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The UK needs to come to the same conlusion. #MAGAmerica

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“Each one of those deaths is a singular tragedy: a child robbed of a future, of a chance to find out who they are, to know the world, to be a person.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK’s Labour government is preparing to nationalise Thames Water, and socialise the losses of global, unregulated Private Equity (PE) firms, just as the Soviet Union’s Gosplan (State Planning) dept protected loss-making firms back in the day. annpettifor.substack.com/p/private-eq...

submitted 129 days ago • 6 comments

“Radical right-wing groups are spreading Trump’s ideas across Europe, promoted by fawning Brexiteers who’ve suddenly forgotten they campaigned so avidly for British “independence” @writesbright.bsky.social writesbright.substack.com/p/magas-next...

submitted 129 days ago • 21 comments

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

submitted 133 days ago • 420 comments

Whereas the influence of newspaper barons like Murdoch was 'in the shadows', through the back door of Downing St & splashed across front pages, the tech media age of Musk allows the algorithm to get directly into people's heads, activating emotional trigger points in a more targeted, insidious way.

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Left: Rachel Reeves is celebrating £125 million a year in extra trade with China Right: Your reminder that Brexit has cost the UK £13.5 billion in trade To make up for the lost UK-EU trade, Labour needs to find 108 similarly updated trade deals

submitted 144 days ago • 36 comments

Great from @robinmcalpine.bsky.social via @commonweal.bsky.social I'd 're-ask' some of his 're-asks' again, notably that economic growth is needed to fund services. But park that, for now What is true; the key to change IS to ask different, better questions commonweal.scot/change-the-s...

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"So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debate"

submitted 144 days ago • 42 comments

Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown

submitted 146 days ago • 232 comments

When you’ve been in the office and the radio has been on all day.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

There was a notion, at the time, that the pandemic would be a great 'leveller'. Now, as LA burns, we see that wealth and privilege is no protector. But 'business as normal' resumes quickly. I'm always wondering what can make us step into another's shoes and truly walk around in them... changing us.

submitted 146 days ago • 8 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 146 days ago • 897 comments

I took this photo of Venus above the Moon tonight, with Saturn also visible in the top left corner! I LOVE that it’s possible to see planets in the sky, and I’m always in awe of them.

submitted 151 days ago • 301 comments

Maps of all 12 UK Freeports including the outer boundaries, note that every Freeport sits within a much larger Special Economic Zone (SEZ) ranging from 34 to 75km in diameter. Did you vote for this? www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 151 days ago • 25 comments

Politicians forget that a heavily indebted Labour government once built social housing, the NHS and public education - without labelling public investment a 'tax'...

submitted 152 days ago • 3 comments

UK Tory govt spent £50,000 to stop release of review into disabled man’s death. DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income. He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped. Govt tried to conceal murder. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 153 days ago • 43 comments

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

submitted 154 days ago • 292 comments

If AI is so good how come it hasn't given us 3 series of this yet?

submitted 157 days ago • 7 comments

"If we fail to deliver real solutions – not just in rhetoric but through policies that improve people’s lives – more demagogues will rise." My article today on a Universal Basic Income in the @bigissue.com : 👇🏼 www.bigissue.com/opinion/univ...

submitted 158 days ago • 17 comments

Loose regulation, austerity, repeat: The UK economy, explained. From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 158 days ago • 19 comments

“2025 will see new Brexit barriers to British passport holders… First to arrive will be the EU Entry/Exit System, known as EES. A few months later…The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS). Citizens of 60 nations, including the UK, will be subject to these new procedures.”

submitted 158 days ago • 57 comments

Christmas Day night lights and tree #Christmas

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Israel's relentless brutality against Kamal Adwan Hospital continues unabated. Take action: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/em...

submitted 162 days ago • 2 comments

This made me feel physically sick.

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Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.

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Wishing you all a wonderful #WinterSolstice🌛 Born in Rudry, Dr William Price was a man of many trades. He was a physician, vegetarian nudist, and druid who believed in free love and herbal remedies 🌿 He is known as a pioneer of modern cremation 🔥 www.peoplescollection.wales/content/dr-w...

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It's human instinct to dismiss what we disagree with. But Trump, Bannon, Musk, Farage benefit from being underestimated. "It gives credence to the notion their radical politics is necessary. Left unchecked, 'outlandish' possibilities can become concrete realities" Take it seriously. My thoughts 👇

submitted 184 days ago • 28 comments

Don't fall for the 'Deep-fry your money in batter' investment plan - that's how I frittered away my savings.

submitted 168 days ago • 5 comments

Watched #TheLehmanTrilogy. (Perhaps inadvertently) it really shows how we got here. The stage is stunning, stagecraft impeccable, acting wonderful. It played to a full house of a very engaged and symathetic audience. The first 2/3rds are much stronger than the final part. Short 🧵

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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 per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

submitted 170 days ago • 80 comments

#billhicks 16th December 1961 26th February 1994

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Room full of satire writers will struggle to find a funnier line that the BBC Newsreader just now saying “The Chinese approached Prince Andrew in the hope of finding intelligence’”

submitted 170 days ago • 115 comments

🤯 Marks and Spencer has been forced to hire a warehouse just to store the post-Brexit paperwork needed for exports to the Republic of Ireland www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-eco...

submitted 170 days ago • 25 comments

#caturday

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2024 has been an extraordinary year for Welsh music - with female artists in particular raising the bar with some of the best and most exciting music Wales has ever seen wp.me/p8Mk4U-Sji

submitted 172 days ago • 2 comments

That is the timeline I wanted to be living in. Not this one where AI eventually makes everyone stupid.

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If the UK gets Private Health Insurance it will be as bad as in the USA. Because it is all the same US Companies pushing it in the UK.

submitted 173 days ago • 66 comments

Kemi can eat whatever she wants, but can we please stop lionising working through lunch? We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.

submitted 174 days ago • 100 comments