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See Brad Bird’s RAY GUNN in select theatres December 4, with sound by Ben Burtt and Skywalker Sound.
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You know it's true: “Magic” performed by Hailee Steinfeld from Disney's Hexed is out now. Listen wherever you stream music and see Disney's #Hexed in theaters November 25.
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🚨Conservative shadow minister’s nearly £2 MILLION expenses bill draws scrutiny
Helen Whately, the Conservatives’ Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, has claimed almost £2 million in parliamentary expenses over the past decade. These payments come from the public purse—funded by the taxes of ordinary hard-working people. Most of the total covers staff salaries, but around £300,000 relates to her own travel and accommodation, even though she lives roughly 50 miles from London in Kent.
Party leader Kemi Badenoch claims £2,700 a month toward rent on a six-bedroom farmhouse in her Essex constituency, within the rules for an MP with three children. She has also faced claims she once sought taxpayer funding for a family holiday flight, which officials refused.
Critics say the sums sit uncomfortably beside Conservative calls to tighten welfare; supporters note the claims follow standard IPSA rules for MPs
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23 October 1940
The Prime Minister Winston Churchill reads a newspaper on the platform while waiting for a train at St Andrews during a trip to Scotland to visit Polish troops, inspect coastal defences and tour a Naval Establishment in Fife.
Photo source IWM H 4985
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Context:
Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control.
The facts tell a different story.
As @frasernelson has shown in his Substack today:
Violence is at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1981.
Robbery is at a record low.
Crime, excluding fraud, is 78% down on its peak in 1995.
And the stats show this Government is delivering on its promises too:
Knife crime is down 11%.
Knife murders are at their lowest level in 35 years.
Thefts including phone snatching have fallen by 20% in the last year alone.
But I know there is more that we must do, and we will:
We’ve put more than 3,800 extra neighbourhood officers into roles, with named, contactable officers for every neighbourhood.
We’re introducing the most significant reforms to policing in a generation.
We are tackling rising rates of violence against women and girls through our landmark strategy.
And we are tackling crimes like fraud, more prevalent in our increasingly online world, with £250 million directed to this challenge in our Fraud Strategy published this year.
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Having worked at Stansted Airport for a year and observed many armed officers I can confirm that what @LeilaniDowding says is true. If an officer were to be pushed while their finger is on the trigger the result could be unimaginable. @metpoliceuk
NO @metpoliceuk It was because she had ZERO Trigger Discipline… not because or her race or religion..
Or are you saying if you are a Muslim or if you are a Woman, then you don’t have to abide by any rules! And you don’t need to follow any rules or safety protocols. Only men do…
She’s literally standing in front of a banner for women in firearms attachment….
In case the Met Police are unaware her finger should be laying flat and straight outside the trigger guard.
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Stay Tuned! Hailee Steinfeld's "Magic" playing daily on Disney Hits, SiriusXM Ch. 133! 🎶🥰🪄💜
It’s ✨ magic ✨Tune in to Disney HitsSiriusXM Channel 133 TODAY at 6am PT/9am ET to get an on-air first listen of “Magic” performed by the talented Hailee Steinfeld💫
#Hexed #DisneyHexed
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⚠️The #OnlineSafetyAct is a total failure.
The UK’s online safety regulator found “no significant change in children seeing harmful content” since the Act came into force.
We warned the Act wasn’t fit for purpose. Brits now have more censorship & less freedom online.
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💡HDMI 2.1, 8K and 4K120 Input & Output Passthrough 💡HDMI 2.1, 8K and 4K120 Input & Output Processing 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦:
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BBC: We will speak with our BBC mechanic regarding car engines.
The BBC mechanic: I didn't know cars had engines until yesterday morning.
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🚨NEWS: The MET Police have been SLAMMED after they released a statement claiming a female muslim firearms officer was "abused" for being a muslim
Community notes has researched this claim and revealed that the vast majority of the criticisms were for her lack of gun safety
The MET Police are awful
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The @metpoliceuk have been community noted and its glorious 🤣🤣
They even turned off comments so people couldn't call out their b.s HUGE community note W
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has responded to the unacceptable online abuse directed at a Met officer who received an award at yesterday's annual Police Federation Conference.
PC Fiona Shaik Umar was recognised for the outstanding contribution she has made for women in policing.
ALT I\u2019d like to congratulate Fiona on this well-deserved award for which she should rightly be very proud. She works in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, a frontline unit playing a vital role in the mission to protect our democracy by keeping Parliament and Parliamentarians safe.\u00A0 \u000B\u000BWe are currently advertising for additional talented, brave Londoners from all communities to join us. Every career path is open to you regardless of whether you happen to wear a kippa, turban or hijab like Fiona. She is being celebrated for being an excellent officer demonstrating this reality. \u000B\u000BBut it angers me that not for the first time, a day that should have been a celebration for Fiona was marred by hateful, intolerant abuse online. \u000B\u000BThese people haven\u2019t met Fiona. They know nothing of her important work. They just saw that she is a female Muslim officer who wears a hijab and decided she wasn\u2019t deserving as a result.\u00A0 \n
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The vast majority of criticism was not because she is Muslim, but because she was not following very basic gun safety rules.
Her finger was on the trigger and she pointed the barrel of the gun at a fellow officer.
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Jordan Belfort finally explained what “Sell me this pen” really tests, and most salespeople fail it in 1 sentence.
The moment they hear the line, they start pitching. The pen is great, it writes upside down, it’s the best value for the money. To Belfort, that’s the clearest sign someone doesn’t understand selling.
The right answer doesn’t mention the pen at all, at least not at first.
A fan in the audience asks Belfort to sell the pen. He jokes that no one has ever asked him that before, then explains what the test is really for: before you pitch anything, you ask questions. How long have you been in the market for a pen? What have you used before? Is it for business or personal? How much do you usually spend?
Pitching without asking, Belfort says, tells the buyer you don’t give a shit about them. You’re just ramming the product down their throat.
The questions also tell Belfort who to walk away from. If someone says they’re not looking for a pen, he says “Great, have a nice day” and moves on. To him, the biggest rookie mistake is trying to sell to everybody.
Only then does Belfort pitch: “Based on what you said to me, this pen is perfect. Let me tell you why.” And the pen, he says, is just a stand-in for any product.
Rookies sell the pen. Pros sell what you just told them.
Be honest: would you have pitched the pen, or asked the first question?
Someone skipped chemistry class.
중국 쇼핑몰의 풍선 이벤트🎈
비싼 헬륨대신 수소를 넣었다고 😱😱😱
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이 영상은 2024년 12월 31일 중국 허난성 신양 완다광장에서 시민들이 자발적으로 가져온 수소 풍선이 폭발한 사고 장면입니다. 쇼핑몰 주최 풍선 이벤트에서 헬륨 대신 수소를 사용한 것이 아닙니다.
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Look who made BBC News 👀 thanks so much to @ggatehouse for having me on BBC Radical I had so much fun! m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOYOVg…
