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The government’s ongoing refusal to engage with reality in the criminal justice system, while trotting out the same tabloid-pleasing headlines as its predecessors, is having catastrophic effects, day after day. The guilty acquitted, the innocent convicted, victims and defendants failed.

submitted 87 days ago • 19 comments

With Farage back on Question Time last night... ...here is your reminder that Farage was on BBCQT a record-breaking 35 times before he became an MP. And, further, that the panellist selection on BBCQT has been heavily slanted to right-wing think tanks and commentators over the years.

submitted 87 days ago • 136 comments

submitted 89 days ago • 11 comments

“Many patients forced into private sector after politicians profoundly failed them by decimating the NHS” There - fixed the title for you, The Telegraph 👍 www.telegraph.co.uk/money/privat...

submitted 89 days ago • 13 comments

The Brexit Curse British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’. Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder. Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year. Rejoin EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 89 days ago • 140 comments

Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March

submitted 95 days ago • 100 comments

The Lady Chief Justice is right. The previous government devastated criminal justice, running up record delays and backlogs. The new government’s ongoing refusal to fund the courts only increases the problem, and will lead to enormous financial and social long-term costs.

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

🔴Assisted Dying: ‘My Friend’s Dignified Death Convinced Me We Need to Let the Light In’ My Dutch friend chose to die a peaceful, painless death at the time of his choosing. Everyone else should be free to make that same choice, writes @tom--scott.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/a...

submitted 96 days ago • 12 comments

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

submitted 102 days ago • 462 comments

Well they should pull their finger out and change this. Obviously. Unless they think that making people wade through pornography, racism and lies to obtain government communications on X is sensible or proper.

submitted 102 days ago • 16 comments

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submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

All of a sudden, my 'For You' feed in the other place has cleaned up. Before I joined here I saw nothing but tweets from 'him' and MAGA and voluminous right-wing bile. Mostly though it was just him; tweet after tweet after tweet in my feed. Now, nothing. Too late Space Karen, too late...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out. #JeremyClarkson

submitted 103 days ago • 721 comments

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#twitterquitter

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

"It's 'free speech' when they 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 what's being said." After backlash over a police investigation into a journalist's tweet, The News Agents discuss the right’s so-called "free speech absolutism" which, as it turns out, comes with conditions.

submitted 104 days ago • 58 comments

Kemi Badenoch and four leading Shadow Cabinet members have all received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group Badenoch now says she is a "Net Zero sceptic" and backs calls to scrap "radical" climate change measures bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

submitted 117 days ago • 25 comments

🔴Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to take on newspaper owners and restart the inquiry bylinetimes.com/2024/11/12/p...

submitted 105 days ago • 32 comments

So what do we call it? A sky? A blue? A bluey? 'I was so annoyed I just had to Blue about it'? 'I Blued about that earlier' Not that I actually care, I'm just sooo happy to be away from that fucking Bond villain made flesh.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

My first day on Twitter I started following @bengoldacre.bsky.social because of his mention of it in his book Bad Science. Now, a significant number of years later and having catapulted myself off that hell site to Blue Sky the first account I am following is the same. Let's start again ❤️

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments