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Yup, that’s right. Chase Reform. Legitimise them. Punch down. Brag about cruelty. Abandon values. Lose elections to Reform. Rinse. Repeat. 🙄

submitted 8 hours ago • 67 comments

‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...

submitted 15 hours ago • 89 comments

One reason I love "Lunch with the FT" is the way it can't help reinforce national stereotypes. Active US/UK politicians always have quick cheap lunches to avoid looking out of touch. In France, Jean-Luc Melenchon goes for a 3.5 hour lunch with three heavy courses and wine.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

Who else has small hands?

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

It just gets worse and worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

"I picked you because frankly I'd never heard of you." 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Cash or card? But a growing number of shops don’t offer the choice bit.ly/437Hmgq Is the demise of cash inevitable? Or is cash needed to protect our freedoms and for those who do not use or trust cards and contactless payments?

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Endangered axolotl release raises hopes for rare amphibian. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Under my glorious rule, anyone contributing to the Comment pages of the Telegraph would agree to have the headline tattooed to their forehead should circumstances demand it…

submitted 3 days ago • 144 comments

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government. 🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

So this is just weird. Apparently giving our youth more freedoms is a “betrayal of Brexit freedoms”. What freedoms would those be, pray tell?

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

submitted 4 days ago • 1753 comments

Marks and Spencer's IT problems are getting a lot more coverage than the complete collapse of the British Library ever did. #r4today

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Elbows up 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Good Morning. The Telegraph's first take.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

It used to be a newspaper

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Again, congratulations to my Canadian friends!

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.

submitted 4 days ago • 255 comments

Congrats to Canada on picking a Liberal government and rejecting the stink of Trumpism! Elbows up!

submitted 4 days ago • 599 comments

worth every second

submitted 5 days ago • 1385 comments

Indeed. Sigh. Had not hoped for much, but this was not a good start. On so many levels.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

🚨🚈Take 1 minute to add your name: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take... Demand that the government fully nationalise our railway.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Some personal news: meet my new replacement at the all new Observer newspaper. Yes, it’s Facebook’s very own Nick Clegg. Congrats to everyone involved in this absolutely stellar signing. Take a bow. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

Very confused editorial. If the UK is to reintegrate into the EU, it will be on the EU's terms. Trying to lead the process and ask for special treatment (customs union but no freedom of movement) which no member state enjoys is a deeply un-serious proposal observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

"Brown said one of the detectives had alleged they believed there was 'significant evidence' that News Group Newspapers (NGN) deleted millions of emails to pervert the course of justice." www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

What a load of old mince.

submitted 6 days ago • 219 comments

Homer (Simpson) nods

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Macron shook one hand.

submitted 7 days ago • 4870 comments

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

‘Why do they dislike me so much?’: the trials, trolls and triumphs of Britain’s most divisive barrister

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Southern Water guilty to 13 counts of dumping raw sewage in England rivers. Related to dumping in 2019-2021, hardly speedy action. Private equity controlled company has 119 criminal convictions, retains permit to trade, hike bills. No director prosecuted, no pressure to end abuses.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

Kent County Council elections take place on 1st May. The map below shows the results of the previous election in 2021. You would think the Tories must have won at least 80% of the vote, in fact they won less than 50%. That’s what our old, tired electoral system produces locally and nationally.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

#Only37percentvoted4BrexitDisaster 2016 ref was undemocratic corrupted & flawed #Over18millionWerentAllowed2Vote ! UK must stop pretending the Uk voted for #ToryBrexitCon Tories imposed it Unforgivable They belong in jail

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

If you know, you know

submitted 12 days ago • 506 comments

A free tip for Keir Starmer If you want to do better in the polls, stop obsessing with reform and simply do better. Leave the disabled alone Tax the rich Nationalise infrastructure Pay workers properly It's quite simple!

submitted 13 days ago • 129 comments

Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

submitted 14 days ago • 479 comments

good luck to anyone dealing with this clown show www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 78 days ago • 216 comments

Well done to all countries bar China who have managed to benefit from the 10% ‘Brexit benefit’…

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments