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"Yeah it's fine to do it Keir as long as it's people in the future, not the ones writing to me now"... great stuff

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Me for Freedom on the issues around the Assisted Dying Bill.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

It's probably a bit late now to try to tell British journalists that their job isn't to inflate or outright invent massively inflammatory numbers about Them Foreigns and present them on the front pages with an air of menace, to drum up domestic support for fascism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Emergency legislation incoming? Nah, probably not...

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

I’ve always found the investment in Corbyn per se (rather than the window of opportunity his leadership of Labour provided and policies he stood on) a frustrating dead end, but comprehensible. I find the tendency of some people to do this with Starmer less decipherable. The cult of no personality.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Absolutely incredible work on this Zaku by Aksara Ngarmna www.instagram.com/p/Cb-QW64vTo...

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

I think a lot of people today are so far removed from the past that they forget that infant mortality was once so high that it skewed life expectancy down to 35.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

New homes are being built in places with negative satisfaction in public transport. @transportfornewhomes.org.uk www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Off the charts levels of spiderman_pointing_at_spiderman.jpg in this

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

News confirmed here. Just an awful, demoralising day for UK continuing education. www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is very bad. cc @dreanyc123.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/TlioRI [gift link]

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Defied the trans toilet ban in parliament and used the men’s 🏳️‍⚧️✊

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Or here's a thought--maybe we could hire more actual human teachers, pay them better, make class sizes smaller, build in more paid prep time, and generally just invest in education instead of investing in AI.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Parliament is making trans people queue outside in the heat with no shade or water to see our MPs as part of the mass lobby with @transsolidarity.bsky.social - there are people here with canes and older people who need to come inside, @ukparliament.parliament.uk this is dangerous!

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I personally like Mamdani, but my big fear is that Democrats nationwide will take the wrong message from his victory and try running likable candidates with good policies all across the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Yes to this but why stop there? Let’s go for full comprehensive universities established on co-operative principles. VCs to be elected by staff, paid the same as other professors and rewarded for the burden of their 4 year stint with a sabbatical afterwards. Local govt on the board too.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

My additional objection to this is that the press was reporting, last week, that Labour was making decisions in government because they didn't want to be seen as aligned to him. So I would simply ask: who really needs to move on here?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

www.vulture.com/article/zohr...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

So it tuns out that the polls weren't just a little off...Cuomo was never anywhere NEAR this. Mamdani gives me hope in a way I haven't felt in years. He feels like the future. America, get ready for this guy to be photoshopped in a communist hat on MSNBC and represented as Voldemort on CNN.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

I keep seeing people claim that Starmer is being "attacked" to "weaken him so Reform can win". It isn't an attack to defend people's rights. It isn't an attack to call out bad policy. If Labour loses to Reform, that will be on Starmer, not the people who refuse to vote for what Labour now is. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

it's like when DOGE published all those USAID programs that were clearly CIA fronts and went "wait, why were the democrats spending millions of dollars on 'voter education' and 'cultural outreach' in these countries? sounds woke!!"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A confidence vote on the most unpopular Prime Minister in a generation is exactly the moment of accountability this country needs No doubt they'll be bullying and blackmailng these MPs to change their minds Let's hope it doesn’t go the way they’re counting on

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Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

I thought hard about this and I think the simplest way of explaining it is: They are the best possible government, so anything at all that helps them and stomps upon people they despise is automatically good, just and moral. And I bet they sleep like babies too, not a whisper of doubt.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I would ask: if the government unites with the Tory opposition to force through harsh cuts on disability payments that will have a devastating impact on people’s lives, while morally blackmailing their own MPs - is that going to look good, or bad

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Found this on Reddit. Tiger has three eyes. Such a dismal world we’ve given ourselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

The historic Hotspur Press building on fire this afternoon, after the owners let it rot for years. (Son took the picture from the top floor of a nearby multi-storey car park)

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

The notion that there’s a gap between what’s legal & right, and what states do, & you just have to accept that, is exactly and precisely the death of international law, human rights, and any sense that any of us have any protection from anything, except by sucking up to the nearest bully.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Gonna keep reminding people of this till it fucking sinks in that the USA & UK have our bloody hands in this and have had for literally decades.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's not a cognitive error it's misinformation. Vaccine adverse effects are a literal rounding error. Driving in a car is a hundred thousand times more dangerous than any vaccine. Public opinion is malleable and the NYT has played an outsized role in this issue.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Not the main focus of the article but absolutely hammered throughout it - one thing I don’t miss being a father in the UK is the absolutely constant kneejerk assumption that you’re basically a grown up child who half arses their relationship with their own children. Really, it’s so insulting.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Never mind what actual Iranians say, or actual Palestinians, or actual Iraqis, or actual Libyans, or actual Syrians, or actual Lebanese. The most important thing is what an American woman imagines that they say.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

the bombing of iran, the inevitable escalation, and the lasting global consequences are the kind of once in a lifetime disaster you only see 5 or 6 times before your mid forties

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

It would be trivially easy for any news media to contextualise the Prime Minister's statements with the true fact that Israel assassinated the Iranian lead negotiator. That they do not do that means they are knowingly doing propaganda for the British states militaristic agenda.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Only a matter of time now before Starmer U-turns on his father being a fucking toolmaker.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Still it’s on brand for our white supremacist government to align with Trump you know the government who who thinks the people of colour who actually live here are “strangers” to be subjugated due to the genuine concerns of racists

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Yvette Cooper is deporting more people violently, using anti-protest laws more draconically and proscribing protest groups for daubing paint. Yet because she’s not doing a Rivers Of Blood speech every week she’s not getting the same pantomime villain treatment as Patel/Braverman. Why is that?

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments