Good points in here.
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/womens-aid-responds-to-the-first-budget-of-the-new-labour-government/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/31423534/full-list-benefits-rising-autumn-statement-budget-2024/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v3d44zj03o.amp

For court hearing

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/elon-musk-court-philadelphia-america-pac-money-voting-2024/

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-aaron-bell-sexual-misconduct-parliament-bar-strangers-b1190750.html

In an interview their response is...

"That's a great question"

[ aka watch their lips ]

Do you know an honest poliician? Please help a cynic...

Racism is when white people hold ‘negative views’ of others, claims senior Labour adviser........

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/racism-is-when-white-people-hold-negative-views-of-others-claims-senior-labour-adviser/ar-AA1t0RGm?ocid=BingNewsSerp

In the light of Tommy Robinson’s latest conviction and if anyone is wondering where the funding is coming from then this Channel 4 documentary from the ‘Hope not Hate’ organization makes interesting viewing:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/oct/22/undercover-exposing-the-far-right-review-the-bravest-documentary-of-the-year-so-far

Did you know that Aloe Vera plants can have flowers?
I didn’t until recently.
I was given one aloe vera plant by a friend who was moving house. It hadn’t been watered for months and was almost dead. I kept it watered and stood it on my kitchen window ledge which is sunny as it faces south.
Since then it’s grown and divided into two massive plants with loads of smaller offshoots.
A few weeks ago the two biggest plants started to sent up flower stems.

More money than exists on Earth !

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russia-fines-google-20-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000/ss-AA1tcjbZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c4bb43a0e9364650849fd73454ee386f&ei=52

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c079gj72n9do.amp

Back to prison he goes

I booked my Christmas shopping 3 weeks ago at Sainsbury's for delivery on the 19th December.

To homelessness

Two hour long programmes will be on this week . Do you believe in him

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/prince-william-channels-princess-diana-9666817?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvj5yev9no

After refusing to say it was terrorist related, now extra terrorism charges of Southport Killer
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31392330/southport-axel-rudakubana-terror-charges-keir-starmer/

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/last-executed-witch-might-have-lived-for-years-research/ar-AA1t7Xuw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9f66291de6da4bb9fe5e286a86b2677f&ei=11

We went to Bella Italia Sunday. We were amazed to see robot assistants. 🤖

https://bit.ly/47jVBiS

Home grown pervert gets 18 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6l241z5mjo.amp

His parents were in court - what the hell did they expect ?

For charity

Very sad

https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/24683557.ex-gala-rugby-player-ken-macaulay-dies-day-cycle/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20ng0m403o.amp

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/is-western-culture-stopping-people-from-growing-upkidults-are-all-around-you/114836155/

Brocken Spectre

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4vy7nqd90o.amp

Starmers definition is below.. it's confused me! Even if someone has savings or property and have a Jon, they are working people in my eyes.
What's your definition?

In an interview during a Commonwealth leaders' summit, the prime minister was asked whether those who work, but get additional income from assets such as shares or property, would count as working people.

He replied that they "wouldn't come within my definition" - but warned against making "assumptions" about what that meant for tax policy.

He said he thought of a working person as someone who “goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly cheque" and who can't "write a cheque to get out of difficulties".

Speaking afterwards, his spokesman sought to clarify that those with a "small amount of savings" could still be defined as working people.

Perhaps American politician volunteers come here but not sure it’s a good idea.

The Trump campaign alleged that in recent weeks, Labour recruited and sent party members to campaign for his opponent, Kamala Harris, in critical battleground states in a bid to influence the 5 November .
“This past week marked the 243 anniversary of the surrender of British forces at the Battle of Yorktown, a military victory that ensured that the United States would be politically independent of Great Britian” – an incorrect rendering of “Britain”.

In response, UK prime minister Keir Starmer said that party officials volunteering for Harris ahead of the US presidential election on 5 November.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonNpyPi3h4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13982189/pride-month-taxpayers-bill-rainbow-fudge.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13994591/amp/hamas-leaders-western-aid-fund-lifestyle.html

Up until yesterday Chris Kaba was "an innocent unarmed black man fatally shot by a trigger happy Met police officer". There was even a rent a mob outside the Old Bailey calling for the police officer to get a murder conviction.
After he was found not guilty, there was the traditional scene of three black women looking stern, with one of them reading the same old statement about how the justice system has yet again failed the black community.
Now today everything has changed as the judge has allowed Kaba's criminal life to be published. Only the day before he was shot, he was shooting a man in a nightclub. He was also one of the leading members of a London drug gang.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/22/chris-kaba-shot-man-in-club-and-was-alleged-core-member-of-london-gang

Environment Secretary is asked by Kay Burley this morning about accepting free football tickets from a water company.

Interviewing Steve Reed as he announced the government’s new independent review of the UK water industry, the Sky News presenter began by reminding the cabinet minister how one particular firm, Northumbrian Water, is one of three companies water regulator Ofwat says is not fit for purpose.

She pointed out that they recorded 30 sewage spills over the course of 2023, and that the chief executive received a bonus of £234,000 that year.

Burley then said: “Why did you take football tickets from the parent company?”

“I didn’t,” the minister replied.

But Burley reminded him that CK Hutchison Holdings own 75% of Northumbrian Water, and he declared £2,000 in football tickets and hospitality from that company in 2023.

Reed claimed, “I wouldn’t have known that” and added: “On that occasion there was nobody from the water company involved in offering those tickets.”

“Why didn’t you know that, you should have known that,” Burley pushed. “So you didn’t know who you were taking tickets from?”

He said the topic didn’t come up and had no impact on the evening, instead asking the presenter to “judge me by what I do”.

“That is what you did!” Burley cut in, and said he should have been aware who CK Hutchison Holdings owned.

She added: “This was only last December, you knew you were going to be in power.”

“The implications behind this is completely wrong,” Reed replied.

“It took my producer Sam five minutes to find that out,” Burley hit out.

“You are in charge of these businesses when it comes to delivering water to the UK and you didn’t know?”
“What makes you think you’re fit for your job?”

Reed, looking irate, said he rejected “the implications is that I will go soft on water companies”.

But, asked if he would take those tickets again, he said no “with hindsight,” adding:

“I don’t think it’s helpful you’re able to ask me questions like this.”

Burley laughed in disbelief...

They'd have to pay me a shed load of money to even consider doing a trial. Only 50% of participants get the drug and even then it may not work well. 🤢

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/uk-could-first-country-offer-053200652.html

Please join the survey

https://change.nhs.uk/en-GB/projects/start-here

Sorry shouldn’t laugh but didn’t we already know this

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/smoking-side-effect-permanent-bones-leicester-b2631426.html

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/i-will-strike-right-in-the-center-of-damn-moscow-trump-talks-about-threats-to-putin-over-ukraine/ar-AA1sDEXE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a6fde462055b437a8e08fae1e8ef7032&ei=40

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/hammer-wielding-public-schoolboy-who-claimed-he-was-sleepwalking-during-attack-on-fellow-pupils-jailed-for-life-13235725?dicbo=v2-YJufBJc

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-ready-to-invite-ukraine-to-nato-le-monde/ar-AA1szau8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=4396c1e334a542f1c44ec5610980ceaf&ei=26

I understand why this couple wanted out, but deliberately saddening everyone's Christmas for years to come seems a bit off. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j7jvj8wxlo

http://www.barkinghistory.co.uk/great-smog.html

Your memories of December 1952...

Riots and lawlessness

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99v90813j5o.amp

https://www.gbnews.com/money/state-pension-age-rise-proposal-poverty

Just been sent this... please be careful going out if you have covid, you never know who is vulnerable out there

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/covid-isolate-for-ten-days-says-nhs-and-when-to-call-999/

We’re nearly there so I’ve put a sign up 😃

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx245q4nyyet

Gosh, what the right attitude can sometimes achieve (don't get me started on dads who leave it all up to the mum, as I had one of those) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2eplxgklo

North Koreans in Russia: How dangerous is the world right now?

Well worth listening to this regular podcast on BBC Radio.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jzg8ls

Sunday, October 27
In 2024, the clocks will go back on Sunday, October 2712. This change occurs on the last Sunday in October each year, when clocks are traditionally set back by one hour. Daylight Saving Time 2024 ends on the first Sunday in November, specifically on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2 a.m.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/the-lessons-britain-can-learn-from-the-happiest-city-in-the-world/ar-AA1sPunf?cvid=FBBFE457108A4B9F93FBEB1601590424&ocid=wispr

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c36pn5d7eydo.amp

Labours proposed worker reforms,including changes to sick pay and banning zero hour contracts,look set to be very costly for businesses according to their own analysis. On top of the expected employers NI contribution increase things are looking bleak for growth. I predict many job cuts

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/31225568/labours-worker-reforms-cost/