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Me: "Oh God, ANYONE but Starmer!"
Monkey's paw: *curls*
Monkey's paw: *curls*
Labour MPs say Wes Streeting's stock has risen within the party after extraordinary No 10 briefings against him on Tuesday night
"They've managed to create a situation where Wes is the victim/the adult in the room"
report @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @adampayne26.bsky.social
"They've managed to create a situation where Wes is the victim/the adult in the room"
report @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @adampayne26.bsky.social
Labour MPs Say No 10 Briefing Has Increased Wes Streeting’s Chances Of Becoming PM
Labour MPs have told PoliticsHome that Wes Streeting’s stock has increased among members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, particularly its soft l...
www.politicshome.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Me: "Oh God, ANYONE but Starmer!"
Monkey's paw: *curls*
Monkey's paw: *curls*
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Week in wildlife: a chilled capybara, a bear at nursery and a Welsh polecat
Week in wildlife: a chilled capybara, a bear at nursery and a Welsh polecat
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Week in wildlife: a chilled capybara, a bear at nursery and a Welsh polecat
absolutely deranged that this is being allowed to happen
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
absolutely deranged that this is being allowed to happen
and after patiently waiting I was rewarded with naff tickets for either 165 or 225 pounds
what a joke lol
what a joke lol
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
and after patiently waiting I was rewarded with naff tickets for either 165 or 225 pounds
what a joke lol
what a joke lol
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Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
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Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone
Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone
‘Delivery, delivery, delivery’ isn’t just vacuous nonsense – it’s emblematic of the prime minister’s leaden-footed approach to politics, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone
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The Beard Liberation Front has welcomed the election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader & says he could be part of the political antidote to Clean Shaven Starmerism
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Beard Liberation Front welcomes election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader
Beard Liberation Front 2nd February Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Beard Liberation Front welcomes election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader The Beard Liberation Fr…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Beard Liberation Front has welcomed the election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader & says he could be part of the political antidote to Clean Shaven Starmerism
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Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Thank god for the Polanski win
September 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thank god for the Polanski win
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Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election
Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election
Candidate defeats Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to lead Greens in England and Wales with vision for ‘eco-populism’ movement
Zack Polanski has won the election to lead the Greens in England and Wales in a result that will mean the party adopts his vision to become a mass membership “eco-populism” movement, directly taking on Reform UK.
Polanski, who was deputy leader and is a Green member of the London Assembly, defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by 20,411 to 3,705 votes in a ballot of party members. Ramsay and Chowns, who were standing as a co-leadership team, are two of the Greens’ four MPs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election
Went to the absolutely incredible Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum today.
The prints are obviously beautiful and compelling on a macro level but the level of detail is extraordinary.
Look at the little paintings in the rooms!
The prints are obviously beautiful and compelling on a macro level but the level of detail is extraordinary.
Look at the little paintings in the rooms!
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Went to the absolutely incredible Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum today.
The prints are obviously beautiful and compelling on a macro level but the level of detail is extraordinary.
Look at the little paintings in the rooms!
The prints are obviously beautiful and compelling on a macro level but the level of detail is extraordinary.
Look at the little paintings in the rooms!
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and in what will be the last match of the iconic era of The Hundred, it is such a joy to see so much excellent bowling
come on, Invincibles 🥹
come on, Invincibles 🥹
August 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
and in what will be the last match of the iconic era of The Hundred, it is such a joy to see so much excellent bowling
come on, Invincibles 🥹
come on, Invincibles 🥹
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‘Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in the courts, in legal depositions, appeals, marches, protests. Then, on 29 September 2024, she declared a hunger strike.’
Ahdaf Soueif, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Ahdaf Soueif, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250
Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
‘Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in the courts, in legal depositions, appeals, marches, protests. Then, on 29 September 2024, she declared a hunger strike.’
Ahdaf Soueif, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Ahdaf Soueif, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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‘One reading of Reform’s success is that the UK is not very different from other mid-size European countries, and its old right-wing party is being cannibalised by a newer party of the radical right.’
@piercepenniless.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@piercepenniless.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler · Short Cuts: Labour at the Cliff Edge
Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier promise...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
‘One reading of Reform’s success is that the UK is not very different from other mid-size European countries, and its old right-wing party is being cannibalised by a newer party of the radical right.’
@piercepenniless.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@piercepenniless.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist resumes full hunger strike
Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist resumes full hunger strike
Laila Soueif announces life-endangering action in protest over continued detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Cairo
The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has announced she has resumed a near-total hunger strike, stopping taking the 300-calorie supplements she had been consuming on her partial hunger strike for the past three months.
Since the start of her hunger strike 233 days ago, Laila Soueif, 69, has lost 36kg, about 42% of her original body weight, and now weighs 49kg. She is taking the life-endangering step in protest at the continued detention of her son in Cairo beyond his five-year sentence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist resumes full hunger strike
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
it’s amazing isn’t it - this ghoul was a chief architect of wrecking the Corbyn project and purging the left from the Labour Party and is/was directly involved in Starmer’s rise to power
and, surprise surprise, he’s just another corrupt politician
and, surprise surprise, he’s just another corrupt politician
Labour peer apologises for writing to Treasury to promote crypto firm he advised
Labour peer apologises for writing to Treasury to promote crypto firm he advised
Standards commissioner finds Iain McNicol broke Lords code of conduct by ‘providing a parliamentary service in return for payment’
A Labour peer and trade envoy for Keir Starmer has apologised for breaking the House of Lords code of conduct by writing to the Treasury to promote a cryptocurrency firm that was paying him.
Iain McNicol, a former general secretary of the Labour party, was found to have breached the rules by offering a paid parliamentary service on behalf of Astra Protocol in June 2023. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it’s amazing isn’t it - this ghoul was a chief architect of wrecking the Corbyn project and purging the left from the Labour Party and is/was directly involved in Starmer’s rise to power
and, surprise surprise, he’s just another corrupt politician
and, surprise surprise, he’s just another corrupt politician
noooo 😭 I literally picked up Brixton Rock to read on the train home this weekend… What a great shame, at such a young age :(
March 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
noooo 😭 I literally picked up Brixton Rock to read on the train home this weekend… What a great shame, at such a young age :(
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fuuuuucking hell
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
fuuuuucking hell
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German election is a lesson for Labour | Letters
German election is a lesson for Labour | Letters
Letters: Keith Flett is encouraged by Die Linke’s popularity among younger voters. David Felton says trying to outdo the Tories and Reform UK is a mistake
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
German election is a lesson for Labour | Letters