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After today, the child poverty charts I spent 15 years looking at rise under the Conservatives will be coming down. Not in a chart - in Swansea and every other part of the country.
Life is more complicated now. But I'll take that any day.
Life is more complicated now. But I'll take that any day.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
After today, the child poverty charts I spent 15 years looking at rise under the Conservatives will be coming down. Not in a chart - in Swansea and every other part of the country.
Life is more complicated now. But I'll take that any day.
Life is more complicated now. But I'll take that any day.
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The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.
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Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
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This. 👇
![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This. 👇
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ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
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Lam took a bunch of X posts from far-right racists and so-called "thinktanks" and turned them into a policy that collapsed as soon as anyone actually read it/understood it.
Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!
Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Lam took a bunch of X posts from far-right racists and so-called "thinktanks" and turned them into a policy that collapsed as soon as anyone actually read it/understood it.
Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!
Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!
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Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency
During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw
popular.info
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
I hope ppl are ditching their Spotify accounts in light of its pro ICE thus pro Trump stance. I’ve never joined it as obviously anti-artist but have been shocked that so many use it
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I hope ppl are ditching their Spotify accounts in light of its pro ICE thus pro Trump stance. I’ve never joined it as obviously anti-artist but have been shocked that so many use it
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Should Straight Away Resign!
October 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Should Straight Away Resign!
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Everything the GOP does now has something to do with the Epstein Files.
September 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Everything the GOP does now has something to do with the Epstein Files.
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Today's UK's Daily Mirror newspaper......
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today's UK's Daily Mirror newspaper......
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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
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I guess the American Press doesn't find this Newsworthy.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I guess the American Press doesn't find this Newsworthy.
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Child sex trafficker protecting Trump and his cronies heads to her yoga class at Club Fed.
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Child sex trafficker protecting Trump and his cronies heads to her yoga class at Club Fed.
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Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
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Exactly this. One recurring realisation from my attempts to educate myself about Charlie Kirk is that he would have had no career at all if his supporters’ characterisations of college campuses were even close to accurate.
1) Young conservative activist held many well-attended events on many college campuses debating left-wing arguments
2) Campuses are rigidly orthodox places that don't allow conservative ideas, let alone open debate
These are contradictory! 1 disproves 2!
Reason has gone out the window with this.
2) Campuses are rigidly orthodox places that don't allow conservative ideas, let alone open debate
These are contradictory! 1 disproves 2!
Reason has gone out the window with this.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Exactly this. One recurring realisation from my attempts to educate myself about Charlie Kirk is that he would have had no career at all if his supporters’ characterisations of college campuses were even close to accurate.
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Enjoyed this town in Greece near Corinth. Loutraki. Very spirited and sensational views
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Enjoyed this town in Greece near Corinth. Loutraki. Very spirited and sensational views
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It’s real and they know it.
September 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It’s real and they know it.