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Reeves is correct in what she is saying right now. Her reform of the fiscal rules to differentiate investment from current spending was crucial. There's much to criticise her for, but she gets nowhere near enough recognition for this.

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I have never witnessed the utterly baboonish levels of jeering Reeves endures in the Commons - and this level of disrespect started on day one, so it is nothing to do with policies, credentials, or ability and everything to do with her being a woman.

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The Book Box is back! Edition 2 is now available on pre-order. shop.itemzero.com/products/the... A 20 piece set demonstrating binding techniques. 799 euros.

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One of the biggest winners? Ed Miliband! The minister who commentators keep insisting is imminently for the chop or is having his budget slashed, whispering net zero is in doubt or GB Energy is being quietly binned. The reality is he got the the biggest increase in capital and GBE alone got £8bn.

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"There's no right way to do the wrong thing"

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Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain: 🇬🇧🇪🇺“The government must tackle these issues by removing the technical barriers to trade which have artificially increased the cost of equipment, materials and crucially, addressing the shortage of builders.” www.bestforbritain.org/spending_rev...

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when Bluesky dies (spoiler alert: everything dies) this will be in the best bits that will circulate in screenshots forever

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"Because you stood up, I can be here." A young girl wrote me that after we defeated the Trump administration's 2017 travel ban. My daughter helped me write a reply. They later met and created a connection. Two 8-year-old kids can understand things in a way our president cannot.

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⚠️ Chancellor Rachel Reeves: "The member for Clacton may be playing the friend of the workers now, but some of us are old enough to remember when he described the disastrous Liz Truss budget as; "The best Conservative budget since the 1980's"

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This isn't about anyone in particular. Most people are very supportive of the stuff I do on YouTube and I feel positive that it's making a difference. But recently I've had a few comments complaining about something I've done as not being good enough. Maybe people think activism is my...

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

submitted 13 hours ago • 148 comments

Is Bromance Dead? A Photo Casebook Special The new Private Eye is out now

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Something leaflet delivery volunteers of ALL parties can get behind: Labour MP Anneliese Midgley has the first reading of her 10-minute rule bill on low-level letter boxes, which aims to ban those below a certain height in new housing developments.

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A thread on Green Party Executive Elections! It's not just the leadership. There are a lot of roles up for election. I'm going to try and keep track of all the candidates here. Let me know if I've missed any The roles are: Deputy leader/s Chair Campaigns Co-ordinator Elections Co-ordinator

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#OnThisDay 1902: Bow Road station was opened by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway. ➡️ flic.kr/p/RpPvJ6 [Top photo - Ben Brooksbank]

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The idea that being against the starvation and annihilation of civilians in Gaza means you are for the 7 Oct attacks is complete poison. The way this proposition, constantly put forward by Israeli officials, always goes unchecked, is utterly hateful www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links. Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.

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Well people are being extremely kind about this conversation so here it is again

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‘An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind’

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it's estimated that around £180m would be needed to adequately compensate all the victims of the Windrush Scandal. Thats 1/78th of this figure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're back earlier than usual because the news is crazy... @nikkimcr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss what's going on and why Trump wants things to get worse ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfric...

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 21 hours ago • 59 comments

Printer ink and supermarket packets of herbs are the most expensive materials, per gram, in all of humankind.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Oh.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3421 comments

When the violence start immediate do this.... STOP DROP AND HOLD It will make a protest wall and we can protest one another #revolution2025

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Please read this. This is what our mania over immigration is doing to us. Psychologically brutalising British children freemovement.org.uk/committee-ad...

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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

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When the Greens said this, nothing. When the LibDems spoke up about how bad it was Labour were dropping this, nothing. Reform back it and its even a headline in the fucking Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, the security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, will have assets frozen and be banned from entering the UK www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

US has such few troops stationed in the US, if a second big state decided to kick off, Trump could not control it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.

submitted 19 hours ago • 106 comments

I'm ravaged by cheap wine & rich patés.

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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

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When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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she’s got a point

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Over the side of the litter tray. Typical cat.

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this is a child immigrants, voted into one of the highest offices in the UK (in terms of population and economy) 3x, omes from a "hard working family"© - he's doing exactly the kind of thing right wing bigots want us to do. So when they still criticise, they tell on themselves badly

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Remembering João Gilberto on his birthday 🎂 📷 Tom Copi, 1960 "His seductive vocals caressed the ear as well as the soul, while his guitar set an insouciant swinging rhythm going. The voice pulled in one direction, the beat in another." - Daniella Thompson www.youtube.com/watch?v=20xY...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Stop worshipping boring rich white guys.

submitted 21 hours ago • 34 comments

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

submitted 20 hours ago • 204 comments

The aptly named Dr Bull has been made Reform Party Chairman. Having been acquainted with his political journey over the last 6 years, here's my cast iron guarantee - it will end very badly indeed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 182 comments