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submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same". The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey. It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

Always the way

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Hilarious that Kemi Badenoch's first proper policy is...scrapping an incredibly popular tax Politico: "Badenoch will call for an end of the energy profits levy introduced by her own party back in 2022 in her keynote speech to the Scottish Tory conference" No sign of how she'd pay for it. NHS cuts?

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Why do they kill off the good shows

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Still wondering about that preposterous 25 May Telegraph story about “investment bankers” Al and Alexandra Moy and their children Ali, Harry and Barry? @privateeyenews.bsky.social has more! ”We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can't go on five holidays”

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

How the Daily Mail responded to Liz Truss' economy-crashing tax cuts for the wealthiest, vs how they responded to Rachel Reeves spending a few per cent more on hospitals

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Grimly coming to terms with the fact that I really should be stretching every day.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

derek guy made a point of taking a very public stand on twitter that is directly causing the vice president to try to send the secret police to put him in a gulag and when i name search him currently here people are trying to milkshake duck him for saying that greencards are helpful

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Bang my regular drum about how nobody seemed to learn from the Australian example.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I will become the Luddite. Give me back my cable.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Now Google can't do basic maths. This should be a solved problem!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments