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1,200 people crossed the Channel in small boats last week. Each costs £41,000 a year. So that’s an extra £50 million burden on the taxpayer in their first year alone. Just from one week.

"The women who changed the system so I could be here" Hannah Spencer pays homage to women who fought for change in her maiden speech during the International Women's Day debate.










Royal Navy major combatants status.


Winston Churchill will soon disappear from UK banknotes, as the cigar-toting, wartime leader makes way for creatures like hedgehogs and badgers. After a public consultation, the next generation of pound notes will feature native British wildlife, according to the Bank of England. Read more: bloom.bg/4lsPoZ2 📷: Joe Giddens/AFP



The Bank of England will feature wildlife on its new banknotes because it’s scared of being divisive. It states: ‘The theme should not involve imagery that would reasonably be offensive to, or exclude, any groups’. When we had a common culture we honoured heroes like Wellington.

Margaret Thatcher sold off the North Sea, Instead of building a sovereign wealth fund like Norges Bank Investment Management for Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. Today Norway sits on a $1.5 trillion fund. Britain sits on immense debt. One country invested its natural wealth. The other liquidated parts of it.

Senator Sheehy joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting anti war protestor Brian McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C. An antiwar activist filmed the video below:




You can’t trust Nigel Farage. He’s got a track record of selling the British people false promises.

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?






