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"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot." - #DouglasAdams
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It would be stupid not to accept a gift of a free plane? Donold, let me tell you a story about a wooden horse...

submitted 2 days ago • 310 comments

If you’re repeatedly having to tell people that what you said definitely doesn’t sound like Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of blood” speech, you probably need to go and have a really hard think about what you did say… #ukpolitics

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely. It’s not - and was never going to be - a trade agreement. It’s a political document designed to give bogus credibility to two politicians in need of saving face.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Boris Johnson 2019: police funding is being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse. Boris Johnson 2025: “I don't know why we don't have a national inquiry [into the grooming gangs]…”

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#SaveTheBees via Unify

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United Utilities in use 'less water' warning as reservoir levels drop. UU has 205 criminal convictions. It loses 175bn litres to leaky pipes, built no new reservoirs, paid excessive dividends, neglected Investment. Wants people to pay more for less. No national plan for water security.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Ok .. if I was Starmer I would adopt PR, I would adopt Levenson 2 and I would rejoin the EU .

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

If we each do a little bit more for the cause of freedom we can achieve independence.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I bet it’d be a bestseller.

submitted 14 days ago • 60 comments

‘Do something with your actions. Don’t just write a cheque’: Bonnie Raitt on activism, making men cry and 38 years of sobriety

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

After by-election and local election losses PM Keir Starmer says he will go “further and faster on the change”. NO. Must change policies. People concerned about poverty, winter fuel payment cut, high water/energy bills, profiteering, disability cuts, poor infrastructure. Must end Tory policies.

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/rory-... Just over a month until my next big #sophiefromromania event - do come to Salisbury on June 5th to hear me talking about Sophie, Parkinson's and much more

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

submitted 19 days ago • 625 comments

Terrifying!!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Huge if true! 🤪

submitted 25 days ago • 78 comments

Really beautiful work in all senses of the word. The complexity is hard to comprehend. “A complete reconstruction of a cubic millimetre of neurons requires roughly a petabyte of data” #neuroskyence #nature #neuroscience #brainresearch www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 1666 comments

This is me

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

submitted 33 days ago • 80 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 33 days ago • 209 comments

In 2013 Le Pen called for lifelong ineligibility for politicians convicted of criminal acts while in office. But now she's been found guilty of embezzling European parliament funds and is barred from running, the far-right are attacking the courts.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Bottom line: Trump a week ago, Trump told America that the full tariff package was a “liberation”. Today, he largely, though not completely, reversed course. Therefore, by his own logic America is less liberated than it was. The weakest day of his presidency so far.

submitted 37 days ago • 42 comments

The French would like to thank the UK for funding to them. 2020 - 2024: EDF owned by the French state made £91bn operating profit in the UK, subsidises French households/industry. UK govts oppose public ownership but happy to let foreign govts own UK infrastructure, export billions of profits.

submitted 39 days ago • 36 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 39 days ago • 314 comments

UK state pension rises by £470 to £11,790 a yr. 26% of retirees receive the full amount SP is less than 50% of minimum wage. Worst in major economies. Thousands below the poverty line lost winter fuel payment. 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

submitted 40 days ago • 26 comments

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

submitted 44 days ago • 353 comments

It’s a helluva time to be a dickhead president

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Starmer offers big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs. Trump won't keep promises, already torn treaties. Can't offer tax cuts to US companies but not to others? Many will seek registration in a US territory to dodge tax. Join the EU. Take back control.

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submitted 50 days ago • 59 comments

A 2% wealth tax could raise £24bn, yet we're cutting disability benefits instead. Who are we protecting?

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Well now.

submitted 53 days ago • 10 comments

So…lock them up?

submitted 53 days ago • 1963 comments

UK Chancellor Reeves goes full Trump, 'to slash 50,000 civil service jobs', cut spending by £2 billion per year. So, there is less money in the economy. Knock-on effect? Loss of tax revenues? Pressure on families, welfare benefits and public services? Austerity because govt won't tax the rich.

submitted 53 days ago • 30 comments

🙌 ♥️ Lovely!! Neil Young is planning to play a free concert in Kyiv at a time when Ukraine desperately needs positive support from the outside world.

submitted 58 days ago • 31 comments

Down with the tyrants

submitted 57 days ago • 96 comments

Some of the recent US border stories are of actual or possible breaches of immigration law leading to grossly disproportionate consequences (which is fairly standard in immigration law everywhere tbh). This one is rather different. Ordinary travel to the US is a risk. www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/d...

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million. It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts. This is austerity 2.0

submitted 59 days ago • 55 comments

We should really ask Canada if they'll let us be their 11th province.

submitted 60 days ago • 44 comments

I do hope European leaders understand what is happening here. Trump and Putin are carving up Ukraine and making fundamental decisions on the future of Europe--and not a single European leader is taking part in the call.

submitted 59 days ago • 71 comments

Whilst Trump's deportation record is increasingly deplorable, it's worth remembering that the UK was about to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. #Immigration #Refugees

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

I decided to verify a rumor, that Elon Musk is having a hard time keeping up with the censorship he is trying to pull over his own A. I. system. It is true.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

The way people are joking about Trump being under Putin's thumb reminds me of the way people used to joke about Jimmy Saville being a nonce when I was a kid in the 1970s.

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

There are many strands to Trump redux. Techno feudalism. Right wing Christian evangelism. AntiVaxx anti scientists. Zero state libertarians. Greedy billionaires and fossil fuel lobbyists. And of course Alt Reich nationalists. But the biggest theme is Russia, Russia, Russia

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments