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✍️ Today’s result will be the canary in the coal mine for Labour. A major new study suggests there is a way forward, but which direction they go in next? Stephen McNair

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Under my glorious rule, anyone contributing to the Comment pages of the Telegraph would agree to have the headline tattooed to their forehead should circumstances demand it…

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Boris Johnson's botched deals didn't end with Brexit. Here's how he swung a UK-AUS deal offering just 0.01% GDP growth. "That was all it took to sell out the UK's farmers: a wine-soaked dinner, a hastily scribbled note, and a signature from a Prime Minister." @richardfoordld.bsky.social

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Martin Wolf @financialtimes.com summing up Trump’s first 100 days as it positions itself to lose the trade war with China www.ft.com/content/75f3...

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Instead of demanding policies that require fossil fuels stay in the ground, this dangerous and ignorant ex-PM advocates rolling over and doing nothing Carbon capture, nuclear and adaptation will NOT hold back the catastrophe that's coming, Mr Blair www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Two really good teams playing a really good game refereed by a guy who is either witnessing his first ever football match or else just as the IQ of a dustbin.

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Jailing judges is a five alarm fire.

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train” Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 136 comments

Carla was brilliant on Kuenssberg this morning She explained the guidance actually calls for banning trans people from both men’s & women’s spaces, rather than the “trans man gotcha” we’ve seen from some Nice to hear from someone who’s actually read the damn thing, rather than spouting propaganda

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I do think that Labour deserves credit for reducing waiting lists to a five year low in under a year. Still a long way to go to get it back to 2010 levels…and, no doubt, that is what people feel when they still hear long wait times.

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Absolutely wild: UK lawyers who have worked in relation to ICC Gaza investigation warned they are at risk of US sanctions, not only restricting travel there but potentially freezing their financial assets worldwide observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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‘ A snapshot of Arsenal ’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2025...

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Horrible -- and unlikely this is just happening in upstate New York: www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has defended his decision not to invite Reform UK to a political summit to discuss the threat from the far right. Swinney is right. The Farageists are part of the fascist axis attacking democracy, freedom, and human rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Finally, the correct tariff formula (from Private Eye)

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‘8 ways to lose to Arsenal’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2025/0…

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UK median wage, £29,628. Net pay, £24,852; barely enough to survive. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Bottom 50% less than 5%. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Workers need higher share of GDP. Progressive taxation.

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

‘I feel sorry for Arsenal’ ⚽️ central creation thoughts ⚽️ El Khannouss, KDB, Raphinha, Guler, ⚽️ Red vs Orange 😡 ⚽️ Partey sadness gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2025/0…

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Well played.

submitted 16 days ago • 467 comments

British Steel crisis shows folly of privatisation and foreign ownership. Lack of investment. Jingye, closely linked with Chinese govt, planned to end UK steel making; process Chinese steel; make UK reliant on Chinese imports. So much UK infrastructure is foreign owned and vulnerable.

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‘Why football is beautiful’ NEW blog 🔴⚪️ gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2025/0…

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'In the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody that this is how we are going to live.' This week's column, on a season where the tree has shaken, nights like Tuesday are as much about the culture Arteta has built, as well as the team and the tactics 👇🔴⚪️

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

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“I can’t prove it, but….” 🕵🏽‍♀️ A New PGMOL theory ⚽️ Why Gyokeres? 🥅 Trossard’s finishing technique 💩🐷💩Pooh, Piglet and Spurs gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2025/0…

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I'd add to this excellent @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social piece that the way to hit Trump where it hurts (psychologically/politically) isn't a tariff war we can't win, but showing we/other advanced economies can globalise without the US. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 26 days ago • 22 comments

Mark Carney says Trump's tariffs will make the US weaker just as Brexit has made the UK weaker

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

This photo is so incredibly telling. Jack Harrison is still on his feet. Myles Lewis-Skelly is on the ground, not in contact with the Everton man at all. Harrison went to ground AFTER this instant and was awarded a penalty.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

"If you now mess up in one part of the world economically, it can instantly impact politics and economics in another part of the world. The same is true of geopolitical and security risk. There is a more catastrophic level of risk than ever before because of interconnected systems. That matters"

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Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

submitted 29 days ago • 126 comments

newrepublic.com/article/1839... This is from 7.22.24 but, if youve never seen this, you need to be armed mentally with this information. I had not read this horrifying article.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Almost 90% of flights from Luton are taken for leisure, with more British tourists taking their money out of the country to spend abroad than tourists coming in. Expanding Luton is not good for UK growth & certainly not good for nature & the environment. Why doesn’t Labour Govt understand that?

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

Victorian diseases erysipelas and scabies return to the UK. Poverty, malnutrition, poor housing are the main causes. Govt response - benefit cuts for poor/disabled, two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, freeze tax thresholds. NHS queues, can't see GPs. Must redistribute.

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“The truth of the Marine Le Pen story is simple. She fucked around. She got found out. What did she actually do? You'd be hard pushed to find out, given that very few news outlets seem motivated to tell you.” Systematic, organised embezzlement open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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Trump’s ICE just “mistakenly” kidnapped a man with protected status and no record married to a U.S. citizen with a disabled child who is a citizen and sent him to an El Salvadoran hard labor prison — and say they can’t do anything about it In our names 🇺🇸

submitted 31 days ago • 215 comments

Sarkozy and Fillon's convictions - both very much establishment figures - are powerful counter-arguments to the narrative that Le Pen is the victim of establishment/judicial persecution. Ignore the noise

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

Fantastic article by @tomcalver.bsky.social: not only is the UK not a high-tax country, taxes on middle-income earners are low by international standards. If taxes are to rise - and they should - it can't/won't be just on "the rich". www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 33 days ago • 56 comments