White working-class students excluded from Oxbridge diversity schemes ....While all the schemes can be used by students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, they almost entirely exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education..... https://archive.ph/qXBzN

On Saturday, after nearly a century, the long-wave transmitter at Droitwich fell silent, and the two old masts at Westerglen and Burghead with it. Most people won't have noticed. But something left the country on Saturday worth marking before it slips out of memory as well as off the air: the Shipping Forecast, in the form millions have grown up with, one of the primi among British institutions, read out on long wave to the fishing fleets and the insomniacs and anyone else still awake at the rim of the day.

If you've ever heard it, you know the odd power of the thing. "Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty" - a litany of sea areas most listeners will never lay eyes on, in a cadence that hasn't altered in generations, read with the calm of a voice that assumes you are out there somewhere in the dark and means to see you home. It carried far more than the weather. It was among the last things the whole of Britain still heard at the same hour: the same words, the same rhythm, meaning the same thing to a trawlerman off Rockall and a sleepless accountant in Surrey. A aesthetic paradigm of our culture; supreme utility and sublime superfluity. A country that now shares almost nothing in common still shared that.

And there's a stranger fact again, one that lifts the whole business clear of nostalgia. By long-standing account, the Royal Navy's nuclear-missile submarines, hidden somewhere beneath the Atlantic with the nation's last deterrent aboard, used Radio 4 on long wave as one of their signs of life from home. If the broadcasts kept coming, Britain was still there. If they ever stopped, and stayed stopped, the commander was to open the sealed letter the Prime Minister had written out by hand, and learn what his country wished of him in a world that no longer contained it. The same mild signal that told a fisherman the wind in Dogger was, by that account, a pulse the end of the world would have been measured against.

It is fitting, and bleak, that a broadcaster which has spent years forgetting who it was ever for should choose this, of all things, to switch off. The BBC never seems short of money for the things it wants to do. It decided the cost of the old signal was no longer worth bearing, and silenced the one transmission that asked nothing of anybody and reassured everybody. The fishermen, the old, the sleepless, the men under the sea - none of them were an audience it cared to keep.

The forecast itself survives in other forms, on other frequencies; this is not the end of it. But the signal that carried it for a hundred years, and the idea it quietly stood for - that a nation is a thing held together by small shared rituals, faithfully kept, that ask nothing and bind everyone - that has fallen silent, and it fell without a fight. We let these things go one at a time, each too small to defend on its own, until we glance up and find there is nothing left that we all still do together.

How many more will we let go?

How many more will you let go?

https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2072029149515100528?s=20

Hazony here is basically saying that the Netanyahu government has dealt a death blow to his 'National Conservative' movement's purpose in Western nations.

Can anyone confirm this?

https://x.com/DavidJHarrisJr/status/2072039970957910401?s=20

So now someone has stolen the sapling, how low can you go. I would look at the ones that cut down the tree in the first place and people linked to them. Incredible to think the tree has been there for 100-120 years and some modern day scum that has no respect for their ancestors and their country comes along and does this kind of thing. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/national-trust-site-shocked-saddened-34214442?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawSxnNlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFSY2JJS0g2REVkcDduZTNkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpbUeQhpsAnvj4MtJy5wY5oj4-20HZkwdDuM9N8W5szcA7FwpTr2s_knT4UR_aem_IqJMYsYboafLRC7FSSub-g#Echobox=1782844935

You can't win them all...

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/pro-palestinian-heathrow-worker-loses-employment-tribunal-case-over-flag-badge/

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"We let these things go one at a time, each too small to defend on its own, until we glance up and find there is nothing left that we all still do together.

How many more will we let go?

How many more will you let go?"

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White working-class students excluded from Oxbridge diversity schemes ....While all the schemes can be used by students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, they almost entirely exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education..... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/30/white-working-class-students-excluded-oxbridge-diversity-uk/

Conduct of two officers in Henry Nowak case investigated - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6ezln069vo

😄 The Road to Wigan Pier

Re: second link below. China gains influence by economic connections, India by exporting its surplus population.

Weaponised migration and Pravasi Bharatiya.

INDIA JUST UPDATED THEIR NUMBERS OF OVERSEAS INDIANS FOR 2026.

CHECK IN TO SEE HOW BADLY YOUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN JEETED!!!

https://www.mea.gov.in/population-of-overseas-indians

Afghanistan: 169
Albania: 554
Algeria: 4080
Andorra: 250
Angola: 7967
Antigua & Barbuda: 500
Argentina: 2600
Armenia: 7561
Aruba: 1000
Australia: 845800
Austria: 31939
Azerbaijan: 688
Bahamas: 350
Bahrain: 320226
Bangladesh: 8560
Barbados: 4075
Belarus: 1526
Belgium: 38159
Belize: 803
Benin: 2518
Bhutan: 50000
Bolivia: 52
Bonaire & Smaller Islands: 66
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 700
Botswana: 12500
Brazil: 5987
British Virgin Islands: 250
Brunei Darussalam: 14751
Bulgaria: 1077
Burkina Faso: 1001
Burundi: 1200
Cambodia: 5093
Cameroon: 2000
Canada: 3247980
Cape Verde: 70
Cayman Islands: 2500
Central African Republic: 150
Chad: 250
Chile: 4000
China: 56131
Colombia: 1305
Commonwealth of Dominica: 600
Comoros: 250
Congo (Democratic Republic): 25000
Republic of Congo: 875
Co...

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Delivery firms will be fined up to £60,000 for each illegal migrant worker they employ under new government legislation.

From October 1, all employers, including those in the gig economy offering flexible working arrangements, will be legally required to carry out right-to-work checks on staff.