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Spent 20 years as a fashion buyer then joined the NHS supporting end of life and cancer teams to deliver transformed pathways. Angry with Conservatives and Reform and want my country back.
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He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1155 comments

“Trump is wrong; the world must say so. He’s taking US down a disastrous path…favouring Putin’s gangster state over democracies of free Europe.He’s standing alongside murder & tyranny against democracy & liberty. His is a historic inversion of America’s destiny” www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 665 comments

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

submitted 1 day ago • 241 comments

In Westminster it's all about who you know

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Sure hope so. (art by Dave Tarnowski)

submitted 2 days ago • 237 comments

Not fun geopolitical times to live through but, as history teaches us, this era will pass and better people will rise.

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 2 days ago • 653 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 3307 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1914 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 2 days ago • 2871 comments

This is correct.

submitted 3 days ago • 425 comments

Always wrong.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

🔴Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

We’ve seen this movie before.

submitted 3 days ago • 577 comments

Jeez. Trump actually just said it. He actually just said that Ukraine shouldn't have started this war! He’s actually siding with a crazed, murderous dictator

submitted 4 days ago • 453 comments

S Rushdie: “Elon Musk doesn’t defend free expression. His social network curates the discourse of the extreme-right. Appropriating a noble cause — such as freedom of expression — when what you really do is the opposite is very dishonest.” english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

'Categorically wrong': Scientists condemn comments by Reform's Richard Tice that man-made climate change is ‘garbage' news.sky.com/story/reform...

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

You can smell it. foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/h...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

True words.

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8251 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 5 days ago • 2340 comments

US Trump administration has pressured Romania to remove travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother. They are accused of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Will Romania capitulate? Anyone doubting how low Trump will sink?

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

That's a risk we'll just have to take

submitted 4 days ago • 259 comments

Kemi Badenoch criticises gov debt, despite her gov increasing it from £1 trillion in 2010 to £2.5 trillion in 2024

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1253 comments

America's image has changed, says the Singapore Minister of Defense, "from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent" www.mindef.gov.sg/news-and-eve...

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

The NHS emerging as a big early success story for Labour. 2 million appointment target met 5 months early Waiting lists failing during winter flu season. And it’s early days. Labour fixing the NHS, as they promised to

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 6 days ago • 1061 comments

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag...

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Brutal language from the Singaporean Minister of Defense, a traditionally US-friendly state: "[The American] image has changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent."

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submitted 6 days ago • 1034 comments

I really don't want to be that French Geopolitician, but: Everybody who lambasted us for wanting to be independent and safe, who made debates into the weird Francophobic whine about hegemony on the continent needs to face the fact that they the reason we're now drowning. You people led us here.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If Brexit had never happened… …we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 6 days ago • 112 comments

This man is so profoundly stupid and dangerous, it’s hard to believe it’s real.

submitted 8 days ago • 123 comments

Woof

submitted 8 days ago • 367 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 9 days ago • 240 comments