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A very well made point. Labour politicians seem to have stopped making a case for their political positions and are increasingly adapting to a perception of what people want. If you believe in something then you should be trying to convince people of it, not just pandering to focus groups.

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The letter or email doesn't have to be long. It just takes a few moments really. You can find your MPs contact details here members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

My world. Not all the time but often enough.

True. 2 × $0 still = $0.

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Some 141 UN member states voted in support of the ICJ's finding climate change is an 'existential threat' https://aje.news/3zfb0j

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In Parliament, Conservatives are championing the very oil and gas companies who have banked billions in unearned profits from war, while people struggle to heat their homes. A shift from fossil profiteering to public renewables, planned with workers, is the real answer.

So, if he's going to stick with a hardline and frankly cruel immigration policy and thinks we should stay out of the EU and wants to reform the election system but only after the next election, what, I ask, is the actual fucking point of it all?

🇺🇸 Donald Trump, his family and his businesses have been granted immunity from any ongoing audits into their tax affairs, according to a directive by the Department of Justice. Absolutely ridiculous state of affairs - corruption at the very highest level.

UK artists have lost an average of £11,545 of income since the UK left the EU. And it is now harder for new artists to tour our largest and nearest market, due to increased bureaucracy and red tape. Something needs to change. #RejoinEU

Ich orderid The Mandalorian and Grogu menu at Burger Kynge. Ich was given a verye heavye helmet made entirelye out of Beskar and tolde Ich muste eate the meal wythout removinge the helmet by cause "Thys ys how you have it your waye."

Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield. His Twitter account is suspended. We do know that he RT’d an awful lot of far-right commentators, including Carl Benjamin, Peter Sweden and Wayne O’Rouke who was jailed after the Southport riots.

After spending 3 days wandering from pub to club in Brighton at #TGE festival, I'm seriously considering setting up a BlueSky account just to document the terrible planning and installation decisions in women's toilets across the country. Too high. Too low. Too narrow. NO COAT HOOKS! FML.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

It's truly inspiring to see Wes Streeting call for decisiveness in govt after a week in which he denied he'd resign; then resigned but said he wouldn't stand as leader; then said finally he intends to stand as leader, so we can rejoin the EU, a policy he was dead against last week.

Typical British gig. Can't get in the door because it's so crowded. Finally squeeze in and find there's at least a six foot gap between the stage and the bravest members of the audience 🙄 #TGE

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

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Mary Lyon FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1925. Lyon was the discoverer of X-chromosome inactivation, which the genetic process that leads to coloration like tortoiseshell cats. Read more about her discoveries in a @royalsocietypublishing.org#OnThisDaybiographical memoir. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4wutdqf

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Streeting resignation letter in full (see below). New episode out NOW: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Convenient timing for anyone who's opposed to Streeting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At #TGE in Brighton waiting for Angine de Poitrine to come on and people are losing their shit over the spotty backdrop. #JustABand

Here’s a good news story to kick off the day.

The effect of war Who won the war? The spoils unshared. In the playground, a spitfire. He never took his shots. If dead you should lie still. Primary children Pretending to fly drones, Dig trenches. Sedentary. From the distance All is understated, Children under rubble. Morn @imcmillan.bsky.social

#OtD 9 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon, "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" died aged 84. As a teenager in London he fought Oswald Mosley's fascists in the streets with his hairdressing scissors, as part of the militant 43 Group. Learn about the group in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

Thursday will expose a voting system that no longer fits modern, multi-party politics, producing increasingly chaotic elections. It is now becoming the norm for politicians to be elected without majority support, and tiny shifts in votes are having a disproportional impact on who governs

Here's Nacho Nigel again: trying to walk away when difficult questions come up Watch Farage's tense interview over £5m gift from crypto billionaire news.sky.com/video/share-...

Just remember. Farage isn’t really winning. He’s having power bought for him by foreign-based crypto billionaires and fossil fuel magnates. They want a corrupt PM who’ll sell off our NHS, bin NetZero and scrap our rights and protections to make more profit for them. Good day for moneymen and morons.

Happy birthday to the most wonderful of human beings, Sir David Attenborough. I used to work at a post production facility in Bristol back in the day. When he came to voice a programme, he was always very down to earth and would record a half hour programme in half the time allocated. A true pro.

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

Arm biscuits. #CatsOfBluesky

Cathy Newman "Thailand-based Chris Harborne has given you and your party £17 million.. Interfering in democracy" Nigel Farage runs away

A little bit of personal archaeology.

A misty old morning chez Hart. Busy out there today as well.

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#OtD 1 May 1963 students from Bristol University marched to the bus station and to the HQ of the TGWU union, in protest at the union's bar on Black and Asian workers being employed in bus crews. They were heckled by white workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8125...

The Queen of #May, 1900, (detail) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt #May1st #FridayFeeling