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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    Actor Idris Elba today met with the King at St James's Palace to discuss potential opportunities for Britain's youth, to steer them away from crime. Elba is a 51 year old British actor who starred in the American drama series The Wire. Elba and the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (the woman in...
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    Omnibus Russia Ukraine crisis

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer knows Biden fucked up at the NATO Summit but just can't quite admit to it in public. Starmer previously admitted, before being elected PM, that Biden's cognitive ability is waning. How do we Brits elect a youngish leader with years left in him and the Yanks...
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    Starmer meets Biden at the White House. One's incoming and the other's outgoing. One's starting probably a lengthy career as PM and the other will likely be dead as the other is still PM. They seemed so lovey dovey, as previous British and American leaders have been: Churchill/Roosevelt...
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    Double murderer sentenced to die in prison

    Osborne was sentenced to two whole life orders plus 20 years.
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    Double murderer sentenced to die in prison

    An abuser who stabbed to death his ex-partner and a man she was dating in a "ferocious and merciless" attack was sentenced to a whole life order. Marcus Osborne murdered Katie Higton, 27, and Steven Harnett, 25, in May 2023 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Osborne stabbed Higton 99 times...
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    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    You make it sound as though the White House is a brothel. Maybe that's why some Muslims tried to fly a plane into it.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    That's just wordplay. In terms of actual numbers of deaths then knives are deadlier. Knives are being used to kill more people than nukes are. That's why the King wants the Government to tackle knife crime and not nuke crime.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    I can see when you're losing an argument. I've known you for years. Remember, Mr T, that the world's deadliest animal is not the lion or the tiger or alligator. The world's deadliest animal is the mosquito. Similarly, the blade is deadlier than the nuke.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    Well knives are more lethal than nukes are in terms of the number of injuries and fatalities they cause. Similarly a mosquito is more lethal than a lion.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    Guns are currently killing a lot more people on this planet than nuclear weapons are.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    It's illegal in Britain for under 18s to buy knives. Knives aren't as lethal as firearms. In order to stab someone you have to be just feet away from them, whereas you can shoot someone from a fair distance.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    Fat chance under a Labour Government. But that's what we voted for and democracy shall prevail. I just hope it will be such a shitfest that Farage and his Reform UK party win the 2029 election.
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    King tells Starmer: "Tackle knife crime"

    In a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 61, and members of his new Labour Government (including Home Secretary Yvette Cooper) and actor Idris Elba, King Charles III, 75, spoke of his desire for them to tackle knife crime, so prevalent in the nation's big cities. "You have the right to...
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    Euro 2024

    8pm kicks off are fairly normal in football in the UK. However, the match is being held in Berlin where it will kick off at 9pm. Germany is an hour ahead of us. In Europe's Champions League all matches are 7:45pm starts UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal time (all in the same time zone), whereas...
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    Euro 2024

    Spain are prepared to break German law by playing their wonderkid Yamal against England on Sunday night. Yamal, aged just 16, became the youngest player ever to score in a Euros when he scored a wonder goal against France in Spain's 2-1 Semi-Final win. In Germany it is illegal for anyone under...
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    Euro 2024

    It's an 8pm kick off here in the UK on Sunday, so I don't know what time that is where you are.
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    Euro 2024

    England send warning to Spain England hero Ollie Watkins, who scored England's Semi-Final injury time winner against Netherlands, has warned Spain that "We're only getting stronger" ahead of the 17th European Championships Final on Sunday night. England were the joint pre-tournament...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers - "That's What I Like" (1989) The Rotherham, South Yorkshire, trio, which included a father and son, had a UK hit with this song of samples - several hits in one
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Fine Young Cannibals - "Suspicious Minds" (1986) The Birmingham pop rockers turned the clock back 20 years to look like a Sixties band as they covered Elvis Presley's 1969 hit...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Paul Heaton - "Fish 'N' Chip Supper" (2024) The former lead singer of Hull, East Yorkshire, bands The Housemartins and The Beautiful South is back with a new solo album. New album release 11th October...