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Looking at reactions from the CBI and business sectors, I reckon robust lobbying will whittle much of Starmer and Cooper's immigration agenda down to the absurd husk that May, Johnson and Sunak ended with. And again the only long term consequence is carelessly harsh rhetoric legitimising Farage

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers... It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

It’s totally bizarre anyone serious gives him the time of day. This is the very worst kind of disconnected, middle class, metropolitan masturbation.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In Britain: Putin funded extremists to the right of us; Putin funded extremists to the left of us.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

After Zia Yusuf says only the Union Flag and St George's Cross will fly on Reform-controlled council buildings, Labour MP Mike Tapp says: "It tells you all you need to know about Nigel Farage’s Reform that their very first act is to ban the Ukrainian flag from our town halls."

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Donald Trump was not sleeping at the funeral of a pope I didn’t kill. by JD Vance

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

submitted 15 days ago • 419 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

After we sold our house, buyers rang to say they'd found a model of a gorilla's head in a cupboard, circled by human teeth like a weird ritual. Youngest child fessed they deliberately left the head & their baby teeth to scare the crap out of the buyers, who were arses. V proud.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Applebee’s new slogan is concerning

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

£50bn investment in the UK, 28,000 jobs, what's not to like? Telegraph -

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

It's not actually cancelled. It's being changed to a fireside chat. And with this format's smaller media pool: client media, mostly. I would expect to see aggressive words said towards Türkiye.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

And then he went for a round of golf.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 26 comments

Trump's going to be kicking himself when he sees how much incontinence pants and fake tan costs now.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

The thing that most people aren’t realizing is that the thoughtcrimes don’t have to be current for you to be on the Tyrant’s list. Op-ed articles from a year ago, social media likes from two years ago, hiring decisions from 2017, tattoos from a decade ago: justifications for persecution today.

submitted 45 days ago • 46 comments

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

submitted 45 days ago • 235 comments

Of course, ending DEI programmes is actually all about ensuring posh boy no marks like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg keep the advantages that accident of birth has granted them and which have caused such immense damage to this country for so long.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments