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This "emotional parasite"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjw9wqel5go

That is a hard read.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/bbc-presenter-women-instead-pregnant-people-broke-rules/

A newsreader who went viral after she made a face while changing the word "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules.

Martine Croxall made the expression as she changed her script in an introduction to an interview with an assistant professor about groups most at risk during UK heatwaves.

From D'Examiner

Gardaí have arrested two men on suspicion of membership of a violent right-wing extremist organisation.

The arrest follows the discovery of four suspect devices across the border in Annalong, Co Down, by the PSNI. 

The discovery and arrest have been seen as a significant, but not unexpected, development in Garda Headquarters, given the deteriorating climate of hatred and violence from the far right towards asylum seekers and foreigners.

The two men, aged in their 40s and 30s, were arrested following a major surveillance operation by Garda security services, working in conjunction with the PSNI.

They were arrested by the Special Detective Unit (SDU) — the force's operational anti-terrorism unit — following a vehicle stop in Co Laois on Wednesday.

They are being detained on suspicion of membership of an unlawful organisation under the Offences Against the State Act 1939.

This suggests the two men are suspected of being part of an actual organisation, believed to be a relatively new violent far-right extremist organisation.

The numbers in the organisation are understood to be small.

PSNI officers recovered four suspected improvised devices at the scene in a search carried out on Wednesday night. During the operation, a number of local residents were evacuated from their houses, and they have since returned to their homes.

It is understood that the Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service has been putting additional resources into preventing and investigating the possible emergence of a violent far-right organisation in Ireland.

Various units, including the SDU, have been on a heightened "state of alert" for such a development, not least given the escalation of violence and arson attacks directed at asylum seekers.

One of the lines of inquiry is to establish the possible intended use of the suspected IED and whether or not asylum accommodation could have been targeted.

Digital devices linked to the two men arrested are currently being examined.

Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn said: "An Garda Síochána is committed to identifying, assessing and countering security threats to our communities.

"This ongoing operation demonstrates the close working relationships An Garda Síochána has with our colleagues in the Police Service of Northern Ireland to investigate and interdict threats across the island of Ireland, keeping people safe."

Meanwhile, the Irish Examiner understands that the SDU are supporting the investigation into the arson attack on an Ipas centre in Drogheda.

From D'Examiner

Gardaí have arrested two men on suspicion of membership of a violent right-wing extremist organisation.

The arrest follows the discovery of four suspect devices across the border in Annalong, Co Down, by the PSNI. 

The discovery and arrest have been seen as a significant, but not unexpected, development in Garda Headquarters, given the deteriorating climate of hatred and violence from the far right towards asylum seekers and foreigners.

The two men, aged in their 40s and 30s, were arrested following a major surveillance operation by Garda security services, working in conjunction with the PSNI.

They were arrested by the Special Detective Unit (SDU) — the force's operational anti-terrorism unit — following a vehicle stop in Co Laois on Wednesday.

They are being detained on suspicion of membership of an unlawful organisation under the Offences Against the State Act 1939.

This suggests the two men are suspected of being part of an actual organisation, believed to be a relatively new violent far-right extremist organisation.

The numbers in the organisation are understood to be small.

PSNI officers recovered four suspected improvised devices at the scene in a search carried out on Wednesday night. During the operation, a number of local residents were evacuated from their houses, and they have since returned to their homes.

It is understood that the Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service has been putting additional resources into preventing and investigating the possible emergence of a violent far-right organisation in Ireland.

Various units, including the SDU, have been on a heightened "state of alert" for such a development, not least given the escalation of violence and arson attacks directed at asylum seekers.

One of the lines of inquiry is to establish the possible intended use of the suspected IED and whether or not asylum accommodation could have been targeted.

Digital devices linked to the two men arrested are currently being examined.

Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn said: "An Garda Síochána is committed to identifying, assessing and countering security threats to our communities.

"This ongoing operation demonstrates the close working relationships An Garda Síochána has with our colleagues in the Police Service of Northern Ireland to investigate and interdict threats across the island of Ireland, keeping people safe."

Meanwhile, the Irish Examiner understands that the SDU are supporting the investigation into the arson attack on an Ipas centre in Drogheda.

From D'Examiner

Gardaí have arrested two men on suspicion of membership of a violent right-wing extremist organisation.

The arrest follows the discovery of four suspect devices across the border in Annalong, Co Down, by the PSNI. 

The discovery and arrest have been seen as a significant, but not unexpected, development in Garda Headquarters, given the deteriorating climate of hatred and violence from the far right towards asylum seekers and foreigners.

The two men, aged in their 40s and 30s, were arrested following a major surveillance operation by Garda security services, working in conjunction with the PSNI.

They were arrested by the Special Detective Unit (SDU) — the force's operational anti-terrorism unit — following a vehicle stop in Co Laois on Wednesday.

They are being detained on suspicion of membership of an unlawful organisation under the Offences Against the State Act 1939.

This suggests the two men are suspected of being part of an actual organisation, believed to be a relatively new violent far-right extremist organisation.

The numbers in the organisation are understood to be small.

PSNI officers recovered four suspected improvised devices at the scene in a search carried out on Wednesday night. During the operation, a number of local residents were evacuated from their houses, and they have since returned to their homes.

It is understood that the Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service has been putting additional resources into preventing and investigating the possible emergence of a violent far-right organisation in Ireland.

Various units, including the SDU, have been on a heightened "state of alert" for such a development, not least given the escalation of violence and arson attacks directed at asylum seekers.

One of the lines of inquiry is to establish the possible intended use of the suspected IED and whether or not asylum accommodation could have been targeted.

Digital devices linked to the two men arrested are currently being examined.

Garda National Crime & Security Intelligence Service Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn said: "An Garda Síochána is committed to identifying, assessing and countering security threats to our communities.

"This ongoing operation demonstrates the close working relationships An Garda Síochána has with our colleagues in the Police Service of Northern Ireland to investigate and interdict threats across the island of Ireland, keeping people safe."

Meanwhile, the Irish Examiner understands that the SDU are supporting the investigation into the arson attack on an Ipas centre in Drogheda.

Well done to the SDU and good work crossborder. I wonder how many more are out there.

The are going to increase taxes for the working man to help pay for the people who dont work.

The social bill for the UK is £303 billion. That's more than the NHS.
It will have to be cut.

The EA are spending £40 million a year on getting precious to school in taxis, no wonder you can't get a taxi at night they don't have to work - society is fucked, the perception is everyone is owed, free prescriptions, free water, a bit stressed and you are off work getting more money that folk bursting their holes going to work 6 days a week.  The only way it will end is if benefits are addressed ffs luxury cars for DVLA ridiculous.

Need to look at the billionaires paying fuckall tax rather than the ones scrounging benefits. I can guarantee you theres more being lost by the rich not paying than by the poor screwing the system.

If the billionaires are paying nothing and there are ones screwing the system you and I and everyone else trying to provide for their families get screwed the most.

The billionaires have probably employed 100 or even 1,000's of employees to achieve these billions, good money that goes back into the economy

As for cheap housing, knock yourself out, couldn't pay me to live in some of the shiteholes with all the carnage that goes on around them

How many employees does JP McManus have?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/06/russia-sends-disabled-soldiers-slaughter-ukraine-war-army/

A wounded man lies in a muddy ditch, stripped of his uniform and too weak to stand. His ribs protrude beneath the chain of his dog tags, the only trace of the soldier he once was. He murmurs incoherently, clearly too mentally incapacitated to communicate or move.
The man in the video is one of several mentally disabled men reportedly sent to the front line by Russia, The Telegraph has been told.
Ukrainian officials say it is a strategy that reflects Moscow's growing reliance on vulnerable recruits and its willingness to deploy an almost limitless supply of manpower to make gains on the front lines, regardless of the human cost.

"ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt this morning announced the creation of a "Mamdani Monitor" to track all policies, appointments and actions by the Mamdani Administration that impact Jews"

There was a swastika hate hoax just in time for Mamdani to condemn.

NYC running on fumes of past glory, like US itself.

The ADL is Zionist extremist.

https://www.ft.com/content/b6d493dc-bd36-4140-bff8-c1bcdf992364

Russia has started using jet-powered glide bombs to hit targets far beyond the frontline, an upgrade to Moscow's arsenal that poses further strains on Ukraine's stretched air defences. Retrofitted Soviet-era bombs known as KABs have hit targets in the southern Ukrainian regions of Odesa and Mykolayiv, as well as the eastern region of Poltava, for the first time in October. Up until then, the guided projectiles lobbed from Russian Su-34 jets had a range of up to 80km and were used mainly in the proximity of the frontline. But some of these glide bombs are now fitted with a jet engine — an upgrade that increases their range up to 200km, according to Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine's GUR military intelligence service.

https://www.ft.com/content/aade913c-6293-4704-9b8e-3b11a7faa093

Washington has entered its longest-ever federal government shutdown, as the impasse between Republican and Democratic legislators drags on and Donald Trump rebuffs calls to negotiate. Wednesday marked the 36th day of the government shutdown, breaking the record set in 2018-19. It has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers on furlough, without pay, closed some services, and disrupted the supply of food stamps for 40mn Americans who rely on them. On Tuesday, the president warned that his government would only restart food benefits for the poorest Americans if "Radical Left Democrats" opened up the government. Republican congressional leaders have called for Democrats to agree a stop-gap legislative measure to keep funding at current spending levels. But Democrats have said they will not agree until Republicans reverse planned cuts to healthcare tax credits due to run out at the end of the year. Trump has refused calls to meet top Democrats to strike a deal, even as polling suggests Americans blame him and his party for the shutdown.

The GOP lost in New York and in gubernatorial races in  New Jersey and Virginia. That's bad news for the GOP. People are sick of inflation and blame it on Trump.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/04/why-reevess-claims-on-the-economy-dont-stack-up/
Martin Beck, at WPI Strategy, warns the Chancellor to tread carefully. "Given the toxic mix of high borrowing costs and sluggish growth, Reeves's determination to re-establish fiscal discipline is understandable. But her commitment to tackle the UK's chronic economic underperformance sits awkwardly with the prospect of yet higher taxes.
"If tax hikes cause growth to falter and revenues disappoint, the Chancellor could find herself trapped in a self-defeating loop of higher taxes and weaker growth – the fiscal equivalent of treading water while the tide rises."

https://www.ft.com/content/b7fde818-fe26-49f3-b109-d6fced89c130

Across much of Europe, voters are angry and disillusioned — and so swift to vote out incumbents. If the incumbents are the traditional centre parties, then the radical fringes will scoop up the votes. But when the far right actually makes it into government, then voters can swiftly become disillusioned — and turn back to centrist parties at the next opportunity.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/11/04/irelands-housing-crisis-to-last-another-15-years-department-of-finance-predicts/
Ireland's housing crisis is likely to persist for at least another 15 years, according to the Department of Finance.
Housing demand is not expected to peak until the early 2030s, it said, with "pent-up demand" not fully eliminated until at least 2040.

The economy is in bad shape. There is too much debt.

https://www.ft.com/content/c9202a56-f348-49b5-ae97-5f0507f8304a

If a President was not able to quickly and nimbly use the power of Tariffs, we would be defenseless, leading perhaps even to the ruination of our Nation," Trump wrote on Truth Social. His lawyers argue that depriving the president of the authority to impose the tariffs would "thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe"