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“This change is made more powerful still by its refraction through our media. Though they now have (in some cases) pitiful and ever declining sales, the newspapers retain huge influence in determining the course of national political conversation.” @lewisgoodall.com 👏

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President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.

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What a time to be alive 😬

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It demonstrates just how far this country has sunk into the gutter when the mob’s first concern isn’t the dead, dying or injured in Liverpool - but the ethnicity of the criminal so they can weaponise it to push a racist agenda. It is so fucking shameful. The absolute antithesis of patriotism.

submitted 23 days ago • 31 comments

Was he asleep when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister?

submitted 24 days ago • 176 comments

And this is why he’s a force to be reckoned with… like it or not

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This was absolutely gripping. Summed up so eloquently by @lewisgoodall.com “Biden, a good man, a man who spent half a century in public life, whose one task remaining was to vanquish Trump and save the Republic from maggotism. His, yes, vanity, his vanity was the handmaiden to its restoration.” 🥲

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Exports down £27bn. GDP down 5%. Trade down 15%. That’s the Brexit legacy – and now they’re complaining someone’s fixing it. Read this punchy letter to the whingers. ⤵️

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If you want some informed intelligent analysis of the U.K.-EU deal rather than the pre-prepared Blah of Beeb-squatter Nigel Farage join me and @rory-stewart.bsky.social for a @restispoliticsus.bsky.social LIVESTREAM at 4pm.

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For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

Lewis is spot on! Blaming the media is frankly lazy.

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Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!

submitted 30 days ago • 85 comments

Couldn’t agree more! The notion that working class people are stay in their place is palpable- just where the right wing want them !

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The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.

submitted 30 days ago • 98 comments

Another country where the cordon sanitaire rests on the patience of the centre-right and centre-left with each other. Though PSD's origins in the demise of the fascist regime will hopefully continue to count for something, cooperation with Chega has occurred at regional level.

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What an utterly odious individual. Kudus to @maitlis.bsky.social for keeping such a cool head!

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The Vatican keeps in tradition of having a Pope who doesn't like JD Vance.

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Why is Labour so shit at politics?!😡 Rape Gangs = National disgrace which must be addressed immediately, through action &/or investigation Reform making it all about Asian men, who represent 3.6% of child sex offences = Dog-whistle! IT'S NOT DIFFICULT! @lucympowell.bsky.social

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@lewisgoodall.com to Wes Streeting, “so you’re not listening to the public?”. Streeting “no, we are” Lewis “so you’re just ignoring them” EXACTLY! Why are Labour just so bad at politics. No ideology. No vision. Just obsession with pragmatism and balancing spreadsheets!

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

submitted 46 days ago • 96 comments

Imagine having the most powerful job in the world and still being desperate for attention by any means necessary.

submitted 46 days ago • 2225 comments

Room Temperature IQ.

submitted 46 days ago • 58 comments

This post from Lewis Goodall a few months ago was prescient: Labour's reluctance to genuinely go on the offensive against Reform and its policies has got us to where we are today. And their belief that simply adopting Reform policies will protect them is naive at best, incredibly stupid at worst.

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

This is just so spot on, I’ve been irritated by this lazy narrative for months “I know many readers, listeners, viewers find the focus on Farage irritating. They believe he is a media creation, they believe he has had scant scrutiny, they believe he is a cad.” …

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

Reform Amateur Hour begins. Having been on the Executive of a local authority I can confirm it is extremely hard work and extremely long hours. There’s going to be so much whining when the wake-up call hits.

submitted 46 days ago • 58 comments

Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks. Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them. Read the f*ing room. More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.

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Why are you making Reform so popular?" "I don't think we're 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 trying to make Reform popular." @jonsopel1.bsky.social presses Labour MP Luke Pollard after their by-election defeat.

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Mark Carney- “Who’s ready to stand up for Canada with me, and who’s ready to build”

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The end of today’s episode is so emotive, Emily’s words are so poignant and powerful. Thank you for journalist integrity like yours @maitlis.bsky.social! May you finally peace Virginia Giuffre.

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All thanks to populism! Let’s hope the world follows Canada in perhaps a rejection of right wing authoritarianism.

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Rachel Reeves thinks Trump can be trusted? This man: • Lied about a stolen election • Incited an insurrection • Abandoned US allies • Sabotaged climate deals • Was impeached TWICE • Found liable for sexual assault • Faces 88 felony charges • Wrecked Mexico and Canadian trade deals

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Balance, imagine 🙄 great read

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