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submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

💥Peter Kellner: "I quite like using numbers to make sense of the what is going on. Yet sometimes they are not enough. If they were, the fact that Brexit has cost Britain’s economy 4-5% of GDP would be a major national scandal." A 🧵 with some of the most exposing stats from Peter's latest blog👇 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics. Putin's best week in years.

submitted 10 days ago • 124 comments

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’? What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported? I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments

The Trump administration instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. Read more: nyti.ms/4hvI8s0

submitted 26 days ago • 108 comments

Resonant words from the Auschwitz Memorial today: “Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. Hatred was gradually developed. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through dehumanization & violence to systematic & industrial murder. “Auschwitz took time.”

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 27 days ago • 1093 comments

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

submitted 33 days ago • 1103 comments

He fired José Andrés of World Central Kitchen. Think about the level of pettiness and vindictiveness it takes to dismiss a man whose life’s work is dedicated to feeding the hungry in the most desperate and devastating circumstances.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

Stepping back from the two big stories of the moment, pretty much all of the platforms where the Southport killer indulged his passions for violence, genocide & murder are owned & controlled by men who were in the prime seats at Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday. And they all hate regulation…

submitted 33 days ago • 51 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 63 comments

These fuckers. Just did this.

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

I'm sure there's a name for people who cheer on foreign powers against their own country. And it isn't patriots.

submitted 35 days ago • 110 comments

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

submitted 39 days ago • 74 comments

You should read this analysis. It is clear, concise and written so that virtually anybody can understand it. If you don't follow its author, you should. He was consistently one of the best things on Twitter and amassed a huge following accordingly.

submitted 45 days ago • 25 comments

Literally all they had to do was calmly condemn Musk’s dishonest & inciteful attack on their parliamentary colleague, Jess Phillips. And they couldn’t even manage that. Absolutely shameful.

submitted 48 days ago • 128 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 50 days ago • 1093 comments

Insufficient from Streeting and actually quite dangerous. Musk's comments against Phillips in particular risk her safety. Saying you're "willing to work" with him helps validate that behaviour. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 50 days ago • 120 comments

Elon Musk is starting to risk getting Jess Phillips killed. She's been safeguarding minister for six months. She oversaw nothing relating to the rape gangs. As an opposition MP she was one of the most prominent campaigners for the victims. What he's doing is a travesty.

submitted 51 days ago • 103 comments

How mad is it that my husband and I,living in France have received our £10 Christmas bonus (11.00€)!!!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

It is not an overstatement when I say that I could genuinely weep: this is 100% the exact opposite of what they need to do: you cannot out-Reform the Reform Party. The only thing this will do is drive more voters to Reform: voters always choose the original. Every bit of research shows that. 🧵

submitted 85 days ago • 56 comments

By the far the best interviewer the BBC has. An incredible loss to the organisation. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

submitted 88 days ago • 94 comments

It’s all in the telling.

submitted 92 days ago • 725 comments

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

submitted 96 days ago • 19 comments

If you feel the same, spread the word.

submitted 97 days ago • 117 comments

One of the many delights of living in rural France. Yesterday we went to the lunch provided by the Maire for the ainés (the oldies!). Super afternoon 🥂🇫🇷

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments