Dad, runner, triathlete, sometime cyclist. Fight the power F☆☆K the Gammons.
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So, couple of questions:
1. When was this "guidance" introduced?
2. What evidence was considered that caused the change?
3. Was it driven by EA or your underwriters?
Just asking as we've probably just lost 30% of our most experienced run leaders...
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Pound sterling at its post Brexit high…
(trade weighted, Bank of England basket of currencies)… rising against $ and esp €… but also notably other European currencies SFR, krona etc…
Relative stability, comparatively solid growth, expectations of rate rises, no drama Budget, EU rapprochement all mentioned as factors.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ly…
£ fell sharply after referendum, and at various Brexit/ no deal/ red lines stress points, and Covid, and the mini budget
reached joint high yesterday of 86.4 (Jan 2005=100), went higher today, (ac to my BBC calculations to a new high since June 24th 2016, TBC by BoE tomorrow morning).
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Liz Truss posting from Mar-a-Lago on the night MAGA imploded. She's just too good.
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Pete Hegseth fired Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore after 35 years in the Navy. Last night, she defeated Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt and flipped South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.
Now the admiral he fired can question him in Congress.
Looks like the Republicans and #trump have been fucked harder than a 15 year old on Epstein Island.
#Midterms2026
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All these miserable whiny bitches on #r4 #youandyours trying to ban #Fireworks it's always the same "my autistic kid" "my dog" yep it's like one night a year suck it up we're not having the tyranny of the minority.
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📊 The 2016 Brexit electorate no longer exists.
Peter Kellner has updated the sums using YouGov and ONS data.
Since 2016:
🔹 Around 3.8m Leave voters have died, against 2.1m Remain voters.
🔹 Around 7m new voters have reached voting age, overwhelmingly pro-European.
🔹 Around 5m voters have changed their minds 👉roughly three-quarters of them moving from Leave to Rejoin.
His estimate of how Britain would vote now:
🇪🇺 REJOIN: 20.0m 👉 63%
🇬🇧 STAY OUT: 11.8m 👉 37%
A majority of almost 9 million.
Brexit happened. Britain has lived with it for a decade.
But democracy does not freeze the electorate in 2016 forever.
The question is what Britain wants now not what it indicated in 2016.
📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished. Completely.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5 million 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
Britain is now a pro-EU country.
The only people keeping Brexit alive are politicians who benefit from the damage.
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Occupy Democrats
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BREAKING: PANIC! Trump is DESPERATELY trying to stop Jack Smith from testifying in his own $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
Donald Trump sued the BBC for defamation, asking for a whopping $10 billion in damages. Now, he’s panicking about the one witness who might actually know something about the behavior that led the British broadcaster to publish what it did.
According to The New Republic, the BBC subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith to testify as part of its defense against Trump’s defamation suit. The suit claims the network defamed him with deceptive editing in a 2024 documentary about the January 6 Capitol attack.
Trump’s lawyers filed a motion Friday to block the deposition, arguing that “Smith lacks any personal knowledge regarding the issues in this matter.”
Their reasoning: Smith wasn’t at the January 6 speech, didn’t help prepare it, and can’t know what Trump was thinking. They say anything he gathered was “secondhand knowledge” from materials collected from other sources.
The BBC’s lawyers weren’t impressed. They wrote that “none of [Trump]’s arguments for blocking the deposition of Mr. Smith can withstand scrutiny.” They noted that Smith himself doesn’t object to testifying, and that Trump still has to prove he “did not foment or incite the January 6 Capitol riot,” which he claims the documentary falsely implied.
Then came the line that says it all: “No one forced Plaintiff to file this lawsuit and to dispute that his speech on January 6 incited the violence that followed at the Capitol. But as long as he chooses to maintain the case, he cannot commit the fundamental injustice of preventing the BBC from obtaining the evidence it needs to robustly defend itself.”
This isn’t Trump’s only dodge. His attorneys are also fighting efforts to make Trump himself testify, to subpoena his children, and to look into his finances. Trump sued over what the BBC said about January 6, and now he’s fighting every attempt to examine what actually happened.
There’s another problem for him. The BBC is funded by British taxpayers, so Trump can’t bully it into a hefty settlement or force it to back off its coverage the way he has with some American media companies.
So now he has two choices: drop the case, or actually try to prove his point and live with the consequences.
If Trump really believes he did nothing wrong on January 6, a deposition should be no problem. His lawyers’ desperation suggests otherwise.
Please like and share if you can’t wait to hear what Jack Smith has to say if the BBC successfully gets him to testify!
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The Italian equivalent to ‘you can't have your cake and eat it too’ is ‘avere la moglie piena e la botte ubriaca’ - 'you can't have both a full barrel of wine and a drunk wife'.
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Trump: "Putin has no respect for this person."
Clinton: "That's because he'd rather have a puppet as president of the United States. You're willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list, break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do."
October 19, 2016. She was right.
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Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
Loving the fall out of Burnham's speech! It's boiling the gammons and going to lead to #boomergeddon #labour #Rejoin #ukpolitics
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Would be amusing if out of control #ai chose to destroy the USA as an example to the rest of humanity before switching itself off.
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Russel Brand is the same type of weak individual that would have told you to surrender to Hitler back in World War 2.
These people are the real enemy, brainwashing other weak minded people with propaganda to destabilise our nations on behalf of dictators abroad for money.
These are the weakest of men, those that would rather live enslaved on their knees than die on their feet.
Then again, who would listen to this guy and take him seriously, he currently has 7 sexual crime charges which are 3 counts of rape, 3 counts of sexual assault, and 1 count of indecent assault.
Absolute clown.
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They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, and paid holiday and sick leave.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
#r4today #LBC
Farage: "We are not sovereign until we leave the ECHR."
The only European countries outside the ECHR are Russia and Belarus.
For the UK to quit the ECHR would be to hand a huge victory to Putin in his war against human rights and international law.
Farage continues his treasonous collaboration in Putin's war against democracy, freedom, and human rights. He is a traitor, and that is the biggest issue by far in today's British politics.
So nice to hear Trumps little bitch being roundly booed on #bbc #anyquestions when she said the BBC should be completly privatised like Fox. We'll stick with a free press thanks.
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