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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 11 days ago • 2010 comments

I love this Private Eye section as it genuinely does encapsulate the biases and framing of the British press

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

submitted 57 days ago • 199 comments

"Where will the money come from?" - Kate Andrews keeps asking, in order to press her attack on the NHS funding model. Well, where will the money come from under ANY other model? Does adding a profit-making insurance layer make healthcare cheaper? No. It just makes it less fair. ~AA

submitted 75 days ago • 174 comments

This actually relates to the previous government, and it also says Ofwat were culpable. Shockingly poor headline. - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 76 days ago • 69 comments

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

Labour slowly carving away at the Conservative's disastrous legacy 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/bibby-s...

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t” westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

submitted 98 days ago • 112 comments

And here's Carol Vorderman's list of "good people to follow" 🙌 (Those already on Bluesky at least!) @carolvorderman.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 43 comments

Honestly, astonishing to hear Trevor Phillips talk about the Rwanda scheme as if it was some sort of hail mary which solved small boat crossings When all it did was cost hundreds of millions and the only people sent to Rwanda were Conservative Home Secretaries

submitted 106 days ago • 21 comments