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"These grifters, these attention merchants, these relevance chasers, pollute the body politic every day with their lies and half-truths for their own financial gain - and then blame everybody else for the disaster they’ve created." 💯 open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Gosh, this is incisive.

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I don’t want to live in a world where somebody drives a car into a crowd of people who just want to celebrate their football team. And I don’t want to live in a world where the police have to specify that person is white & British to stop hotels & mosques being firebombed.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

They're building a police state... Don't say you weren't warned. And don't think we're safe from the same here in the UK. #Musk #DOGE open.substack.com/pub/elonmusk...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A sobering read for a sunny Saturday morning 😢 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Well done for catching up with what the rest of the world has been completely aware of all along, man 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Catching up on first episode of The Piano from last weekend. 20 mins in and I've cried three times already 🥹 it's just the bestest of best reality TV @channel4.bsky.social

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Quite the litany of concerning behaviours here 😳 #charity #charitycommision #compliance www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.

submitted 66 days ago • 84 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 66 days ago • 868 comments

I've lost track of the number of times the upgrade of the Transpennine rail network has been announced, cancelled to some extent or another and then reannounced as if it's new over the last 10 years or so... 🙄 #transport

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Some important stuff here - getting increasingly disillusioned by a government which apes the prevailing (and incorrect) talking points rather than robustly combats them with appropriate action. Not the behaviour I expected...

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Elon Musk seeming to conveniently forget the US state/federal government set up... 🤔

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

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“The European Union alone has a GDP about 10 times that of Russia, and if you add the U.K. and Norway to that calculation, the imbalance in favor of Ukraine grows even larger.” Good piece on why Russia is in dire straits and everyone should get behind Ukraine.

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

Albert's power pose 😹 #Caturday

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Absolutely necessary in current context, but given the pretty dire straits of the nation's current and projected finances, which area of the public expenditure is going to suffer as a result to meet this... 😬😕 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

submitted 103 days ago • 3241 comments

Weeeeeee! #Caturday 🐈.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my #Caturday contribution - as the little one gets bigger, we're running out of lap space 😅

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"In 2016 Europeans comforted themselves in the belief that Trump was too incompetent to do anything. In 2020 Europeans comforted themselves in thinking Trump was a blip. In 2025 Europeans comfort themselves that Trump doesn’t mean what he says." Well, we need to wise up. And quick. A must read 👇🏼

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

🚑 Time to recognise paramedics as an official emergency service. Paramedics face immense stress yet lack official emergency service recognition. It’s time for fair rights, benefits and retirement protections.

submitted 117 days ago • 55 comments

I've seen a few takes saying things like: "If controversial messages in private group chats can now end a political career we may as well shut down parliament now." Am I the only person who thinks things like this shouldn't be said in private or public?! 🤯 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Jess Phillips is an inspiration in my eyes, she's done so much more to fight for the safety of women and girls than Musk et al will ever ever do. She doesn't deserve this treatment. I'm angry for her 😡 BBC News - Musk's 'disinformation' endangering me, says Phillips www.bbc.com/news/article...

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While all this has been across the news over the weekend, I've often thought of this excellent and comprehensive investigation by @bylinetimes.bsky.social from last year - definitely worth a read to help open your eyes to how this matter has been weaponised by the far right.

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Excellent and worryingly insightful stuff here from @lewisgoodall.com

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