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Around 3/4 of people don’t want Reform in power. But the narrative is that they are unstoppable. First-past-the-post has warped British politics for far too long. Now it risks letting the extreme right win a majority. It needs to go. My latest guardian column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m sometimes asked by graduate students what an academic website should look like. The answer is, in all cases, this. Exactly this.

BBC Expert Warns Trump's Air Strikes May Have 'Accelerated' Iran's Nuclear Weapons Programme www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-ex...

Trump is an imbecile. He has no understanding of the past, no insight into the present and no capacity to think of the future.

This is precisely what happened. The same effort, over and over again, with Democrats and Republicans. But America was finally weak enough to simply ignore and its president idiotic enough to go along with it.

There are no "brown envelopes changing hands" in local councils - just under appreciated employees devoting their working lives to keeping public services going with ever decreasing funds and increasing abuse.

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

You will be happier, and he will be unhappier, if you just block JD Vance (yes, his account is back)

PL fixture list graphics review 25/26 🧵 A very important day today, we must assess how well each team displayed their fixtures

The obvious point is that even if this were correct and Bluesky were “dying” many of us would still find it morally indefensible to use X, a platform purposely designed to promote lies and fascism. We all like to have fun but sometimes there’s a bigger picture too.

Today, with a Trump military parade and all the protests planned across the US, here's my guide to fighting for democracy, including eight specific research-driven lessons for how to successfully push back against authoritarianism. www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-america...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Really hope he doesn’t get into trouble…so funny.

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