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Labour has chosen nativism over growth. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 19 hours ago • 42 comments

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 21 hours ago • 165 comments

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

One again, this is simply not true. Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

WTF does this shower of a “government” think it’s doing?! Farage is laughing all n the way to No. 10 and the UK is on the slide towards fascism. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

In the spirit of @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s image of public opinion on immigration as “I want a pony in my flat with no costs attached” public opinion on social care seems to be “I want a magical care machine that costs nothing”

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Loads of young around currently. A pair of hobbies hunting over the summer walkway too.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The wife and I popped down to Slimbridge on Friday and were rewarded with good views of the nesting kingfishers #Birding #GlosBirds

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's a shame that international student numbers will be cut, because only 2% of voters want their post-study work limited and they bring £37bn to the country. But Britain has gone mad and willingly chosen poverty, so there it is, nothing to be done. www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/new-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Andor Series 2 is more than mere SciFi, more than just another StarWars. It’s a powerful, relevant narrative for our age: how fascism operates, and how we must oppose it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone noticed how the people most vocal about celebrating victory over Nazis in 1945 are the ones most likely to have voted for actual Nazis only a few days previously?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The sanctification of Churchill is part of our regression into national childhood inews.co.uk/opinion/keir...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 81 comments

Take a bow Ollie Price. 👏👏👏🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ #GoGlos #GlosCricket @gloscricket.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

As the UK and US head down the same path that led to the gas chambers, it's more important than ever to remember the human cost of far right rhetoric and the hate it engenders. We need a strong opposition to these ideas, not politicians like Starmer who legitimise them for short term political gain

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You can't get a council house because no one is building them. Your wages are terrible because the billionaires profits have to be record. As above for the rents. And house prices are sky high because of all the landlords. None of it is to do with immigrants.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Not a great photo, but this was a life ✅ today: cirl bunting at Labrador Bay near Teignmouth. #birding

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Are there people claiming benefits who shouldn't be? YES! King Charles, MP's, billionaires businesses like Amazon, Shell, BP... Lets crackdown on them.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Fantastic day for the Lib Dems in #cheltenham. Won 9 out of 10 seats, up from 6, and narrowly missed the 10th. There are now zero Conservatives elected in our town.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Regardless of party it is hard to think it is optimal to see mayors who are supposed to be champions for their area elected on a quarter of the vote. Govt would be wise for purposes of legitimacy to switch the system back from FPTP to a supplementary vote.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Brexit led to rise in hospital death rates because EU nurses were replaced by less qualified staff, academic study says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Do you want to rejoin the EU? If so fly the flag. #RejoinEU

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Voters reward parties that stand up to Trump bullying www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Pssst…. Keir… see what happens to your popularity when you take a clear stance against Fascism.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

So can I get it on the NHS? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

For for the West of England mayoralty More in Common have: Lab: 23% Con: 21% Reform: 18% Green: 18% LD: 15% It is genuinely absurd to have an election with that kind of spread decided by first past the post. Unjustifiable.

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Fine, but can we also prosecute pedestrians (esp. dog walkers in my local park!) who injure cyclists by not respecting cycle lanes? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Britain wakes up every day, aims the gun at its feet and pulls the trigger. Just a prolonged exercise in meanspiritedness and self-harm.

submitted 20 days ago • 72 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve long said we should pay our MPs double what they currently get, but ban second jobs and pay them no expenses. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

If we’re going to make sure the future isn’t fascist, We need to have a grown up conversation about the political bind we’re in… That at the same time, we want to keep out Reform, but many feel compromised voting Labour to do it. FPTP sucks. We can navigate that, but must actually work together.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

I always said Brexit would cost lives www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

If this country sides with Trump rather than returning to the European fold, we will become a vassal state, when we could have been a leading partner. Wake up UK! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone seems to have forgotten I attacked Ukraine every single day Trump was POTUS the 1st time. Every. Single. Day.

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

submitted 29 days ago • 284 comments

“So what is it to be? Bail out a stricken Trump with a third-rate trade deal on which he will boast Britain has kissed his arse? Or make common cause with the EU to boost our growth and fashion a new global free-trade architecture?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

New episode with the great @iandunt.bsky.social youtu.be/upjwiQJ-Xh4?...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

Time to decide Britain. Kiss the ass of the tangerine tyrant, or work with our true friends in the EU to oppose his madness? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments