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British Gas first half year profits leap 889% to £969 million.
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated ?
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated ?
Without the members’ discount it’s very overpriced.
Former Brexit Party MEP, employee of the Sun and now part of “Reclaim”. Also once supported Labour and the LDs so a bit all over the shop. Once organised a “Straight Pride” march too so probably a winner.
Suella’s having a bad week. A shame something as huge as Farage’s bank account is happening now.
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Co-ops seem to be targeted by organised crime, but clearly it goes a lot wider.
Clearly. I can't believe Co-Ops would be targeted over other supermarkets.
Organised looting is a different matter, but individuals nicking from supermarket chains that have been exploiting the cost of living crisis is fine with me - they deserve it. I wouldn't have thought that the Co-Op would come into that category, though.
Gas/electric, petrol/diesel always soar as soon as wholesale prices rise but take an awfully long time to come down when they fall if at all. Where profits are unjustified there should be 100% taxation, they'd soon pass on the cuts...
Coutts boss has now quit over the handling of Farage’s account….a true victory from the man of the people over the globalist elite banking system……or so certain elements of the press would have us believe 
Fortunately, despite the resignations of Rose and Flavell, we have Rachel Reeves tell us it's simply Farage bullying people and in the case of Rose, being sexist against a woman.
This is the Shadow Chancellor who may be the second most powerful person in the country and will run the Treasury. Her colleagues including Starmer are not rushing to support her. Just as well Flavell wasn't black. Reeves would have chucked racism in as well.
If she was a horse, she'd have fallen at the first
This is the Shadow Chancellor who may be the second most powerful person in the country and will run the Treasury. Her colleagues including Starmer are not rushing to support her. Just as well Flavell wasn't black. Reeves would have chucked racism in as well.
If she was a horse, she'd have fallen at the first
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It's all about to kick off over there again...
Iran protests: Return of morality police met by defiance
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The morality police were withdrawn after protests erupted last year
By Mehrzad Kohanrouz
BBC World Service
As the lights dimmed at a cultural festival in the Iranian capital, Tehran, earlier this month, women in the audience were defiantly dancing, singing and clapping along to the music at the landmark Milad Tower.
They were also waving their hijabs (headscarves) in the air and that, according to Iran's interpretation of Islamic law, is crossing a major line.
The hijab is a powerful political symbol in the Islamic republic, a bedrock of the ideology of the country's clerical establishment.
Women who flout the mandatory dress code can face severe punishment, but since nationwide protests began in September, many younger Iranians have been openly questioning Iran's strict hijab regulations, sometimes in public displays of civil disobedience.
Patrols by the country's morality police - whose job it is to enforce the hijab regulations - had been paused since the protests erupted following the death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly breaking the strict hijab rules.
But Iran has recently restored the morality police patrols to the streets as a "countermeasure against hijab negligence", according to a police spokesperson.