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"Bella Ciao" - Italian Anti-Fascist Song youtu.be/cUAP-fE81zs?... via YouTube

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Per @yarotrof.bsky.social: “The sea shift in the mood in Europe — including the UK — may not be evident to Americans. Here is the cartoon in yesterday’s The Times of London.”

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

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If ‘diplomacy’ means tiptoeing around Trump’s ego and Vance’s Techno-fascist bros with fawning flattery for 4 yrs, or even longer, then it is a forlorn endeavour. Domestic electorates won’t wear it. Best be clear about the limits and factor in the costs early. We have been stripped of illusion now.

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Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

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Those blaming Zelenskyy for the train-wreck in the White House do so because he declined to accommodate the lies and conceits with which Trump surrounds himself, or adopt the obsequious deference that ‘clever’ politicians think is required. He was ‘out of step’, but he was right.

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Russia is perfectly clear what side Trump is on

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I was always hopeless at maths especially algebraic expressions. So I'm stuck on the 'value' of X in this puzzle. I think the answer is 5 (or within that ball park) but am not too sure! 😉 X Æ A-Xii (X) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

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Oh no! Greatest Hits Radio (#Bauer) news thinks #JamesBond is 'zero, zero, seven'!!! 😰 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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[email protected] These two events are surely linked: in the first #Putin is laying down a marker that he holds the cards = #Kompromat www.lbc.co.uk/news/melania... In the 2nd, #Trump shows he's a coward, a weakling and wholly compromised. www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/trum...

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Behind ever ‘drain the swamp’ - from Budapest to Washington DC - is actually a highly targeted ploy to ransack the state and destroy those bodies that would ever hold the autocrat, and his oligarchs, to account

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Farage on #r4today decrying the increase in costs & red tape since Brexit & calling for Brexit to be “done properly”. No longer part of the customs union/single market -both of which simplified bureacracy- the costs & red tape on trade have ofc ballooned. Why was this not put to him directly?

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@stevewebb1.bsky.social Our analysis of the Pensions Over-contribution crisis as it affected Birmingham City Council &Investment Management Expenses you tried to so something about, but which Tories dumped when they got their majority in 2015 centreforbrexitstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/t...

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The University of Manchester and Garden Court North Chambers are set to host a lecture on 13 February 2025, by award-winning Guardian journalist David Conn, on the Hillsborough disaster, and the subsequent legal failings that led to a decades-long fight for justice.

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The influence of two cities and two universities on the life and poetry of Michael Longley … www.tcd.ie/trinitywrite...

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Across large parts of England, including Kent, local government is broken. The Labour govt has set out plans to address the problems faced, but their White Paper has provoked concerns, ironically, about the erosion of local democracy and potential centralisation of power. So what's going on?

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This is a very bland tracking graph telling a truly dramatic story. “More than half of patients in NI wait more than a year for a first appointment, compared to just 3% in England.” This is what a real health service crisis looks like. www.pivotalppf.org/cmsfiles/Pub...

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Why do we need #GoodJobs Bill for #NorthernIreland ? Answers by @lisa-wilson-neri.bsky.social THREAD "The evidence supporting the positive, intended consequences of strengthening worker protections for businesses, the economy and for workers is strong" www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/ana...

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We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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First post on Blue Sky ✊ We are an organising fighting branch of #UNISON. Will follow others fighting for a better future for all.

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On the first anniversary and in memory of our dear friend and colleague, #BECTU full-time official, Tony Norton who passed away on 26/01/2024.

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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰 'Musk can help us break morale'

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UNISON members in the NHS. Get involved with the campaign for a proper pay award. See below what you can do... #fairpayforNHS

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A belated happy 76th birthday to #TomPaulin and #JohnCooperClarke 👏 Although, both are probably now tucked up in bed and fast asleep!

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Did he then ‚throw his heart to the crowds‘? Asking for a friend.

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It's Saturday! Did you know that a quarter of employees from the lowest household income quintile regularly work at the weekend? Workers in the bottom income quintile are about twice as likely as workers in the top income quintile to work on weekends.

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Monday is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I filmed Nazis in Charlottesville and Orlando chanting 'Jews will not replace us' Walter on the left and Werner in the middle were tattooed 10 numbers apart in Auschwitz. They never met til 70 years later

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Fond memories of Michael & Edna organising poetry events @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #StaffCommonRoom A wonderful & gentle man. Rest easy.

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It's a good job #Endō wears a gumshield! 😰 #LFC

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UNISON head of health Helga Pile on the emergency NHS pay top-up. “If the government did the right thing and delivered a decent pay rise on time, there’d be no need for this endless cycle of interim top-ups to stop NHS wages dropping below the legal minimum." www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/01...

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Keir Starmer's spokesman says he will not launch any new investigation into criminality in the press, despite Labour's past pledges to complete the Leveson inquiry and despite huge new admissions of wrongdoing by The Sun in Prince Harry case bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...

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Time and time again in my investigations I find under funded, under powered regulators who are run roughshod over by the venal and the malfeasant. Shudder to think what would happen if these weak regulators were scrapped altogether.

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Has the Times sacked its Media Correspondent? Scrolling through its news list and it’s missed a huge story involving the monarchy, journalist ethics and a billion pound cover up at a hugely powerful media organisation. Surely more important than whether dogs suffer from January blues?

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You might expect that one of the world's biggest media organisations admitting to illegal practices in accessing private information about a member of the royal family and a government minister would be front page news across the board, but apparently not.

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As if we needed any more evidence of Pearson’s grimness. She would rather those families had to endure a horrific trial so she could have some more conspiracy nonsense to spout. It is beggars belief that she is employed as a ‘journalist.’

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The editors of the Sun between 1996 and 2011, when "unlawful activities" happened, included Rebekah Brooks (2003-09) and Dominic Mohan (2009-2013). Brooks is still CEO of News UK. Will @ipso.co.uk look into this? Inadvisable to hold your breath.

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🎶Lido Shuffle🎶 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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My last post on X #ElonMusk fok jou, jou nazi-baster en fok X ook. Totsiens! Now @gerry54gerry.bsky.social

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