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Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
This is a good thread. It’s notable how much Green campaigning content and style in their literature is an almost direct copy of Lib Dem stuff. Some of it looks suspiciously close!
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
This is a good thread. It’s notable how much Green campaigning content and style in their literature is an almost direct copy of Lib Dem stuff. Some of it looks suspiciously close!
Problem for Labour at the moment is everyone is feeling the pinch, their leaders are crap communicators and the weather is crap and has been crap for weeks. The international scene is also bad. Makes for a grim background.
And crucially knew he would probably win said election. Labour need some stability with a leader decent appeal and comms. If they can get the economy growing and people feel better off, there’s still a decent chance in an election years away.
February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Problem for Labour at the moment is everyone is feeling the pinch, their leaders are crap communicators and the weather is crap and has been crap for weeks. The international scene is also bad. Makes for a grim background.
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Let's not let British voters off the hook. When May made some sense over social care, she got trashed. If Starmer had been honest about the need for income tax raises, he would have lost. The charlatans who brought you 10 years of decline - Johnson and Farage - did so with the backing of the public.
February 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Let's not let British voters off the hook. When May made some sense over social care, she got trashed. If Starmer had been honest about the need for income tax raises, he would have lost. The charlatans who brought you 10 years of decline - Johnson and Farage - did so with the backing of the public.
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5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).
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"IT'S ALL SOCIAL CARE!" they screamed.
Reform councillors in Kent told the FT that they were surprised not to find lavish spending on wokeness from their predecessors
Another councillor has resigned from his role lesding "DOGE", regretting his comments to the newspaper acknowledging the challenges
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Another councillor has resigned from his role lesding "DOGE", regretting his comments to the newspaper acknowledging the challenges
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
February 5, 2026 at 8:57 AM
"IT'S ALL SOCIAL CARE!" they screamed.
If Starmer was not toast already, he definitely is now. He might cling on until locals, but I can not see any future much beyond that. Absolutely inexcusable and baffling appointment to such a serious position given he knew of an ongoing relationship.
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
If Starmer was not toast already, he definitely is now. He might cling on until locals, but I can not see any future much beyond that. Absolutely inexcusable and baffling appointment to such a serious position given he knew of an ongoing relationship.
Latest BMA ballot has passed. So that’s another 6 month strike mandate. No sign this is going to end any time soon. Streeting needs to make a multi-year pay deal to match the promises he made previously.
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Latest BMA ballot has passed. So that’s another 6 month strike mandate. No sign this is going to end any time soon. Streeting needs to make a multi-year pay deal to match the promises he made previously.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Absolutely deranged.
Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Absolutely deranged.
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I ‘borrowed’ about £70000 in tuition fees, maintenance loans. If we just take the period above since August 2022 when the balance was ~£88k, I’ve paid back ~£7174 and despite that the balance has gone up £17000.
I’m likely to pay back multiple times more than I ‘borrowed’ due to interest rates.
I’m likely to pay back multiple times more than I ‘borrowed’ due to interest rates.
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I ‘borrowed’ about £70000 in tuition fees, maintenance loans. If we just take the period above since August 2022 when the balance was ~£88k, I’ve paid back ~£7174 and despite that the balance has gone up £17000.
I’m likely to pay back multiple times more than I ‘borrowed’ due to interest rates.
I’m likely to pay back multiple times more than I ‘borrowed’ due to interest rates.
I just looked at my statements. When I graduated from medical school in 2022, my loan balance was £88,797.
Today it is £105,589. This is despite paying hundreds of pounds a month every month.
Today it is £105,589. This is despite paying hundreds of pounds a month every month.
Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name.
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Student loans are 'fair', says Rachel Reeves, amid backlash | LBC
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January 29, 2026 at 12:06 PM
I just looked at my statements. When I graduated from medical school in 2022, my loan balance was £88,797.
Today it is £105,589. This is despite paying hundreds of pounds a month every month.
Today it is £105,589. This is despite paying hundreds of pounds a month every month.
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NEW: Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it (FREE TO READ)
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Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it
I really don't care, do u?
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January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
NEW: Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it (FREE TO READ)
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Possibly creates more drama down the line. But if Starmer goes and Streeting replaces, are people really going to remember?
BREAKING: Labour’s NEC have blocked Andy Burnham’s candidacy.
January 25, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Possibly creates more drama down the line. But if Starmer goes and Streeting replaces, are people really going to remember?
But supplementary vote is back? So presumably the ‘not reform’ block wins.
