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submitted 10 hours ago • 26 comments

UK Treasury earmarks billions in spending cuts. It is austerity, cutting real wages, dept spending and benefits, hitting low/middle income families No plan for redistribution of income/wealth or curbing profiteering. People need to put pressure on their MPs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 12 hours ago • 57 comments

Over on the old place, a representative of an august right wing think tank is having to defend his suggestion that Lenny Henry is English. Just in case you were wondering how mad the Right has become.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Hope it’s chips, it’s chips…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Principles in politics. What a refreshing sight! Much respect to Anneliese Dodds. #AidCuts www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Attention working-class Americans: Republicans’ new budget does NOT include no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on Social Security. Instead it protects tax handouts for billionaires and makes way for the largest Medicaid cut in history.

submitted 7 days ago • 299 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Dear God.......

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

Outrageous that the sets for the Oasis reunion will be 59 mins long. Won’t someone think of those poor people who are paying to go? 15 mins feels like the most they should be subjected to.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. "The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard."

submitted 9 days ago • 77 comments

This is it. I’m sick of parties like Labour pandering to the ignorance and misinformation people imbibe rather than challenging it and attempting, I don’t know, win a bloody argument rather than avoid one.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

it'd be nice for one mainstream and prominent centrist/centre-left/left-wing party somewhere in the western world to actually try and consistently and vocally make the positive case for immigration for an entire term and see what happens - it may not work! but it'd be nice for one party to try it

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

This feels weird. Great but weird #wales

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

'Your mission will be to infiltrate this warehouse, and find out who's been telling the press that the workers have to piss in bottles.'

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

A number of prominent UK Conservatives' statements about Donald Trump resemble one of those news stories that begins with a magazine feature about a new age mystic who believes he can talk to bears and ends with a newspaper article about a new age mystic being mauled to death by bears.

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

I feel like every day we get closer to an opposition frontbencher referring to the Labour government of 2010 to 2024.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Christopher Lloyd is 86, if he lives two more years he’ll leave two scorch marks and he’ll be 17 again

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

In a revolutionary move, Wales have called up actual fly halves for the rest of the Six Nations. Shocking.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Last week Badenoch said she wanted it to be harder to get British citizenship. This week Labour have banned refugees (people who entered illegally or on a 'dangerous journey') from getting British citizenship. No nuance or detail. No political process or consultation - permanent disenfranchisement.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

With no consultation, no thought to the international law position and a total disregard of the long term social consequences. It's appalling.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is exactly what I knocked doors, dropped leaflets and voted for last summer. I always hoped my party would get into a “who can be the biggest arsehole to the vulnerable” competition with Farage, Braverman et al.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance is presumably much more of a Pope Benedict in his youth type of catholic.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Today's polls asks what do you think other people think about what some different people think.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Really sad that it’s come to this with Gatland. Where he took Wales from and to in that first 12 year spell was thrilling, and deserves all the plaudits and gratitude. However, while he’s not to blame for the WRU’s terminal incompetence, since the World Cup in 2023 it’s been awful.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I am not sure much of the media is seeing what a bleak and dangerous time we are entering - I hope UK politicians understand how hard they need to fight (if they want to) to stop the far right

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

who the hell is this and why have they not been drummed out of the labour party

submitted 22 days ago • 38 comments

A murder on campus. A plucky PhD student and her reluctant supervisor procrastinate by turning detective. That's 'Publish or Perish', tonight at nine, on ITV.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

“I’m sold on the pitch, but is there enough there to sustain a plot?”

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

📚🎁 Ooh, what a beautiful stack of books from across the globe! I wonder if any schools or libraries would be interested in having some…? Entry details below!

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Rules for thee, but not for me.

submitted 25 days ago • 342 comments

Teenagers today are so ungrateful. Just spent a 20 min walk home from town trying to teach my daughter to do a Harold Wilson impression and the lack of appreciation on her part is shocking.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Great James Baldwin quote

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Who ever these “Labour sources” are should be named and pilloried. Returning the Chagos Islands that were illegally separated is a moral Imperative. A red line.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

@dawnretro.bsky.social has only just joined but she’s the most glorious human being and an extremely talented artist and upholsterer. You should follow her.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

From 1966 the UK, steeped in its colonial mindset, illegally separated and depopulated the Chagos Islands. We’ve finally got a deal that’ll mitigate some of the horror we inflicted on innocent people. The tories are shameless in wanting to perpetuate injustice and colonialism. That’s who they are.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Two weeks in and the current mood is:

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Another day of “what the fuck has he done now?” I’d forgotten how exhausting this is, even from a distance.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking at this tonight - looking forward to it! Proud to be part of such a distinguished group of speakers this term. #interdisciplinarity #climatechange #climatelitigation

UK Treasury earmarks billions in spending cuts. It is austerity, cutting real wages, dept spending and benefits, hitting low/middle income families No plan for redistribution of income/wealth or curbing profiteering. People need to put pressure on their MPs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over on the old place, a representative of an august right wing think tank is having to defend his suggestion that Lenny Henry is English. Just in case you were wondering how mad the Right has become.

Hope it’s chips, it’s chips…

Principles in politics. What a refreshing sight! Much respect to Anneliese Dodds. #AidCuts www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Attention working-class Americans: Republicans’ new budget does NOT include no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on Social Security. Instead it protects tax handouts for billionaires and makes way for the largest Medicaid cut in history.

Dear God.......

Outrageous that the sets for the Oasis reunion will be 59 mins long. Won’t someone think of those poor people who are paying to go? 15 mins feels like the most they should be subjected to.

Wow. "The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard."

This is it. I’m sick of parties like Labour pandering to the ignorance and misinformation people imbibe rather than challenging it and attempting, I don’t know, win a bloody argument rather than avoid one.

it'd be nice for one mainstream and prominent centrist/centre-left/left-wing party somewhere in the western world to actually try and consistently and vocally make the positive case for immigration for an entire term and see what happens - it may not work! but it'd be nice for one party to try it

This feels weird. Great but weird #wales

'Your mission will be to infiltrate this warehouse, and find out who's been telling the press that the workers have to piss in bottles.'

A number of prominent UK Conservatives' statements about Donald Trump resemble one of those news stories that begins with a magazine feature about a new age mystic who believes he can talk to bears and ends with a newspaper article about a new age mystic being mauled to death by bears.

I feel like every day we get closer to an opposition frontbencher referring to the Labour government of 2010 to 2024.

Christopher Lloyd is 86, if he lives two more years he’ll leave two scorch marks and he’ll be 17 again

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

In a revolutionary move, Wales have called up actual fly halves for the rest of the Six Nations. Shocking.

Last week Badenoch said she wanted it to be harder to get British citizenship. This week Labour have banned refugees (people who entered illegally or on a 'dangerous journey') from getting British citizenship. No nuance or detail. No political process or consultation - permanent disenfranchisement.

With no consultation, no thought to the international law position and a total disregard of the long term social consequences. It's appalling.

This is exactly what I knocked doors, dropped leaflets and voted for last summer. I always hoped my party would get into a “who can be the biggest arsehole to the vulnerable” competition with Farage, Braverman et al.

JD Vance is presumably much more of a Pope Benedict in his youth type of catholic.

Today's polls asks what do you think other people think about what some different people think.

Really sad that it’s come to this with Gatland. Where he took Wales from and to in that first 12 year spell was thrilling, and deserves all the plaudits and gratitude. However, while he’s not to blame for the WRU’s terminal incompetence, since the World Cup in 2023 it’s been awful.

I am not sure much of the media is seeing what a bleak and dangerous time we are entering - I hope UK politicians understand how hard they need to fight (if they want to) to stop the far right

who the hell is this and why have they not been drummed out of the labour party

A murder on campus. A plucky PhD student and her reluctant supervisor procrastinate by turning detective. That's 'Publish or Perish', tonight at nine, on ITV.

“I’m sold on the pitch, but is there enough there to sustain a plot?”

📚🎁 Ooh, what a beautiful stack of books from across the globe! I wonder if any schools or libraries would be interested in having some…? Entry details below!

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Teenagers today are so ungrateful. Just spent a 20 min walk home from town trying to teach my daughter to do a Harold Wilson impression and the lack of appreciation on her part is shocking.

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

Great James Baldwin quote

Who ever these “Labour sources” are should be named and pilloried. Returning the Chagos Islands that were illegally separated is a moral Imperative. A red line.

@dawnretro.bsky.social has only just joined but she’s the most glorious human being and an extremely talented artist and upholsterer. You should follow her.

Two weeks in and the current mood is:

Another day of “what the fuck has he done now?” I’d forgotten how exhausting this is, even from a distance.

Speaking at this tonight - looking forward to it! Proud to be part of such a distinguished group of speakers this term. #interdisciplinarity #climatechange #climatelitigation

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

youtube.com/watch?v=1jpK...