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[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

@Number10cat Please. Resist. I count on you.

Enjoy the Tapestry and long live the Entente amicale!

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Wonderful write up in the FT here: I was wrong about Bad Girl Books https://t.co/1IxY2pmvE6 via @ft

[Michael Savage @michaelsavage]

NEW: UK YouTube?!

Matt Brittin backs creating a “public service algorithm” free from big tech biases.

Suggests inviting creators to make YouTube-style content curated by algorithm “biased towards what we want public service to be”.

Radical. Realistic?

https://t.co/Ww7h11fzRK

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan work a shift at Sainsbury's

[Conks @conksresearch]

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another watch was made…

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@greennuneaton Thanks Keith - we have mentioned this directly in the piece.

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Ofgem has raised the energy price cap by 4% to £1,723 a year for a typical dual-fuel household paying by direct debit, up £60 from the current £1,663, from 1 October to 31 December. https://t.co/XgtvRmoSKL

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Young people hate AI CEOs so passionately that it’s almost hard to believe," per Futurism

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London Underground and Overground services will be severely disrupted this weekend, with the bulk of issues expected for Saturday and Sunday.

https://t.co/UR7zgFwwNu

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham marked one month as UK prime minister on Thursday (20 August) by publishing a list of 19 changes his government has made since he took office. https://t.co/sOTxtQPk7J

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The Nintendo Switch 2 handheld gaming console is getting a price increase in the United Kingdom.

https://t.co/hnpfqTapgM

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Monzo switched to its independent backup bank on Wednesday (19 August) after customers across the UK reported problems opening the app and moving money. https://t.co/NJEfwVcwpV

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Moderna shares more than doubled in pre-market trading on Wednesday (19 August) after its personalised cancer vaccine, developed with Merck, succeeded in a late-stage melanoma trial. https://t.co/9JA6RTyjzR

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

It's very confusing to see people on the Left calling for more regulation of the press.

All hard and soft law regulating the press has been used - and is used - by the wealthy and powerful to silence their critics.

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Almost 20,000 students in England collected T Level results on Thursday (13 August), up from around 12,000 in 2025, with more than 90% passing. https://t.co/TuMMM7HhyX

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"Far from reserving this for exceptional cases, British police are now using live facial recognition routinely in the sort of pervasive way you might expect in China but not in a democracy."

- @silkiecarlo condemns the trialling of LFR in TfL stations.

https://t.co/1NtCMUhwg8

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

So, just to recap.

✅Hospitality is suffering.
✅Youth unemployment is incredibly high.
✅Soho is in London

So... what does Westminster council do?

❌They try to ban what they call "vertical drinking".

(standing in a pub).

Utterly insane.

Why do these people HATE our pubs?

[will o’brien @Willob]

George Bush Summer