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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Actual Reform policies.

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Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesn’t get. Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual – despair deepens across the UK.

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i’m here you fuckaas bitch

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Telling how when the attacker is a middle class, white company director who "lives in a cul-de-sac" it's automatically framed as an "out of character" moment of madness

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Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate coming to a jail cell in the UK soon.

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Crazy that some of the world's brightest young people are being blocked from studying at Harvard this year, and British universities can't take them because our Prime Minister is running scared of Nigel Farage.

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Starmer and co are trashing Labour’s legacy. We must take back control of our party – before it’s too late | John McDonnell

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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

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The future was supposed to be hoverboards, flying cars and nobody having to work. Instead it will be crippling poverty and sickening fascism.

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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

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England has the only privatised Water in Europe, the most water pollution, and the most expensive water. The UK has the only fully privatised energy, and the most expensive. England has privatised rail, the slowest, least reliable and of course the most expensive in Europe.

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Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.

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If the hard and far right need to blame anyone for “two-tier” policing, they need only look to themselves and the invidious position in which they’ve put officers. My latest, on Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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#C4News Ria Chatterjee, "Mark Carney says the King's visit underscores Canada's sovereignty" "Subtext? Hands off Trump"

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This week, Ghana, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Trinidad & Tobago are all playing in England in the Unity Cup. So why could this be a big cultural moment for Black British fans in particular? 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/638...

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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Israel’s former PM Ehud Olmert in Haaretz: "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: an indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians" "Yes, we are committing war crimes" Article source: www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, "What the Israeli army is now doing in the Gaza Strip, I frankly no longer understand with what aim" "The Israeli government must not do anything that its best friends are no longer prepared to accept at some point"

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Wondering why, after many weeks of drought, Ireland is suddenly getting dumped with non-stop rain? There's an anomalous patch of super heated sea right off our coast. It's a new world of extreme swings. And unless we act, RIGHT NOW, this is only a taste of what's coming. #ClimateBreakdown.

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In normal times, the drop in UK exports since the pandemic and Brexit — and how they’ve been holding back GDP growth — would have been a major economic story.

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Where is the outrage that Gary Lineker has been forced to retire? Far too many people are afraid to speak up, it is disgusting.

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Why are people saying Bluesky is dying? I heard it just got another huge influx of users because X is down all the time. Wait…is that why?

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Jordan Peterson sits firmly in the group of right wing people who are perceived to be clever because he has: A: No sense of humour B: A limited vocabulary of big words C: Self-belief oozing from every pore D: The ability to talk very quickly Here he's shown up for what he is.

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“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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It demonstrates just how far this country has sunk into the gutter when the mob’s first concern isn’t the dead, dying or injured in Liverpool - but the ethnicity of the criminal so they can weaponise it to push a racist agenda. It is so fucking shameful. The absolute antithesis of patriotism.

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1/2 What's happened in Liverpool at the trophy parade is shocking and horrifying. From a professional point of view, I'm watching both BBC & Sky News, wondering whether the editors will be warned, or even charged with contempt of court? Maybe it's bank holiday staffing and no seniors around..

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Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.

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