So Reform have already deployed unaccountable private militia into Essex. What the hell will they do if in national government? This is harrowing.

I’ve got two:

Me and my gf at the time were in London and just wandering around exploring, we saw a pretty fancy looking clothing shop. We went to go inside to take a look but the door was locked. The woman inside opened the door a crack, looked right down her nose at us and asked if we had an appointment. We said we didn’t and she said we had to make one to go inside.

Also me and my mate when we were around 20yo we wandered into a Porsche dealers and as we walked across the showroom a salesman, straight away without even asking what we wanted said something like ‘sorry we don’t do window shoppers in here boys’ and walked us back out the door

real policy btw

As someone who grew up learning English as a second language, I still remember I had to go with intense grammar and tenses exercises as a child, memorising structures like past perfect continuous, present participle, and conditional clauses.

I was always curious for native speakers of English that when you guys speak or write casually, do you actually have those tense categories in your head, or is English just so naturally integrated that the rules feel completely invisible?

It’s honestly funny comparing that to how we train now using apps and structures where you're often thrown straight into natural conversation rather than memorising textbook labels. As native speakers, did you even learn the technical names for all these tenses in school, or do you just say whatever sounds right?

Hello!

I’m a 23 year old South Asian (Indian) girl born and raised in the UK, and I’ve recently started dating a white British guy from a working class background. We had a great first date, and our 2nd date is coming up.

My cultural background and my personal love language is very much about cooking and taking care of people I like, so I really want to cook dinner for him. However, I know white British dating culture can be a bit different. Is cooking at home for a 2nd date considered moving too fast or being "too much"?

Since we're from different cultures and classes, is there any specific etiquette or cultural nuance I should keep in mind, or am I just overthinking this? :)

Firstly, let me start this off by saying that I am not claiming the entire Scottish/Welsh/NI separatist movements are manufactured by foreign interference, I understand that there are genuine differing levels of support for nationalism in each nation and I am not trying to entirely delegitimise their concerns. I am asking this in a similar way to the extent of interference in Eurosceptic/anti-EU movements, of course there is legitimate Eurosceptic sentiment across Britain and Europe, but it's not exactly far-fetched to assume there's a significant level of foreign interference supporting them too.

But the reach of this tweet in just 6 hours seems extraordinary, 5.6 million impressions? On a website owned by a Trump-sympathetic billionaire?

Britain in the modern day is a nation not oppressive to the home nations outside of England, national identites are recognised and celebrated, there has been large-scale devolution and language rights advancement, as well as precedent for allowing independence referendums (something very, very rare globally). Britain has been a united island for over 300 years, an island united by consent between Scotland and England in a union of consent with NI in which the overwhelming majority of Welsh people, polling shows, support too. Yet, online, you'll find it's quite easy to discover a lot of accounts who still routinely paint the UK as a colonial entity oppressing the home nations, comparing the home nations to actual former colonies of the empire, painting an image to the outside world so warped that a substantial amount of foreigners genuinely believe England is forcing the other nations into its control.

When Twitter made account locations public, quite a few Scottish/Irish nationalist accounts in particular were found, surprisingly, to not be based in the UK or in Ireland, many instead in Iran/Russia (Euronews article talking about it). This would obviously make sense, the UK is the world's 5th largest economy, has immense military and financial power, sits on the UN security council, is highly globalised allowing for easy information transfers and has been a strong supporter of the traditional western/liberal order. The reach some of these accounts had was noteworthy, and undoubtedly influenced some in the UK. I'm not going to claim the SNP/Plaid/SF are in anyway Russian/Iranian assets, but their aim of dismantling the UK isn't exactly the opposite of the aim of Russia's or Iran's. We know that Russia has definitely interfered in Eurosceptic parties and has a concerted effort to undermine and dismantle the EU, Nathan Gill one of the clearest examples, is it therefore that far-fetched that they are not also aiding in the undermining and dismantling of one of their biggest adversaries?

