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‘I stand accused, just like you, for being born without a silver spoon’.
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Full Fact
11 days ago
Responding to the chancellor’s
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speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour. As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.
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Unemployment has risen under Labour - but it hasn’t gone up ‘every single month’ – Full Fact
We’ve looked into the numbers after claims from a number of Conservative MPs, including the party’s leader Kemi Badenoch.
https://fullfact.org/economy/kemi-badenoch-unemployment-under-labour
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Tax Justice UK
5 months ago
🫵 We need you. The fight for a wealth tax is heating up. 🔥 📨 Join our mailing list today to hear from Faiza Shaheen, Jake Atkinson & the rest of our team on how you can help us turn pressure into policy.
taxjustice.uk/join-the-tax...
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Join the Tax Justice Movement - Tax Justice UK
Sign up today to receive all the latest news, analysis and opportunities to get involved in the fight for tax justice, from Faiza & the team.
https://taxjustice.uk/join-the-tax-justice-movement//?utm_source=BSky&utm_medium=TJUK_org&utm_campaign=recur_heatingup
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James Dyke
11 days ago
Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r9gyjkky0o
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European Movement UK
11 days ago
European Movement UK polled Britons on how to fund the NHS and public services, and 77% backed joining the Single Market and Customs Union as the best way to bring in the money those services need.
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Press Gazette
11 days ago
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024
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Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/scam-ads-on-meta-in-uk-likely-worth-more-than-all-online-news-advertising/
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POLITICO Europe
11 days ago
Donald Trump defended Steve Witkoff late last night after a report revealed the US president’s Russia envoy had secretly advised the Kremlin on how to sell a Ukraine deal.
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Trump backs Witkoff after leak reveals he advised top Putin aide on Ukraine deal
“That’s a standard thing,” shrugs U.S. president.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-backs-steve-witkoff-after-leak-reveals-advised-vladimir-putin-aide-ukraine-deal/
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Athena Kugblenu
12 days ago
I've never directly called Farage a prick but I can assure you I think he's a prick
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
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Donnachadh McCarthy
11 days ago
Almost every single societal problem
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
refers to in convo with
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
links back to billionaire hijacking of our Fourth Estate.. We need the
#MediaSovereigntyAct
to reclaim our media for the 99%.
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
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How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
https://youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?si=rPg8yLmy1SXKr2A0
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Donnachadh McCarthy
11 days ago
Here is my eco-populist column in
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
on how to cut electricity bills for low-income households...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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'The 'Eco-Populist' Cost-Cutting Budget Rachel Reeves Should Really Deliver'
Only a radical approach to our broken privatised energy system can make British bill-payers genuinely better off, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/budget-eco-populist-cost-cutting-rachel-reeves-polanski-greens/
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Mike Galsworthy
11 days ago
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—>
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Ulrike Franke
12 days ago
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html
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Led By Donkeys
18 days ago
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Richard Burgon MP
17 days ago
I see right-wing journalists are attacking me again over a wealth tax. Here's a simple fact they never mention: British billionaire wealth has more than DOUBLED since 2010 ▪️2010: £250 Billion ▪️2025: £620 Billion Yet workers' wages have been flat. Tax extreme wealth, not workers!
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Sarah Murphy
17 days ago
Can you let me know when Johnson’s trial for gross misconduct in public office/gross negligence manslaughter will be? Just asking for a country beyond sick of having to suffer the consequences of these charlatans and their don’t-give-a-fuck-cos-we-don’t-need-to abuses of power.
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Robert Reich
16 days ago
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Adam Bienkov
15 days ago
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confidence-trick-that-put-boris
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Sarah Murphy
15 days ago
“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/rachel-reeves-ignoring-cause-britain-woes-brexit-shaped-hole-roof?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Robert Reich
14 days ago
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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East Anglia Bylines
14 days ago
The new evidence is grim: Brexit has made Britain is smaller, poorer and less productive. No wonder Reeves found a black hole in the budget. It’s been carved out by a decade of lost growth of 6-8% - a hit of £180-£240bn - that’s far worse than was predicted.
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New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/new-boris-johnsons-brexit-titanic-success-was-half-right/
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Charley Norbury 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
14 days ago
TLDR: The Rich are holding our government to ransom. We either Tax The Rich (assets, not income) or we will become permanently enslaved to them while they get fatter and fatter. No difference between working class and middle class in this scenario.
youtube.com/watch?v=g0lE...
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UK Budget – The End of Democracy?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0lEbH2kEw8&si=dChNBZ16fsT5QZYO
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Kevin M. Kruse
14 days ago
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Charley Norbury 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
13 days ago
#r4today
talking about Robbie Gibb and not mentioning his involvement with GB News. As though it's not relevant.
