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On the 5th anniversary of Brexit, a throwback to David Frost in 2015, "It is in the UK's national interest to stay part of the EU, we benefit economically from it very much" "The EU Single Market adds uplift to GDP" "To somebody on an average salary that's about £1,500 a year"

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

submitted 35 days ago • 367 comments

A whole bunch of self-serving gammon who don't believe in science. And at least one who is corrupt, who lies and cheats. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

#albumcovers This is a beauty. And "Cactus" is on the album. Amongst other great songs.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

#Gaza: Since Oct 2023 we have only been able to evacuate 13 children from #Gaza to our hospital in #Jordan. We call on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations for all Palestinians in need of care now including caregivers while guaranteeing their safe return. shorturl.at/dUE08

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1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 82 comments

Is it just me or has the US voting population just elected the dimmest twat ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if any of my writer friends/followers would be interested in exchange beta reading. I'd quite like the idea of a, say, monthly exchange of work in progress. If you are interested, let me know.

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Imo Musk is obviously trolling; but it’s worth mentioning that this is a very senior figure of an incoming US administration calling for regime change against an ally with a democratically elected government. Oh, and who has also reportedly been in close contact with Putin for several years.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Has Farage got something on BBC? Why is he (and the muskrat) no 1 item on R4 lunchtime news? When will they say they're both appalling scumbags?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone still using this odious creature's platform please stop now - you are legitimising him.

submitted 54 days ago • 54 comments

Worth a read. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like 'dishonest reporting' is an understatement here. It's downright misreporting to be so declarative about a view held by less than one in three respondents, especially when - I presume - it's not even the plurality response. Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

submitted 52 days ago • 262 comments

This is extremely shoddy poll reporting.

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

Farage is a mendacious danger to our democracy and he goes unchallenged by most of the media.

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submitted 52 days ago • 811 comments

The BBC seems to be afraid of the right-wing press. (I hear Farage AGAIN on the radio.) That’s where the BBC has a problem. It’s terrified of the BBC-haters - Daily Heil and the tories. They need to stop worrying and focus on all the people that love the BBC.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Why does the Guardian write so much about this fascist twat? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

How many does Fartage smoke in a day? Could he manage a few more? www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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an oil industry ceo as the energy secretary omfg trump’s gonna ruin the climate 🫠

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

What a moron

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Quite the most unpleasant shit of a corrupt, mendacious creature.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

"The future secretary of commerce is a billionaire. The future secretary of the treasury is a billionaire. The future secretary of the interior is a billionaire. The future secretary of education is a billionaire. The future special envoy to the Middle East is a billionaire." (LRB 26.12.24)

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Read this and tell me you're not amazed, aghast, afraid. Bear in mind that Fartage wants the UK govt to work with them.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

Season's greetings.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

My response to this is that Bishop Treweek could not risk her position in the CofE bureaucracy or in the House of Lords. Instead she talked about 'process' which seems to me to have already failed if ArchB of York is still in post.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

"There are important conversations and processes that need to go on" said Bishop Treweek as part of an interview in which she avoided the questions posed by Edward Stourton. A total waste of time except to say that, as usual, a bureaucrat could not deal with a personal question.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Lambs resist calls to close slaughterhouse

submitted 66 days ago • 372 comments