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Silence now is political! Thank you.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#LibDems hold Alperton in style! #Brent council by-election in #Alperton ward yesterday (Tues 18 Feb). By-election due to popular LibDem Cllr Anton Georgiou standing down after 5yrs. 1743 LibDem 286 Reform 827 Lab 740 Con 33.7% turn out Charlie Clinton will be a great councillor 👍

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

I'm not easily shocked, but the sight of individuals cheering on the richest man in the world as he takes away vital aid to the most desperate people on this Earth has shocked me. There are good people. There are bad people. Then there's Elon Musk and his empathy devoid flesh failure followers.

submitted 22 days ago • 83 comments

🧵 Last night, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall suggested some people are "taking the mickey" by claiming benefits instead of working. Given many on disability benefits have mental health problems, comments like this trivialise the realities of mental illness. It’s deeply disheartening. 1/5

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Brexit keeps on giving www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is just about the most impactful thing any donor could do right now!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Look, I quote posted this earlier, and I am not dragging OP, but it’s really important, if anyone is going to survive the deepening of the onslaught, to understand the US is an explicitly eugenicist country. I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

A reminder as Trump & Scott Bessent effectively shut down the CFPB: Wall Street & Big Tech don't hate the CFPB because it's an ineffective bureaucracy. They hate it because it's extraordinarily effective at protecting Americans from getting ripped off by Wall Street & Big Tech.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Sigh. The tariffs are going on pharmaceuticals, too. I am so tired of having to explain how this will kill my community. I’m tired of watching us raise money for prescriptions. I’m tired of “the cruelty is the point”. It sure is! DO SOMETHING.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

🚨🚨 Major news: Italian prosecutors are investigating Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/ital...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Here we go. The start of the chaos. Immigrants treated like pollution. Ordinary consumers in US and elsewhere hammered by tariffs. Escalating rhetoric. Breakdown in international cooperation. And all of it achieving precisely nothing. Just a fucking waste of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

submitted 33 days ago • 92 comments

FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie

submitted 34 days ago • 970 comments

This is an enormously dangerous step toward undermining the safety and efficacy of medical products and services for diseases like Alzheimer's that disproportionately impact women, people living in rural communities, people of color, and lower SES individuals.. #science #health #MedSky #NeuroSky

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: It's looking like the Climate and Nature Bill, the private member's bill to set statutory targets on ministers, could be scuppered. It's due for its first Commons vote tomorrow, but it seems that Labour MPs will be whipped to vote against it after talks on a compromise approach didn't work.

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

This is so fucking sad. You can hear the trauma in his voice!

submitted 36 days ago • 35 comments

I love this guy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

submitted 36 days ago • 18 comments

hate to be politics posting late in the evening, and not everything can be transferred from UK to US, but feels worth remembering that before becoming a v successful government, New Labour in the 90's was an absolutely ruthless opposition, just a relentless killing machine, much to think about!

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

Pete Hegseth admitted to the Senate that he paid $50,000 (!!!) to silence a "Jane Doe" who accused him of rape. But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused." More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.

submitted 36 days ago • 1208 comments

An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of 26 Palestinian families from Batn al-Hawa in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem, according to Wafa News Agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/q6m1j8

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 36 days ago • 212 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 1470 comments

All sounds very reasonable, if you don't consider misogyny a hate crime, or incels as an ideology.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Some good news!!! 🥳 I had to read this 2x to make sure 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

My visits to Dachau and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps changed me. Today I recited the writings of Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. I compared Nazi propaganda with casual modern rhetoric, and warned against creeping fascism. youtu.be/KM_0v9gNdso?...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Hm, I can see myself having to say pretty often that enforcing competition so markets work in the interests of customers means there is less need for regulation of other kinds.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

50 notes going their way as a result. I am heartily sick of these people and we're one day in.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I miss the breathless hourly reporting on the markets, don't you?

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

youtu.be/5ESheItSWy4?... WOW ‼️ Look. At. This!! 👌 This woman is an inspiration. Thank you 🙏🏼 @briantylercohen.bsky.social for this video. It blew me away. ( I’m assuming everyone in this bubble is subscribed to Brian’s and @glennkirshener.bsky.social ‘s BRILLIANT you tubes videos?)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

No need to talk to the criminal. He has nothing to say that anyone needs to hear. Newsnight bothsidesing for entertainment.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 40 days ago • 252 comments

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

submitted 40 days ago • 3599 comments

An early contender for headline of the year…

submitted 42 days ago • 64 comments

Callum Parslow, the neo-Nazi terrorist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a Worcestershire hotel last year, is being sentenced today I revealed how he was also an online stalker who had targeted at least 11 women and girls, and was on bail at the time of the attack www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 43 days ago • 18 comments

'A government spokesperson said: “Current uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI is holding back the creative industries and AI sector from realising their full potential."' I notice the government are not sugesting the power companies give the AI sector their electricity for free.

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

Fancy that. (The rejoin movement will one day be led by Tories “in the national interest”. Just give it time. I can see the slogans. "Sovereignty does not preclude partnership.” “Europe has understood how much they need us.”)

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments

Thanks to the FT Magazine for running these two climate cover stories - one on wildfires (July 2023), one on a possible collapse of Atlantic currents (January 2025). And thanks to everyone who read each piece, showing there is an audience for climate features www.ft.com/content/7711...

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

I blame the UK planning system. Funny though how so many countries have housing crises relating to affordability. www.ft.com/content/8e2e...

submitted 46 days ago • 14 comments