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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

submitted 9 hours ago • 161 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1913 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 8 hours ago • 257 comments

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

submitted 17 hours ago • 82 comments

Absolutely, hitting the nail squarely on the head. We will, probably, leave the ECHR. It will not solve the 'problem' (which is, fundamentally, a desire to 'get our country back' or 'return' to a never-was-land of 1930s England, with no brown people) Then it will be convention on refugees etc etc

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Well no one will check if you do make any cuts as to if valid and if harmful. As with DOGE USA it will be dodgy figures, dodgy claims and dodgy ideas which the press will mainly unquestioningly, repeat, ad nausea, as part of Reform's stranglehold on all discourse l.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Life gives you lemons, you carve off their skins and garnish your martinis (Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NB Reform have 804 council seats Greens have 850 council seats Labour have 6322 Lib Dems have 3198 Conservative 4403 Not seeing talk of a yellow tide or green tide or next prime minister for the bigger parties with like more seats....

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In a democracy, should the question we ask ourselves be "Am I better off?" What about "are other people better off?" "Are the laws fair?" "Are we more secure?" "Are we trashing the planet for the future?" The left, in particular, should be really wary of transactional framings of democracy. 1/3

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

"The big surprise is the Reform vote" They lost. They came third. If the Green or Lib Dem or SNP came a close third there would be utter silence www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"The median income was rising by 2.2% on average for the last five years before the pandemic. However, in 2022, incomes for the poorest 14 million people fell by 7.5%, whilst incomes for the richest fifth saw a 7.8% increase" Why does this not prompt a rethink regarding the progressive tax system?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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 3 days ago • 22 comments

Must-read! 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

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 6 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 5 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 6 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 6 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 7 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."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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 11 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

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 12 days ago • 1151 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Utterly, heart-wrenchingly, unforgivable.

submitted 18 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 18 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 18 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"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"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 18 days ago • 1 comment