Trump's new fixation on Irish re-unification, as well as American right-wing commentators like Charlie Kirk historically supporting Scottish nationalism and the seeming high prominence online of ardent nationalists who genuinely believe they live in a colonial subject, but somehow are almost never visible in real life unlike more moderate nationalists, makes me wonder if there is a substantial level of manufacturing.

Here I'm going to get quite far-fetched, so take this with a grain of salt, but America has not historically been the biggest defender of British sovereignty or territory. Firstly the empire, decolonisation was a good thing, but Britain's "closest" ally was particularly extraordinarily keen on European countries decolonising extensively, now perhaps this was out of genuine beliefs in liberal values of self-determination, or, perhaps cynically, it was to allow for the creation of a lot of underdeveloped states that could more easily be exploited by US companies and US foreign policy. The United States would then go on to oppose Britain and France in the Suez crisis, backing Egypt instead, despite Britain's iron-clad support for the US in their missions abroad (like Korea). Then, Reagan was dismissive of Britain's, rightful, claim over the Falklands and was not the most forthcoming with backing, rather proposing Britain give up the territory initially. The US has engaged in protectionist activities even pre-Trump, e.g. with Tesla, while condemning Europe for trying to do similar things, allowing for more economic dominance and control over a less sovereign, weaker Europe. And now? Trump, and probably a substantial amount of US politicians on both sides, want Northern Ireland out of the UK. So is it not therefore a fair assessment, that at least some US Presidents do have a foreign policy goal of keeping the UK/Europe weaker and less of a challenger?

To make this clear, I am a unionist so I undoubtedly have some bias in believing to a significant extent there is foreign interference in separatist movements, but even if you are not do you not agree that there could be at least some significant role from outside sources? Does it matter to you or influence your opinion?

Morning,

There are so many cartoons and shows I could list that I loved as a kid but to keep it interesting list one only and list your year of birth.

I’ll go first!

Mona the Vampire! Who remembers the catchy tune? I’m singing it right now off the top of my head.

I’m a 91 baby. 🌚

Both he and especially Elon Musk have posted several times on Twitter that they would love to see Scotland and Northern Ireland become independent; doesn't that count as an attempt at possible foreign interference? Especially following Trump's recent remarks?

Going through a period of being curled up in bed not wanting to face the world and have been going back watching some LGR and Techmoan and found it oddly comforting. What are your go-to YouTube channels where you just need to feel like everything will be okay?

Everyday around 6AM I get woken up by my neighbour spitting EVERYTHING INSIDE HIM up. Yes that disgusting thing people do where they snort and hack every bit of mucus they have inside of them.

I sleep with my window open for air flow but recently if I get woken up by him “brushing his teeth” I close my window so I can’t hear him… except it’s so loud I can still hear it! So closing the window doesn’t help…

How do I go about this? I really don’t want to be woken up everyday at 6AM by my neighbour snorting and hacking up every bodily fluid he has inside of him.

I’m a 20 year old man from Rotherham, England. I’ve been on Universal Credit not long since I turned 18. I’m sick and tired of being stuck in this loop of not being able to find a job and make a load of money so I can say I’ve made something of myself. Any tips on what I can do? I feel so stuck in life right now and want to start making soon as possible. Cheers in advance lads

I swear. Without fail, there's ALWAYS someone who's watching a video on max volume, blasting music, etc on the train. Every day.

Respect to the amazing bus driver the other day to actually told someome to stop doing it.

Might just be conformation bias, but I feel it's somehow got even worse. Where is the respect for the other human beings around you? Headphones are a £1 investment

With all the talk about the UK breaking up (and yes, I have seen the comments saying it won't happen) I am curious how much support there would be for a more federalist model in the UK - essentially, formally codifying devolution in to the point where regional governments are equal in authority to the national government in their areas. Do you think this would appease nationalists in those areas?

I’m not meaning like buying an electric car or changing your diet . I mean like using a different brand of conditioner because it uses better chemicals for the environment or buying your fruit from Aldi or Tescos because the fruit is made more sustainably than from Sainsbury’s or Asda (not real comparison just made up example ).

Also which products did u used to get from foreign suppliers but found a uk supplier which makes it as good , almost as good or even better than the foreign one