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* As long as it doesn’t violate the fiscal rules or tax pledges

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It's hugely naive to imagine that Reform's obvious and inevitable dysfunction, its endless rifts and spats, its utter incoherence on matters of policy, its deeply ugly views on pretty much everything will matter even in the slightest to the Great British Voting Public. We are way past all that.

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Thanks to shoddy UK legacy media, we get our facts from our trusted independent sources these days. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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I'm so sick of English politicians pandering to the far-right. This is neither progressive politics nor conservative politics. It's a monster made from populusm, xenophobia and re-heated Thatcherism – with the Tories, Labour and Reform all going after the same segment of the electorate.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Gilmorehill House, photographed by Thomas Annan on the eve of its demolition in 1870. Remarkably, the new Gilbert Scott building's twin quadrangles are taking shape around it. It was built in 1802 for merchant and slave owner Robert Bogle. 📷 Glasgow Uni #Glasgow

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Joke department www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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For the record:

submitted 19 hours ago • 90 comments

It is democracy that lost in Hamilton www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...

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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

submitted 16 hours ago • 676 comments

For West Cork locals and lovers: A mussel farm, which would bottom-dredge a massive 23 hectares within the precious Kinsale harbour, has been granted a licence. Meeting this Sunday to organise appeals.

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Education that pretends the world isn't going to change serves no one. It's time we taught people how to change with the times. youtu.be/KKH26HuIwVo?...

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Tesla goes first in Trump-Musk divorce proceedings www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

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This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon #Trump #ElonMusk

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"developers will be able to pay to create nature somewhere else in the country to gain permission to build here." This almost-zoo approach is a disaster - the idea you can offset the destruction of a living habitat by making a sterile theme-park version elsewhere.

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Trump is a catastrophe of chaos and corruption, but where is the opposition? My latest—”The Democrats are doing Trump’s work for him. Read it at from @renewdemocracy.bsky.social at The Next Move from and subscribe! www.thenextmove.org/p/garry-kasp...

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i love it when a public figure is shite at something and columnists come out of the woodwork to declare that being shite at stuff is working-class coded

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Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔 www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/... www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

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NHS England admits that it can’t ignore patients who ask that their health records are only used for their care. #Health

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Fascist Russia may have used Tu-160 bombers in attack on democratic Ukraine last night due to shortage of Tu-95 strategic bombers capable of firing Kh-101 cruise missiles. The more modern Tu-160's are much more expensive to fuel and maintain. militarnyi.com/uk/news/rosi...

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SNP activists say that Party HQ silenced warnings about by-election strategy: #ScottishPolitics

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NEW: 'We were shut down': SNP activists reveal HQ silenced Reform strategy warnings Campaigners say a prolific activist was "publicly" shut down for questioning the campaign team's strategy and narrative on a "two-horse race" between SNP & Reform www.thenational.scot/news/2522000...

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Adam Ramsay on the lessons from the Hamilton by-election: Labour's organisation is back and voters are not being enthused: #ScottishPolitics

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@aprscotland.bsky.social Director Kat Jones on the campaign that banjaxed a Galloway National Park and another poorly conducted consultation by the Scottish Government: #Galloway #ScottishEnvironment 🌱 #LandManagement

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"they could have had a wealth tax, they could have put up corporation tax.. but they attacked pensioners, they have attacked disabled people.. if your solution is to attack the most vulnerable, rather than those who can afford to pay, it tells you the direction of travel" Mark Serwotka on #bbcqt

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Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.

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a rewriting of The Unna Rules, in the manner of Chuang Tzu, from The Walkative Revolution. I have copies of this and Not Sealions But Lions by the Sea, available for £25. The Unna Rules were an attempt to codify a new relationship between humans and wild land, written by the mountaineer Percy Unna.

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US politics is a DOGE eat DOGE world.

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No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change. youtu.be/Dx6HxfAQYEA?...

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David Rowe #Trump #Musk #TravelBan

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The need for Brexit UK to build rivals - satellites, science funding, chemicals register, student exchanges, even to the Union itself - to Europe is the most pathetic part of that movement. Good it's coming apart. 1 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Who could have ever predicted that these two galactic sized egos would end up tearing into each other, you know, aside from anyone with a braincell? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A view from the south-east of Stac Pollaidh or "Stack Polly", north of Ullapool in Wester Ross. At 2,008ft or 612m in height, this is a mountain that easily makes up in character and charm for what it lacks in stature. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #StacPollaidh #WesterRoss

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#GMB tells us the base salaries of bosses running the profiteering private water companies. The Labour govt won't renationalise water because its on the side of the private companies that are ripping us off.

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John Sakeouse: hunter, explorer, artist, interpreter, kayaker, friend of Leith and the first Inuit in Scotland | Andy Arthur on Threadinburgh: #Leith #Edinburgh #Greenland

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#BathsoAiberdeenshire

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I know it's been said before, but few things have illustrated the bankruptcy of marketing education as accreditation than the impact of LLMs. The gym analogy which a lot of us have used shows this in two ways.. /1

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BBC Radio 5 live currently has someone saying that Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing happened in the past and they could happen again. Are they blind? It is happening right now.

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For the life of me I cannot figure out why Donald Trump is trying to destroy higher education

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