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This is what I've been saying for ages. Benefits paid out turn into the spending money supporting all the shops in your high street and many other things.
I am sick to death of hearing 'we pay billions in welfare' like it is paid out and disappears into thin air. People on benefits do not put their money offshore - they SPEND it back into the economy.
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The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Did you miss last months electricity production metrics?
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This shit every year. Keane is Irish. The Black and Tans burned his city down not so long ago. The English were brutal occupiers of Ireland for EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS....despite that, some Irish people like me living in England used to wear a poppy, but the poppy nazis pissed me off
Just noticed that Roy Keane decided not to wear the poppy yesterday on Remembrance Sunday for the Manchester United match. Quite disappointing for a man who owes his entire career to the UK and English sport. I think it should be made a rule for broadcasters around the country that on Remembrance Sunday, all pundits should be asked to wear the poppy; if they choose not to wear it, then they have to sit out that weekend.
Extremely disrespectful to those paying his wages...
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So why would income tax (25% of govt income) be in balance with 'welfare (which is 55% pensions in any case). It's lazy stupid ignorant nonsense. And even if one did want to create such a balance (for no obvious reason) raising taxes would be best solution
REFORM 45 😂 19 seats less than the LibDems.
General Election Nowcast - 08/11/26:
LAB: 333 (-78) | 28.5% (Maj. of 16)
CON: 126 (+5) | 21.5%
LDM: 64 (-8) | 9.1%
RFM: 45 (+40) | 21.4%
SNP: 41 (+32) | 2.6%
PLC: 8 (+4) | 1.0%
GRN: 7 (+3) | 9.0%
RES: 1 (+1) | 4.0%
Oth: 6 (+1) | 2.6%
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1.
£8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees.
PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m.
news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
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Savills expects house prices to fall by -1.5% in 2027.
At long last Savills has stopped erroneously talking house prices up that it later has to revise down.
This should help those sellers with unrealistic expectations to revise them down to meet the market.
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Our thoughts are with Justin Webb at this difficult time. #r4today
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Oh no! A nation mourns.
Nigel Farage will no longer write for The Telegraph, which published regular opinion columns from the Reform UK leader, reports The Guardian. It comes after columnist Allison Pearson was let go following Axel Springer's £575m takeover of the title theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Whenever one of my close associates gets charged with any offence, I simply say:
‘I don’t know them. I possibly may have passed them on the stairs once. We’ve got the strictest vetting of any political party. I’m the victim here. I’ve had death threats’.
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Westminster Voting Intention:
Labour: 30% (+1)
Reform UK: 22% (-1)
Conservative: 22% (=)
Liberal Democrats: 10% (=)
Greens: 10% (+1)
Others: 3% (-2)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via: Freshwater Strategy
MOE: ±2.8%
Field Work: 30 October - 1 November changes w/ 9-11 October
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Ah well that is the free market for you.... invisible hand...
Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson is reportedly about to leave the newspaper amid significant job cuts to the newsroom theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
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Not seen the Newark by election advertised yet? Is that cowardice, arrogance, or both?
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Last week we had the Budget. Robert Jenrick said he wouldn't bother to watch it, and Nigel Farage failed to appear because he was scared of a Lib Dem MP. Then when Reform do finally pop up to talk about the economy it's to effectively call for the nationalisation of Poundland...
