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Still working this out having left the other place.
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Ken Penton
about 1 month ago
âTough talk, cruel policy â and it still wonât stop the boatsâ
labourlist.org/2025/11/toug...
â via LabourList Very good piece from
@markdavies67.bsky.social
Good policy is good politics. This fails that test.
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'Tough talk, cruel policy â and it still wonât stop the boats' - LabourList
The politics of Mahmood's proposals are terrible: it wonât stop the boats, it wonât satisfy Reform-curious voters and it will anger Labour supporters.
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/tough-cruel-and-pointless/
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No Sacred Cows
about 2 months ago
On our latest episode
@tonelangengen.bsky.social
joins the herd to lay out how progressives must face the reality that people wonât back Net Zero unless it means cheaper energy and credible growth. Out now wherever you get your pods, and in links below.
nocows.substack.com/p/lets-level...
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Let's level on Net Zero
Tone Langengen lays out how progressives must face the reality that people wonât back net zero unless it means cheaper energy and credible growth.
https://nocows.substack.com/p/lets-level-on-net-zero
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No honour, no decency
There are times when I truly hate football.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markdavies/p/no-honour-no-decency?r=2s28yh&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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@unionchapeluk.bsky.social
do you have set times for Robert Forster please?
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Do have a listen to the second episode of our new podcast No Sacred Cows, an attempt to tackle some of the most pressing political issues facing the UK and US - and let me know what you think!
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No Sacred Cows
3 months ago
đ¨NEW EPISODE - We've turned our attention to immigration - an issue some dare not speak of, or perhaps now you cannot talk about enough. @FrankSharry joins the herd to talk about whether the centre-left needs to ditch its timidity and worry. Listen now.
open.spotify.com/episode/7r4z...
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Some thoughts on Labour conference
open.substack.com/pub/markdavi...
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A few thoughts on Labour conference
I attended my first Labour conference in 1993.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markdavies67/p/a-few-thoughts-on-labour-conference?r=2s28yh&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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No Sacred Cows
3 months ago
We're the cows! Peter Hyman joins Ed, Charlotte, Anna and Lanae in our first podcast episode to lay out how the left itself is a sacred cow that needs to be slayed with its arrogance, complacency, and superiority all being sent to the slaughter house.
nocows.substack.com/p/wearethecows
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We're the cows
Listen now | Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, joins the herd to make the case that the left isn't always right about everything.
https://nocows.substack.com/p/wearethecows
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Unhinged rant.
3 months ago
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London looking just fine and dandy to me.
3 months ago
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So proud of my son Alec, who is walking 89km to every football ground in London today. Started at 3am at Bromley. Expects to finish about 9pm. Has so far raised ÂŁ1k for
@myelomauk.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/page/thefoot...
4 months ago
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Probably the right decision but sad that it didnât work out in the end. There were moments when things looked very promising - just not enough of them.
#utb
#boro
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7 months ago
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The race for 10th place is ours
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8 months ago
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Weâve squandered so many points this season. If weâd hung on to leads in both games v Sheff Wed alone weâd be solidly in the play offs. So frustrating.
#boro
8 months ago
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My timeline is all either
#boro
misery or the descent of the US into a rogue nation. Happy days.
9 months ago
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On the way!
#UTB
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9 months ago
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Daniel Gray
9 months ago
Out today! Travelogue from Stornoway to South Wales via Scarborough, Sunderland and some places that don't begin with 's'. Social history from murals to Marx via the banning of leaping on Sundays. Guaranteed to leave the Last of the Summer Wine theme tune as your earworm.
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Ed Conway
9 months ago
đ¨ The Chinese owners of British Steel say they are now considering shutting their blast furnaces and end steelmaking at Scunthorpe in early June - only a few months away. It would mean an end of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it during the industrial revolution
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But, but, but ⌠the White House says itâs all a hoax?
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9 months ago
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@meidastouch.com
was there an EO pushed out yesterday re election law?
9 months ago
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News Eye
9 months ago
AOC & Bernie Sanders spoke to 86,000 people over three days in Arizona, Nevada & Colorado. Millions tuned in online. Bernie: âIf you think Trump and his friends are not watching this, youâre mistaken.â
#FightOligarchy
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Josh Marshall
9 months ago
Big turnout for other "empty chair" town hall, this time for the two AWOL Ohio senators in Columbus
www.facebook.com/christinapao...
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News Eye
9 months ago
HUGE protest against Elon Musk & Tesla in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on Saturday. For those who say protest doesnât work, Tesla stock is plummeting, Tesla sales are crashing and many Tesla owners canât offload their cars quick enough.
#TeslaTakedown
(đĽ Danned If You Do, via TikTok)
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protests to events like this, anti-Trump protests seem to be gathering pace in the US (and beyond)
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9 months ago
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I preferred it when Trump was obsessing about how many people turned up for his inauguration
10 months ago
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Heâs awake, then
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10 months ago
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Ed Owen
10 months ago
Starmer achieved a diplomatic triumph in D.C. but the challenges will keep on coming
@labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/02/keir...
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'Starmer's US trip was a diplomatic triumph, but many more challenges lie ahead' - LabourList
Returning to London from Washington early this morning, Keir Starmer and his team were justifiably delighted at howâŚ
https://labourlist.org/2025/02/keir-starmer-donald-trump-meeting-challenges-ahead/?amp
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Ed Owen
10 months ago
Ukraine is Starmerâs opportunity to define his governmentâs purpose. My comment for @labourlist.bluesky.social
labourlist.org/2025/02/us-u...
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'The US sell-out of Ukraine can be Starmerâs moment to define the purpose of his government' - LabourList
For many, this Labour government has lacked a defining vision, an overriding purpose for existing. Through events beyondâŚ
https://labourlist.org/2025/02/us-ukraine-trump-starmer-meeting-government/?amp
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Great win for the
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tonight - Azaz was brilliant - even though Stoke were v poor. Get in!
10 months ago
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Shashank Joshi
10 months ago
The UK's '2.5% of GDP by 2027' announcement is welcome. But let's be clear. That trajectory essentially allows the MoD to maintain programmes & plug growing holes in existing force structure, rather than any dramatic change, such as backfilling for American assets in Europe.
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Alexander Clarkson
10 months ago
Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.
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David Henig
10 months ago
Main thing I'm taking from the German election result is that Musk and Vance support for the AfD made no positive difference whatsoever. In the current scheme of things that really matters.
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Another excellent piece by
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on the dizzying last few days and Trumpâs latest âPutiniste vomitâ
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Sophy Ridge
10 months ago
In journalism it's important to reflect both sides,listen, understand nuance,be aware of your bias Itâs also important to call out facts that arenât true Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
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News Eye
10 months ago
To the UK, Europe & the rest of the West: Cement your alliances. Make a joint plan. Do it NOW. The US has fallen.
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Mike Galsworthy
10 months ago
I don't see Trump demanding elections in Russia. ...ironically one year, almost to the day, after Alexei Navalny's murder.
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Itâs amazing to me that the Democrats havenât started doing something like this already. America is falling - at speed - but the opposition seems to lack coordination and volume.
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10 months ago
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Jim Pickard
10 months ago
so much for Trumpâs 4% claim
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John Springford
10 months ago
Trump is losing his rag because Zelensky isn't backing down. He needs Zelensky to back down. So support Zelensky.
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Lewis Goodall
10 months ago
A key aim of Putin has to been to delegitimise the democratically elected Zelensky and the Ukrainian government. He now has the active assistance and connivance of the President of the United States in that effort.
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Lewis Goodall
10 months ago
The equivalent would have been Roosevelt calling Churchill a dictator when the Luftwaffe were bombing London. It's beyond belief, really.
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News Eye
10 months ago
đ¨Holy shit. Trump has just launched a scathing attack on Zelenskyy. Heâs actually called him a dictator. There can be no doubt: the President of the United States is now a Kremlin asset.
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Shaun Pinner
10 months ago
I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putinâs invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.
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10 months ago
An unconscionable post from Donald Trump about Zelenskyy, in which he calls him a "dictator" and threatens Ukraine's existence.
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Philip Stephens
10 months ago
It starts with book burning....
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 months ago
I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from
@edgeofsports.bsky.social
's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Lewis Goodall
10 months ago
How about an election in Russia?
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Melanie Ward MP
10 months ago
We were in the room where it happened at
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so
@laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social
& I have written on consequences. We must: 1) step up cooperation with Europe; 2) increase our own defence capabilities; 3) build national resilience, incl. against disinformation Read it here đ
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Catherine Rampell
11 months ago
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...
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