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If you read down this Mail article long enough, you get to this grudging admission: "76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths. That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England." . archive.ph/wip/lmv8G

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Notable that Daniel Ek upped his investment in war tech in the days before the US bombed Iran This is what your streaming subscription is paying for

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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In grim "there's always a tweet" news.

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UK air pollution kills 30000 people, costs £27bn-£50bn a year. Richest 10% produce 3 times more emissions than the poorest 10%. World's richest 1% produce more pollution than 66% of people. Private planes/yachts major culprits. Fossil fuel companies subsidised - Drax. Redistribute, save lives

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Oh.

submitted 17 days ago • 2286 comments

As a Musk biographer, my view—based on the available evidence—is that if Trump and his team get their hands on Elon Musk’s federal citizenship application and compare it to the public acknowledgment by Kimbal Musk that he and his brother knowingly violated their student visas, Musk can be deported.

submitted 17 days ago • 122 comments

I think Trump will fold first. Because he always does. TACO.

submitted 17 days ago • 249 comments

How am I meant to sleep with memes like this popping up on my feed??

submitted 17 days ago • 86 comments

Is this how it plays out? The Tech bros oust their orange patsy Donal Trump and install their man J D Vance?

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How long until Trump issues a retaliatory executive order targeting Musk and/or his companies?

submitted 17 days ago • 145 comments

Zia Yusuf resigns as Reform UK chairman www.bbc.com/news/article... Hahahahahahahahaha No staying power, bored already. Couldn’t run a bath. Absolute shambles! #ReformUK

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🚨🚨"In the never-ending #Brexit Wars saga, reality is finally fighting back". Another terrific column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social on the recent EU-US #reset deal, notably on the insane and delusional #Brexiteer betrayal crew.

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Criminal convictions, ABREGO GARCIA: 0 Criminal convictions, DONALD TRUMP: 34

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America has no allies in this trade war. Not the EU. Not Japan. Not Canada, not Mexico, not Australia. Not even Russia. OK, maybe El Salvador. MAGA wanted America alone. It got its wish.

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"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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“The public expect Starmer to be more ambitious in recalibrating the UK’s relationship with the EU. If he is not prepared to do that now, when the atmospherics are what they are and the entire world order has been turned upside-down, maybe we have to accept he is just not going to do it.”

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Scientists discover ‘strongest evidence’ so far of alien life, 120 light years from Earth.

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I'm glad the ai bros finally found a use for the trillions of dollars invested, to allow people to make absolute dog shit pictures of action figures that even the people making them were bored with in 12 seconds. Excellent use of dwindling planetary resources.

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British Steel shut site after Richard Tice's firm threatened to hike rent www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

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We’ve had enough of the Brexit failure, we really don’t trust Trump’s America and we want a better, more prosperous relationship with our European neighbours… “Will of the people” got us into this Brexit mess, why shouldn’t it get us out of it too? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 71 days ago • 30 comments

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

submitted 74 days ago • 2308 comments

This is what happens when you put a casino owner in charge of the US. Sorry, a failed casino owner. Again, sorry, a many times failed casino owner. You’ve got to try pretty hard to run one casino into the ground let alone multiple fucking casinos.

submitted 74 days ago • 18 comments

Govt may be relieved that UK faces lower Trump tariffs than others but it’s a trap. A deal with the unreliable lunatic means lowering standards, betraying our farmers and undermining trust and compatibility for any EU reset which is far more valuable to us. Let’s not fuck this up too. (Letter,Times)

submitted 79 days ago • 41 comments

Stop watching the news, become the news.

submitted 80 days ago • 40 comments

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

submitted 81 days ago • 919 comments

Well America, how's that convicted felon you elected doing?

submitted 81 days ago • 255 comments

More like this please

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It is depressing and baffling that the opposition in America pays so little attention to RFK Jr’s friendship with convicted pedophile and paid Russian asset Scott Ritter. It's a perfect opportunity to link Trump, Putin, pedophilia and pseudoscience.

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My gosh. Check out all these people in Wisconsin holding up a “We Are Not for Sale” sign. Something special is happening but we NEED your help! Please consider phone banking RIGHT now and urge Wisconsin voters to the polls! Please share! 💙 www.mobilize.us/grassrootsde...

submitted 82 days ago • 87 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 83 days ago • 1057 comments

Since Brexit, Britain has been hit by a series of huge economic punches: - Brexit - Trump 1.0 - Pandemic - Impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine - Energy market crisis - Trump 2.0 (now with added tariffs and vindictiveness) If those aren't "things have changed" reasons for undoing Brexit, nothing is!

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RFK Jr. has hired anti-vaccine activist David Geier to lead a study looking to link autism to vaccines, although that link has been heavily studied and thoroughly debunked. Geier does not have a medical degree & was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license. M(aking)AGA

submitted 86 days ago • 226 comments

Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol. 👏👏👏 @patmillsuk.bsky.social

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A long rebalancing of investor portfolios is likely to be under way that could be painful for America on.ft.com/4c7DnTW

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Donald Trump's rat Rubio tries to attack Cuba for providing free medical assistance to other countries, calls it slavery Jamaica's leader shuts him down What a rancid little rat he is, no wonder he hates free healthcare when the US has the worst and most expensive in the world.

submitted 86 days ago • 18 comments

Denmark is better than the USA in every way.

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A remarkable statement in a judgment against US government. Rare to see a government defence described in such stark terms by a judge. This is judicial comment turned up to 11, so to speak.

submitted 86 days ago • 26 comments

Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

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The USA is threatening to invade Greenland again. But Denmark is better than the USA in every way.

submitted 91 days ago • 23 comments

Liz Truss is still threatening legal actions against people who repeat the fact that she crashed the economy. Say it with me, Liz Truss crashed the economy.

submitted 91 days ago • 69 comments

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

submitted 93 days ago • 33 comments

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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