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  1. Blackleaf

    What were you told?

    What a load of crap.
  2. Blackleaf

    inauguration

    I live in a country run by Starmer and Reeves. Of course I know what Communist means. The Labour Party is a Communist party. The UK won't be an enemy of the US soon. Britain and America are each other's closest allies. And they're both NATO members.
  3. Blackleaf

    inauguration

    I'd be happy for the Americans to overthrow our Commie Labour Government. Of course, it won't happen. The United States will not overthrow a democratically elected government of an ally.
  4. Blackleaf

    inauguration

    What's so funny?
  5. Blackleaf

    inauguration

    Watching it live on Sky News right now as he signs executive orders and takes questions from the press at the White House. It's 1am here in Manchester and 8pm over the Pond in Washington DC. It's good to see common sense has returned to the USA.
  6. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    The Narrator - "Drawn, Conned and Deceived" (2025) Hailing from Essen in Germany, the metalcore band released their new album "Lore" in September
  7. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Split Chain - "I'm Not Dying to be Here" (2025) The new single from the Bristol grunge/nu-metal band who sound a little bit like Nirvana. They release their debut album later this year.
  8. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Grima - "Flight of the Silver Storm" (2025) The new single from the black metallers who hail from the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in the vast and dark Siberian wilderness New album from the Russian black metallers - "Nightside" - is out 28th February...
  9. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    The Five Hundred - "New World" (2025) The new single from the up and coming Nottingham heavy metallers...
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    Britain and Ukraine sign 100 year pact

    Britain and Ukraine today signed a pact to support each other for the next 100 years. As the two allies signed a pledge of friendship until 2125 in Ukrainian capital Kiev in which they promised to be strong allies even long after the current war in Ukraine British Prime Minister Sir Keir...
  11. Blackleaf

    New species of deadly spider discovered in Australia

    Scientists in Australia - where else? - have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the world's deadliest spiders
  12. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Priest - "The Pit" (2017) Hailing from the Swedish city of Linköping, here are the electrorockers. Like their British neighbours, the Swedes are somehow good at popular music. Maybe their ability to speak (and sing) in English plays a part in it...
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    Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

    Offences in Cemeteries Act (England and Wales, 1977) 18.—(1) No person shall— (a)wilfully create any disturbance in a cemetery; (b)commit any nuisance in a cemetery; (c)wilfully interfere with any burial taking place in a cemetery; (d)wilfully interfere with any grave or vault, any tombstone...
  14. Blackleaf

    Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

    A photograph of Darwin and his son William, 1842 Left-Wing Just Stop Oil protesters today desecrated Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey. Darwin (1809-1882) is renowned for discovering evolution and for his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." But early this morning two Just Stop Oil...
  15. Blackleaf

    1983: When seatbelts became compulsory in Britain

    "I prefer to be free when driving... A nostalgic look at fashions, hairstyles and vehicles in Britain in 1983 in this news report of seatbelts becoming compulsory for drivers and front seat passengers. Nowadays we all take it for granted to buckle our seatbelts. But that wasn't the case in 1983...
  16. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Lacuna Coil - "Gravity" (2025) The new single from the goth rockers who hail from Milan, Italy... The Italian band's 10th studio album "Sleepless Empire" is released 14th February...
  17. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Skunk Anansie - "An Artist Is An Artist" (2025) Formed in 1994, the London Britrockers featuring Ace, Skin, Cass and Mark are back with a new single released today
  18. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Manic Street Preachers - "People Ruin Paintings" (2025) The Welsh band known for trying to rival Oasis and Blur in the Nineties Brit Pop era are back... The new album "Critical Thinking" is out 31st January. It is the band's 15th studio album...
  19. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Jethro Tull - "Curious Ruminant" (2025) Formed in 1967 in the popular Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, the folk rockers are back with a new single and album of the same name, which is due out in March. The band takes its name from the Englishman who invented the horse-drawn seed drill...
  20. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Ringo Starr ft Molly Tuttle - "Look Up" (2025) The former Beatles drummer, 84, is set to release his 21st solo album since the world's most successful musical artists broke up in 1970. In his new album - also called "Look Up" - the Liverpool legend dabbles in country and western..