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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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Like Matthew Goodwin I've been doing some modelling and MY projections say that Britain will be majority non-white by 2149. Notes: I define 'white' as "carbonara is your favourite pasta sauce" and adjust for Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan stripping planet earth to a lifeless husk in 2137.

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

Must-read! 👇🏽

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I am constantly baffled by the inability of people making this argument to treat children as humans. Take a family. You think they shouldn’t have had a third child. Maybe they did, in fact, make a bad decision. You win. Now, what do you want the child to eat: is your scolding especially nutritious?

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

We're way past the point of needing to accept that many at the BBC are fans and supporters of the hard right

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

When the editor of the lancet published a story like this and it went unreported, we have an almost news blackout in the press on the very important facts on COVID

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

whenever I see a Tory shadow minister talking about how bad crime is I’m reminded that they got rid of 1/2m years of policing experience, 800 police stations, 600 courtrooms, 1000s of probation officers and added just 482 prison places What the f*** did they expect to happen?

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

"At a time when the West is struggling with a demographic time bomb making it unaffordable to have more than two kids is a crime."

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I remember someone from the BBC being challenged about the frequency of Farage popping up on news shows. He said that their rule is that political appearances represent the number of MPs each party has. So we should hear from the LibDems 14 times more often than we hear from Reform.

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If the hard and far right need to blame anyone for “two-tier” policing, they need only look to themselves and the invidious position in which they’ve put officers. My latest, on Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

Total trust Farage's judgement on budgets and fiscal matters. After all Brexit would mean we were better off and Truss' budget was brilliant

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Utterly, heart-wrenchingly, unforgivable.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

despite the relentless right-wing propaganda, the public are pretty split on the benefits of Monday's EU deal: YOUGOV: 29% of Britons see the deal as being good for the country 26% see it as bad 16% see it as neither a good nor a bad deal 30% said they don’t know

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Regarding the fishing deal between EU and UK. I understand it is 12 years. But other than that no one seems to say what it is and why it is bad, apart from it allows foreigners to fish in UK waters and it is 'taking rules from the EU"

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"UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid" When exactly are the international community going to do more than wring hands and make sad faces? Israel is violating international norms and rules of war. It is indiscriminately targeting civilians inc a million children

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Much of today's UK media and political reaction to the EU summit, in handy picture form.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

@financialtimes.com Gap between boss and worker pay highlighted by that left wing Marxist paper, the, erm, Financial Times. I would posit that almost anyone would think, on this sort of data, a wealth tax is needed.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I remember struggling with the moral complexity of the Witcher 3 quest to kill the Latvian entry.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The reality is, Britain economically benefits from immigration and illegal migration is too small to impact most. The communities that blame immigration for decline are actually suffering the effects of 15 yrs of Tory austerity, under-investment in public infrastructure and the reality of Brexit.

submitted 18 days ago • 98 comments

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this is brilliant on the long-term ability of UK government to borrow because of the damage done by Liz Truss www.ft.com/content/927c...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

This 'strangers' comparison with Powell is overblown. I thought the 'squalid' line was much worse. Can't get it out of my head. I know it was ostensibly about an era, but it was very clearly designed to be vivid enough to speak to a set of voters. It was a meaningful choice.

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

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extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting new bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10% via me and Gill Plimmer www.ft.com/content/1f6d...

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 549 comments

🚨 BLOODY HELL: News Causes Journalist To Have On-Air Meltdown. 👇🏻 #BrokenNews would like to apologise about this update. Please do not share it. youtu.be/cTt09yGQdhw?...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments