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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber
Duncan Gardham
a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en-
A judge has praised a patient who
trance to the hospital.
persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon
Newby was returning from a walk
a suicide attack with a home-made
when he saw Farooq. He later told
bomb on the hospital he worked at.
police that he appeared "depressed
Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in
and upset" so he tried to cheer him.
"T'm quite good at reading people's
Leeds with a bomb made from a pres-
body language," he said. "I thought
sure cooker and low explosives.
would go over and see if he's all right."
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb
Newby said they had a "totally nor-
praised the patient, Nathan Newby,
mal chat" before Farooq opened a
when she sentenced Farooq to life in
bag to show him the pressure cooker
She said he was a man ero a man,
and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en-
"prepared to do the unthinkable".
trance and, after three hours, con-
Sheffield crown court was told he
vinced him to let him call the police.
had followed a terrorist manual for
Newby later told officers: "I was
"lone wolf mujahedeen" and created
shocked I had managed to talk him
a device similar to the bomb used at
out of it. I gave him a hug and said
the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing."
killed three people.
Detective Superintendent Paul
Farooq had first planned to attack
Greenwood, a head of investigations
the listening station at RAF Menwith
for counter terrorism, said Newby
Hill in North Yorkshire but found
had performed an "act of real brav-
that the security was too tight.
ery".
". He added that the explosion
Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating.
prosecution, said he then went to the
The judge told the court that New-
hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a
"modest and gentle man,
ty and seek his own martyrdom".
whose evidence was…

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/03/2025

Today on my LBC Sunday show I interviewed a former Trump adviser. She claimed that Putin wasn’t morally responsible for the war. I challenged her on that claim. She told me she didn’t like me and hung up. And they say the left are snowflakes. Watch the full interview here. youtu.be/tSsV7xyDyfY?...

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Lewis Goodall gets hung up on twice in 7 minutes after Ukraine row | LBC

YouTube video by LBC

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Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Just a thought on the subject of fellow Children's author, Xander Armstrong & private schools.

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 02/03/2025

It’s unacceptable that 500 million Europeans have left themselves exposed and dependent on 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians, who have been unable to win against 40 million Ukrainians in a three-day war that has lasted for three years.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This video - Meta, Tiktok & Twitter squirming before an MP's evidence of their pollution practices - is well worth your time just to confirm where we are on this. Imagine what the reaction would be if these people were polluting drinking water rather than 'just' minds. youtu.be/CjnMgRdJnP8...

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Are social media companies keeping us safe? My questions to Meta, X and TikTok

YouTube video by Emily Darlington

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Jeez. Trump actually just said it. He actually just said that Ukraine shouldn't have started this war! He’s actually siding with a crazed, murderous dictator

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There are now few pleasant ways out of this. American politicians need to find one of those ways.

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Some questions for Elon Musk courtesy of the late Tony Benn: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you use it? To whom are you accountable? And how do we get rid of you?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2025

I am going to put together a thread covering RFK Jr's confirmation hearing for the HHS secretary job. Follow along for clips and commentary.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Eliot Higgins was sued by Yevgeny Prigozhin for saying Prigozhin ran the Wagner mercenary group. Which was obviously true. So it's deeply disappointing that the Solicitors Regulation Authority are taking no action against Prigozhin's law firm for bringing a meritless claim.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In today's newsbites, I wrote about Ashley, a stalwart of Manchester's hospitality sector, who recently lost an arm to cancer. Now her friends are raising cash to help her and lots of readers have given. Link below for anyone else in a position to help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Why do BBC give Laura Kuenssberg free rein to write this drivel? "The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge." It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rachel Reeves: Why is she suddenly in a rush, asks Laura Kuenssberg

The chancellor raised taxes in the Budget - but now she wants to get rid of barriers to business. Why the change of focus?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

NEW How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The best explanation is perhaps not that the prince and Watson had finally buckled to costs risk; it instead looks like a desperate last-minute move by a publisher anxious to avoid a public trial of the claims.

It appears from the evidence available that NGN signalled that it would actually accept liability. If so, this would change everything. If NGN accepted it was liable for at least the main part of the claims, there would be no need for a full trial—for there would be nothing to be tried. The prince and the politician would not now be able to force a full trial even if they had wanted to do.

For a defendant to admit liability is an unusual, if not unique litigation ploy.

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