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A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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femboy fart huffer dijo:
I have a theory about the world. I think that the inflection point for when everything started to go to shit was when apparently they fucking stopped selling lemon juice in little plastic lemons and switched to just all using fucking green bottles for some reason.

Objectively this is a bigger hit to English culture than the queen dying.
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Also (somewhat tangentially lemon related) when they changed Jif to "Cif".

I'm not calling it Cif.
 
In these trying times it's always good to see the Guardian striving to give us all a laugh.

UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’​

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Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of “normalising” the risks they face.

Hundreds of journalists from across the UK have anonymously disclosed increasing nervousness over their security. Some have reported avoiding or altering coverage on certain topics due to intimidation, leading to self-censorship and “a narrowing of the public conversation”.

The findings are revealed in a government-backed investigation into the safety of journalists, ordered amid growing hostility to traditional media across the west.

“There have definitely been times where there’s been a story that’s maybe in the public interest, maybe worth reporting on, where we have had frank discussions about whether it’s ‘worth it’,” said one journalist.

Another said: “I was definitely looking over my shoulder and making sure I wasn’t being followed and making sure that people weren’t going to start shouting things at me.”

Investigators found a widespread belief that abuse linked to reporting has increased, especially online. They also reported newsroom cultures that treated the increase as inevitable given the polarised political environment – with journalists expected to be “thick-skinned”.

Female journalists faced the brunt of abuse, describing gendered and sexualised harassment, explicit threats, inappropriate messages and online comments focused on appearance.

Common topics raised by journalists as causing safety concerns were rightwing anti-immigration protests, the Trump administration, including protests against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as trans issues.

“Anti-immigration protests were most widely referenced by journalists, both regarding the in-person risks of attending the marches and the backlash to any subsequent reporting,” the investigation found.

Similar findings have been recorded in the US, where the International Women’s Media Foundation found journalists were working in heightened political polarisation, declining public trust in the media and increasing exposure to physical and psychological risks.

https://www.theguardian.com/members...-press-freedom-without-talking-about-misogyny

There are numerous accounts of journalists in Northern Ireland facing intimidation from masked men while covering anti-immigration riots, disclosed to the UK’s National Union of Journalists.

In another case, footage of a journalist covering an anti-immigration protest was circulated in a Facebook group, with people working together to identify and locate them.

One respondent described seeing a female journalist subjected to misogynistic heckling at a “unite the kingdom” rally, with the footage later uploaded to social media.

With debates about the personal safety of reporters now a regular discussion point in newsrooms, ministers ordered an investigation by Alma Economics. It amounts to one of the most comprehensive assessments of journalist safety ever produced in the UK, surveying 531 journalists, alongside 55 in-depth interviews.

Almost half of those surveyed said safety concerns influenced their willingness to report on certain stories, while about a third had changed how or what they covered.
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That's right, coverage of the far-right and Donald Trump is being censored. Imagine the fearless reporting these heroic journalists could be doing!

One of the slimiest things I've seen on the BBC recently.

'Virginity is a myth we've given too much power'​

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When the poet Hollie McNish lost her virginity at the age of 19, she stared at her face in the mirror for half an hour, expecting some sort of transformation.

She wondered how to stand like a non-virgin so her family would not guess, and worried her parents were looking at her weirdly across the dinner table, while they all ate mashed potato.

The word virgin might only have six letters, but not many other words carry as much power, she says.

"Virgin is my least favourite word in the English language," she tells an audience of hundreds at Latitude Festival, in Suffolk.

"Life is full of first times but nothing else is sold as being powerful enough to change our entire state of being - from virgin to non-virgin."

The concept of virginity, and love in general, are the focus of the the 43-year-old's latest collection, Virgin.

McNish, who lives in Cambridge with her 16-year-old daughter, first heard the word aged five, performing in her school nativity.

"I knew it was virginity that made Mary special. Joseph's virginity was never mentioned.

"I've always found it weird and kind of frightening the way we speak about this concept."

The question "have you lost your virginity yet?" was a recurring one with friends throughout her teens.

McNish says virginity is a man-made myth created by those in power, in times that "also spoke positively of slavery and stoning".

It has been used across cultures to control, shame, praise, and define people, especially women, she adds.

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McNish hopes young people can enjoy their bodies and not feel less pure, or ashamed, by having consensual sex.

"My first attempt at intercourse was nice. It did not hurt, as rightly it should not, no matter the horrendous narrative about first time pain being some sort of marker of purity. I lost nothing except a sandal," she says.

McNish reaches millions of people through her books, performances, and short videos on social media, making her one of the UK's most widely shared poets.

She wrote her first poem aged seven, furious her family would not let her get a cat.

"My mum found it in the attic and it was funny to read back, I was insulting them in rhyme. Writing poetry has always been the way I've coped with things and worked stuff out," she says.

In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams. "It made stuff I hated fun," she says.

But she fell out of love with poetry when she was forced to learn it at school.

"I remember reading the Seamus Heaney poem Digging, and thinking 'why are we reading a poem about potatoes'. Now he's one of my favourite poets, but it was just another subject I had to learn."

McNish could not find time to write poetry while studying modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge, where she stayed on to gain a masters in economics.

She describes getting into the prestigious university as "a massive deal" but she found the atmosphere strange and experienced some snobbery about her working class accent.

"Some students did make fun of the way I speak, though I didn't get as much stick as anyone from the north of England.

"I wanted to play lacrosse, because I'd gone to the only state school that played it, but it wasn't for me. When I mentioned my address, one player said she'd always wanted to meet someone with a house number [rather than a name] and another said it was cute that my mum was a nurse."


McNish began writing poetry again after graduating and started reading her pieces at open-mic nights.

"I loved reading and I loved writing, but being a writer didn't really enter my mind. I got asked to do more and more gigs and suddenly it became my full-time job," she says.

McNish has also faced snobbery in the poetry world. Her poems have been described as basic. She is often lumped in with spoken words poets (she does perform her poetry but does not write it specifically to be spoken) or even referred to as an Instagram poet.

"My poems are pretty much word for word how I'm thinking. I want people to understand them. Sometimes I wonder what I have to do just to be called a poet. I've been insulted at times but I don't take it to heart any more," she says.

Often ideas come to her while she is driving, and she will leave herself a voice note.

"I've never sat down and thought 'I'm going to write some poems today', I have to wait for the ideas to come to me."

McNish wrote one of the poems in her new collection, Call Me, after she got scared, dropping her teenage daughter at her first house party.

She asks her daughter to call her, even if she is "puking up every warning that I gave you," and asks her to "never let shame stop you reaching for your phone".

"I knew there would be vodka and I was so worried about what she might do. But then when she was seven, I worried she would play with slime for the rest of her life.

"When she was a bit older she quit all the clubs I'd made her go to but now we get a lie in and it's lovely. I realised the only thing I really care about is that she calls me when she needs me."

Other poems in the collection are about sending nudes, second-hand bookshops and croissants.

McNish says the main message she would like people to take from the collection is that virginity is "no more than an invented idea, created to incite shame and power over people's bodies".

"It literally does not exist. It is you as an individual who gets to decide what experiences in life mean the most to you, not some century-old leaders."
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Underlined the dumbest bit.
 
"My first attempt at intercourse was nice. It did not hurt, as rightly it should not, no matter the horrendous narrative about first time pain being some sort of marker of purity. I lost nothing except a sandal," she says.

I don't think she was doing it right.

FFH, as resident thread pervert, is this some weird fetish thing with footwear I don't know about ?
 
Morethanabitfoolish dijo:
Underlined the dumbest bit.
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Becoming a father as a virgin is definitely just as easy as becoming a mother. There's simply no way your wife could get pregnant without you having sex with her. Women have fingerprint locks on their vaginas.
EddyRooney dijo:
FFH, as resident thread pervert, is this some weird fetish thing with footwear I don't know about ?
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Worse.

Indian.

Ok apparently it's a white woman but spiritually indian. No one else is having sex in sandals.
 
femboy fart huffer dijo:
Becoming a father as a virgin is definitely just as easy as becoming a mother. There's simply no way your wife could get pregnant without you having sex with her.
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That's one take. I more thought that Joseph's virginity was kind of irrelevant since he didn't give birth to the son of God but I'm not certain she read that far ahead.
 
2 Faces 2 Colours dijo:
I've been to Belfast recently to see family, and I agree it's wretched.
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Shenanigans continue in Belfast with a bus torched and a house attacked (X).
This was the scene in Newtownards last night, where the UDA attacked a house and torched a bus - It comes amid claims that a feud between Real UFF and UDA is over.
A loyalist source told the Belfast Telegraph: “These people were defeated and run out of Newtownards.
“The few who were allowed to stay were on the basis that they would get on with their lives.
“They’ve started to stick their head up again, and so they’re going, and this problem is being addressed once and for all."
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That law student might just be the tip of a very volatile iceberg.
 
Heinrich Maneuver dijo:
weirdo honeypot group
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It's this. Don't get involved with these people. The entire group is a massive glownigger honeypot. If you hang out with these people, you WILL get raped by the counter terrorism police sooner or later.

Does nobody think it's a bit suspicious that a country with a history of arresting people for pugs doing nazi salutes is just allowing this to happen openly, and it's being signalboosted massively on socialmedia at the moment? Yeah. Super organic movement. Nice try, niggers.
 
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That law student might just be the tip of a very volatile iceberg.
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The fact that no one has been shot yet makes me just think business as usual. Even if someone does get shot it's going to take more than one for me to believe it's anything other than Belfast being Belfast.

I still want to see the people that are allegedly fighting against anti immigration shit here. I just do not believe that it is anything other than niggers and jeets. No one is starting the troubles two electric niggeroo over foreigners, at least not in the fighting to defend them way.
 
These paramilitary groups are just gangs and drug peddlers. These groups are small thugs who hide behind their larping of the troubles and nationalist/loyalist beliefs. Don't be fooled by people saying that it's the start of something horrible because this is part and parcel with Belfast.

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French warship fires 17 rounds at Tory MP with no warning or notice of a training exercise. The British vessel was 2 miles from the coast of France. (X) Kind of hoping this turns out he blundered into an exercise but also, what the fuck
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Damn shame none of the bullets land at the MP, even by accident. France once again letting us down.
 
F40PH dijo:
Does nobody think it's a bit suspicious that a country with a history of arresting people for pugs doing nazi salutes is just allowing this to happen openly, and it's being signalboosted massively on socialmedia at the moment? Yeah. Super organic movement. Nice try, niggers.
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The fact it happened almost as soon as the Unite the Clans protest thing, almost as if as a response, also makes it glow. It makes it look like they were desperate to bury one and replace it with this one, which is now getting all the coverage and getting mixed up with the original Unite the Clans rally. In fact some Scot MP already doing the mix ups by treating both as the same event.

Maybe that is why it looks like they just came out of nowhere, they rushed the deployment due to real life fucking up their time table.
 
There's claims from a climate activist group called Zero Hour that Burnham is open to giving the Climate and Nature (CAN) private members bill an airing in the current session. It stalled before its second reading in 2025, but Burnham is listed as a supporter of it since entering Parliament, according to their website (archive). The bill intends to halt the import and refinement of hydrocarbons by 2030, as well as a bunch of other gubbins that each individually require spending half the national budget and a great deal of energy to achieve.
 

Reform councillor charged over offensive post about Nigerians​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...illor-charged-offensive-post-about-nigerians/

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Glenn Gibbons is due to appear before South Tyneside magistrates’ court on Aug 21

A Reform UK councillor has been charged with posting a grossly offensive message on social media after allegedly making a racist comment about Nigerians.

Glenn Gibbins, of Sunderland city council, has been charged with the offence under the Communications Act 2003, Northumbria Police said.

The force said the charge was in relation to a post from 2024 that referred to the Nigerian community.

It was alerted to the post in May, began investigations, then submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service, which has authorised a charge.

Mr Gibbins, who is 66 and from Sunderland, is due to appear before South Tyneside magistrates’ court on Aug 21.

A Northumbria Police spokesman said: “We are aware there has already been significant interest in relation to this individual and the social media post. We would urge people not to speculate, both online and in the community, in relation to this case.”

Mr Gibbins was suspended by Reform but was later reinstated, according to reports.
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Melt Nigerians into potholes guy got charged over the comment two years after the fact. Was going to upload the thread to A&N, but thought it was too short.
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Jason_Cruiser dijo:
Melt Nigerians into potholes guy got charged over the comment two years after the fact. Was going to upload the thread to A&N, but thought it was too short.
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What the fucking fuck? He'd better plead not guilty.

And I see they've got space to get him in front of a beak in under a month, but we have to wait a whole fucking year for widdicombe's murderer to face trial.
 
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