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29 August 1895. 6.30pm. The George Hotel, Huddersfield. The birth of the Northern Union. 'I say with Mark Twain's bold, bad boy that we glory in the sentence of outlawry pronounced on us, as freeing us from tyrannical bondage of the English [Rugby] Union'.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They should have replaced them with sherbet dabs and haribo and re-buried everything

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... On the many occasions I have climbed Snowdon over the last few decades or so I have deliberately avoided the summit. I now take the Wakin path and turn left at the standing stone at the top of the gully, and move down to Y Aran.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw... You know what this country needs don’t you? That’s right more investment in the London transport systems

🗣️ PM @andy-burnham.bsky.social: "I visited Ashton Bears during the by-election to hear about their plans and was glad to return last night with a small donation to the fund. Grassroots Rugby League, and sport in general, matters a lot to me. It will be a BIG priority in my time in office.

Important announcement.

OPPENHEIMER was released 3 years ago today. One of Christopher Nolan’s most successful films, the behind the scenes story is, like most Nolan productions, enormous… 1/35

Steam is having a Social Deduction sale and for some reason this is all I can think of.

Facts that Hollywood tried to keep from the masses but overtime it was proven to be true 💯🎯

The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK

Could you see Keir Starmer giving an interview on the side of a Rugby League pitch?

Another summer. Another succession of record-breaking temperatures. Another afternoon in a beer garden that started as “just a quick one”. Get yours with FREE UK delivery here >>> buff.ly/M0JG0yr

In my recent interviews I boasted about having claimed "zero personal expenses". Which is not surprising when you consider that there is no such thing as 'personal expenses' for MPs, so nobody has claimed any. But I have claimed over £150k in office expenses.

I'm confident nobody will share this.

Just watching the Taggart when DCI Burke ( the black pudding murderer in an earlier episode) takes over from Michale Jardine and they are setting Bruke up as an arsehole

"Burnham is a reversion to the mid-20th Century when Labour prime ministers were men of the people. Burnham is a giant step backwards to a better sort of British politics... Blair dismantled that world, and the deep morality and wisdom that went with it" Peter Oborne's analysis for Byline Times 👇

And the last thing out of Pandora’s box was hope. After the Ashton-in-Makerfield result I now have hope.

"Please don't let me down." Makerfield voter Simon has a simple message for Andy Burnham.

Farage's essay on his perceived two-tier society can be summed up in one sentence. #Satire.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

THE BOURNE IDENTITY was released 24 years ago today. A reinvention of the spy genre and the film that launched Matt Damon as an action star, the behind the scenes story might have your doubting your identity… 1/34

Belfast turned out today to say no to racists.

The first thing Nigel Farage will introduce if he is elected is Health Insurance. The NHS correctly costs £200bn a year. In the USA Health Insurance is £14,000 a year per person £14,000 x 50m adults is £700bn a year. £500bn a year profit If you can't afford that you are dying

Starmer’s post-election speech gets worse with age. He said “incremental change won’t cut it” on defence, growth and Europe and has offered… exactly that.

When I heard that a refugee, who had settled in my post industrial northern town, said that this was the first time in their lift that they felt safe. I made me feel very proud. The question is how would you feel about this

"Why are people with four teeth voting for someone with seven yachts?" He hates you as much as he hates immigrants.

If you're a white person and you think the Birtish state is waging war on white people, I have news for you. It isn't. It's waging war on working class people. It always has. But not just working class people, anyone who It considers a threat or a useful scapegoat.

Are all reform voters traitors to the uk??? Are reform voters supporting Russia ??? The evidence suggest this is likely

You can always tell when Saints are playing crap. RedVee.com freezes

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well maybe if your parasitic company paid its fair share of tax, we could invest more in education and better prepare people for employment.

There’s a rogue “O” in the book title

This is the beginning of the end for bird shooting in this country.

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

Over to you Keir Starmer , a very concerned resident of St Helens

Many sadly concluded we had to go through Brexit before people saw what a horrendous act of self-harm they had committed. I'm terrified the same thing will happen with #Reform - that people will vote for them without realising they've just screwed over their country, loved ones and themselves.

We're here to blow the lid off the British bird shooting industry and bring it to its knees. protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-vile-i...

Hunting with hounds: Government consultation on strengthening hunting laws and a rally in London. Details ⬇️ raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/04/22/h...

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Tax Dodge Tice: "If anybody from any other party had been in that situation and tried to dodge paying tax.. if she (Angela Rayner) had any integrity, and moral decency, given her position... she would offer her resignation." #UKPolitics

If you work and you have to work to be able to afford to live you are Working Class. If you sit back and scrounge off the work of others as a CEO, a banker, a stock trader, a Landlord you are the Parasite Class where you contribute nothing but take almost everything.

42 racehorses have died in the UK so far this year. 42 in less than 4 months. Yesterday a horse broke its back at Aintree.You can bet your life that if a single jockey died at the Grand National they would finally do something about it. #youbettheydie #grandnational

67 horses have died at the Aintree Festival since 2000. 17 after racing in the Grand National. This isn’t sport, it’s a death toll. We’re calling for a boycott. Don’t attend. Don’t bet. Switch off. It’s time to put horse welfare before profit.

Jack Smith playing a blinder for Wigan today

THE MATRIX was released 27 years ago today. Acclaimed as both one of the great science fiction movies and a groundbreaking action film, the behind-the-scenes story will have you questioning reality… 1/44

THIS IS SPINAL TAP was released 42 years ago this week. Widely regarded as one of the funniest comedies ever made, and the film that spawned the ‘mockumentary’, the behind the scenes tale goes to 11… 1/40

Ed Davey, "We rightly expect our armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crisis like this" "But that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here"