Just 11% of Brits say Die Hard is their favourite Christmas film – politicalbetting.com
Just 11% of Brits say Die Hard is their favourite Christmas film – politicalbetting.com
What is Britain's favourite Christmas film?Home Alone: 19%Die Hard: 11%Elf: 9%Love Actually: 7%It's a Wonderful Life: 6%A Christmas Carol: 5%The Muppet Christmas Carol: 5%The Holiday: 5%The Grinch: 4%Miracle on 34th Street: 3%Santa Claus: The Movie: 3%The Polar Express: 3%
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I bet there's no pineapple on your pizza either.
It's a Wonderful Life for me, every time.
Without maintaining the correct attitude, the solar panels don’t get enough power and access to the station becomes impossible - try docking and undocking from a tumbling structure.
ISS primary attitude control is though gyroscopes. Every now and then these need to be “desaturated” (spun down while using the station thrusters to oppose the generated torque).
This requires the ISS internal thrusters to be functional.
Which requires the fuel that Progress delivers.
Loss of attitude control is a defined Loss of Mission status - by the book, the crew evacuates before the station starts to tumble. Once off, that’s it. Game Over, Man.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1994438728237064270
The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
QED.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/russian-launch-pad-incident-raises-concerns-about-future-of-space-station/
Exactly as Dickens would have imagined the tale.
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/1994156104037626333
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
"Don't. (pause) Point (pause) Those bloody chains! (pause) at me!"
But there's no routine testing for the gene mutations.
Full disclosure: I'm in my late fifties. Yesterday I booked a GP appointment to discuss having a PSA test.
If I was as rich as Elon Musk, I would recreate Castle Anthrax.
A wild, wild guess, but maybe a scene involving a jewellery heist?
RFM: 30% (-5)
LAB: 22% (+2)
CON: 20% (+3)
GRN: 12% (+5)
LDM: 12% (-1)
SNP: 2% (=)
Changes from the last poll at the end of August. Not quite sure how the positives are 10 and the negatives are 6. Others would be down two on this - BMG had PC on 1% in August as well. Probably a bit of rounding at work.
People aren't focused enough on the word "denaturalize" here
The President says that he will revoke the *citizenship* of Americans who weren't born here if he and @StephenM determine decide they need to go.
Denaturalization is a rare and legally difficult process that Miller and white nationalists like Nick Fuentes have been pushing to "supercharge" the process for years now.
But as Trump makes clear by citing the number 53 million - which includes foreign-born CITIZENS - any American who wasn't born here is now, at least in the eyes of the government, at risk of deportation.
https://x.com/jonfavs/status/1994428628277289298
He's developing signs of a public persona.
Calling the peak means that they will go up again.
Bet you do BBQ's on the top of Mount Olympus, while a Test Match is on, on a Bank Holiday, while waving a metal rod at the sky and shouting "Zeus, you're an arse"
that would cover all Americans and replace most private health insurance plans?"
Support: 65%
Oppose: 26%
Data For Progress / Nov 17, 2025
https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1994442158468681965
That's without any of the state and local government spending.
They've already got Socialised Medicine. Just really badly distributed.
But mostly a reminder that August was weird, and that point-to-point changes can be pretty big, just due to noise.
The only politically workable solution was proposed, strangely enough, by Bernie Sanders.
Expanding Medicaid & Medicare to cover more and more people over time.
....but otherwise, yes.
https://x.com/sophiawenzler/status/1994455775960322228?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Labour stealing from the private sector and handing public sector workers tax cuts. I can't wait to be rid of them, I'm considering voting Reform if it's the best way to be shot of these absolute criminals.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9nd2wddno
If she'd said I'll cut 10p off basic income tax that might be classed as misleading but as we know the final statement isn't completed until late in the process.
Firstly that 5% of GDP is all funnelled through the companies who take a rake off the top as profit. That rake funds all the lobbying and politically bribery you could possibly imagine — keeping that money tap flowing is existential for those companies so they are prepared to spend whatever it takes to defend the current system.
