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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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The Labour leadership is paralysed regarding the EU because of fear of Farage, the Brexit press, and the red wall. If Farage does well in the local elections that paralysis will get worse. That's why we need the biggest possible #Vote4Democracy in the local elections. Please join in the campaign

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Very bad BBC headline on analysis of a significant meeting. This disregards what was news as two leaders met at heart of a constitutional clash Instead promotes "were the reporters expectations disrupted". That is of much less importance to world or interest to audiences than to a reporters lobby

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy,” said Captain G M Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. Just in case you were wondering what to call it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

BBC Laura K still is putting Farage on regularly…

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The last Great Auks open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

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Because lots of people seem confused about this, there are a ton of non-ableist words you can use to describe what’s going on and who’s in charge. I happen to like the profane ones, but there are more. Willful ignorance! Ludicrous! Ridiculous! Patently wrong! Evil! Harmful! Dangerous! Foolish!

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

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The reputation of the House of Lords is already in the gutter - more political allies and party donors being added only damages its reputation further. Add your name to our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/169621/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The reputation of the House of Lords is already in the gutter - more political allies and party donors being added only damages its reputation further. Add your name to our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/169621/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I no longer want to hear about corruption in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea or Venezuela, England is the cradle of corruption. London or one of the country’s overseas colonies is where the world launders its illicit money. This country wrote the guidelines on corruption, then sold it to the world.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

This was great, largely because there is some positivity about Europe that made me feel less gloomy ahead of the weekend 🎉

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is following Putin's tactic of threatening to imprison his critics. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a clip from our #BigTech webinar with The Citizens. We do not have to fear the tech bros. We can investigate, expose & challenge them. For the sake of democracy, we must! 100 citizen journalists joined this event to learn how. They need your support - check the next post. #CitizenJournalism

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I can guarentee you that if the Green Party had the same Media coverage as Reform they would be top of the polls and Reform would be nowhere.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank: “The damage is done. The market is re-assessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

talked to someone at one of the top italian tailoring firms. they plan on moving manufacturing to the US. said that generations of italian tailoring skill and culture can probably be transported to boise, idaho. expect flawless transition by monday.

submitted 3 days ago • 381 comments

Ah lovely. Another bag of rubbish gets tipped into the House of Lords. The place must absolutely reek of stale Tory failure, corruption and abuse of power. Honours handed out like sweeties to some of the most undeserving, underachieving, overpromoted clowns and liars to have ever held public office.

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

This carnival of bullshit must end. There's a change to reform the Lords immediately, through amendments at report stage. Peers should grasp it. Make these the last resignation peerages inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Here’s Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon telling her audience that school children will be taught how to use A One from a young age Somebody please god tell her that it’s called AI 🤦‍♂️

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

This should be shared widely. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is unbelievably brave going back to TED and her words as powerful and vital as ever. Carole's palpable - entirely - justified - nervousness adds to the sense of urgency, which we should all be feeling.

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Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

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THREAD. I decided to make this my pinned post because although a few people know about the books I’ve been selling myself and the sad story of what happened with my (now ex) publisher, not everyone who follows me here does...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

“British politics is shackled to a corpse. Undoing those chains would leave everyone better off. A closer relationship with Europe is the quickest and easiest way… to generate growth” V good on our “zombie politics” and its deadening impact. @duncanrobinson.bsky.social economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

The Liverpool area where two in three kids are living in poverty www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Very good. Incidentally, I know of an excellent new book on measuring how the economy is doing: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Von der Leyen says the EU will target US Big Tech if trade talks with Trump fail. She also rules out changes to the bloc’s digital rules and VAT. on.ft.com/3E4Nw7v

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Public ownership of energy central to industrial strategy in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark. Gives the state levers for protecting people, controlling business costs, inflation. UK privatised energy; struggles to control poverty, inflation; watches businesses collapse Nationalise energy

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Yesterday the Oval Office.

submitted 5 days ago • 238 comments

Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies

submitted 5 days ago • 404 comments

You know what’s sad? How much Dead Man would have enjoyed the last few days - Brexit bonus, endless manufacturing propaganda, Art of the Deal… Heartbreaking really.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Cancer patients who need chemotherapy. Children with shrapnel embedded in them. There are 11,000 critically ill Palestinians who need immediate medical evacuation from Gaza. But Israel has imposed a total blockade on the strip so these people are dying Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Reform UK Kent illegally using the Kent County Council on their literature…

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

submitted 5 days ago • 2371 comments