Huw I
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Well, that answers that then.
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Well, that answers that then.
There will be no consequences to this and there will be no book by David Baddiel about why.
The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
There will be no consequences to this and there will be no book by David Baddiel about why.
Being a socialist means being utterly defeated whilst being constantly told you've won.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
An obvious fact. But still an overlooked one
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Being a socialist means being utterly defeated whilst being constantly told you've won.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
This should be self evident in the fact that throw in a loft conversion or a side return and in certain parts of the country we are now referring to 3 bedroom terraced houses as 'mansions'.
One of the big issues of our time is seeing 'young people cant afford homes' and 'homeowners cant afford to be taxed more' as two separate problems, rather than the inevitable consequence of an economy built around inflated house prices to placate landlords
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This should be self evident in the fact that throw in a loft conversion or a side return and in certain parts of the country we are now referring to 3 bedroom terraced houses as 'mansions'.
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Whatever the facts, a good chunk of the population will tell pollsters that immigration is "too high", by which they mean, roughly, that there are too many black and brown people in tv adverts or in a city they don't live in. Politicians will react by harsh measures against much-needed immigrants.
UK net migration predicted to drop to pre-Brexit levels, figures show
The British Future thinktank’s data predicts net migration to the UK will fall to about 300,000, less than a third of 2023’s figures
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Whatever the facts, a good chunk of the population will tell pollsters that immigration is "too high", by which they mean, roughly, that there are too many black and brown people in tv adverts or in a city they don't live in. Politicians will react by harsh measures against much-needed immigrants.
Regardless of the target, one of the great benefits of the collapse of the Labour Party will be putting all those employed in the zinger factory out of work.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Regardless of the target, one of the great benefits of the collapse of the Labour Party will be putting all those employed in the zinger factory out of work.
Just watched highlights from the new Nou Camp - massive distracting electronic advertising hoardings and concert level music volume. Soulless and horrible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just watched highlights from the new Nou Camp - massive distracting electronic advertising hoardings and concert level music volume. Soulless and horrible.
'schoolboy racism' reads to me like 'schoolboy errors' in football. And in some ways that makes sense - it's before Farage had learnt to cloak it in other language like a grown up.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
'schoolboy racism' reads to me like 'schoolboy errors' in football. And in some ways that makes sense - it's before Farage had learnt to cloak it in other language like a grown up.
If I had the skills, I'd write a version of Ice Cube's It was a Good Day about getting the kids get to school on time with no major fuss.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If I had the skills, I'd write a version of Ice Cube's It was a Good Day about getting the kids get to school on time with no major fuss.
It's the Spotify Camp Nou is it? More than a club.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's the Spotify Camp Nou is it? More than a club.
Remeber seeing Jimmy Cliff sing I can see clearly now just as the literal rain stopped and the sun came through the clouds. Kind of of what he was all about. Gutted.
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Remeber seeing Jimmy Cliff sing I can see clearly now just as the literal rain stopped and the sun came through the clouds. Kind of of what he was all about. Gutted.
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I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
In the light of their current far right messaging it's amazing to think of the number of people, good people, that voted Labour at the last election but wouldn't vote for them in 2019 'because of the racism'.
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In the light of their current far right messaging it's amazing to think of the number of people, good people, that voted Labour at the last election but wouldn't vote for them in 2019 'because of the racism'.
You can't achieve anything if you don't win power. Fine. But is it still 'winning' if it's done in a way which means you will lose it and then never win it again ever?
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
You can't achieve anything if you don't win power. Fine. But is it still 'winning' if it's done in a way which means you will lose it and then never win it again ever?
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Just because Labour Government have engaged in factional in fighting does not make them left wing.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just because Labour Government have engaged in factional in fighting does not make them left wing.
Bristol is a depressing, car clogged disaster on weekends. Good time for biking and holding your breath.
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Bristol is a depressing, car clogged disaster on weekends. Good time for biking and holding your breath.
Except we absolutely can unless you assume the current 'party infrastructures' are the only ones we can or will ever have.
The UK system of government and party infrastructures are hard-wired to protect against the style of insurgent politics that propelled Mamdani to victory writes Izzy Lewis
‘The UK will never have a Mamdani moment’ – LabourList
It is the morning of 5th November. Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, and some 3,400 miles away, Westminster is awash with…
labourlist.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Except we absolutely can unless you assume the current 'party infrastructures' are the only ones we can or will ever have.
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Four days apart. Genuinely staggering how they keep doing this
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Four days apart. Genuinely staggering how they keep doing this
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For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
Well that's the last time a take the kids to school on bikes. In Britain's 'best cycling city' the car wins again.
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Well that's the last time a take the kids to school on bikes. In Britain's 'best cycling city' the car wins again.
It needs to be stated more often that the architects of the fascist neo-nationalism of our times are mostly international gangster capitalists of nowhere.
So Trump says he has to “bring in” foreign talent because American workers don’t have it. I also notice he says “No YOU don’t have it, instead of WE, Americas President is a literal foreign agent
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It needs to be stated more often that the architects of the fascist neo-nationalism of our times are mostly international gangster capitalists of nowhere.
McSweeney the arch manipulator subverting the democratic process and smearing and banishing the left was fine but
continuing with these tactics to protect the PM from a leadership bid is beyond the pale.
continuing with these tactics to protect the PM from a leadership bid is beyond the pale.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
McSweeney the arch manipulator subverting the democratic process and smearing and banishing the left was fine but
continuing with these tactics to protect the PM from a leadership bid is beyond the pale.
continuing with these tactics to protect the PM from a leadership bid is beyond the pale.
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Mr McSweeney, when we gathered in secret in 2018 to scribble down your list of idiotic accusations against your colleagues and then relentlessly stampede every word of your drivel onto front pages as revelations and a terrifying national emergency, we did not expect “a toxic culture of briefing”
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Mr McSweeney, when we gathered in secret in 2018 to scribble down your list of idiotic accusations against your colleagues and then relentlessly stampede every word of your drivel onto front pages as revelations and a terrifying national emergency, we did not expect “a toxic culture of briefing”
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"The more obviously qualified Keir Starmer". If there is one thing the last year has disproved, it is the centrist idea that managerialism is a guide to political competence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"The more obviously qualified Keir Starmer". If there is one thing the last year has disproved, it is the centrist idea that managerialism is a guide to political competence.
Having just done the school run on bikes it will never not amaze me that one of the big reactionary causes of our time is fury at being told to drive at speeds that won't murder children.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Having just done the school run on bikes it will never not amaze me that one of the big reactionary causes of our time is fury at being told to drive at speeds that won't murder children.