Secondly, any sane reform to the system instantly cuts US GDP by 5% - a sane system has no use for the armies of administrators that are currently required to push money around internally. That’s a huge number of people thrown out of work - even though their work is completely parasitic they’re still currently being paid for it & have built their careers around it. What political party could survive throwing 5% of the US workforce out of a job?
It’s this double bind imposed by the self-interested voters on one side employed within the existing system & the intense lobbying by insurance companies relying on the current system for their profits on the other that has made any genuine healthcare reform so very, very difficult.
And indeed lots of them are *corporate*.
https://www.pensions-expert.com/defined-benefit/data-shows-uk-businesses-are-poised-to-put-pension-scheme-surpluses-to-work/69714.article
Labour gains a few points back as immigration comes down and economic growth exceeds expectations.
I expect a small Labour victory in 2029.
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
https://bsky.app/profile/stephenkb.bsky.social/post/3m6orfhabyc2g
@natashabertrand.bsky.social
The US military carried out a followup strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean on Sept 2, killing survivors of the initial strike, sources said.
People briefed on the “double-tap” strike said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict.
https://bsky.app/profile/natashabertrand.bsky.social/post/3m6pjdjndvc2r
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3m6piednqgs2l
Can we have a Chritmas Pie (chart)
You put The Beast on reducing diet.
Not to worry, the IDF is investigating.
That really wasn't true.
What she meant was that she wanted more headroom to allow increased welfare spending, which she ought to have been honest about.
The OBR are miffed, but given their own enormous gaffe, it's probably knock for knock.
Neither come out of it particularly well.
Some UK councils have fully funded pension schemes. Bexley, for example, is 114% funded. Havering, by contrast, is just 80% funded.
Some UK government departments are also well funded, one way or another: the Univrersity Superannuation Scheme has a GBP10bn surplus, for example. Others are paid for entirely out of cashflow.
The OBR have submitted their report about their advice and timelines to the Treasury Select Committee
I have no doubt that they will be seeking the chancellor to appear before them and answer the questions
I would also expect Mel Stride to submit an urgent question next week on the subject
It's no wonder the little f***er sacked all the senior military lawyers in advance.
Bugger.
As far as the AI bubble bursting, my guess is that local councils have minimal exposure. Most public sector pension schemes are fairly low risk: they'll be 60% bonds, 40% equities on average. They will also be overweight UK UK equitiies, and most of their holdings of (say) nVidia will be via US or Global index investments.
Indeed I believe purdah should be mandated for this period though I accept all governments have engaged in this activity but Reeves took it to world record levels
(The pudding, not BJO)
The interesting thing is the ghastly office politics between the OBR and the Treasury, and I don't know how you fix that.
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This is madness. We literally all saw her do it. She held a press conference specifically to do it. So what is the political upside of constructing another lie on top of the initial lie.
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/1994477772291674533
But now i have lost 6 stone but farthered a number of additional children as i prefer tarts
Ukraine has its fair share of corruption, and that is one of the reasons Zelenskky's TV show was such a hit, and why he became President.
None of these things justifies Russia's actions, and attempts to use them to downplay the invasion or the suffering of the Ukrainian people is fundamentally evil.
There are presumably assumptions made on future returns (and life expectancy) in declaring a surplus, and that's what i wondered about.
'Surplus' funds were taken out of DB pension schemes before the dotcom crash (didn't BT have a payments holiday in the 1990s for example?), although maybe rules are different now on what they are allowed to assume.
USS isn;t a givernment dept to be fair - it's operated by a consortium of unis (some unis, not the former polys). Issues of funding have been key in recent industrial disputes.
https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1994470221835636838
BUT LOOK AT THEM, HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE ME WHEN YOU ARE NOT TELLING THEM OFF.
In the real world, none of us are perfect- there's some solid Christian theology for you, Kemi. But we still have a choice between better and worse, even when that choice is between poor and bad.
And when that choice is between Zelenskky and Putin, it really ought to be easy.