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Anybody else totally fed up with the obsession with #Glastonbury? The media seem to love it and assume that everyone else does and this year - oh what joy. A rapper has caused offence. Who would have ever thought that would happen? BBC live coverage caught it and @skybluenews.bsky.social salivates

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🚨 Starmer should heed Blair who is spot on ✅ Brexit has marched through a whole phalanx of PMs, each with a new plan to “make it work”—all have failed. A rational leader would conclude the project itself is the problem. #BrexitReality #RejoinEU

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Adrian Gray, former senior HMI and adviser to the recent Education Select Committee on work of Ofsted, is worth following on Linkedin. His latest analysis of L&M grades makes clear the hole Ofsted has dug for itself. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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A British woman whose family cannot return to the UK because of Brexit visa rules has said she feels “forgotten and rejected” by the country of her birth www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

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The UK helped create the European Court of Human Rights post-WWII to protect against tyranny, but some Brexit-backing politicians now scapegoat it and push to leave, so the European Movement UK calls on the government to stay in the ECHR to protect our rights, sign our petition now.

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Just shows how misinfo is weaponised. Even working class repeat Labour’s tax rises were bad because millionaires left Britain There were 10,900 news pieces across print Of the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires

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Happy Pentecost or as we used to call it - Whit Sunday

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Funny how those with most money put so much money & effort into avoiding paying what they expect everyone less well off to pay👇🏼🤬 To add insult to injury millionaire public school boys like Farage & Tice who used tax avoidance schemes pretend to be champions of the poor.. And fools believe them❗️🤦🏼‍♂️

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One of the members of our Salvation Army church choir is an African immigrant working in care. At practice last evening I reassured her that she is very welcome and thanked her for doing her much needed job. She had clearly been made to feel unwelcome and vulnerable by the PM this week.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Great analysis. Starmer is clearly not stupid, but ‘. Net migration will come down – it is falling already – but not with such tangible demographic effect that voters will notice a change in the national complexion and thank Starmer for it’ - is just very obvious

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The Alternative Big Consultation. Analysis of this survey data clearly indicated that respondents did not think that the proposed framework would work. A majority of the respondents were most concerned: thealternativebiglisten.co.uk

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Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

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Why is BBC Radio 4 commemorating VE Day today - May 5 when VE Day is May 8?

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Much chatter about @naht.org.uk news pushing back on Ofsted proposals in the past few days. You may not have seen the damning alternative big consultation report published recently. If Ofsted's survey has similar findings it is clear a major problem is brewing. www.thealternativebiglisten.co.uk

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informuk.org

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"If you're worried about the rise of divisive populist politicians like Donald Trump and like Nigel Farage, it will be the Liberal Democrats standing up for true British values." @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

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🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW. ✍️ Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

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Bank of England backs scheme to put more economics teachers into state schools Economics, Business and Enterprise Association: “There is clear evidence that a shortage and unequal spread of teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach economics is impacting the life chances of young people.

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I never understood how Nazi ideology took hold amongst previously respectable Germans; now, I’m learning how vulnerable we are to US citizens doing unimaginable things to their fellow citizens - in this case ICE agents. Hitler had SS colluders. Trump has ICE, DOGE, MAGA. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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When we embarked on www.thealternativebiglisten.co.uk we wanted to give everyone the chance to speak truth to power. We were concerned with the direction Ofsted was taking and felt they weren't taking sufficient regard for the points made by many of the genuine dangers faced by many.

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"With Brexit, Mr Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world he created. It can ill afford a second" The Economist, April 26, 2025

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BBC politics editor inadvertently put it so well at lunch time. The government doesn’t want any hint of ‘freedom’. No ‘freedom’ for Brits, not even 18-30 year olds who had the nonsense of Brexit forced on them by some of their elders.

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‘which Typhoon Orange has wreaked havoc in global markets. His tariffs were so sweeping and so breathtakingly dumb that the hit list included a cluster of barren islands near Antarctica. Was his notoriously thin skin once pricked by an insolent penguin?’ The joy of @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social

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Happy Palm Sunday 2025

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The reputation of the House of Lords is already in the gutter - more political allies and party donors being added only damages its reputation further. Add your name to our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/169621/...

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A great quote that speaks the truth

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

Britain cannot afford to gamble on America returning to its senses. We must urgently look elsewhere. Excellent article. An irony is that trade imbalance is a result of American consumers choosing to buy foreign products. No great foreign aggression.

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