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Ordinary bloke, gripped by Brexit. Am I moving left or is the rest of the world moving right?
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The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

See also the US as on the same strategy as Iran.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Read this. The world of Emperor nakedness has changed. The old story is wrong- the emperor is conscious of its own story. So we need to change its own story as well. The Bear makes it some good suggestion.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 8 days ago • 229 comments

The disadvantage of the parade for Trump- made him look bad for many/ support good MAGAs for few. Need more like that.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this is fascism. For years, historians and experts were cautious about using the f-word to describe today's events. But that hesitation is gone now. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

The only question in American politics right now is are you for or against authoritarianism? Nothing else matters.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

It's not the worst thing about the Trump era by far, but it is infuriating to have been consistently viewed as alarmist for stating plainly what has been happening in front of our very eyes. So many people have gaslit us because they were delusional or reality made them uncomfortable.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Tim Davie seems to want to reinvent old Dutch public television, here the transition on their equivalent of BBC 1 in 1988 from the Catholic KRO to the mainstream protestant NCRV. But only for one party or group. youtu.be/nxANn-9d3M8?...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We are reaching the point where the government need to consider disinviting Truss from the formal occasions attended by ex-PMs. Her recent behaviour is deeply troubling, and undermines the dignity of the office.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

What is now very disturbing about social media is that we see politicians (Truss, but Badenoxh too) picking up loony online groupthink and treating it as if it were real. /1

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Housebuilders: OK, we're going to knock down a knackered old shopping centre in Peckham and build lots of homes on the site, including some affordable homes. Peckham residents: No. southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham...

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

What people don’t seem to get is that the anti-science stance of the Trump regime isn’t an act for political gain. They’re not pretending, in order to dupe the gullible voters. This is real. This is them. They really think science itself is a bogus conspiracy. Yes, they’re idiots.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

The whole "breed for Britain" line is so glaringly gross, and not just because of the very much "white nationalist" and misogynistic undertones to it. The way it has been mainstreamed by those seeking to attack migrants shows how low they will go, and their dehumanising view of people as resources.

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments

He's a complete lunatic... Unfortunately, having a fundamentally deranged individual, who probably also has dementia, occupying one of the most consequential positions on earth is less than ideal... Maybe time for our politicians to keep him at arm's length? www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Some people who think better have fallen for the Musk rubbish. One dinner conversation in February I can think of. The Economist reader cast type.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps first sign the Orban regime is coming off the rails. Three slim platforms- claims of mass migration, green challenges, “globalism” - is a thin challenge for taking over Brussels.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

<go down slowly, then quickly>

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

What should frighten us all is that this is not common knowledge. This explicitly anti-life ideology is being successfully enacted in the US right now, and without unified pushback it will spread.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

I've been digesting the court ruling and here are the implications for Europe. The 'reciprocal' tariffs are out, so no more 10 per cent general tariff for all countries. Sectoral tariffs on autos and steel/aluminum still in place so this doesn't affect the US-UK 'deal'. For the EU though..1/x

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments