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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
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November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
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What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.
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There is something patently absurd in all the moaning about EU unity as a contrast to America when we are now in week 5 of a US government shutdown that increasingly looks permanent
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
There is something patently absurd in all the moaning about EU unity as a contrast to America when we are now in week 5 of a US government shutdown that increasingly looks permanent
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Yeah, I've been prepared to give ridiculous amounts of benefit of doubt, but the cowardly refusal to call out a snowballing far right is inexcusable and unforgivable abdication of duty.
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah, I've been prepared to give ridiculous amounts of benefit of doubt, but the cowardly refusal to call out a snowballing far right is inexcusable and unforgivable abdication of duty.
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Look I know it's a sjot inheritance and we have deep rooted structural economic and political problems and switching PMs won't solve them. But saying "fascist hooliganism is bad and we're gonna nick the culprits" is the easy part, and yet he is just. Not. Doing. It.
September 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Look I know it's a sjot inheritance and we have deep rooted structural economic and political problems and switching PMs won't solve them. But saying "fascist hooliganism is bad and we're gonna nick the culprits" is the easy part, and yet he is just. Not. Doing. It.
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If IMF forecasts an improved fiscal path for UK and debt lower than peers, why has the gilt market been uniquely picked on?
It hasn't been.
It hasn't been.
September 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If IMF forecasts an improved fiscal path for UK and debt lower than peers, why has the gilt market been uniquely picked on?
It hasn't been.
It hasn't been.
Two tier journalism
Jeremy Hunt literally owning a property empire, sells a number of properties and avoids a huge slice of tax.
Nothing said.
Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous.
Working class girl, getting above her station.
Aspiration, only when it suits.
This country eh?
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Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous.
Working class girl, getting above her station.
Aspiration, only when it suits.
This country eh?
August 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Two tier journalism
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"Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy"
This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.
This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.
Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.
August 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy"
This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.
This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.
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Let's not forget we got here after the last far-right candidate was banned over assistance from Russia
Standards were upheld and there was no vote of revenge against the elites
Protecting democracy doesn't and shouldn't only happen at the ballot box
Standards were upheld and there was no vote of revenge against the elites
Protecting democracy doesn't and shouldn't only happen at the ballot box
May 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Let's not forget we got here after the last far-right candidate was banned over assistance from Russia
Standards were upheld and there was no vote of revenge against the elites
Protecting democracy doesn't and shouldn't only happen at the ballot box
Standards were upheld and there was no vote of revenge against the elites
Protecting democracy doesn't and shouldn't only happen at the ballot box
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The government borrowed £151 billion last financial year. Which was £14.6 billion more than the OBR estimate *last month*.
And yet their forecasts for five years time are being used as the entire basis for public policy decision making.
And yet their forecasts for five years time are being used as the entire basis for public policy decision making.
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The government borrowed £151 billion last financial year. Which was £14.6 billion more than the OBR estimate *last month*.
And yet their forecasts for five years time are being used as the entire basis for public policy decision making.
And yet their forecasts for five years time are being used as the entire basis for public policy decision making.
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Replacing editors with algorithms might be the most costly decision in human history. Literally trillions of dollars will be lost, and that’s not even starting on the number of lives that will be lost.
April 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Replacing editors with algorithms might be the most costly decision in human history. Literally trillions of dollars will be lost, and that’s not even starting on the number of lives that will be lost.
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Y'days post: Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill. mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/fall...
Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.
Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.
Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill.
In the United States it is easy to view falling rates of vaccination for diseases like measles as a simple consequence of a right wing pop...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Y'days post: Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill. mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/fall...
Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.
Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.
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This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.
February 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.
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Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. Fuck the GOP. Fuck Maga. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. Fuck the GOP. Fuck Maga. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin.
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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11
As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties
I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help
As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties
I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help
February 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11
As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties
I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help
As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties
I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help
A decadent end to a decadent (American) empire …
True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don’t like needles and don’t think there will be any real consequences, not sexy queer goth dance parties.
February 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A decadent end to a decadent (American) empire …
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I passionately disagree with Will. There are at least 7 great ironies of Brexit. His is a corker - but here are six more... 1/7
The greatest irony of Brexit is that it increased political/economic demand for immigration.
Overall, as forecast, the overwhelming consensus among economists is that the impact of Brexit has been significant and negative, but not catastrophic. Some of the downsides on trade have been partially offset by increases in migration.
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I passionately disagree with Will. There are at least 7 great ironies of Brexit. His is a corker - but here are six more... 1/7
Time to bring back the noble Brythonic languages
If I were Britain, I would simply not share a common language with the hegemon while it is having a ketamine-induced disordered thinking episode
January 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Time to bring back the noble Brythonic languages
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One way to destroy an effective American strategic tool is to have decision-making that is so paralysed that even your closest European friends and allies start ignoring you.
January 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
One way to destroy an effective American strategic tool is to have decision-making that is so paralysed that even your closest European friends and allies start ignoring you.
Volt on top let’s go
* more granular detail isn't currently available, although the European elections suggest the most popular 'others' among younger Germans are the pro-European Volt (who beat the FDP, Linke and BSW among 16-24s last June) and the left-wing satirical Die PARTEI.
January 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Volt on top let’s go
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The Georgian state is openly beating journalists & its own citizens in the street.
Opposition group Coalition For Change has just had its office stormed & its staff beaten. The same building has UK staff too.
Where is the international response? Where are the UK/US/EU sanctions?
#GeorgiaProtests
Opposition group Coalition For Change has just had its office stormed & its staff beaten. The same building has UK staff too.
Where is the international response? Where are the UK/US/EU sanctions?
#GeorgiaProtests
December 7, 2024 at 7:26 PM
The Georgian state is openly beating journalists & its own citizens in the street.
Opposition group Coalition For Change has just had its office stormed & its staff beaten. The same building has UK staff too.
Where is the international response? Where are the UK/US/EU sanctions?
#GeorgiaProtests
Opposition group Coalition For Change has just had its office stormed & its staff beaten. The same building has UK staff too.
Where is the international response? Where are the UK/US/EU sanctions?
#GeorgiaProtests
It’s only a matter of time before any poster with a article or Substack that needs reading realises they’re better of here
I think framing Bluesky vs Twitter as left vs right or fun vs horrifying misses the fact that newspapers are getting far more engagement and conversion on Bluesky than Twitter.
December 1, 2024 at 6:36 PM
It’s only a matter of time before any poster with a article or Substack that needs reading realises they’re better of here
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14 years.
Fourteen years which started with a couple of school kids going out to paint anti-Assad graffiti, sparking a revolution. Fourteen years of protests and repression. Of war, destruction and mass murder by a desperate regime.
14 years, after which the tide has turned.
Fourteen years which started with a couple of school kids going out to paint anti-Assad graffiti, sparking a revolution. Fourteen years of protests and repression. Of war, destruction and mass murder by a desperate regime.
14 years, after which the tide has turned.
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 PM
14 years.
Fourteen years which started with a couple of school kids going out to paint anti-Assad graffiti, sparking a revolution. Fourteen years of protests and repression. Of war, destruction and mass murder by a desperate regime.
14 years, after which the tide has turned.
Fourteen years which started with a couple of school kids going out to paint anti-Assad graffiti, sparking a revolution. Fourteen years of protests and repression. Of war, destruction and mass murder by a desperate regime.
14 years, after which the tide has turned.