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    What are you listening to right now?

    In the 60s everyone in Britain was tripping on LSD. In the 90s we were all on ecstasy.
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    Reform UK announce plans to deport 600,000 immigrants if they win the next election

    Reform are leading in the polls. And an in-depth poll taken in June showed that Farage's party will win the most House of Commons seats as things stand in the next General Election.
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    Reform UK announce plans to deport 600,000 immigrants if they win the next election

    How the parties currently stand in the opinion polls. Reform are on course to win the next election.
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    Reform UK announce plans to deport 600,000 immigrants if they win the next election

    Right-wing party Reform UK revealed today in Oxford that they will, as part of "Operation Restoring Justice": 1) Take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); 2) Repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act; 3) Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years; 4) Make it a legal...
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    Starmer's first "political prisoner" speaks out

    Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for a social media post made following the murder of three little girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last year, has claimed she is United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first “political prisoner”. The issue was discussed by two Aussies...
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    Reform UK announce plans to deport 600,000 immigrants if they win the next election

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage today laid out his party's migration policy in a speech in Oxford. The right-wing party says they will detain women and children upon arrival in Britain and deport 600,000 immigrants should they win the next election, which is scheduled for 2029 - but will, of...
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    Tory MP received applause from NI vets as he attacks PM

    MP Sir David Davis (Con; Goole and Pocklington) has received a round of applause from Northern Ireland veterans during a House of Commons Westminster Hall debate. Davis attacked Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the prosecution of Northern Ireland veterans. One of Starmer's previous...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Much of their music was heavily influenced by the use of drugs, particularly ecstasy, which was prevalent in Manchester in the 1980s.
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    US Vice President JD Vance and family take holiday in the Cotswolds

    US Vice President JD Vance, his wife and their three children are enjoying a holiday in England's beautiful Cotswolds. Vance had a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy before he and his family embarked on their holiday. They have rented a cottage for a month. The Vice President's...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    The Stone Roses - "Mersey Paradise" (1989) The great northern English cities of Liverpool and Manchester are renowned as not only the engine rooms which powered Great Britain in her heyday as being the richest and most powerful country on Earth but they're also renowned as being rivals -...
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    King Charles III makes speech to his people on VJ Day

    King Charles III today addressed his country on the 80th anniversary of Great Britain winning World War II. During six years, during the reign of Charles III's grandfather George VI, Britain gave much in deaths and physical destruction of her cities to defeat Nazi Germany and her Japanese and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall" (1979)
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    Space Thread

    The Perseid meteor shower always reminds me of the time in August 1998 when I was one of the radar operators onboard Royal Navy frigate HMS Exeter and the captain kindly allowed me to go up onto the deck to watch them for a while. I was manning a radar screen but he told me there are meteors and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Lamb of God - "Children of the Grave" (2025) Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, this is the band's cover of the 1971 Black Sabbath song. Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne passed away on 22nd July.