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As every former journalist will tell you: "I'm a former journalist"
Ken Livingstone vibes?
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about 1 month ago
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Will Jenningsšš³ļø
8 months ago
I've found myself using the f-word a lot lately. Fascism. There's a lot of it about. People don't like to say it because it makes them uncomfortable. It seems extreme. Well, fascism is extreme and you can't ignore it. Get used to it. Start using the f-word.
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Presumably there is a perfectly rational explanation for this compromise with the doors (?) but it is quite funny in isolation
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Hi
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, I enjoyed the podcast on tariffs. The only thing I thought missing was impeachment. I know Republicans have been craven in failing to stand up to Trump, but if the economic damage is as bad as we all think, surely they can't go into the midterms with him as president?
10 months ago
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Sam Freedman
10 months ago
Hope the Trump era makes more people realise that whether people respect institutions and the rule of law is so much more important than standard ideological differences between left and right.
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Technology Connections
11 months ago
OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
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Henry Farrell
11 months ago
www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
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Eliot Higgins
12 months ago
And hereās the crucial part: Trump and Musk arenāt outside this system, strategically exploiting it. Theyāre inside it, just like everyone else. They arenāt masterminds - they are products of the same information disorder that is warping public perception.
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Yes the Lambrini Girls album is that good
about 1 year ago
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There's plenty of concern about the state of the world today but not enough about whether we're on a march to the next world war and what we can do to prevent it
about 1 year ago
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Hearing Kool Keith back on form like this is rather joyous
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Mecha and the Sole Brother
Stress Eater, CZARFACE, Kool Keith Ā· Everybody Eats! Ā· Song Ā· 2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RgI6vy3P1AUN7Kjj8W3C5?si=J8Tm_mu6QNOj_jUONoiY1Q
about 1 year ago
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I have closed both my X accounts
about 1 year ago
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The Pitch Inspection
about 1 year ago
1/4 Against the wishes of the community it serves, Islington Council is pushing to demolish thriving local football pitches. The plans would see 4 ground level playing fields reduced to a roof top playing field 3-4 levels high!
www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/lawy...
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Lawyersā backing may make football pitches battle a different ball game
Legal firm specialises in holding public bodies to account
https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/lawyers-backing-may-make-football-pitches-battle-a-different-ball-game
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Russell Scott
about 1 year ago
Kids are loosing access to green spaces including Football Pitches at an alarming rate. Hereās another example ⤵ļø
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Jonn Elledge
about 1 year ago
1. When prices go up, incumbents go down; 2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president; 3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.
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Rob Ford
about 1 year ago
Is there a major anti-incumbent wave since the post-COVID inflation surge? Decided to go through this systematically. Incumbent government performance in wealthy democracies since March 2022, when Ukraine invasion really spiked things upwards: š§µ
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If Labour can somehow pull this off then it will absolutely change the paradigm for tax and spend over coming decades
over 1 year ago
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Is it just me who thinks newspapers shouldn't actually endorse candidates? The problem here is that this election wasn't the one to try to make a point and Bezos isn't doing it for the right reasons anyway
over 1 year ago
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Consensus is that the Tories have lost their best leadership option but perhaps this vote-lending debacle merely proves why he wasn't a good candidate
over 1 year ago
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Stephen Frost
over 1 year ago
Oxfam Scotland repeat calls for a private jet tax. āFairer taxes on the most polluting forms of travel would not only raise more money to invest in climate action that benefits us all, but they could also help ground the demand for these high-polluting luxuries.ā
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Private jet tax 'could have funded ScotRail discount for the year' research says
Taxing the use of private jets could have raised enough money to fund the rail fares pilot until the end of the new financial year, according to a new study
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/private-jet-tax-could-funded-230100789.html
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Mark Chadbourn
over 1 year ago
UK tabloid.
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Luke Raikes
over 1 year ago
A reminder that Labours bus reforms (regulation especially) are genuinely transformative. Together, if done right, they can make a very real, very visible difference by the next election
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George Monbiot
over 1 year ago
Had
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Tower been a luxury apartment block housing wealthy people, I'm pretty sure that the prosecution and conviction of those who enabled the disaster would have happened by now.
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Election Maps UK
over 1 year ago
In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!
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Adam Bienkov
over 1 year ago
As Robert Jenrick emerges as the frontrunner in the contest to become the next leader of the Conservative party, here's a quick reminder of some of his greatest hits
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The bizarre thing is it was obvious a decade ago that this needed to happen. Government's have been dragged kicking and screaming to their responsibilities
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over 1 year ago
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For this reason I'd speculate that only the Tories can take us back into Europe. If Labour does it then there's always the risk the Tories come back and nuke it again
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over 1 year ago
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Peter Donaghy
over 1 year ago
Might have taken this too far, but here is a chart showing the price of a pint of beer relative to incomes in Britain from 1259 to 2023. Pints were cheapest in 1462 when pints were the modern day equivalent of £1.39. If you think beer is expensive now, be grateful you aren't drinking in 1315.
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Andrew Sissons
over 1 year ago
A story of Conservative fiscal policy in three charts*⦠1. Since 2016, almost every fiscal event has been a giveaway. Before 2016, it was mostly fiscal tightening.
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Nearly Legal
over 1 year ago
Dagenham fire at block of flats with āknown safety issuesā. (I think in the middle of cladding removal). Injuries, but hopefully no fatalities. Seven years after Grenfell and these blocks remain unsafe.
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London fire: hundreds of firefighters attend Dagenham blaze at block of flats
Two people taken to hospital and more than 100 evacuated as major incident declared over fire in east London
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/26/apartment-block-dagenham-fire-london-latest-updates-today-lfb
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They should have football during the day on bank holidays
over 1 year ago
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Joshua Holland
over 1 year ago
Itās telling that Walz is āredefiningā American masculinity. The guyās a stereotypical macho manāveteran, hunter and football coachābut the fact that heās also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift. He isnāt known for his knitting skills. Weāve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.
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Adam Bienkov
over 1 year ago
Boris Johnson, who: - Imposed big new restrictions on protests - Restricted the right to strike - Banned anyone critical of the government from speaking at official events Says locking up people who incited racist riots is like living in "Orwell's 1984"
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-boris-...
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The Boris Johnson Cronies Suddenly Very Concerned About Cronyism
After spending 14 years defending the most morally compromised government in living memory, Labour's opponents have suddenly rediscovered their principles
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-boris-johnson-cronies-suddenly
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Adam Bienkov
over 1 year ago
On Boris Johnson's claim that the prosecution of those who incited the riots means "Starmer's Britain is now twinned with Orwell's 1984"
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Dan Sohege
over 1 year ago
Any loss of life can be saddening, but it isn't disrespectful to the dead to point out the startling inequality of reaction between the coverage and resources used when a billionaire's yacht goes down compared to when a dinghy with people fleeing war and persecution.
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Joel Morris
over 1 year ago
This is all very good advice. Nice. āTurn off the radioā is eternal.
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Rafael Behr
over 1 year ago
On reports of friction inside Starmer's Downing Street and what they indicate about a deeper, structural flaw in the way we are governed.
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There is a serious problem at 10 Downing Street, but it isnāt Sue Gray v Morgan McSweeney | Rafael Behr
The rumbles of discord in No 10 matter, but theyāre a sign of a creaking system rather than a destructive rivalry, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/downing-street-sue-gray-morgan-mcsweeney-keir-starmer
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ordinary jo
over 1 year ago
And saving a fortune on policing, criminal justice, and not ruining people's lives for no good reason.
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John Curtis
over 1 year ago
Nobody will remember: - your salary - how ābusy you wereā - how many hours you worked People will remember: -If you didnāt put your publication date in a clearly visible place on your report
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Charlotte Nichols MP
over 1 year ago
So bored of these kinds of hot takes on mental health. As someone who lives with PTSD, it's not "just words" but a condition that has a profound impact on every part of my life, and my ability to get through any given day. I'm lucky to have support in that, too many don't and therein lies the issue.
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pony pony huckabuck
over 1 year ago
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
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Michael Glasper
about 2 years ago
Guy Fawkes's signature before trying to cancel his Times online digital subscription and after.
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Alex Hern
over 1 year ago
Remember, if you didnāt get the A-level grades you wanted, donāt panic. I got six As yet Iām posting advice to imaginary teenagers on a social media retirement home for geriatric millennials
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Are Trump's policies not cutting through or is he just not making as much of them? Is it that the surprise/outrage factor gone? Remember 2016 when he seemed to make a real connection with blue collar Americans
over 1 year ago
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Notable that for a social network to break the incumbency advantage of an established (similar) one, the owner of the latter has to do everything they can to sabotage it
over 1 year ago
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