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Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Why are so few people talking about this? Either they don’t know, or they’re pretending not to know …and I don’t know which is worse.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

This is brutal. Donald Trump is only interested in money and power. President Zelenskyy is trying to save his people and country. Russia and US have agreed to carve-up Ukraine, Russia getting territory and US getting mineral wealth. Trump is no ally for any country.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

🔴 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:

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

30%-40% of public money given to England's care homes vanishes in profits, little left for frontline services. Almost all care homes forcibly closed between 2011 and 2023 were operated by for-profit companies. Profits and care can't be combined. Watch the Minister's reply.

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Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

submitted 20 days ago • 128 comments

2025 Yorkshire Water Bill. Increase on 2024; 30.9% Company failures to meet their public service remit, aided by neutered regulatory system. Reclaim Executive bonuses for the period of underinvestment in the system? Force dividend suspension & redirect to investment? /1

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In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government. He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1

submitted 37 days ago • 49 comments

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?...

submitted 29 days ago • 126 comments

On the 5th anniversary of Brexit, here's a reminder that Britain never VOTED to leave the Single Market. Because it wasn't even on the ballot! Leaving the Single Market was a POLITICAL decision by the Conservative government. No other government is bound by it. #BrexitHasFailed

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

Think the UK should do the same?

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

UK median wage is £29,664. Real wage lower than in 2008. 17.8m adults have income below £12,570; rely upon benefits/charity. 3.12m people use foodbanks. PM Starmer says he will "ruthlessly" cut public spending; Can't get economic growth without redistribution leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 42 days ago • 32 comments

Reform UK policies would make lives of their voters far worse Its important to understand that the neo-liberalism of Reform will not make services people are demanding available Quite the reverse; low-tax, small state vision of Reform will put services & healthcare beyond reach of most people

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

submitted 51 days ago • 192 comments

One of the best fact-based reports on the Brexit disaster so far. Definitely one to bookmark! 📌 "The British people know that they were deceived about Brexit, and the deceit is measured in reduced living standards." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Watch this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Oligarchic power must be dismantled and proven systems of egalitarian governance must be firmly installed otherwise it’s game over for democracy www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/j...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

For context:

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Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

submitted 56 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund. Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK. We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system. Backlash is long overdue. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 69 days ago • 35 comments

Third of Yorkshire Water customer bill cash goes on debt & dividend Similar with other water companies. Money borrowed to pay dividends, investment neglected, sewage dumped, customers fleeced; aapproved by OFWAT. Must end the farce. Nationalise without compensation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 78 days ago • 52 comments

Privatised public utilities & services; Do you feel supportive of, effectively, forced contributions to the pensions of others, from those who cannot afford their own?

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

More than 7,000 people have now taken Democracy for Sale’s survey asking what people think about influence of money in politics! Thanks so much for everyone. If you haven’t taken it, only takes a few minutes. Thanks! democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk who hasn't been elected by anyone.

submitted 84 days ago • 53 comments

This is good from Ian Dunt on the prisons crisis open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

Trend is now 2-3 weeks of evenings with fireworks. Should loud fireworks be restricted to licensed displays?

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”

submitted 86 days ago • 54 comments

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

submitted 85 days ago • 69 comments

Scientists warn critical ocean current AMOC is weaker now than at any other time in the past millennium and could be 30% weaker by 2040: 20 years sooner than predicted, enough to tip it into shutdown Parts of Ireland and UK could become unlivable www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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