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Gregory Norminton
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In a world of cowardly CEOs and appeasers, Peter Ettedgui is a model of courage.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️
about 8 hours ago
Elon Musk is a global enemy to democracy.
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BBC News rrrrrreally doesn't want to cover the Nigel Farage racism story, does it...
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Robert Saunders
3 days ago
Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in. Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
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Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
https://www.ft.com/content/db73535f-7d9d-4586-b53a-a690d3b0e36d
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Hannah Shaw-Williams
3 days ago
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/report-of-the-independent-adhd-taskforce-part-1/
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Libby Baby Jesus 👼
3 days ago
This is basically going to be "Get off your phone and into work" isn't it?
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Adam Bienkov
3 days ago
So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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Dr Steve Westlake
3 days ago
This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/record-heat-drought-2025-cost-uk-arable-farmers-estimated-800m-climate-crisis-grain-harvest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Prem Sikka
3 days ago
Thames Water risks being forced into special administration. 40% price hike. Doubling of operating profit, sewage in rivers. Era of water poverty - 8.5% of the TW customers are on bills subsidised by those who are paying their charges, 4% not paying bills at all. It's a scam.
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Thames Water risks being forced into special administration
Creditors are proposing to inject cash and write off some of the troubled water company’s record debt as its customers struggle to afford rising bills
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/thames-water-special-administration-debt-zjs9ndxdk
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"U WOT MATE?!"
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Ed Davey
5 days ago
What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
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Michael E. Mann
about 1 month ago
And right on cue, the Murdoch media has joined forces with none other than disinformation artist Bjorn Lomborg himself to promote:
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George Monbiot
4 days ago
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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James Ball
4 days ago
“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”
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The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration
Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-the-crazy-right-will-never-be-satisfied-about-migration/
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Mia Neilan
4 days ago
UK resettled just 7,271 refugees this year — a 26% drop. Safe routes are shrinking, while Ministers promise “new” schemes for only a few hundred people. When legal pathways vanish, desperation grows. Families deserve safety, not slogans.
#UKPolitics
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Farrukh
4 days ago
Left: Financial Post, "Canada reaches deal to join EU's flagship defence program" Right: Bloomberg, "Talks for UK to Join Flagship EU Defence Fund End in Failure" Labour's 'make Brexit work' disaster #...
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elia ayoub
4 days ago
When the AI bubble does bursts, we’ll have think pieces reflecting on how the totally predictable thing happened, with zero accountability. This con is a media-driven one, and it will take down the last remnants of trust in the media with it.
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elia ayoub
4 days ago
The same story over and over again. “The tech we’re creating is either so good it will change everything or so bad it will destroy everything.” And media outlets keep on publishing the exact same story. Until the bubble bursts
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/jared-kaplan-artificial-intelligence-train-itself
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Otto English
4 days ago
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
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Dorian Lynskey
5 days ago
You can see him crumbling in the face of her galactic stupidity. He wants to help her out. She will not be helped
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Farrukh
5 days ago
2025: Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression" 2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad
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Michael McDonald
5 days ago
We're entering a geopolitical world that divides green energy countries and oil countries that go to war to control access to oil
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Best for Britain
5 days ago
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
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Adam Bienkov
5 days ago
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
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Conservatives Promote JCB's 'Revolutionary' Pothole Machine While Taking Millions of Pounds in Donations from the Company
Senior Conservatives have repeatedly promoted a pothole repair machine made by a company which has donated huge sums to the party and its MPs
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/08/conservative-party-jcb-pothole-pro-mark-harper-jonathan-gullis-millions-donations/
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G. Willow Wilson
7 days ago
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
6 days ago
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shauna
8 days ago
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:
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Ian Dunt
8 days ago
Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world
iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...
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Abolish the Home Office, knock it down and build a community centre where it once stood.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/28/uk-home-office-rejects-visa-young-girl-destitute-jamaica-hurricane-melissa
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Liam Thorp
9 days ago
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Sam Freedman
9 days ago
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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Jonathan Portes
9 days ago
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c246ndy63j9o
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Dave Vetter
9 days ago
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
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Max Colbert
9 days ago
Tory-linked brokers on various PPE VIP lane deals alone received nearly £100m for their involvement in contracts awarded to a number of companies, with much of the equipment provided by some deemed unfit for NHS use:
goodlawproject.org/fixers-vip-l...
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Otto English
10 days ago
I've checked and Robbie voted in favour at every stage of the Public Order Act 2023 passage through parliament. Maybe he didn't read it. Maybe he thought it wouldn't apply to farmers.
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Otto English
10 days ago
Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..
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Peter Stefanovic
11 days ago
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Rory Cellan-Jones
11 days ago
On Today before 7 a former Trump official claimed without challenge that US spending on Ukraine far outweighs that of Europe (at least contestable) and that Europe was now irrelevant to the peace talks. 30 mins later Steve Rosenberg made clear that Europe’s irrelevance was a Kremlin talking point
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Kate Garraway Enjoyer
11 days ago
Fantastic(ally depressing) article and this rather sums it all up
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Farrukh
11 days ago
Left: Shabana Mahmood as Lord Chancellor, "It is right that we have an independent judiciary in this country" Right: Labour have removed a judge who was due to hear and rule over the legality of the proscription of Palestine Action Labour are interfering in the independence of our judiciary
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Peter Stefanovic
11 days ago
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Carl Quintanilla
12 days ago
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Ben Ansell
12 days ago
We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…
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Otto English
13 days ago
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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Dr Rebecca Warren
13 days ago
‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
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Peter Geoghegan
15 days ago
🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
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Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-weve-won-major-legal-battle-toyota-aston-martin
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THE NERVE
13 days ago
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
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If the Labour government was to heed Maurice Glasman's call for the reintroduction of the stocks, I can't think of a better candidate for the inaugural rotten fruit pelting:
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Yes, great legal scholars like Professor X, Professor Calculus and Professor Plum would definitely agree.
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The Starmer-Ultras going full Corbynite in their replies to this post.
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