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Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/. Writes a fortnightly column for CityAM and has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture. All opinions his own & not of any employer.
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

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This is quite fun. “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1

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We'll need to see the details but this reads more like the EU proposal has been amended to better reflect standard YMSs. The EU has massively confused the debate by pretending a much deeper immigration partnership was a standard YMS

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Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

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“It is 1949. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 1967. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 2025. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.”

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We weren't waiting for permission...

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We used to be a proper gender

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Whatever you say about RTD Vol 2 he clearly hasn't been afraid to do the same bluntly daft show he'd have done if it was still wholly controlled by the BBC. You can add the very on-the-noise nativity reference at the end of Moffat's Christmas special. Disney are getting Who, good and strong.

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Not sure people demanding that universities are treated like British Steel actually want to see British academics forced to face down their foreign bosses as they try to trash the last lecture theatre in the country

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Geeez with numbers like these maybe Morgan McSweeney was in America last year to advise Trump!

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Honestly everyone here popping up to say "but why aren't you rescuing my industry" goes to show way politicians are loathed to do this, even when it's the right thing to do. We truly get the politicians we deserve.

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It's not even opportunistic. It's playing into the same culture war nonsense that is stopping Labour address HE's issues. So more self-defeating.

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apple.news/AERzwmtnURyW... I was all ready to somewhat sympathise with the writer (if a cheeky child steals a spare ice cream leave it to the parents to deal with it, including the cost) but then she seemingly unwittingly outlines why people tell other people's children - they break stuff otherwise

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I am actually speechless

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White House Down is such a fucking stupid movie. I love it unreservedly all the same though

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Years ago, one of my professors cut off a fellow student who was waxing poetic about people being "of" their time with respect to chattel slavery. He said: 'do you know who knew that enslavement was evil and morally disgusting? ENSLAVED AFRICANS.' Were they not of their time too? At 18, that stuck.

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And you know....even I think the government wouldn't wait until the last university in Britain was about to close before doing an emergency rescue

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You'd have to be out of your mind to make an inessential journey to the USA these days.

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Give Morgan McSweeney time.....

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