How Greater Manchester would vote in an election held today:
via Britain Predicts
via Britain Predicts
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 PM
But supplementary vote is back? So presumably the ‘not reform’ block wins.
I suppose this explains the recording rumours around Arctic Monkeys. Releasing on Thursday.
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A new Arctic Monkeys song is coming this week in aid of War Child
Arctic Monkeys are dropping a brand new song later this week in a bid to raise money for the War Child charity.
www.nme.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I suppose this explains the recording rumours around Arctic Monkeys. Releasing on Thursday.
www.nme.com/news/music/a...
www.nme.com/news/music/a...
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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The Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have saved 30 collisions over 3 years within the LTNs and boundary roads according to latest casualty data, analysed by @cohsat.bsky.social
The Cowley LTNs were implemented in April 2021, after sporadic coronavirus lockdowns between March 2020 and March 2021.
The Cowley LTNs were implemented in April 2021, after sporadic coronavirus lockdowns between March 2020 and March 2021.
January 19, 2026 at 1:04 PM
The Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have saved 30 collisions over 3 years within the LTNs and boundary roads according to latest casualty data, analysed by @cohsat.bsky.social
The Cowley LTNs were implemented in April 2021, after sporadic coronavirus lockdowns between March 2020 and March 2021.
The Cowley LTNs were implemented in April 2021, after sporadic coronavirus lockdowns between March 2020 and March 2021.
Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize has really reverberated through the years in unexpected ways.
January 19, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize has really reverberated through the years in unexpected ways.
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
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All key European leaders now said they won’t go along with this. So if the objective was coercion it has already failed. (This is not a US miscalculation- its a very Trumpian one).
Keir Starmer often takes 2-3 days to issue very mild criticism of US actions. This is both direct and issued fast.
I think there is a serious risk that the US miscalculated quite what a big deal the Greenland thing is to Europe (and in Europe).
I think there is a serious risk that the US miscalculated quite what a big deal the Greenland thing is to Europe (and in Europe).
NEW - Starmer says US "completely wrong" in threatening tariffs over Greenland
January 17, 2026 at 9:11 PM
All key European leaders now said they won’t go along with this. So if the objective was coercion it has already failed. (This is not a US miscalculation- its a very Trumpian one).
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United States seeing more and stronger measles outbreaks in the new year. South Carolina is the latest, and spreading fast.
January 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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On tuition fees, I’m not against paying something extra as a graduate, but I do think if I’m paying thousands of pounds a year, the debt should go down not up.
It’s quite wrong when we’re told medical degrees are subsidised by the state.
It’s quite wrong when we’re told medical degrees are subsidised by the state.
The exorbitant interest rates attached have been ridiculous. Mine is now over £100,000 and I can’t see it shrinking soon.
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
On tuition fees, I’m not against paying something extra as a graduate, but I do think if I’m paying thousands of pounds a year, the debt should go down not up.
It’s quite wrong when we’re told medical degrees are subsidised by the state.
It’s quite wrong when we’re told medical degrees are subsidised by the state.
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Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
NEW
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
Obviously was going to happen. Feel bad for those who gave money.
The person behind this runs a good boardgame shop, but is very wrong about the solutions needed for Oxford’s traffic problems.
It’s been sad that we’ve had to buy boardgames elsewhere since the launch of this legal challenge.
The person behind this runs a good boardgame shop, but is very wrong about the solutions needed for Oxford’s traffic problems.
It’s been sad that we’ve had to buy boardgames elsewhere since the launch of this legal challenge.
🚨 BREAKING:
A legal bid to halt Oxford’s congestion charge has been turned down. The High Court today refused an application for judicial review by Open Roads For Oxford Ltd, which had raised £60,000 “from private donations, transfers from aligned funds, and our GoFundMe campaign” to bring the case.
A legal bid to halt Oxford’s congestion charge has been turned down. The High Court today refused an application for judicial review by Open Roads For Oxford Ltd, which had raised £60,000 “from private donations, transfers from aligned funds, and our GoFundMe campaign” to bring the case.
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Obviously was going to happen. Feel bad for those who gave money.
The person behind this runs a good boardgame shop, but is very wrong about the solutions needed for Oxford’s traffic problems.
It’s been sad that we’ve had to buy boardgames elsewhere since the launch of this legal challenge.
The person behind this runs a good boardgame shop, but is very wrong about the solutions needed for Oxford’s traffic problems.
It’s been sad that we’ve had to buy boardgames elsewhere since the launch of this legal challenge.