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In journalism it's important to reflect both sides,listen, understand nuance,be aware of your bias It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started

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“It’s essential to understand that the very principle of Nazism is its radical opportunism.” Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

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🔴 Complexity Is Reality – But There's No Possibility For It In Today's Political Culture One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance & ambiguity can even sit, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social A free preview from the March 2025 edition:

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Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.

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Pain comes first. The drug comes next. Always. If we want to address addiction, we need to treat the pain—especially the psychological pain—first. #Addiction #MentalHealth #Trauma #HarmReduction #EndStigma”

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As being “free to make our own trade deals” has delivered the square root of jack shit and, as Brexiters still can’t tell us what EU regulations they want to scrap, closer alignment with the EU should be a no-brainer. Great work @bestforbritain.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

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‘..several projects aimed at boosting growth and will also focus on development between Oxford and Cambridge to create a "Silicon Valley of Europe’” says Reeves. We had one of those valleys a while back, it was called ‘central Scotland’ and included ‘Silicon Glen’.

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No, Brexit could never work. It was a terrible lie missold to people who deserved better by crooks and chancers. Take some responsibility for goodness sake.

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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.

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Public responses to EU-related questions in Falmouth, Cornwall yesterday. Passers by were invited to put a sticker in the boxes to give their answers. Follow @cornwall4eu.bsky.social

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Musk telling a German far right policy that there’s ‘too much focus’ on past guilty in Germany, less than a week after making a straight arm salute at Trump’s inauguration. What’s the old maxim about if something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck? www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

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This week's Internet winner goes to...

submitted 29 days ago • 464 comments

Agree. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter. The new Twitter’s name is Bluesky.

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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

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It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.

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Around 7.9m UK people have no savings. More than 21m have less than £1,500 in reserve. Bottom 20% of the population has 0.5% of the wealth. This can't provide springboard for economic growth Must redistribute and boost purchasing power of the masses. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

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Total wealth of 57 UK billionaires increased by £35m per day to £182bn in 2024. Most of the wealth is taken, not earned. 16m Britons live in poverty. Govts refuse to levy wealth tax. Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Who governs? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/oxfa...

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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, with UK leading the way in G7! Number of billionaires rose by 204 to 2,769.Their wealth jumped from $13tn to $15tn – the second-largest annual increase since records began. TAX THE SUPER RICH www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

submitted 33 days ago • 88 comments

YES. “Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer”

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Kemi Badenoch mentioned how much the UK's debt interest is costing us. She's right, it's becoming crippling. And a very substantial portion of that debt was added to the UK government's balance sheet during the Conservatives' period in office. UK debt 2010: £1trn UK debt 2024: £2.8178trn

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Note the huge outcry over the supposed over-diagnosis of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and autism, yet the complete silence when it comes to labelling increasing numbers of people - hundreds of thousands - with a personality disorder.

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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

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Keir Starmer says UK Treasury will be "ruthless" on public spending cuts. It's continuation of Tory austerity. How many will be deprived of food, housing, healthcare, education ...? Lives sacrificed to appease corporations, the rich and neoliberal dogma www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Magic bean productivity is going through the roof

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I fear there is deep truth here.

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Elon Musk’s chaotic tirades on X, amplifying misinformation and targeting critics, highlight the platform’s descent into toxic weaponized discourse northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

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'For many children, the truest & most effective therapy won’t be found in a pill, a consultancy room or a classroom intervention, but in loving & meaningful human relationships that endeavour to mitigate the harsher social forces & impacts they neither perceive nor understand'. #Sedated

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Yup - everyone can see what’s going on here. It’s absurd.

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I went to the Jimmy Carter public visitation in the Capitol Rotunda last night. My friend and I arrived around 9pm. It was below 20 degrees with the wind chill. Wait time? 3.5 hours. Thousands of people were waiting outside in the freezing cold for hours late at night to honor Jimmy Carter.

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I don't understand the political timidity when it comes to regulating social media. These are companies that have decimated the free press, fuelled race riots on our streets, undermined the mental health of our children, paid little tax and are now undermining liberal democracy itself.

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FTSE 100 CEO gets more in less than 3 days than average worker pay for a yr. Median CEO pay £4.22m, 113 times average worker. Nothing to do with performance. Shareholder objections ignored. Need worker-elected directors on boards. Let workers vote on exec pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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🔥 Well said, Ed Davey -

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