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Possibly one of the best recordings of the 1980s and it took Series 3 of Mr Mercedes tv show for me to hear it? 🤷♂️
Bob Dylan - Series Of Dreams (Official Video) youtu.be/AgqGUBP3Cx0?si=dKJL… via @YouTube
Still a dribbling moron after all these years. 😂⬇️
🚨 👏 Another huge brick falls out of the Brexit wall.
The British Chambers of Commerce says repairing the economic damage from Brexit should be a top government priority.
More than half of the businesses it surveys say the current UK-EU trading arrangement is not working for them.
This is no longer about replaying 2016.
It is about looking at the economy we actually have in 2026 and asking what arrangement gives British businesses the best chance to grow.
Brexit is increasingly being judged by its results, not its promises.
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Ask yourself a simple question. Why is almost every celebrity on the same side?
Actors, singers, late-night hosts, award-show presenters. Thousands of people with different backgrounds, different lives, different temperaments. And somehow, on every major issue, they land on the exact same opinion, at the exact same moment, with the exact same hashtags. Free minds don't behave like that. An ecosystem does.
Now ask a second question. Elon Musk is landing rockets on their own tails. He's bringing internet to villages that never had a phone line. He's building cars that drive themselves and implants that let paralyzed people move a cursor with their thoughts. Artists are supposed to be the ones who dream about the future. Here is a man actually building it. How many of them stand next to him? A handful. Why?
Because Hollywood is not a free market of talent. It's a royal court.
A young actor doesn't make it because he's good. Hundreds are good. He makes it because someone lets him in: an agent, a casting director, a producer, a studio, an awards committee. Every step is a gate, and every gate has a keeper. When your whole career depends on a few rooms, you learn very quickly what can be said in those rooms and what can't.
This is how it works. First you stay silent. Then you nod. Then you repeat. Then you believe. Compromise never arrives all at once. It arrives one dinner, one role, one red carpet at a time. And once you've given up enough, you need the system to stay in place, because the system is the only thing that makes the sacrifice worth it.
Want to see the whole mechanism in a single story? For decades, one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood was the subject of accusations from dozens of women, and much of the industry treated it as an open secret. A host even joked about it at an Oscar nominations announcement, and the room laughed. Speaking up seriously meant losing everything. When the truth finally broke, the same industry dressed in black and applauded its own courage. Silence while it pays. Virtue once it's safe. That's the system.
And that's the real lie. Not that these people are monsters. Most aren't. The lie is calling it courage. Real courage costs you something. Saying what every room in town already applauds costs nothing. Saying the opposite is what costs. That's why so few artists stand with Elon. Not because they've studied his ideas and rejected them, but because standing there is a career risk they can't afford.
Look at what happened to him when he left the consensus. Advertisers fled. Friends disappeared. Invitations stopped. He could afford it. Almost nobody else can. That tells you exactly how free that world really is.
So wake up. Stop taking your political cues from people whose paycheck depends on agreeing. A celebrity endorsement is not an argument. It's a loyalty signal. Your vote, your convictions, your children's future: don't outsource them to people who are paid to recite lines someone else wrote.
The people who build the future rarely get applause from the people who perform it.
Think for yourself. It's the most American thing you can do.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
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FYI, this "£90 billion in lost revenues" is another zombie statistic based on the NBER's claim of an 8% Brexit hit to GDP, which has already been widely debunked - including by economists at Bloomberg... ⚠️
He gets it. 💪
The Metallica frontman seemingly took a pot shot at artists who use their platforms for political means during a brief speech on stage in Las Vegas loudersound.com/bands-artist…
Every tiresome pro EU nimrod on X is out tonight. Relax folks, there’s more chance of seeing Lord Lucan riding Shergar on the moon. 🤓
If some morn get’s themselves kidnapped in a country where they shouldn’t have been, some 22 yo has to abseil from a helicopter in the dark to save them. But sure, let’s make sure they don’t swear. 🤦♂️
EXCLUSIVE: Special forces soldiers believe they are “untouchable” and not all of them are the heroes they think they are, according to a former female civil servant who worked alongside them.
Monica Grenfell, who was employed at the Special Air Service (SAS) headquarters in Credenhill, near Hereford, for three years, said some of the elite troops were “feral” and it was “the nasty characters who really ruled the roost”.
She has given evidence under oath to the Afghan Inquiry and has now been interviewed by @thetimes
thetimes.com/article/5706a8a…
In 2025 a study by Media and Journalism Research Center analysed 78,667 articles from 49 outlets in 8 countries. It found that Gaza averaged 58.5 articles per day, compared with only 1.5 per day for the DRC.
That’s roughly a 39-to-1 difference in daily international media. 1/2
This effete advert for face cream is destroying a football club because he can’t keep his pie hole shut.
@FGRFC_Official club statement:
This is our position on Palestine.
Why we speak out in support of the Palestinian people and why we fly the national flag of Palestine. Why we call for a Free Palestine. And why necessarily we criticise the actions of the state of Israel.
It’s about respect of human rights and international law.
We see a great crime in progress, the abuse of an entire nation of people. We consider keeping quiet in such circumstances to be immoral.
What it’s not about is politics, race, or religion.
Our support for the Palestinian people is not and never can be anti-Jewish or anti the people of Israel. It is anti the government of Israel and its armed forces - the people directly responsible for the atrocities the world has witnessed, not just recently but going back over fifty years. Palestine is an occupied country. The Palestinian people are denied basic human rights by Israel.
We condemn all forms of racism and we condemn all acts of terrorism. We condemn the acts of Hamas on October 7th as we condemn the ongoing atrocities of Israel.
The people of Palestine are not Hamas - the flag of Palestine is not the flag of Hamas - this needs to be said.
We support the people of Palestine and their right to their own country, we support the United Nations and the many countries of the world that call for Israel to end its occupation of Palestine, a country recognised by the UN and now Britain and in fact - most of the world.
We support a two-state solution.
The call for a free Palestine is a simple moral call for the application of international law and human rights.
Palestinians have lived for decades under an occupation that has steadily expanded. While the government of Israel talks openly of removing all Palestinians from their own country - this is ethnic cleansing. In Gaza we have witnessed extraordinary civilian suffering: mass displacement and intentional starvation, the deaths of huge numbers of civilians, including children - and not just deaths but maiming (Palestine has the highest rate of child amputees on the planet), and the targeted killing of journalists and aid workers.
International institutions and human-rights organisations have raised the gravest possible concerns about Israel's conduct, while the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity, there is also a provisional finding of Genocide against Israel - which also stands accused of Apartheid.
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid. These are extraordinary crimes.
These are not footballing issues as such - in a simple sense, where football exists in a moral vacuum.
These are not political issues either, not issues of left or right. They are matters of morality, of human rights and of international law. We believe we have a duty to speak about them.
It is for others to decide to speak out or not. But it is not for others to decide if we should speak out or not.
Criticism of Israel is often conflated with an attack on Jewish people, this is a cynical tactic to use race to defend the actions of an openly racist state.
Criticism of any government is not and never can be considered racist - it is criticism of a government.
Jewish people should never be held responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, just as Muslims should never be held responsible for the actions of Islamist terrorists.
Collective blame is wrong, wherever it is directed.
As is collective punishment, a crime in International Law - which we see in occupied Palestine.
Football has a fantastic record of using its platform - to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia and all other forms of prejudice.
Standing up for Palestinian human rights belongs to that same tradition. Football does not exist in a moral vacuum.
Football's governing bodies have a question to answer. Russia was excluded from international competition for its invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to participate in football despite a decades-long occupation and an ongoing invasion - while the conduct of its government and armed forces in Gaza is subject to the most serious allegations imaginable under international and human rights law - and simple morality.
It is reasonable to ask why those situations are treated differently.
At FGR we will continue to speak about the plight of the Palestinian people in a factual and principled way.
We will criticise governments and institutions where we believe criticism is warranted, including Western governments that we believe have failed to do enough in response to the suffering in Gaza.
We do not hold people, any nationality, ethnicity or religion responsible for the actions of the state of Israel - we hold the government and armed forces solely responsible.
Everyone is welcome at FGR.
Every race, every religion, every creed, every walk of life.
Supporting Palestinian human rights does not contradict that principle.
It is an expression of that.
Well he, of all people, should know.
Oh know, wait, he wouldn’t. 🤦♂️
Line of Duty actor Adrian Dunbar has said an Irish unification referendum “is going to happen” and argued for partition to end in a recent interview. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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🔴🇫🇷🚨 | ALERTE INFO > L’Irlandais de 60 ans qui a menacé un couple juif australien dans un supermarché a été Arrêté chez lui à Avignon ce matin et placé en garde à vue.
L’homme avait été filmé mi-août dans un supermarché du Pontet, près d’Avignon. Dans la séquence devenue virale, une menace de mort était explicitement proférée à l’encontre du couple.
Le ministre de l’Intérieur Laurent Nuñez a salué le travail des gendarmes : « Un suspect a pu être interpellé et va répondre de ses actes. L’antisémitisme doit être combattu fermement et sans relâche. »
L’enquête est menée par la section de recherches de Marseille et la brigade de recherches d’Avignon.
#Antisémitisme #Avignon #France #Gendarmerie #SWNews
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RIP Dolly.
Here is a letter we got her to send to the people of Dunfermline a few years back, after she had been awarded The Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. RIP Dolly. A sad loss to humanity.
#DollyParton – at Cairneyhill, Scotland
