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The question we would all like an answer to

submitted 63 days ago • 24 comments

Erdogan’s main political rival jailed, days after being barred from running for political office. Yet more rapid democratic backsliding and authoritarian moves in Turkey.

submitted 67 days ago • 50 comments

"Farage couldn’t be more disconnected from the lives of his voters without changing his surname to Antoinette." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on this week's spatter of omnidirectional bullshit from Nigel Farage, Trump's final friend in Europe www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 125 days ago • 1340 comments

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

submitted 125 days ago • 16 comments

Musk likes to say X is “citizen journalism”… …it’s anything but. REAL citizen journalism is the Bylines Network of 10 local publications that edit & publish real articles written by citizens - all IMPRESS regulated. Follow us — and these other investigative & “for public good” media sources. 🙏🏻

submitted 127 days ago • 18 comments

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 145 days ago • 133 comments

This is unutterably stupid. Political donations should have been reformed YEARS ago. We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 159 days ago • 79 comments

Richard Tice, whose Reform Party may be about to be funded by Elon Musk, condemning interference in British politics by foreign billionaires

submitted 160 days ago • 83 comments

BBC’s Chris Mason calls Farage a “master of storytelling” Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.

submitted 161 days ago • 132 comments

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

submitted 165 days ago • 279 comments

I visited a school recently which had SLANT posters up. I asked about it. The teacher was casual. ‘It’s just behaviours to help learning’. Behaviours to help students say engaged, says one school website. Another school says that using SLANT helps students to ensure they are focused on learning.1/

submitted 175 days ago • 6 comments