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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
So the plot of the John Lewis 2026 advert is as follows. Grandmother opens door to her obnoxious, rude and badly behaved grandchildren who proceed to trash her house. Motivated to distract them in some way she searches out a cherished Christmas wooden toy from the attic. But that fails to impress the little shits either. So she resorts to buy the entire Christmas stock of her local John Lewis store to bedeck a room in her London W1 townhouse with wonderment costing £ thousands. Only then do the spoilt little brats show any emotional engagement. What message does this put out, eh?
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
The King has reminded the Commonwealth that the Royal Navy led the way in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
In his speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Tuesday, he told leaders that the “complex” histories of their forebears must include “the good they did as well as the wrongs”.
@Hannah_Furness has more 👇
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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
ENGLAND
St. Alban's Catholic Church in Warrington has been ATTACKED
A statue of Jesus Christ was BEHEADED with ANTI CATHOLIC graffiti written on it
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
The addled minds at Sky, who feel they can write such a misleading headline.
Give your heads a wobble, and perhaps get off the ACAB bandwagon.
Man dead and boy injured after being approached by police
trib.al/majVtaV
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The headline implies the police killed or injured two. This is not the case according the body of the article.
Officers walked towards a moped on foot. They rode off and crashed. Despite first aid from the police, one died.
news.sky.com/story/man-dead…
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
"Stop apologising for the things you've never done"
Do you know who apologises for things they never did?
Victims of abuse.
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Did he, aye?
Britain's first trans MP admits doctoring her own passport to access gambling site trib.al/KuOB7iG
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
As we have learned from the Chagos débâcle, ‘structured dialogues’ are a disaster for Britain. 1) The minute you’re in them, everyone thinks you’ve conceded the principle and are negotiating over the terms; 2) the Foreign Office seems incapable of negotiating Britain’s position because *they agree with the other side*; 3) once you’ve started then to stop makes you look like the bad guy and you lose all that valuable ‘soft power’.
While Burnham has ruled out paying lump sums towards reparations, he will offer to open structured dialogues and listen to calls for funding
Story:
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Nicola Sturgeon can recount every detail of a conversation 10 years ago with Donald Trump, but apparently has “no knowledge or memory” of a £124k motorhome her ex husband bought with SNP money and parked at her mother-in-law’s for two years.
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Today Labour MPs have:
- said employers aren’t workers so they can tax them more (Reynolds)
- refused to commit to the 3% defence spending target (Healey)
- said we should rejoin the EU after campaigning saying we shouldn’t (Reeves)
- opened the door to slavery reparations by talking up an official apology (Burnham)
Are their priorities your priorities?
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
The greatest consequence of social media is that people like you have had your influence reduced to dust.
You are the DVD player of modern media.
Utterly obsolete.
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
This may be the most damning statement ever uttered by a Labour minister. It's so revealing of the attitude of a government that thinks that employers are a class that don't work for their profits but somehow exploit others for them - rather than understanding the nature of small and medium-sized businesses and how bloody hard most employers work to create wealth and employment.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Have they considered letting people produce energy using the various industrial processes discovered over the last 200 years? Crazy idea, I know.
Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Today marks the first anniversary of the Huntingdon attack.
I am thinking of our colleagues and customers who were directly involved, and remembering their incredible bravery, courage and professionalism.
ALT Samir Zitouni meeting HM The King
ALT Andrew Johnson meeting HM The King
ALT Andrew Johnson, Robert Pape meeting Heidi Alexander
ALT Heidi Alexander (right) meeting a British Transport Police officer who responded to the incident
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
A Prime Minister furious with his own government, who doesn't think his own policies go far enough and wasnt impressed with his own budget certainly is doing things differently.
He's exercising a rather odd detachment, as if he's a political voyeur who has no say in outcomes.
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Finally, I would like to issue a formal apology for the 100 Years War. I am especially sorry that it happened before I was born and was therefore unable to influence it in any way. You have no idea how formally sorry I am.
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Ieri sera, profittando del viaggio presidenziale in Africa del presidente Nawrocki, il premier della sinistra europeista Tusk ha mandato la polizia a bloccare i lavori della corte costituzionale, impedendo al suo presidente, al vice e ad alcuni giudici di entrare nel palazzo. Il presidente della Repubblica ha fatto invertire la rotta al suo aereo, è tornato a Varsavia e si è diretto con la sua scorta al palazzo della Corte dove ha dovuto aprirsi fisicamente la strada a gomitate tra gli agenti di polizia mentre la folla lo acclamava. Una volta giunto ai cancelli ha ordinato la loro apertura, consentendo al vicepresidente della Corte di entrare nel palazzo.
Ora Tusk batte in ritirata raccontando di aver chiesto l'intervento della polizia per proteggere i giudici.
Il presidente della Repubblica ha convocato per oggi consultazioni urgenti con tutte le forze politiche.
Una breve spiegazione per coloro che non hanno conoscenze di politica polacca:
Un anno fa, il popolo polacco ha eletto un presidente della Repubblica conservatore, Karol Nawrocki.
La Polonia ha attualmente il governo Tusk di sinistra-liberal-woke-europeista che vuole frontiere aperte e altre stupidaggini europee ma che non controlla ancora la corte costituzionale.
Il governo Tusk sta tentando di prendere illegalmente il controllo dei giudici al fine di minare l'elezione del presidente Nawrocki.
Solo in questo modo l'europeista Tusk può assicurarsi il potere assoluto per sé. Tusk sa che perderà le elezioni del 2027, quindi sta tentando di minare l'ordine costituzionale dello stato e di rimuovere un presidente amato dal popolo polacco.
Preghiamo per la Polonia e il presidente Nawrocki.
PS. non credo che sentirete questa notizia. Facciamo girare.
PPS. immaginate se una cosa del genere la facesse la premier Meloni....
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Britain apologising for ending the transatlantic slave trade is a bold take I didn't see coming.
The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Our thanks to Peter Graham and the team at @RailFreight and Lord Peter Hendy @transportgovuk for the renaming of Locomotive 90040: read more here
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Well, today is the day for, as the rhym goes, something old, something new, something borrowed, something... well, more a salmon really. Keep an eye out for @RailwyMission's news.