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🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future. 🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Hey kids! Don't eat a diet made up entirely of beef, salt, and water... it does this to your critical faculties

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Farage missed a debate on the biggest reset to the EU since Brexit because… he’s on holiday. Does he think he’s an MEP again? He’s made NINE trips abroad (eight to the US) since the GE, many funded by donors, some for other paid jobs. Recess is next week. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

And the government is doing…?

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

A reminder about how much the Brexiteers cared about fishing before it became a talisman for their idiotic campaign. Nigel Farage attended only 1 of 42 meetings when he was appointed to the EU fisheries committee www.google.com/amp/s/descri...

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

submitted 8 days ago • 172 comments

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

submitted 11 days ago • 3980 comments

Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose, "Here we are, 10 years on now from Brexit" "The issues of immigration are caused by Brexit" "The issues of our poor economic performance ate down to Brexit"

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

If Labour weren't such total cowards about Brexit, they could have diffused the row over immigration by pointing, again and again and again, at the graph that shows immigration skyrocketed immediately after the transition period ended. Make "Brexit = v high levels of immigration" in peoples' minds.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Well done @itvnews.bsky.social on pointing out the soaring rise in immigration “since we completed Brexit” - a key factor. This should be pointed out to Farage (who championed Brexit) in every interview

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

submitted 14 days ago • 207 comments

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

submitted 15 days ago • 517 comments

Art of the Deal

submitted 15 days ago • 303 comments

Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you. You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 15 days ago • 1690 comments

Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal

submitted 15 days ago • 97 comments

When govts stop panicking and announcing policy to “challenge” Nigel effing Farage, we may stand a chance of fixing the mess that Nigel effing Farage helped to make. Until then, we will stay stuck in this populist dead end, loudly blowing our dog whistle at the world and wondering why nothing works.

submitted 15 days ago • 102 comments

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

submitted 15 days ago • 313 comments

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?! If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone. But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why. 🧵 1/16

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

Reform huge gains are not to be underestimated but that's a very telling little strip.

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

submitted 25 days ago • 237 comments

Does this sound familiar? It’s a similar story in Alberta. “The expansion of private providers into NHS-funded care has led to falling surgical admissions in NHS hospitals and is associated with rising waiting times for all patients.“ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Just incredible

submitted 27 days ago • 1468 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 28 days ago • 1024 comments

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 30 days ago • 745 comments

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

submitted 30 days ago • 625 comments

via Dave Traxson #TaxTheRich #AbolishBillionaires

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Farage: "7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts". Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born. The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.

submitted 33 days ago • 146 comments

Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024. Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24. Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted. Nothing will change until profit motive is removed. Nationalise.

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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 43 days ago • 88 comments

2025: Nigel Farage, "Britain is broken, Britain is in a really bad state, the country is going down the tubes and we need fresh leadership and a different attitude" 2016: Nigel Farage, "So the worst case scenario - of Brexit - economically is better than where we are today"

submitted 48 days ago • 64 comments

Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.

submitted 48 days ago • 105 comments

Oh, look... The totally normal, natural and sensible instinct to strengthen your LOCAL trade bloc, and deepen participation and integration. [Taps microphone] "Are you listening, Labour?" www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Reform got 5 MPs at the GE, the Lib Dems got 72. So why the hell do Labour keep doing Reform Lite and not seeing the millions of us who want something different from the never ending macho, rule Britannia bollocks. Simple maths shows there are more of us in the centre/centre left than the right.

submitted 48 days ago • 50 comments

Mark Carney says he has 'seen this movie before', and believes that the US economy is heading for a Brexit-style downturn www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...

submitted 49 days ago • 275 comments

It was extraordinary. There is, for example, no earthly reason why a little-known radio presenter on a commercial station should have become a national rallying point for Brexit reality simply by telling the obvious truth. (He did have to step down from occasionally presenting Newsnight, though.) 😉

submitted 49 days ago • 30 comments

‘Sir’ Robbie Gibb made no secret of it. Or his vote for Brexit. Still on the BBC board…

submitted 49 days ago • 34 comments

It was SO obvious that journos had orders from above. Anchor after anchor kept telling guests who brought it up, “let’s not relitigate the referendum.” Like that phrase had suddenly been telepathically transmitted into their brains. And anyone who pointed this out was told they were a conspiracist.

submitted 50 days ago • 20 comments

Sounds like a plan

submitted 49 days ago • 88 comments

"Our most important defence ally is the US. Our largest trading partner is the EU. Yet somehow, we are chasing better trade terms with America while seeking stronger military ties with Europe. This approach is back to front." ~AA www.bestforbritain.org/starmers_str... @pimlicat.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 36 comments

"The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out .. Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down." Bill Ackman, head of Pershing Square, on Twitter. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

No thank you

submitted 50 days ago • 45 comments

“What's certain is that transactionalism has replaced trust…. And Europe, not Washington, is now our closest ally.” Good letter in The Times. A paper which has done so much to claim the opposite.

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NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 53 days ago • 170 comments

The U.K. cannot continue to pretend it can make a “deal” with these people.

submitted 53 days ago • 590 comments