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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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BREAKING: We're now describing the Liverpool driver as a "lovely man" with a "nice family" after discovering he is white British ♥️

submitted 5 hours ago • 64 comments

1/2 Just listening to this episode in the marvellous @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the Opium Wars, and can’t help adding a quick note. Not only was the pretext for the 2nd Opium War - the taking down of a British flag on a Chinese boat - absurd; podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just received this: a great new resource for teaching the history of slavery and antislavery based on Liverpool’s past. Based on current research presented accessibly. Well done @colinmccormick.bsky.social & team! www.waterstones.com/book/transat...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

1/7 Oh dear. Where to begin? Mauritius is not a ‘staunch ally of China’. It is aligned with India. Independent Mauritius never ‘owned’ the Chagos Islands because it didn’t exist until the moment they were removed from the jurisdiction of the colonial government. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Why the terms ‘balance’ and ‘legacies’ should both be avoided when teaching the British Empire: alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

One issue is obvious. Since Brexit the Tory Party has purged moderates & turned into a culture war - fighting party of White nationalism. Now I wonder who racists would choose from two leaders sharing the same pitch, a Black Woman or a posh racist White bloke? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

The podcast of David Olusoga and I discussing Empire & the rewriting of history: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

'I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few'. William Morris (1834-1896) Poet, Artist, Writer, Textile Designer, Socialist. Morris' words are as true today, as they were, when first spoken in 1877. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Suddenly, powerful and influential people are condemning Israel. It's taken them 19 months of daily genocidal depravity. But Israel's genocide was obvious from the start - and I warned you then what the cheerleaders and the silent would do.

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

Israel has been on the path of fascism for some time now, why our governments in the west continue to support these genocidal psychopaths is the greatest question and disgusting shame. #GazaGenocide

submitted 70 days ago • 12 comments

USA taco and U.K. lettuce.😂😂😂

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

The lower they go in the polls, the deeper into the gutter they crawl

submitted 7 hours ago • 51 comments

Margaret Thatcher. RT if you still do too.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Well said

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The UN's damning verdict on UK poverty must inspire us to force change The United Nations criticised the UK government’s record on poverty and human rights and called for benefit reforms including scrapping the two-child limit. www.bigissue.com/opinion/unit...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I've always thought this was staged.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

There’s some truth here.

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This is what our governments are facilitating.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

None of us were expecting Labour to “fix” 14 years of Tory mess and austerity in 6 months… or even 6 years tbh. But they could have said the right things, made the right moves, focused on the real issues… given us some hope of a better future. They’ve done none of that.

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to Trump. He points out how Trump is trying to dye his campaign with African blood. Even as Trump fabricated lies he quietly registered three mineral exploration companies in South Africa. It’s a mic drop 🎤moment if there ever was one!

submitted 22 hours ago • 107 comments

My report with colleague Lorenzo Todo on what happened at the Gaza aid distribution centre that led to the deaths of 4 Palestinians - I found that the aid centre was inside an area marked for evacuation by the IDF as late as Sunday #Israel #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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He’s getting better you know 👀

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

1/ I’m not shocked by Pie failing to condemn a vile “joke” made by a far right figure he follows. If you look at Pie’s Twitter TL he seems to be courting scumbags with sympathetic posts on Connolly and immigration lately. Pie is an act - maybe bending over for the far right is more profitable?

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A student said to me at an event today, ‘I’d love to speak out and say stuff but I can’t because I’m on a visa.’ What has happened to America? Trump and Rubio and MAGA have killed free speech and the First Amendment in this country.

submitted 17 hours ago • 144 comments

HMRC admits not collecting £40bn tax last yr. Others say over £100bn. Big accounting/law firms, banks mastermind tax dodges. Rarely prosecuted. No big accounting firm prosecuted; get govt contracts. Fewer than FIVE criminal cases brought in 2023-2024, 16 in 2018-2019. Govts chase little people.

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Michelle Mone who got paid nearly triple the cost of her useless PPE, is still jetting and sailing around the world in her megayacht with her £232m. Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.

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