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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Michelle Mone has admitted that she lied to the media over her links to a PPE firm. Enough is enough, it's time those in power put an end to this sordid affair. Sign the petition now and demand Mone is expelled from the House of Lords:

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Labour promised people we would rebuild Britain – and that’s what we’re doing | Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28% www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Five years since Colston fell, there have been setbacks – but those who demanded race equality have not gone away | Simon Woolley

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Rachel Reeves must think big to fund Labour’s ‘battle-ready’ Britain. Tweaks and tinkering won’t do | Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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London mayor reverses TfL ban on ads calling for abortion decriminalisation www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Hubris, crisis and scandal: how the NatWest ‘soap opera’ unfolded www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US. First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

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Nicola Jennings on Farage’s new Reform offer – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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By delaying its child poverty plan, Labour has a chance to reverse 15 years of inequality | Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s botched winter fuel U-turn raises questions over its purpose in power www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Brexit led to £4.7bn being spent on implementing post-EU border arrangements including a vastly expensive border post in Kent. No other country in the world can have erected such ludicrous barriers against its biggest trading partners. All are now wasted. At least the nonsense can stop

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How Wales Became the Target of a Right Wing Culture War – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

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Brexit disaster: Lacking clarity over the UK’s future relationship with the EU, business investment flatlined – compounding an already weak environment for spending on productivity-enhancing kit, infrastructure and buildings, as austerity choked off public investment.

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Bruce Springsteen The America I love is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” The band then launch into a roaring, rousing version of Land of Hope and Dreams, as strings swoop, brass soars.

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What if one key problem with British politics at the moment is us – the voters?

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Let the tory party die the painful death it deserves. It has done nothing to make the country prosper since it's inception and has only served those with the deepest pockets. Their belief that they are the natural party of government contempt for anyone anti unfettered capitalism is nauseating

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Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

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‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?

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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?

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Block Trump from speaking in parliament during his state visit. Sign the petition to stop this national embarrassment:

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River Usk looking lovely

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Growth is totally dependent upon people having enough money to spend. Without the redistribution of wealth in the UK, that is not going to happen. youtu.be/8Xu2x3AwOKM?...

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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