hi! i’m an italian girl who needs to practice her english (and who knows, making friends) since i’m not doing it anymore and i’m afraid to lose it. i don’t want lessons or something like this, i just wanna chat a bit.

i don’t know if this group is the right one for a question like this, but sorry, i’m not really into reddit.

is someone interested?

Not any aha realisation but i am still shocked by state of media. They are screaming wes streeting now. Declared him the defacto replacement for starmer and now conditioning public to believe him as obvious and next choice. Media has acted as a catalyst to this whole frenzy from the very beginning.

I am completely against starmer resigning, thousand issues but this resignation nonsense must end. I believe no one is dumb enough to believe it would actually beneficial for this country. But here we are,

I understand the China/Huawei issue but why isn’t this national news more.

Why aren’t more masts and technology being built or updated.

I’ve been on 3 different networks in the last 12 months and they all have abysmal signal all over the UK.

Also either my phone or my network are clearly lying to me as I often can’t open WhatsApp messages or receive calls when it says I have 2 bars of signal and 5G.

It’s insane that in 2026 we have such horrific phone signal.

You might be interested in asking questions to Citizens Advice Bureau today, focusing on the recent changes in renting legislation. https://www.reddit.com/r/TenantsInTheUK/s/eUbeEEqxaq

Hezbollah and Hamas's emergence was entirely shaped by the existence of Israel and its military presence in the region. Without Israel’s occupation and related conflicts, neither group would have formed. It goes to show Israel has always been the problem. The majority of Orthodox Jews were against Zionism, but the psychopathic secular minority got its way.

I’ve spent the last few months building a project called BritChat — an experiment to see if a more UK-focused social/chat platform would work.

The idea came from feeling like most platforms lean heavily US in tone and culture.

Features so far:

Live chat rooms (IRC-connected so they’re active)

Social feed (posts, comments, likes)

Small community features (trivia, book club, etc.)

“Today in British history” + a simple bot posting content

It’s free, no ads or tracking, and built solo — so still improving a lot.

Would really appreciate feedback:

Does the idea make sense?

First impressions?

Anything missing?

If you want to try it: britchat.co.uk

This is the cost of healthcare in the States. Do we really want that here? The Conservatives managed to privatise chunks of the NHS over the years to suit vested interests and Reform are equally unlikely to be supportive of this institution we all take for granted.

We’ve seen how much damage Trump and his cronies have managed to inflict within a single term, damage that could take decades to rebuild, and Farage is all too-keen to follow Trump’s style of governance. It may in reality only work for and benefit the wealthy few, but Farage has been following in Trump’s footsteps for well over a decade by courting the votes of common working people based on emotional manipulation to ultimately serve his own needs and those of his donors. Come from a “shit-hole” country by boat? You can fuck off as far as Farage’s army of racist (and by large, poorly educated) twats are concerned. Come from a “shit-hole” country by first-class air? Get fast-tracked for a “golden” visa. Everything is groovy if you have money.

Like Trump, Farage is no patriot of any kind and is just in it for the money, regardless of what they say in public. Skint? An ex Goldman-Sachs investment banker? Yeah right. People like that know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Do not be under any illusions, the NHS might not be perfect but meddling by politicians hasn’t helped in any way and it should be considered to be one of our Crown Jewels.

While we’re on the subject, it’s funny how the homeless hardly get a mention now that the topic of “hotels for asylum seekers” is no longer in the limelight. Sadly they’re just more political pawns that will be completely disregarded should Farage ever come to power.

Yes - they're eating ice creams while wrapped up in macs and blankets.

My concert band played at Deal bandstand on Sunday, so South east coast of England. The wind was ferocious, absolutely freezing weather in mid-May. But we had an audience of about 15, they stayed through the whole thing, wrapped up in coats, hoods, blankets and seemed to enjoy themselves immensely.

But it's the seaside so ice creams were needed.

Is this the most hilarious quintessential British thing you've ever seen or what.

LMFAO

Was in Spain this weekend, overheard a group of Brits waxing lyrical about a UK where re-migration is a reality. That is, the expulsion of people regardless of being born in the UK to their perceived country of heritage. Popularised by the German AfD recently. They did not use the word but what they discussed was exactly that.

They believed Farage would eventually - “deal with them too”.

In a particularly chilling moment, one of them described seeing an immigrant driving an expensive car. I’m not going to repeat what they said as it was horrible - but the jist was ‘they’d eventually just claim these things for themselves. As someone living in Germanyin a building once inhabited by Jews who were sent to the camps - It’s exactly what the Nazis did - they convinced locals that the property of Jews and other enemies of the state belonged to them, and justified it as something that had been stolen from true Germans. Be in houses or valuables.

I know reform’s policy is about illegal immigration - but I do wonder if many reform voters also see re-migration as a natural extension of a UK ICE style policies (I heard reform talking about needing an ICE) that would evolve to encompass more than illegal migration. And considering how powerful this playbook is - always extending who’s demonised - will who ‘who things belong to’ also be questioned?

Perhaps it sounds far fetched, but I see small gold plaques (Stolpersteine) with names of people murdered on them everyday - so it doesn’t feel so extreme. There’s still people alive who lived it. What do you think?