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Mass graves, orphaned children, razed homes, war crimes, described Starmer his speech to Scottish Labour conference. Striking how he rarely mustered the same poignancy and emotion when describing the same conditions in Gaza.

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This kind of shit is probably coming down the pipe here; you just know there are UK employers/institutions looking at this and thinking 'What a great idea...' JOIN A UNION.

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Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

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The VAR decision against Everton yesterday was a scandal. Like they tried to find a way not to give it. What happened to clear and obvious?

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‘A piece of home I carry with me': What our mother tongues means to us globalvoices.org/2025/02/23/a... via @globalvoices.org #imld25 #language #identity #langsky

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“The occupant of the Oval Office – the leader of the free world – seems happier to side with the brutal tyrant Putin than to support America’s allies. It feels like we have fallen through the looking glass” Sir Ed Davey www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-da...

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The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.

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Very interested to know who’s producing these extremely odd lines. The same goes for much of the UK / US related briefings which seem similarly bizarre. Idiots or not, this stuff makes them all sound naive at best.

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The tragedy of our universities in deep recession is that, for all the caveats, they produce exactly that connectivity, that sense of place, that attachment and even love that everyone is saying they want. You'll miss it all once it's gone.

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I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

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Here we go again. A Labour minister on about ‘tough choices’ as if the country’s public services aren’t sufficiently in turmoil after 14 years of Tories coming out with the exact same phrase. #bbclaurak

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The Foreign Aid budget was cut by Rishi Sunak and the boats in the channel started #bbclaurak

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Two ex-KGB now confirming Trump is/was a Russian asset, code named “Krasnov”.

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"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

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A reminder… www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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Every 10 years after leaving school you should have to take an English and Maths test. Nothing onerous - just basic sentence structure and punctuation; simple addition and subtraction. If you fail then you get receive free tutoring to get you up to the necessary level.

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This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

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Quite unbelievable VAR intervention here, going against every single protocol I can think of.

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Everton robbed. That’s a clear penalty. Shirt pull clear as day. Ref ignored the camera angle from behind the goal. #EVEMNU

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English football is so corrupt. Man U always get benefit from VAR

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I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

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The only tiny thing that upsets the idea that Trump likes transactional agreements, Lord Ricketts, is that he breaks agreements and doesn't pay his bills. He is a lying liar and cannot be trusted. But, apart from that... #r4today

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If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

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French media publication Le Point are reporting that quite incredibly Trump will join Putin for Russia's May the 9th Victory Day celebrations. Are we witnessing America's final downfall on the world stage as we know it?

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The crash is beginning in academia.

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Read before it's gone Donald Trump recruited by KGB in 80s www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Britain’s least serious newspaper has more principles than most of Britain’s official opposition, or the entire US Republican Party

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.” In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

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A former senior Soviet KGB spy chief now claims that Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by Russian intelligence in 1986, and given the codename ‘Krasnov’ by his department. This is not even remotely surprising. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

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Of course, the notion that working class people are anti-immigrant is itself classist. Oh, and lots of immigrants are working class.

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