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The Empty City
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Half-expect to be told next the ÂŁ5m was for a secure ballroom in Clacton.
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Stephen McGann
9 days ago
The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?
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Peter Geoghegan
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A Reform government is not inevitable. But more of the same will only make it more likely. Great to speak to the brilliant
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about the rise of the British radical right - and what comes next, for Reform, Farage and all of us
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/a-reform-g...
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A Reform government is not inevitable
Daniel Trilling on Nigel Farageâs election surge, the establishment that enabled it, and what comes next.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/a-reform-government-is-not-inevitable-farage-daniel-trilling
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Mic Wright
14 days ago
NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular⊠POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action.
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Polanski is painted as a monster while Farage escapes proper scrutiny
The behaviour of the press in the run up to this week's local and national elections shows the same old playbook in action.
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-is-painted-as-a-monster
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'Their real crime is to challenge power'
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Mic Wright
19 days ago
Reporting that includes the two Jewish men that the Golders Green attacker is charged with attempting to murder but does not include the Muslim man he is *also* charged with attempting to murder is wildly inaccurate and distorts the story hugely. Sky News and the BBC have both done that.
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Frances Ryan
20 days ago
âA few days of joviality will hardly guarantee Trumpâs erratic affections for long, as Starmer found out the hard way. What will last far longer is the sense of complicity: the indefensible has yet again been legitimised.â My col. on the royal White House trip.
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King Charlesâs White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial | Frances Ryan
A few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trumpâs ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/29/king-charles-white-house-visit-distraction-denial-donald-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Robert Saunders
about 1 month ago
The key issue is whether Starmer misled Parliament. If he did, he has to go: parliamentary democracy cannot function unless we uphold that norm. We'd demand it of Johnson & we should demand it of Starmer. Future PMs (including a possible Prime Minister Farage) must know that this is inviolable. 1/
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Alasdair Mackenzie
about 1 month ago
Itâs genuinely staggering how little substance there is to todayâs instalment of the BBCâs attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/
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Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds
In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl19dzdd38o
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Toby Earle đșđŠ
about 1 month ago
was that Melania speech one of Iranâs demands
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Richard Murphy
about 1 month ago
Opposing the promotion of fear and hate is our political task now. It is, I suggest, the only way in which we can cling to our sanity.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04...
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Clinging on to sanity
As I noted in this morning's video, I woke up yesterday relieved that genocide had not happened overnight. That is not a sentence I was ever prepared to write. It is not a thought I ever expected to have. And yet it is now part of my lived experience. That fact alone...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/09/clinging-on-to-sanity/
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Richard Murphy
about 1 month ago
Trump is threatening genocide and King Charles is still planning a state visit to see him. Why, oh why, oh why? Has he really got such low self worth that he wonât tell Starmer where to get off? Itâs time to refuse to obey orders.
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Will Stancil
about 1 month ago
There have to be consequences. Severe consequences. We canât continue to live in a society where people can endorse or engage in criminality, indecency, cruelty, and bigotry with no consequence. Itâs as if the seeming weightlessness of words online has somehow migrated to the real world.
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Adam Bienkov
about 2 months ago
As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage
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No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election
An investigation into alleged
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxeqpzz2no
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THE NERVE
about 2 months ago
NEW Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britainâs biggest news organisation represents an existential threat says
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www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...
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Will Googleâs AI hype man kill the BBC?
Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a company helping to destroy journalism. Now Britainâs biggest news organisation has appointed him its leader, writes Carole Cadwalladr. It's the latest
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson
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Rox
about 2 months ago
Theyâre not good people if theyâre not willing to stand up for us. Thatâs the whole point of you being there. Sorry, but I wholeheartedly disagree.
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The Daily Show
about 2 months ago
Jon Stewart isn't so sure Trump is actually talking to Iran's "top person"
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Jo from Rotherfield
2 months ago
It feels as though the far right & Reform are the loudest voices at the moment. This is our chance to show them they are a minority, that the great British public are a nation of inclusion & love, not hate & division. London 28th March đ
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News Eye
about 2 months ago
Two days after Trump said there was no-one to talk to in Iran, he calls off strikes after talks with Iran "over the last two days".
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London innit!
about 2 months ago
Irish broadcasters have held him to account, in real time. If the BBC doesn't, it is because it chooses not to.
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The Guardian
2 months ago
US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures
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US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says move will bring 140m barrels to market but insists Tehran will not benefit The Trump administration has issued a 30-day sanctions waiver for the purchase of Iranian oil at sea to ease energy supply pressures since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said. It is the third time the US has temporarily waived sanctions in about two weeks. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-sanctions-iranian-oil?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Mic Wright
2 months ago
NEW | On the latest chapter of the same old story⊠THE NICK TIMOTHY TRAP It's the same strategy every time: Make a provocative (and racist) statement, trigger a 'debate', and push the discourse further to the far right.
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The Nick Timothy trap
It's the same strategy every time: Make a provocative (and racist) statement, trigger a 'debate', and push the discourse further to the far right.
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-nick-timothy-trap
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Alan Rusbridger
2 months ago
Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of
@gbnewsonline.bsky.social
. Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen?
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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridger-screen-scandal-how-gb-news-gets-away-with-it/
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Democracy Now!
2 months ago
Cuban journalist Daniel Montero comments on the brutal U.S. blockade on Cuba. âWe understand what this oil embargo means, what sanctions have always meant â regime change through starvation.â
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Patrick Chovanec
2 months ago
Let's presume this ridiculous lie is true. It would only make his failure to prepare for it that much more inexcusable.
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Together Alliance
2 months ago
đșïž TOGETHER MARCH ROUTE đ Main Route: Meet at Park Lane at 12pm. đ Short Route: Meet outside Waterstones in Trafalgar Square at 1pm. See below for full route maps and nearest accessible stations.
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Together Alliance
2 months ago
Only 2ïžâŁ weeks to go. 14 days to get the biggest anti-racist protest this country has ever seen. Weâve got to show that unity is stronger than division. 12 noon. Meet at Park Lane. đïžGet it in your diary:
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Jim Pickard
2 months ago
Two weeks into a war Donald Trump said he launched to ensure that Iran would ânever have a nuclear weaponâ, the US has no plan to retrieve the enriched uranium stockpile Tehran would need to make an atomic bomb.
www.ft.com/content/4069...
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Why has Trump left Iranâs nuclear stockpile untouched?
US administration appears to have no plan to retrieve the enriched uranium after two weeks of military action
https://www.ft.com/content/40697a9c-7465-4a2c-acee-6da95edb0fbc
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Chris Murphy
2 months ago
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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How every Democrat has not reacted like this admirable Senator is beyond me, if you are not angry now, when?
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Adam Schwarz
2 months ago
Days after declaring total victory and boasting that no other military could match the US, Trump is now begging other countries â including China â to send warships to stop his Iran war from spiraling into catastrophe. A galactic humiliation.
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David Higham
2 months ago
Cheerful stuff in the FT. Trump has started something that he cannot control. This is arguably far more significant for the world economy than the oil crises of the 1970s.
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No one can doubt this lady's desire for change in Iran, but this letter highlights the reality of politics: complex and at odds with the simple solutions craved in the modern world/media.
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Chris Murphy
2 months ago
Itâs like not a single person surrounding Trump studied one thing about Afghanistan. When a bombing campaign intentionally makes life this miserable for civilians, all it does it make hardline leadership more attractive and become bulletin board material for extremist groups.
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Al Jazeera English
2 months ago
Oil and gas are not just fuel, they are raw materials for thousands of products, including fertilisers used in farming.
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How will soaring oil prices caused by Iran war impact food cost?
Oil and gas are not just fuel, they are raw materials for thousands of products, including fertilisers used in farming.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/10/how-will-soaring-oil-prices-caused-by-iran-war-impact-food-prices?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
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The Tennessee Holler
2 months ago
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I Am Incorrigible
3 months ago
Iranian demonstrator in London: "Thank you President Trump, he is so decent and so kind" Evan Davis and the
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team there demonstrating how pointless and misleading vox pops can be.
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Adam Schwarz
3 months ago
Spanish PM SĂĄnchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
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Otto English
3 months ago
I remember the lead up to the 2nd Gulf war very well indeed. All the WMD stuff and the "if we don't stop them now they'll nuke us" lies. It was absolute bollocks and obviously so, and this repeat version of it being pushed by pro Trump pro war factions is dangerous, fanciful nonsense.
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Edward Luce
3 months ago
"Trump has seen George W. Bushâs record and raised it. There's nothing good to say about Iranâs regime. But it has shown a better instinct for reading Trumpâs intentions than his voters." My column on Trump's reckless gamble.
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Donald Trumpâs dangerous âwar of whimâ
[FREE TO READ] Anyone who claims to know where this conflict will go is bluffing
https://as.ft.com/r/66e49702-f5d3-49a5-8e59-fb59a3587ac2
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NPR
3 months ago
The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.
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7 key points in U.S.-Iran relations since 1953
The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.
https://n.pr/3OHZkS8
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Richard Murphy
3 months ago
This might be the tipping point
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...
Will stock markets crash in the morning?
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This might be the tipping point
Some blog posts I write on a Sunday afternoon can wait until Monday morning, and then there are those that cannot. This post falls into the latter category. I have, for a long time, been suggesting th...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/01/this-might-be-the-tipping-point/
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Byline Times
3 months ago
đš Print Edition â âWe Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Lifeâ Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of âClass Ceilingâ â a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts acrossâŠ
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âWe Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Lifeâ â Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of âClass Ceilingâ â a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester. A day after he was blocked from standing as the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham gave the opening address
https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/83/we-are-still-a-society-where-the-postcode-of-the-bed-you-are-born-in-sadly-still-pretty-much-determines-where-you-end-up-in-life/
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Where's Mr Rest is Politics when you need him!!
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solavattam
3 months ago
Trump, living with the fundamental misunderstanding of both the Maduro capture and the nature of the Iranian regime, believed that knocking out the Islamic Republic could be done quickly with no downside.
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Clive Lewis MP
3 months ago
Iâve warned for some time that Labour canât keep taking its base for granted, and Gorton and Denton makes that plain. People say they don't recognise the party they once trusted. Weâve moved away from communities that built us. If we donât change, others will step into the space we have left open.
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Liam Thorp
3 months ago
Iâm afraid this letter shows why so many Labour MPs think Starmer needs to go. His political antenna is non-existent. If you have just been humbled in a by-election it might not be the best idea to slag off the choices of the voters who deserted you in their droves.
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@beatraxa
3 months ago
Oh of course. Instead of condemning without question a revolting racist comment, letâs get our most famous racist on to give us his thoughts.
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
Many people on this platform just aren't getting it. The jig is up. The party's over. Unless Labour MPs eject Starmer PDQ, recover Labour values, show how they'll fix our chronic problems, give us hope and inspiration instead of disappointment and frustration, they're finished. No more denial. â°đâ
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Clive Lewis MP
3 months ago
Peter Mandelson isn't a glitch. He offers a glimpse into how Westminster works. The public already knows it. Now more politicians must face upto it - and act. Read my 2025 article for
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
about the integrity gap at the heart of UK politics.
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
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The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-future-we-fear/
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