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Zoe Gardner
13 days ago
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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Sussex Bylines
14 days ago
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
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The Camber Sands bio-beads disaster
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/news/environment/the-camber-sands-bio-beads-disaster/?fsp_sid=1760
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Newsweek
12 days ago
Public outrage about corruption should become even greater than it was after the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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Four Ways to Fight Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/four-ways-to-fight-trumps-golden-age-of-corruption-opinion-11099565?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763999599
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Charley Norbury 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
12 days ago
So Osborne's guy basically saying we can't possibly change the status quo as it'll upset the bond markets. The same markets heavily influenced by large corps, the super rich and hostile nations, whom the status quo benefits so bountifully.
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Farage engaged in racism and antisemitism but didn’t intend anything as a result. So, not only is he confessing that he’s a racist and an antisemite, he’s also confirming that he’s a fucking idiot.
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Dorian Lynskey
14 days ago
This is a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation about the purpose of music criticism — much deeper than the headline suggests
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/p...
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When Did Music Critics Get So Nice?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/podcasts/cannonball-pop-criticism.html
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Quiet Riot
14 days ago
"The point of the Inquiry was to learn lessons. Are we learning those lessons? Reports come out, they make headlines, people get very angry, but is any money or resource going into systems' reform and preparedness for the next pandemic or the next whatever?"
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Stella Creasy MP
25 days ago
The BBC is in crisis with many calling for it to be broken up and political attacks at home and abroad - time to save it from interference by partisan elites by putting the public truly at the heart of our public service broadcasting and mutualising it. Democracy not Donald must be its future!
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Stella Creasy MP
20 days ago
there is a better way forward rooted in Labour values that also ensures control at our borders. That’s why I will be a voice for common sense and compassion on asylum. My article for the guardian here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#trueLabour
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ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/labour-asylum-reform-britain-ice-raid-refugees
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Stella Creasy MP
20 days ago
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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James Dyke
20 days ago
I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next?
www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...
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Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
Humanity has pushed Earth’s life-supporting systems to the brink, accelerated by our failures over the past decade. Our only way to limit the duration and magnitude of temperature overshoot is rapid, ...
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/abstract/S2590-3322(25)00353-7?rss=yes&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=dlvr.it
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Ben Stanley
20 days ago
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
20 days ago
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
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Thomas I-G
20 days ago
And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.
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Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/16/uk-asylum-reform-secure-borders-shabana-mahmood
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No shit, Sherlock!
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Farrukh
23 days ago
Christiane Amanpour, "Antisemitism is a major problem. How do you navigate that?" Zack Polanski, "I think it is a powerful message to have a Jewish leader and a Muslim deputy leader" "Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin" "And the best response to hatred is solidarity"
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Adam Bienkov
20 days ago
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
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Mike Galsworthy
20 days ago
Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
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Ten years of naming storms and saving lives
The Met Office’s storm-naming scheme marks its tenth year, transforming how Britain prepares for extreme weather
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/climate/ten-years-of-naming-storms-and-saving-lives/
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Harkthorn
11 months ago
Art I did for my SA Secret Santa this year, of their cat. Not quite a full piece, but a bit more effort than a daily sketch. Black ballpoint pen on Bristol paper (as of writing, it's STILL in the post, so they don't know about it yet) 🎨🐡
#art
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Best for Britain
20 days ago
"Far from unleashing a new era of growth and investment, yet more evidence shows how damaging Brexit has been." 🎯
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/loss-of-business-investment-caused-by-brexit-by-this-year-could-be-between-275-billion-and-400-billion/
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Loss of business investment caused by Brexit by this year could be between £275 billion and £400 billion
Far from unleashing a new era of growth and investment, yet more evidence shows how damaging Brexit has been.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/loss-of-business-investment-caused-by-brexit-by-this-year-could-be-between-275-billion-and-400-billion/
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Dylan Difford
20 days ago
Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
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Phil Tinline
20 days ago
This by
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is a really useful reflection on what went wrong with globalisation, what went wrong with its critics, and where we might go from here. (And Im not just saying that because he very kindly mentions my book.) Have a read:
anthonypainter.substack.com/p/after-popu...
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After populism
A more balanced liberalism can lead us away from post-liberal populist malaise - if it focuses on place, work and restoration of the public good.
https://anthonypainter.substack.com/p/after-populism
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Adam Bienkov
21 days ago
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
21 days ago
His association with Donald Trump is a *liability* for Nigel Farage - even given that half of the Reform 2024 14% are pro-Trump, once Farage is trying to go beyond his base. Labour is in too fragile a position to prefer the unreachable insatiable Reform base to its own voters or to swing voters
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Sam Freedman
22 days ago
Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
24 days ago
Have we entered a racism timewarp? Why does X routinely defend the racist abuse that it has a legal duty to remove? A binary choice: must we tolerate the use of "paki" as a racist slur in the Britain of 2025 - or will government act to Make Twitter Lawful Again?
www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
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‘Social media ignores return of racial hate’
Expert slams online platforms for letting trolls get away scot-free
https://www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nhs-wes-streeting/
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Naomi Smith
26 days ago
A good day to resurrect this:
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90s UK TV Advert BBC Complaints department Julie Walters French and Saunders Eastenders Attenborough
YouTube video by Goldmine Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEAtZgF7dk
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Best for Britain
27 days ago
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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