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The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads

submitted 23 days ago • 108 comments

British Steel's turnover (2023) £1.26 billion - Votes at risk! Red Wall! Urgent legislation! UK universities' combined turnover (2023/4) £57.2bn - Central to innovation and the industrial strategy. Educating a dumbed down nation. Silence. Yes, let's save steel, but for heavens sake help unis too!

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill. As of today: • Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended • Dividend payouts halted • Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed Democratic control of water is here!

submitted 46 days ago • 76 comments

She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

submitted 46 days ago • 125 comments

The Libyan Ministry of internal affairs has said OUT LOUD that its planning a campaign to end “anarchy.” The campaign is set to last for 90 days and will take place in all directions: the capital, east, west, south. They say that they intend to end "anarchy" by force—by bullets, by death. 1/2

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Tonight Hamdan Ballal, one of the co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was violently attacked by settlers in his home village of Susya in the West Bank. He was then detained by IDF soldiers while injured. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible article from @theatlantic.com Some thoughts: 1- if this leak had come from Democrats it would lead to criminal charges (and a few terrible movies) 1/2 bsky.app/profile/thea...

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

Proportional representation is the simple idea that the share of seats in parliament a party wins should closely match their share of the vote.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The #ElectoralCollege is #DEI for #RedStates

submitted 63 days ago • 387 comments

March 13, 2025:

submitted 64 days ago • 36 comments

Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelensky's White House meeting on February 28th. Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision. youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4

submitted 72 days ago • 57 comments

Presumably this was the plan all along and the spat with Zelenskyy in the White House the premeditated excuse.

submitted 74 days ago • 34 comments

Friday's Oval Office betrayal was to create a pretext for this move. As long as Trump is in office, America will be on Putin's side.

submitted 74 days ago • 527 comments

"for 75 years the continent has been squeezed by the 3 centers of hydrocarbon power: the US, Russia, and the Gulf Kingdoms to be free from authoritarian blackmail—whether Putin’s or Trump’s—Europe must go green" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur... @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Nasdaq has now given up all its gains since November 5th. Hope it was worth it for the invitation to the inauguration guys!

submitted 75 days ago • 14 comments

Israel has resumed its genocide in Gaza. But the Western media has overwhelmingly suppressed the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-res...

submitted 75 days ago • 19 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 76 days ago • 2052 comments

Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.

submitted 78 days ago • 153 comments

Grew up being in awe of The USA… Utterly appalled by it now.

submitted 78 days ago • 79 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 78 days ago • 1164 comments

We should tax the rich, not cut foreign aid. Repost of you agree.

submitted 80 days ago • 18 comments

With all the financial constraints around... what about taxing the rich? It won't solve the problems but it would help.

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting Paul Krugman likens DOGE to a company ripe to be shorted bc of signs of fraud. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-th...

submitted 82 days ago • 80 comments

Dear manager, this week I acheived these goals. 1: I wrote a bullet point. 2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point. 3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point. 4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet. 5: Egged a cybertruck

submitted 82 days ago • 215 comments

If you want to do something about all this, then one thing you can do is support the endangered species called fearless independent journalism. My copy of @bylinetimes.bsky.social dropped onto my doormat today and it's one of the high points of my month

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

#Emails2DOGE TO [email protected] 1. Woke up 2. Fell out of bed 3. Dragged a comb across my head 4. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup 5. Read the news today…. Oh boy

submitted 83 days ago • 53 comments

This weekend's reading. The Byline Times website is reported to have been suffering from a DDOS attack. Someone doesn't like us reading their articles. So buy a copy. Or subscribe and they'll post it to you. 👇👇

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

Ed Davey comments on Starmer talking to Trump #r4today Acknowledges the difficulty of his position but stresses the need to be firmly honest and to protect our interests. Managing to be both supportive and oppositional. A very welcome change from the twatty point-scoring we get from the Tories.

submitted 85 days ago • 33 comments

Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

submitted 85 days ago • 92 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 87 days ago • 2161 comments

Richard Madeley compared Palestine to Nazi Germany, and then said that all the children killed were collateral damage of an essential invasion. RT if him and his hideous views need to be banned from UK TV. (Richard Madeley in October 2023.)

submitted 87 days ago • 69 comments

Did you hear about these 20 government actions? No? That’s the problem. The media aren’t telling you what’s happening. @stephenmcnair.bsky.social reports

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 90 days ago • 379 comments