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🔴 EXC: A firm run by a friend of Andy Burnham stands to benefit from a £20m taxpayer-funded “bailout” to develop Liverpool’s troubled “Hollywood of the North” The grant, announced in the Budget, is from a fund that only accepts proposals from ministers telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

NEW: Georgia's Kirby Smart on players getting injured more in the SEC compared to previous years: "I don’t know that the players are any different. I think about the teams we had in 2021 and 2022, how physical they were and how they practiced. We can’t even get close to that now. Is it different culture that guys don’t want to as much? I don’t know. They were definitely hungrier, because there was a motivation to make it. A lot of these guys, honestly, they make more than I was making until I was 40. So it’s just a different day and age." (via @ugasportscom) on3.com/news/kirby-smart-on-…

Says the Rotherham Labour MP who voted against a national inquiry into the grooming gangs…

“It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.” — George Orwell

The silence on Nigeria should embarrass every person who claims to stand for human rights.

Working-class Britons had it harder than slaves on the average American plantation. Children as young as nine were forced to work twelve or thirteen hours a day, sometimes longer, with barely enough time to eat. Those who slowed through exhaustion were beaten with straps or struck with machinery rollers. Many were physically broken before reaching adulthood, while mill owners simply threw them aside and replaced them with another desperate child. A plantation owner had paid money for his labourers and therefore had a financial interest in keeping them fed, housed, alive and capable of working. A British industrialist did not own his workers and had invested nothing in them. He could work a man, woman or child into sickness, injury or an early grave, dismiss them and replace them the following morning. Plantation labour was often carried out in the open air and natural light. British workers spent twelve-hour shifts trapped underground or inside mills, foundries and potteries, breathing coal smoke, cotton dust, silica, soot, metal particles and poisonous fumes. Miners crawled through cramped tunnels beneath the earth; potters slowly destroyed their lungs with clay and lead dust; steelworkers faced furnaces hot enough to scorch the flesh; dockers broke their bodies carrying crushing loads in all weather. There was no fresh air, no safety equipment, no compensation and often no escape from the machinery until the shift ended. Men were burned, crushed, blinded, poisoned or buried alive. Children lost fingers and limbs in exposed gears and belts. Those who survived were commonly worn out before middle age. The plantation slave was valuable property. The British labourer was disposable. Industrial Britain was built on the backs of working-class men, women and children whose lives were consumed for profit and then largely forgotten.

Seven organizations that supported France's recent protests, called for mobilization, or criticized the police response have documented historical financial or institutional connections to George Soros's Open Society Foundations. The organizations are: Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH): Received Open Society funding in 2017. Its Nantes branch called for participation in the October 17 demonstrations. Human Rights Watch: Benefited from a $100 million, ten-year funding commitment announced by Open Society in 2010. It criticized French police conduct on October 14. International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH): Lists Open Society among its private financial partners. World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT): Reported receiving 620,616.71 Swiss francs from Open Society in 2024. Amnesty International: Its international organization reported Open Society grant funding in 2024 and defended the right to peaceful protest in France. 350 . org: Listed Open Society among its supporters in 2021. Its French branch participated in the movement surrounding October 17. Attac France: Called for demonstrations on October 17 and co-published a 2017 report whose French edition received partial Open Society funding.

Oh dear Kay. Possibly the greatest community note in the history of the internet.

Jeffery Simmons was asked his thoughts on Caleb Williams painted nails now that they are teammates: “Shit, I’ll paint those motherf——‘s myself if he gets us a ring.”

🚨 LMAO! Democrats are throwing a FIT as pro-gun activists are outside the Virginia State Capitol handing out free 30-ROUND AR-15 mags to folks, as the state government is about to BAN them THIS is what patriotism looks like right here 🇺🇸🔥

75 seconds of memorable Coach Saban moments in honor of his 75th birthday 😂🎉

Tusk wants to flood Poland with Muslims like the globalists have done with every country in Western Europe already. That’s the agenda and it’s obvious. They want Warsaw to be like Paris and London. Never surrender, Poland!

The police officers and others responsible for trying to pervert the course of justice over Henry Nowak’s death should be in jail. Their decision to smear an innocent young first year student as a racist aggressor - and besmirch his memory to help the evil Digwa family escape justice for political reasons - was clearly taken at a high level.

Breaking! 🚨. An NHS trust is telling its white staff to pay £250 for a course so they can be re-educated into “disrupting racism” — because they’re WHITE. Great Western Hospitals just pushed a Black History Month programme explicitly for “white-identifying individuals” who “live in the world as white people.” Six workshops. While the hospital can’t clear waiting lists. This is the priority. Racial confession sessions. I’m SO sick of white people being the permanent villains. What do you think? Do we need these workshops? NHS invites white staff to take £250 ‘disrupt racism’ course telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Remember all that “Smashing the Gangs” nonsense? Turns out the “gangs” are UK charities! @ukhomeoffice @UKLabour

The way everyone in the crowd sat down, fell silent, and simply listened to her. She had the kind of presence that could hold an entire room spellbound. ✨❤️🎤

No wonder Putin, Xi and the IRGC think that, in the 21st century battle between autocracy and liberal democracy, they’re winning.

Good old fashioned white privilege was always at its best in the workhouse! How about the king apologises to the descendants of these poor souls ist!