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Injured left midfielder. Ageing indie kid, social democrat, gender realist, Ulsterman in England, United fan, FRSA. Making NI podcast The Lough In https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lough-in/id1726835436. Old Newtownabbeian and Sound of Carpet on X.
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🇺🇸❗️🇪🇺 European diplomat tells Politico: "The transatlantic alliance has broken down, and now there is an alliance between the Russian and American presidents to destroy Europe."

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

Invertebrates www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This is a fascinating and important thread. Shows “progressive activists” as badly out of synch with everyone else in society, including other progressive segments.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Some perspective for trans right campaigners. The longer this goes on, the more people learn, the less they agree with you. Only very small minorities now what female-identifying males in women’s spaces or sports. The bubble has well and truly burst on all this utter codswallop you forced on people.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Reform wouldn't exist without Farage but he is very unpopular which puts a ceiling on their vote.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Labour need to keep people who think immigration is too high in their voter coalition (because it's most people). But they don't need people for whom it's the number one issue. Indeed they can't win those people so trying is counter-productive.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

I think this has to be the death knell - no pun intended - for the chances of this bill becoming law.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting. Head-to-head matches on who would be best PM.

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

I went through security into this building today. It made me reflect again, how did they get a suitcase of wine in for a lockdown party?

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: This is what the Government's been missing in its plan for growth.A boost to UK GDP of up to 2.2%.How can they get it?With deep alignment with the EU on goods & services. Which would be firmly within Starmer’s Brexit ‘red lines’. 1/6 www.thetimes.com/article/8423...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

In The Observer, @robfordmancs.bsky.social makes an important point that is not heard often enough in the current political debate.

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

Bluesky stuck-in-2019 people present themselves as liberal voices of reason then do a pile-on against Janice Turner, based solely on a headline she didn’t write, and which completely misrepresents her article. Which you’d have known if you actually read it. Here’s *what she actually wrote*

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