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Council proposes £1,000 fines for homeless people sleeping in tents (Pgs: 1 2) 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 18:59 Replies: 37
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Mob burns down entire Hindu village in Bangladesh (Pgs: 1 2 3 4) 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 18:42 Replies: 72
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Women are "smaller, weaker and less intelligent" so must earn less. (Pgs: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 17:59 Replies: 572
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Blackpool's Brexit referendum result was representative of the English people. 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 17:58 Replies: 1
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Is Trumps "Muslim ban" really as bad and racially motivated as the news says? 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 17:01 Replies: 10
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Kill British Isis fighters, says the defence secretary. 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 13:52 Replies: 9
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Poll: May's deal with the EU (Pgs: 1 2 3) 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 13:20 Replies: 53
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Israeli missiles in Damascus 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 0:50 Replies: 3
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PM May Assassination plot foiled by MI5 09-12-2017 09 Dec 2017 0:36 Replies: 7
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Astonishing changes in Saudi Arabia as women come into public sphere 08-12-2017 08 Dec 2017 23:21 Replies: 9
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Turkey is building a wall to keep Syrians out 08-12-2017 08 Dec 2017 22:13 Replies: 5
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Train fares to rise, biggest rise since 2013 (Pgs: 1 2 3) 08-12-2017 08 Dec 2017 20:50 Replies: 41
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Russia election: Putin to run again for president (Pgs: 1 2) 08-12-2017 08 Dec 2017 10:11 Replies: 22
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The EU has given Theresa May 48 hours to save her Brexit deal 08-12-2017 08 Dec 2017 7:18 Replies: 3
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'Our collective shame': Trudeau delivers historic apology to LGBT Canadians 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 17:39 Replies: 17
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Are they a threat? 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 17:14 Replies: 10
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Santa almost certainly dead claim researchers 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 16:57 Replies: 10
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Time for a more practical approach to foreign policy 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 15:25 Replies: 2
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If you could have voted in the US politics who would it have been? 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 13:43 Replies: 4
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£300m in mental health funding for school children. Is it enough? 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 11:52 Replies: 6
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"Silence breakers" named as Time Person of the Year (Pgs: 1 2 3) 07-12-2017 07 Dec 2017 10:26 Replies: 40
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Trump 'racist' Britain First tweets (Pgs: 1 2 3 4) 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 21:18 Replies: 62
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Manchester attack could have been stopped report says 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 20:42 Replies: 7
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PM refuses to revoke Trump state visit despite far right retweets (Pgs: 1 2 3) 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 18:58 Replies: 47
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Supreme Court permits full enforcement of Trump's Travel Ban (Pgs: 1 2) 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 15:17 Replies: 30
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Farage says the US should fear Jews (Pgs: 1 2) 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 10:37 Replies: 23
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Have the Tories accepted the Single Market? Latest news. (Pgs: 1 2) 06-12-2017 06 Dec 2017 4:21 Replies: 24
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A agency carer jailed for 21 years for attempted murder of 90 year old woman 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 19:13 Replies: 0
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Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 18:34 Replies: 5
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Austria court legalises same-sex marriage 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 17:35 Replies: 1
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Facebook - For Kids 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 16:20 Replies: 6
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Should doner kebabs be banned across Europe? (Pgs: 1 2 3) 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 0:38 Replies: 43
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Robert Mugabe's government killed 1200 prisoners in 3.5 hours in 1996 05-12-2017 05 Dec 2017 0:18 Replies: 0
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Labour's response to Trump's "Britain First" tweets has been crazy (Pgs: 1 2) 04-12-2017 04 Dec 2017 23:24 Replies: 24
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Did Robert Mugabe cause 3-6 million deaths in Zimbabwe from 1980-2017 04-12-2017 04 Dec 2017 21:58 Replies: 1
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Donald Trump retweets Britain First (Pgs: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 04-12-2017 04 Dec 2017 17:28 Replies: 122
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Doner kebabs could soon be banned across Europe due to links with heart disease 04-12-2017 04 Dec 2017 13:28 Replies: 14
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Black Africa migrants being sold as slaves in Libya (Pgs: 1 2) 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 19:24 Replies: 23
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Far-right stage anti-immigrantion rally 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 19:03 Replies: 3
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Former CIA spy claims American Zionists are starting wars 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 19:02 Replies: 1
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German pro-refugee mayor Andreas Hollstein stabbed 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 19:00 Replies: 6
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Anti-racists want a world without White people 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 18:58 Replies: 3
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Should weapons be banned in America? (Pgs: 1 2 3) 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 18:39 Replies: 59
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BBC News: Migrant crisis - UN says Europe is 'on cusp of self-induced crisis' (Pgs: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 18:07 Replies: 213
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How has the world changed for the past 10-15 years? (Pgs: 1 2) 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 17:36 Replies: 20
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Trump hits out at May over tweet criticism 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 12:08 Replies: 1
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Serbian war criminal ends life with poison in court 03-12-2017 03 Dec 2017 6:39 Replies: 14
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There is $75M buried under a big T...I mean a landfill in South Wales 02-12-2017 02 Dec 2017 13:52 Replies: 0
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Flynn charged with lying to the FBI 02-12-2017 02 Dec 2017 11:36 Replies: 9
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Man wins £50000 - instant karma (Pgs: 1 2) 02-12-2017 02 Dec 2017 10:22 Replies: 21
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New drug to help prevent migraines!! 02-12-2017 02 Dec 2017 5:58 Replies: 6
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Chinese man fined for painting road signs 02-12-2017 02 Dec 2017 5:05 Replies: 3
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Taliban terrorists dressed in burkas kill 13 in Pakistan 01-12-2017 01 Dec 2017 21:54 Replies: 0
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The Guardian view on cryptocurrencies: blockchain of fools (Pgs: 1 2 3) 01-12-2017 01 Dec 2017 16:34 Replies: 56
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"Extreme pornography" found on Secretary of State Damian Green's computer (Pgs: 1 2) 01-12-2017 01 Dec 2017 16:26 Replies: 26
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Theresa May: Trump was 'wrong' to retweet far-right posts 30-11-2017 30 Nov 2017 18:43 Replies: 0
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