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Peace isn’t something that happens, it is something that is enforced by removing the tyranny that disturbs it. Peace by itself has no value, peace accompanied by justice and fairness is the only peace worth having.

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This from Ed Balls is spot-on and if Reeves has any sense is where she will end up. If you are going to retreat you do it with a below not a whimper

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Public ownership works! 🚆🥳 If you want public ownership of water, energy, mail, buses and our NHS then join us today! vist.ly/3n5ibig

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Today is #NationalBiscuitDay - what biscuits are politicians most similar to: Keir Starmer = Malted milk - not as popular as they used to be Angela Rayner = hob nob - often in hot water but emerge unscathed Lee Anderson = party rings - turn up at a lot of different parties

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This is bleak reading

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EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal reut.rs/4kjzU88

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UK universities face a £2bn+ funding gap. Int’l students bring in ~£42bn/year to the economy. Yet populist politics counted them as long-term migrants curbing growth. As the US tightens student visas, the UK could've been the top destination for international talent. A self-inflicted wound!

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..and it'll still just have been factored in as the cost of doing business by TW's ownership.

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This is terrible news, Jess is an incredibly talented and hard working force for good in the world. Under the Tories she received the funding she needs to be able to work, but under Labour that has been taken away. Please read her post linked below

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It would be hard to overstate the ongoing costs of the public sector's use of Big IT vendors. Stunning that it's still ongoing, 15 years after GDS started the fight to escape. I'm thinking, e.g. major systems provided by CGI, Accenture, et al, that are 20+ years behind today's digital services. 1/n

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Starmer’s EU reset triggers outbreak of Brexit derangement syndrome | John Crace

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My cover for @newrepublic.com Article here👇👇 newrepublic.com/article/1947...

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🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

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Column, on the prime minister who had room to manoeuvre and chose to besiege himself instead. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

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Leeds Playhouse announces a popular line-up featuring Reece Dinsdale and Shobna Gulati for its poignant summer production Through it All Together #LeedsPlayhouse #Throughitalltogether #MarcoBielsa @reecedinsdale.bsky.social #ShobnaGulati www.theatrereviewsnorth.com/post/glory-g...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 18 days ago • 65 comments

Y'know how Reform UK says they aren't extreme right-wing? I decided to play a little game of bingo, with the army's XRW indicators and GBNews' youtube channel as they are Reform UK's propaganda channel. Guess what? We've nearly got a full house.

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Russia's new campaign of arson, disruption, and psychological warfare unfolding across Europe (likely in the United States and Canada too). Western intelligence agencies: “They are crossing one red line after another, and we don’t know how far they will go.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

The anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ used a pirated typeface.

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Day 7 of Lois asking Steve Reed to join her at the football. ⚽ 35p in every £1 of our bills goes to pay off private water company debt. That's money which could be better spent on repairing leaky pipes and stopping sewage spills. Time to bring water into public ownership, Steve. #LoisvSteve

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The sane-washing of Trump’s trade madness is inexcusable. US implements tariffs, China matches. US implements more tariffs, China matches. US surrenders & partly reduces tariffs, China matches. Media: “MAJOR TRADE DEAL!” What a joke.

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

I’m on two minds about all of this. I believe in democracy - it’s been clear for a long time that the British people want lower immigration. But in a healthy democracy, political figures debate and shape public opinion as well as simply responding to it.

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"bigger agreement" here meaning caving and putting things back like they were without achieving anything www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/t...

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Ken Clarke: '“John Major used to talk about feeding crocodiles. He would say if you keep making too many concessions to people it’s like feeding them buns and the problem comes when you run out of buns.”'

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This is really excellent. Too many pertinent points to pull individual quotes out, but should be read by anyone and everyone working on the 10 year plan for the NHS. Change isn't driven by structures, it's led by people.

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Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal

submitted 19 days ago • 97 comments

www.sciencealert.com/sleep-helps-...

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Karoline Leavitt, "President Trump announced a great deal that provides American companies unprecedented access to the UK market" "A £5 billion opportunity for US farmers, ranchers and producers" "This includes $250 million in good old American beef"

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Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

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The idea of a UK trade deal with Israel is astounding. It’s immoral. We should have trade sanctions not trade deals - with this murderous regime. We imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia - for invasion and occupation. Why is it different for Israel? buff.ly/m0EQf9o

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15 years on, 230,000 badgers dead, and no meaningful reduction in bTB in cattle. Lets end the cull now, not years down the line. Sign the petition govpetition.uk/700317

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“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft mogul said bluntly www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

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🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & @thebhf.bsky.social in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Let’s all be ready to save a life👇 www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...

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Some thoughts sparked by a great event in Leeds yesterday on neighbourhood health and the UK government's Test, Learn and Grow intiative. How do we make neighbourhoods engines of change? medium.com/@jamestplunk...

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