on its face, is very reasonable, right & proper. This is the core of the UK political & media response to the Greens motion 3. ⁠Sadly, the early Zionist slogan that Palestine would be “a land without people, for a people without a land” was not true - the land DID have people, Palestinians 4. ⁠The great Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said, wrote a 1979 essay called “Zionism from the viewpoint of its victims” 5. ⁠That viewpoint is conspicuously absent from much discussion in the West 6. ⁠Zionism has meant decades of ethnic cleansing, oppression, apartheid & killing of millions of Palestinians BECAUSE they are Palestinians 7. ⁠This is why Zionism is racism 8. ⁠One of my (many) Jewish heroes is Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. He did not go to live in Israel. He was an anti-Zionist. He said, “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors”