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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would think briefing this sort of thing will help KeirStarmer, the government or even themselves. Some people can’t resist, I guess, but it all a bit nuts.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would think briefing this sort of thing will help KeirStarmer, the government or even themselves. Some people can’t resist, I guess, but it all a bit nuts.
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#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
“Each decade we shiftily declare we have buried class and each decade the coffin stands empty.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
Was first response too - what a hero 💪
A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Was first response too - what a hero 💪
And reassuring
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
And reassuring
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
Breaking: it's now official, the pro-EU D66 party came first in the Dutch election. Their best result ever.
The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. It’s a narrow victory with D66 just 15,155 votes ahead of the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders.
The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. It’s a narrow victory with D66 just 15,155 votes ahead of the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders.
The most pro-EU party just won big in the Dutch election
D66 had a surprise surge, tripling their seats in yesterday's Netherlands election—and its openly gay leader Rob Jetten is set to become prime minister.
davekeating.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Breaking: it's now official, the pro-EU D66 party came first in the Dutch election. Their best result ever.
The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. It’s a narrow victory with D66 just 15,155 votes ahead of the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders.
The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. It’s a narrow victory with D66 just 15,155 votes ahead of the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders.
💯
I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
💯
👏👏👏
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Watched A House of Dynamite- twice, back to back, brilliant film.
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Watched A House of Dynamite- twice, back to back, brilliant film.
👏👏👏
Jogging past a local private primary school this am, observed a long line of SUVs, each one attended to by teachers basically acting as a hotel porter. Kids escorted by an individual teacher from their idling cars into school. Seriously.
And all I can think of is quadrupling VAT on school fees.
And all I can think of is quadrupling VAT on school fees.
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
👏👏👏
🤞👇🤞
Kent Labour source: "We only need 10 more defections in Kent [County Council] and [Reform] won’t have overall control. At the moment it’s 50-31"
"Whips lost:
🟣 1 in court for allegedly threatening to kill wife
🟣 1 to UKIP
🟣 1 investigated for lewd comments
🟣 1 for being anti-[leader] Kemkaran"
"Whips lost:
🟣 1 in court for allegedly threatening to kill wife
🟣 1 to UKIP
🟣 1 investigated for lewd comments
🟣 1 for being anti-[leader] Kemkaran"
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🤞👇🤞
Yup! 👇🏼
Councils are increasingly focussed on acute services (social care, homelessness) used by few people. All the median voter sees is that pot holes arent fixed + libraries are closed. @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social argues that Labour's reelection chances will be harmed if they don't fix council finances
Failing to fix local government could hurt Labour’s re-election chances | Institute for Government
There are signs of severe financial distress in local government.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yup! 👇🏼
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Trump is a big part of the growing darkness. In his own country he is tearing down the guardrails that protect democracy against autocracy
✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Alastair Campbell's diary: Why Trump should never be given the Nobel peace prize
Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Trump is a big part of the growing darkness. In his own country he is tearing down the guardrails that protect democracy against autocracy
✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
😂
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
😂
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
BREAKING: Labour is investing an extra £84 million to help prevent homelessness this winter.
It should shame the Tories that, under their watch, rough sleeping more than doubled.
This Labour government won't leave people on the streets.
It should shame the Tories that, under their watch, rough sleeping more than doubled.
This Labour government won't leave people on the streets.
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
BREAKING: Labour is investing an extra £84 million to help prevent homelessness this winter.
It should shame the Tories that, under their watch, rough sleeping more than doubled.
This Labour government won't leave people on the streets.
It should shame the Tories that, under their watch, rough sleeping more than doubled.
This Labour government won't leave people on the streets.
Hey! Good news 🥳 👇🏼
Great news that our Labour government is giving #Camden nearly £700,000 additional funding to help tackle homelessness.
Our share of #Labour marking #WorldHomelessnessDay by providing councils nationwide with extra £84 million to boost #homelessness prevention.
Labour making a difference.
Our share of #Labour marking #WorldHomelessnessDay by providing councils nationwide with extra £84 million to boost #homelessness prevention.
Labour making a difference.
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hey! Good news 🥳 👇🏼
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.
Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.
Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
This is devastating and terrifying www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Storyville - The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is devastating and terrifying www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Facts matter 👇🏼
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Facts matter 👇🏼
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The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
October 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Council leader's stand against racism: ‘Refugees are not the cause of our problems’ - www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/coun...
Council leader's stand against racism: ‘Refugees are not the cause of our problems’
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www.camdennewjournal.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Reposted by Dee Donnelly
What all these Tory announcements - on climate change, on human rights, on deportation, on benefits - have in common, beyond moral cowardice, is a complete lack of systems thinking, an inability to navigate complexity.
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What all these Tory announcements - on climate change, on human rights, on deportation, on benefits - have in common, beyond moral cowardice, is a complete lack of systems thinking, an inability to navigate complexity.