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You can be progressive & not be a socialist. You cannot be a socialist but not progressive.

Credit where credit due. Nick Robinson refusing to be cowed #R4today

Elon, Nigel, Yax, 'Bobby J' & the rest will be spitting feathers over this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A powerful & affecting set of films. Esp. on the big screen youtube.com/watch?v=Qu1y...

When you realise Justin Webb is, in fact, a brilliantly observed piece of performance art- an Alan Partridge with all redeeming qualities removed - the naked attempts to shoehorn his ultra right agenda into every item involving him can be seen in a different light #R4today

I've not been to England for a while. Is it true all the rich people have left & the ruined streets they once lived now full with migrant sex gangs on the rampage🥸? Also, saw an African gent in Lidl Cross hands the other day, but no rich people! Should I be worried? #Anyoneknowwhat'sgoin'on?

Keir Starmer has broken free from being downright despicable & is now threatening to scale the heights of deeply disappointing. It's an improvement #R4today

Why is GB News hopeful Justin Webb allowed to spew his offensive shite on BBC? #r4today

Just wonderin' if anyone got a tracking number for that delivery from Keir Starmer. It's been a couple of weeks now & still no sign...

Interesting look at Norway's 130 year old progressive #wealthtax 3 takeaways: it raises $$$, it's hard to avoid, but has sparked vocal, well funded opposition from those who don't like paying it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

#R4Today When anyone is on the air making xenophobic claims based on what they call 'data points' there's a duty on the station to scrutinize their reliability fully

Apparently logically advancing an identical argument to one the last 2 popes have made is ' inappropriate for a faith based segment' if it hits close to home www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Notable that out of all the questions put to him - Epstein, Gaza... BBC reports the 'friendly' one allowing him to give Europe his advice on curbing immigration. Agenda? #R4today

#R4today Nigel Farage gets free air to disseminate his climate/ net zero lies, while the leader of the Greens is asked why nobody knows who he is & then harangued to give his definition of a woman Balanced, impartial as always

Only a matter of time I suppose. If this government were limbo dancers they'd probably be the best in the world- no bar is too low. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'You can't tax and spend your way to prosperity' as the catastophic falure of post-war European social democracy proves

The rose tinted view of Israel as a liberal enclave that just happens to be led by a bad man laid bare. jppi.org.il/en/%d7%a1%d7...

Bit sad listening to Ed Miliband as the ghost of a gvt that could have been.

The handle on my Donald Trump bogbrush, in 'service' since 2020, just snapped as I was tackling a stubborn skidmark in the pan. An omen?

Anarchists, misogynists, environmentalists.... New UK government report on extremism in full. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3h...

A wake up for anyone who thought the world would get serious about tackling the climate emergency as its impact became felt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A 'change' election for sure. Net effect of Farage/ Reform may be to finally get turnout>50% which has to be positive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Aside from uncomfortable image of UK 'mainlining' what many see as the harbringer of a dystopian future there are serious questions: How will AI be powered(given EVs & domestic heating will run on electricity)? If X & Meta cant be brought to heel, what chance AI? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump wont invade. He may make Greenland a better deal than they get now. China & US are vying for resource rich Greenland, why is EU not even at the races?

Behind the 'Maddog Trump threatens Greenland' circus there's a real issue of geo strategic importance; & a huge EU shaped gap www.clingendael.org/pub/2020/pre...

Has the definite feel of a quack's prescription for the dying patient. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Most depressing gem rygbi Ive ever seen

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/... Read alot of analysis & reflection on where the world is at in the aftermath of US election- some good, some not so. Dont think anything nails it like this Yeats poem. Catastrophising may be, as well as more emotionally satisfying, on the mark this time.

Out for a run this morning & while gasping for breath, swallowed a midge. In November

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024... ‘A semi permanent hegemony’

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Clear eyed piece on what Trumps election says about US & where it leaves us here

Thats the end of that then. Now what?

From any angle, having a Welsh MP on #r4today to sell a plan for England’s NHS is nonsensical. E.g Stephen Kinnock’s appeal for ‘everyone’ to take part in the public consultation excludes his own constituents