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I'm named in this letter.
I stand by every word.
Guess what? There is no such thing as Islamaphobia.
It's a made up word spouted out by educated idiots in Parliament who are scared of losing their seats.
Sky News@SkyNews
EXCLUSIVE: Labour MPs report Reform UK to equalities watchdog for alleged Islamophobia | @MhariAurora news.sky.com/story/labour-m…
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🚨 BREAKING: Xabi Alonso has accepted to become Chelsea next manager, HERE WE GO! 🔵🔜
The agreement is set to be completed.
#CFC prepare official announcement for the upcoming days, but Xabi said YES. 💣

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Lloyds has launched a new first-time buyer mortgage needing just a £5,000 deposit 🏡
Key details:
- Up to 98% mortgage (borrow up to £295k)
- Max property price: £300k
- 5-year fixed rate at 5.89%
- No product fees
- Max borrowing: 4.5x salary
- Available to employed + self-employed
But there’s a catch:
- No gifts (“Bank of Mum & Dad” banned)
- No new builds
- No shared ownership
- Strict affordability + credit checks apply
Example:
£300k house = £5k deposit + £295k mortgage.
On the example of a £300,000 home with a £5,000 deposit:
Mortgage = £295,000
Rate = 5.89% fixed for 5 years
Assuming a 40-year term (the max allowed)
Estimated monthly repayment = ~£1,600/month.
If the mortgage term was shorter:
35 years = ~£1,740/month
30 years = ~£1,920/month
That’s before bills, insurance, council tax and maintenance costs.
Lloyds says it’s aimed at renters who can afford monthly payments but can’t save huge deposits. Basically, the majority of Millennials and GenZ!

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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Yeaah that's exactly how hackers operate. Go straight for the news worthy information and provide it to the masses without any financial gain. No they don't just sit there silently watching your every move. They go straight for the jugular because they are for the people! 😂🤣
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says a “serious” hack of his computer led to the revelation that he received a £5m undeclared gift
Reform UK is “exploring” its legal options
[@thetimes]
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@Arya10017 @StickToCricket @MichaelVaughan 1994.. Schmeichel, Cantona et al all in the stands due to the foreign players rules. It was UTDs B team to be fair 🫣
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@StickToCricket @MichaelVaughan 85? Romario? Barcelona?
Probably about 10 years off.
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@jonsopel Forgotten about Boris Johnson? His entire tenure was an embarrassment. What this comes down to is the expectation you have that politicians are honest and have integrity. Once you understand none of them do, you'll come to realise it's a choice between the best of a bad bunch!
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I have listened to Sir Olly Robbins evidence for last hour and forty minutes and am seeing the very best of the civil service. I am left incredulous that the decision was made to fire him. Has there been a more egregious and shameful decision by a political master desperate to save his own skin?
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so let me get this straight
all of ai twitter was telling people to buy a mac mini to run openclaw, which is literally just a framework, an orchestration layer that sends api requests to actual ai models. something you can run on a $5/month vps. which is exactly what i do btw
but when google drops gemma 4, an actual large language model that you can run and fine-tune locally on that same mac mini, with no api costs, no subscriptions, no third party dependencies, completely yours under apache 2.0
the ai community is silent
you were buying $800 hardware to run a wrapper but ignoring the actual ai model that would justify that hardware
this tells you everything you need to know about the average iq of ai twitter
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@ClaireCoutinho She pinned it with the community note. Politicians really are the OGs of comedy 😭
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This could be the offramp the world needs. You can think of it as the best outcome for everyone, under the circumstances.
(1) From MAGA’s perspective, if Trump declares victory here and moves on, the US won’t waste yet more blood and treasure in the Middle East. It won’t invade Iran. It also won’t take all the blame for the ongoing global supply chain crisis. It just pulls out and lets everyone work out the regional security equation for themselves.
Trump can say he’s fulfilled both his campaign promises: stop Iran from getting a nuke, but also no endless Middle Eastern wars.
(2) From Israel’s perspective, Iran has now been shown to be quite hostile to its neighbors, and its military has been substantially degraded. Stopping now is good. Otherwise there’s a danger of overreacting to Oct 7 as Americans overreacted to Sept 11. Israel can stand back and call it a win, because after a US pullout, Iran will have much less excuse for holding the Strait hostage.
(3) From the Iranian diaspora’s perspective, it’s unfortunately clear that the current war isn’t going to result in liberalization. Further attacks would push Iran further into fundamentalism, making it even harder to eventually do a liberal reformation.
(4) From the long-suffering Iranian people’s perspective, ending the war now would also save countless lives. Otherwise they’ll get hit by friendly fire and drafted by the regime to fight for fundamentalism.
(5) Finally, from the world’s perspective, once the US declares victory and goes home, substantial diplomatic pressure will be applied to Iran to simply open the Strait of Hormuz and allow ships through. Iran’s leadership has shown, perhaps surprisingly, that they care about global public opinion…and they would be on the hook for the suffering of billions of people if the Strait remains blocked.
TLDR: if Trump declares victory and leaves, Iran no longer has any excuse for blocking the Strait and holding the global economy hostage. Let the matter be worked out diplomatically with pressure from all the 100+ affected countries on Iran.
America shouldn’t have to spend a single cent more, or send a single soldier more, to the Middle East.
The White House@WhiteHouse
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you…” - President Donald J. Trump
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Hilarious. So embarrassing for @GoodwinMJ. Watch to the end. Bravo @andytwelves
GB News@GBNEWS
'It's not a minor typo, it's a fundamental fact.' 'It's a minor typo!' @andytwelves and @GoodwinMJ clash over the sourcing of quotes and information in his latest book. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🇬🇧 Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/support
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@rowlsmanthorpe UK companies rolling out AI tools like it's 2023 in US. So behind the curve it's a whole new bend. Once they go live with Co Pilot it will be near useless, behind a stack of controls because they have no idea how to govern the proper use of it.
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Palantir has been awarded a contract by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to analyse internal intelligence data. lbc.co.uk/article/palant…
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