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charlottedearling.bsky.social
North Londoner now living in the countryside. Not a nimby.
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Pretending that people who vote Reform aren’t doing so to seriously reduce immigration is delusional. We might not like it, but there it is.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I see all the intelligent people I love who warn us not to read too much into these very early term elections, are, reading too much into it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

You know what? Labour has to appeal to both slightly-reactionary provincials without degrees and to graphic designers and teachers. Anybody telling you that neither of these groups matter is an idiot.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Trump telling Americans that they and their children might have to make do with less.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

TRUMP 2024: Stocks are up because people know I will be president in 2025 TRUMP 2025: Stocks are down because people know Biden was president in 2024

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Reform UK candidate in Cornwall Ollie Williams was on Love Island, people called on him to be booted off the show when it emerged he is a fan of trophy hunting. Ollie is running for the ‘anti-establishment’ party, despite being set to inherit the 2,000-acre estate and become a Viscount.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

One writes and speaks warmly of Steve Bannon. The other is the leader of reform. www.gbnews.com/politics/nig...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I try not to make superficial judgments about people, but I can't help but imagine this individual going to a hairdresser and just asking for the most evil-looking haircut they know how to give.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

When Labour staffers went to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris, they were acting as patriots. The Trump administration has betrayed Ukraine, while upending global trade. In doing so, it has profoundly harmed key UK security, defence and economic interests. His UK apologists are treacherous scum.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The relative decline of the USA against the rest of the world started at least 20 years ago. It was manageable but could not be stopped. A US government has chosen to accelerate decline in the name of re-establishing its fading power. The erratic behaviour only confirms the chosen course

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Margaret Thatcher quit as an MP 33 years ago today. Her cruel decisions have echoed through the decades, creating some of the most serious problems the UK faces in 2025. 5 examples:

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

US bonds getting Trussed (I think this is now the technical term).

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

The kindest interpretation of this tendency (it includes the BBC) is its exponents think the far-right expresses a submerged, visceral popular opinion that needs expression or the system will explode. It betokens a lack of confidence in their own beliefs, that somehow the far-right is more legit.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 201 comments

But her emails!

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

This story is incredible. And incredibly scary in its implications. Here’s a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 44 days ago • 43 comments

To put it in clearer terms…

submitted 51 days ago • 462 comments

Dangerous. And corrosive. And par for the course

submitted 52 days ago • 180 comments

NEW: Keir Starmer responds to Putin’s rejection of Trump’s ceasefire proposals. He tells News Agents he’s “not surprised” and that Putin has been put to the test and found wanting. “He doesn’t want security guarantees: that tells you something.”

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

Reform’s meltdown was inevitable. It’s not just Rupert Lowe. Nigel Farage has a habit of turning his closest allies into enemies. 7 of the messiest fallouts: (no one is mincing their words)

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Nice work in Tottenham

submitted 56 days ago • 412 comments

I know we should all read the article before commenting etc but this headline / skeet feels *extremely* likely to lead to confusion. No, Labour is absolutely not getting rid of half of the NHS staff. It’s just quietly reversing a bunch of the 2012 Andrew Lansley restructure. Much smaller.

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

Dan Hannan: I've always been at war with Felonia

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments