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My bro came round with Hatherley's The Alienation Effect:how central European émigrés transformed the British Twentieth Century & I am hugely enjoying it. A great read, already and helps focus me on meanings of KIng's Cross as part of the abandonment/trashing of the post-WW2 civilisation.

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Mark Sedona asks: “Perhaps someone in the government, perhaps John Healey, might like to explain what the difference is between the Houthis attacking ships in international waters and the Israelis attacking aid ships in international waters?” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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It’s May Day. Worker’s Day. A time for rest and celebration. And recognition that we often need to keep fighting the same fights.

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Two months have passed since the latest orchestrated starvation of 2m Gazans by the 'civilised' West (Israeli Apartheid is merely an appendage of the US and the EU - nothing more nothing less). Just so that we don't forget. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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with Peter Oborne, Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes.

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The utterly hopeless Electoral Commission again …. “UK Election Officials Are Not Keeping Any Records of How Many Overseas Donors Are Bankrolling UK parties…. as Nigel Farage’s party launches a fundraising drive among voters living in overseas tax havens bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

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no pretense here. she knows exactly what she's implying

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It has become increasingly hard to understand the UK’s indifference to Israel’s Gaza slaughter campaign other than in terms of improper influence - partly accomplished through sleaze donations, however small they may seem.

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There is a simple reason why China is in the stronger position compared to the US in this trade war: It is much easier to create demand domestically in the short run than it is to rebuild the workshop of the world.

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If you know Christians, tell them this

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My colleague @gideonrachman.bsky.social rightly calls out Trump's anti-anti-Semitism for what it is - "cynically instrumentalising the charge of antisemitism to pursue a vendetta." www.ft.com/content/c46e...

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“I followed my instinct. Without knowing beforehand where those images would lead us. Such is the beauty of cinema. The beauty of life.” independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

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Shut down the youth clubs. Sell off the playing fields. Put up "no ball games" signs. Make public places hostile to teenagers. Then: "Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

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Every cloud has a silver lining, and for every dark cloud in people's lives under Covid there sure was a lining of silver for these grifters.

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'Beware employers bearing yoga mats and wellbeing sessions....It’s patronising, and ideologically suspect. It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions.' 1/3

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So, making it up as it goes along or making money for his mates? Veering toward the latter now...

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A psychoanalytic take on Musk and Thiel’s “leadership”, which combine an identity as both god/saviour and victim.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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“This politicization of US science … will, if left unchecked, create a vacuum to be filled with junk science, insider dealing, junk discoveries [and] wasted spending”. Joshua Weitz speaks up. 🧪 joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/whats-goin...

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‘If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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There are no depths to my contempt for these spivs. For every dark cloud there was during Covid 19 these charlatans lined their pockets with silver.

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Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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It's at times like this that we're forced to acknowledge that the @BBC is no longer a source of serious, considered and informed commentary..The closing down of Newsnight & the trivialisation of Question Time profoundly wrong.

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The return of light to the West: Clyde estuary.

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The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

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What more do you need to know? It is absurd that this is happening and we all collectively ignore the reality of what is happening. apple.news/AgohmziLTRyO...

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🔴Prospective Thames Water Private Equity Buyer ‘Sent Bills Soaring’ in UK and US Campaigners say the preferred buyer of the failing UK water firm has a record of “rampant profiteering and financial abuse of service users” on both sides of the Atlantic bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/p...

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The scourge of the Chelsea tractor: SUVs are more lethal, cause more potholes and are often more polluting than ordinary cars, and many can’t fit in a standard parking place — here’s why their drivers should be made to pay.

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Two volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion: Setty Abraham from Baghdad and Mack Coad from Alabama. Taken at Darmós, Tarragona, April 1938. More about them and other Brigaders from @lincolnbrigade.bsky.social and their excellent website alba-valb.org

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We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

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“Did political science get Central and Eastern Europe wrong?” Yup, wildly over-optimistic stuff, especially from U.S. political scientists blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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Another day another Israeli war crime - and yet another nail in the coffin of the West's claim to be civilised... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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🔴Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

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number's up for those bloodsucking, plundering, looting penguins

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Proud to have contributed to a report from the UK’s housing charity, Shelter on why it is entirely affordable for the UK government to build 90,000 social housing each year. england.shelter.org.uk/professional...

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Superb from Clive Lewis MP...

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Ella Baron on the spring statement and Labour’s broken pledges.

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Deskilling the NHS is part of the plan to privatise our healthcare 🚨 open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...

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'Documents released by the Covid Inquiry reveal a network of connections between senior ministers, advisers and those handed lucrative Covid contracts' Every cloud has a silver lining for these shameless grifters...

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Good points

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