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How is it a fantasy when I, a regular person with no coding experience, regularly use 2 functional, stable apps I made just for myself, purely vibecoded?
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Remembrance was a Proper BOOZE UP before Stanley Baldwin invented Woke.
🚨NEW: For conservatives, remembrance brings a rare and much-beloved grant of permission to indulge FORCES fetishism and moral self-seriousness. Yet perhaps our national life would be healthier with a dose more frivolity?
✍️: @FrancisGaultier
📖: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/it-is…
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🚨NEW: For conservatives, remembrance brings a rare and much-beloved grant of permission to indulge FORCES fetishism and moral self-seriousness. Yet perhaps our national life would be healthier with a dose more frivolity?
✍️: @FrancisGaultier
📖: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/it-is…
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Tinpot. I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of stuff creeps into the MP's code of conduct in Westminster as well, considering Labour's general enthusiasm for censorship. – at London, England
Reform MS Joe Martin banned from speaking in the Senedd bbc.in/4BVDkaf
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Another case: a Nigerian-trained doctor faked his CV to secure a job in haematology at an NHS hospital. These are patient's lives we are playing with!
“Two doctors who helped overseas medical graduates “cheat” in exams designed to prove their safety to practise in the UK have been struck off”.
Qualified in Iran & Romania. We must start talking about the standard of foreign-trained doctors in the NHS.
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
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I have not cherry-picked these examples. They are what the Bylines Network considers to be its best work. Its Substack also has a whole section titled “Voices from Gaza” which does not sound very local.
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Then there is an article about anti-immigration protests in Dover which concludes that the real problem is not illegal immigration but “the ideological fanaticism that brought us Brexit”. bylinesnetwork.substack.com/…
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The Bylines Network has eight regional websites and two national websites for Wales and Scotland. On Substack, it compiles what it considers to be the “best” of its local journalism. Here's how that looks today. Massive anti-Reform story at the top (written in March) with a graphic that could have been made by Hope Not Hate or Led By Donkeys. bylinesnetwork.substack.com/…
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The Byline Times is renowned for its conspiracy theories about 'Tufton Street', Boris Johnson, Cambridge Analytica, Jason Arday, Palantir, etc. and its fanatical opposition to Brexit.
The Bylines Network is getting £266k from the Local News Fund to support *local journalism*. How is it different from the Byline Times and how can we be sure the money won't go towards more angry hard-left polemics?
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The Byline Times is angry about a Spectator article criticising the government for giving money to the Bylines Network. Regardless of how closely linked they are (Peter Jukes is a director of both), should it be it getting taxpayers' money? 🧵
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Walliams sounds like a dirty old man who ought to know better. But I’m v bored of people stretching the definitions of grooming and sexual abuse to encompass every sleazy encounter between adults. These distinctions exist for a reason.
Don't know about other cases, but this is a ridiculous non-story. So Lilly Creightmore was an 18 year old woman when she met Walliams, and they never had sex. She stayed in contact with him for five years on and off. Ludicrous. #newsnight
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Iran designates Argentina's navy and air force as 'terrorist organizations' reut.rs/4sTR6WZ
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Ultimately we need a lot more drinking, drugs and alcohol, because of their efficient eugenic effects.
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And here it is. One of the most important parts of the economy and one where we have a competitive advantage over the EU. Now physical products which might be informed by AI in Northern Ireland will have to be compliant with the EU's destructive AI Act.
The EU has used the Windsor Framework to keep the UK in its regulatory orbit. This will have significant knock on effects to the rest of the UK.
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When this was first proposed by the EU, the British Government said they were going to resist the EU's attempt to impose the AI Act on Northern Ireland via the Windsor Framework.
Clearly they gave up. The Government is surrendering our independence bit by bit to the EU.
So today the UK Government has agreed that part of the UK be subject to aspects of the controversial EU AI Act, a law we did not make and cannot change. There will inevitably be pressure for the rest of the UK to align. bit.ly/4javamY
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Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white kid to death and was still able to stay in school and graduate with no issues while his family raised half a million dollars and bought a new house. A white girl made a noise into a Ring camera and had to withdraw from school for her own safety within a day of the video being posted online. That basically tells you everything you need to know about the racial disparities in this country.
