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Yorkshireman. Slow food. Left leaning. Live and let live. I do not support Truth Twisters.Woke. Rejoiner. SW France.
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Why is Radio 4 platforming a minor UK political group as its 2nd highest item on the 9am news?

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 14 hours ago • 157 comments

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Perhaps prepare participants in polls like this by reminding them of what is happening to legal citizens in the USA just now. Context matters. Try it Some questions are really unsuitable for this kind of polling. Maybe participants should pass a test about what is IN the ECHR first?

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

🔴How the Media is Trying to Talk a Nigel Farage Government Into Reality Why for much of the British press, the unlikely story of Reform UK's rise to power is simply "too good to check" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-me...

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Labour overturned a 4,500 SNP majority in Hamilton and the BBC spun this as somehow a victory for Reform. The BBC News department is not fit for public service.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

With Palantir finally receiving the attention it deserves, we wrote an article documenting Thiel’s history with Zuckerberg, his influence over JD Vance, and the connection between his neoreactionary ideology and Russell Vought’s Project 2025. It has always been Thiel’s plan to destroy democracy.

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. can't have too may enemies.

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

I heard on the radio this evening that HMRC has been attacked on line ( I read that as hacked). 😬😬😬😬😬

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@PMQs I dont think I ever heard the speaker of thr house accused any of the previous 3, or was it 4? Previous Tory PMs of not answering a question ( even though they hardly ever did).

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment