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Everyone from Birmingham is a Brummie, everyone in Birmingham can be a Brummie, as can anyone else who (for some reason or none) regards themselves as a Brummie. It is non-exclusive, and all are welcome. Ditto, for far even larger imagined communities.

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I’ve found my spirit animal

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No contest.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

honestly think this makes a very good point about the difference between the way Trump was broadly expected to govern and the way Musk is governing

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I have zero time for anyone who has treated Birbalsingh as a serious commentator. An asbolute disgrace.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 398 comments

Semafor reports on CEOs belatedly awakening that Trump's predatory economic ideas will capsize the US economy. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 4 hours ago • 65 comments

The initial story was overhyped, but I fear this reading is too generous. It shows that if you press people on what dictatorship really means, they get cold feet. But they're drawn to the idea in principle & struggle to see the point of constraints. That's a problem that goes far beyond "Gen Z" 🧵

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Congratulations on your promotion Taoiseach Danny Dyer. Build some houses!

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

the Tate brothers, among the other charges, are accused of sex with a minor. that is a crime over which the USA asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction (US citizens can be prosecuted for committing it overseas), so it's not just a matter of them coming home - they are specifically being protected.

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Record scratch Freeze frame "Yep, that's me Jonathan Powell. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation..."

submitted 21 hours ago • 34 comments

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Lord Moylan, a Tory peer and a former advisor to Boris Johnson, sponsored a discussion event in the House of Lords this week. With him in the panel were two far-right activists. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/02/27/l...

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220,000 Romanian Jews were murdered in WW2. And here we are 80 years on

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My Trade Secrets today. NOT (MAINLY) ABOUT TRUMP. Forget the chainsaw histrionics. Javier Milei to the surprise of some (including me) is proving an orthodox reformer for Argentina. His challenge is to stay on track despite the siren calls that might come from the White House. on.ft.com/4ieBkPQ

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Latest from @samfr.bsky.social looks at the shared influences on the far-right in Europe and the US. They appear to be working more together yet those who wish to develop their appeal to voters look to distance themselves from the more extreme and from Trump/Musk. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...?

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Timing is never an accident. A fiver says Tate's at the White House today, either side of Starmer.

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I’m sorry WHAT

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I struggle with the contradictions of the Trump administration as much as anyone. While pretending to protect women from the terrible threat of gender neutral bathrooms they pressure Romania to let people under actual investigation for sexual misconduct come to the US.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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This is big. Far-right troll site Guido Fawkes has always claimed it isn't subject to UK libel law as it's officially offshore. Today it conceded that it defamed Dale Vince, making clear it it's subject to UK law. No more dodging scrutiny. Staines will have to play by the rules like the rest of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

I'm often critical of the British lobby but when Cummings tried this stunt against left wing outlets the whole lobby boycotted until they backed down. The US press are pathetic.

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regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

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Hope everyone in the UK remembers what Elon Musk is doing to the US government the next time Domminic Cummings writes a 30,000 word blog post on his plan to replace all the "NPCs" in Whitehall with 19 year old Nazi superforecasters.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Me, trying to do the 'TV gameshow but for choosing the new Pope' meme: To be properly Catholic it needs to be bloated, weird, dramatic, colourful and somehow both camp AND goth, so the only answer's Eurovision Also me: OH GOD, Eurovision's like that bc so many of the countries are Catholic

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think what grates most about Fraser Nelson's "a dramatic shift? of MY Overton window?" shtick is that those of us who kept talking about the Spectator's dangerous slide to the right were treated as hysterical, not able to see the humour in shock jocks, etc etc, when we were just clearly right!

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A ship arrived from Valparaiso, Dropped its anchor in the bay, Her name reminded me of kingdoms, Sunlit countries far away. Come along with me she whispered, Far from cloud and mist, for you’ll, Find beneath the Andes Mountains, An awesome city – bright as a jewel. Oliver St John Gogarty

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Amazon gains full creative control of Bond. I'm not even particularly a fan, but it was impressive to see decades of fairly rigid quality control. You can now kiss that goodbye under this simpering halfwit. Just more sludge to be fed into the content engine. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

NEW SERIES LAUNCH DAY... Ireland & Empire Ireland was used by England as a laboratory for imperialism, and it was the site of bloody colonial wars for centuries, yet many people in the neighbouring United Kingdom have little understanding of Ireland’s history.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Implications of the end of NATO for Europe facing Russian aggression,.

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The moment Trump ally Carla Sands tried to tell Victoria Derbyshire that there are more political dissidents in prison in the U.K. than in all of Russia. We really are through the looking glass now.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

So I've lived to see a US President condemn a country for not surrendering immediately to an invading Russian army.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

The politico playbook ‘it’s all a bit of a laugh, what a bunch of *ssholes’ tone is really starting to grate.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Fascinated by people who argue “The government only met their increased appointment target by ending the doctors strike” as a gotcha. I mean, yes? That would be the primary purpose of ending a strike, to ensure those striking could in fact do their job instead of striking.

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The world is on fire and Kemi Badenoch is giving a speech to a Tory think tank in which she says that "as the world becomes more complicated" it is "pronouns and DEI" that are "the real poison in our society". Sunak has given full support to Starmer on Ukraine. She still has not responded.

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«Ci sono due modi di sfuggire alle miserie della vita: la musica e i gatti» (Albert Schweitzer). Buona giornata! #17febbraio #festadelgatto

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There is a risk of a dramatic gulf between the scale of events in international politics with America's pivot vs lack of UK public bandwidth, energy, appetite to engage with this (given economy, political mistrust, polarisation). What does this mean for capacity to think about how to respond?

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

A few final thoughts on Trump, NATO, Ukraine and European strategic autonomy. First, there is an honest good-faith debate to be had about the cost-benefit analysis from the US perspective of US security guarantees to Europe. 🧵

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Military historian Sir Antony Beevor on Times Radio on Trump-Putin: "We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those from WW2...but there is a really very frightening echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the idea that one can deal over the heads of a suffering nation"

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