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GenX, left of centre UK. Retweets are not necessarily an endorsement.
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We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Google ‘Looking Into’ Gmail Hack Locking Users Out With No Recovery
Google ‘Looking Into’ Gmail Hack Locking Users Out With No Recovery
Google is 'looking into' a devastating Gmail attack that locks users out of their accounts with no way to recover.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?

Odd that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Is he emperor of the hemisphere? Declaring another nation’s airspace “closed” without their consent is an illegal act of aggression. If he wanted to actually close Venezuelan airspace by force, that’s a “no-fly zone,” & it requires: UN Security Council authorization (good luck)

Or an act of war
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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My dad, who I didn't think was stupid, appears to have become radicalised. He was parroting populist views when I met him today and I couldn't believe it. It's not just idiots who can fall prey to years upon years of repeated messages in the media. Scary and dangerous times.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Labour doesn't want to build a 'new state' - it has been persuaded by the Big Tech backed Tony Blair Institute that it should outsource the state to Big Tech.

This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Politico: "Reform UK will hold its third press conference in three days at 10 am. Head of policy Zia Yusuf and welfare spokesperson Lee Anderson will pledge £32 billion of cuts to disability benefit PIP"

Why so many press conferences?

Answer: Because they know the broadcasters will keep showing up
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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While they smear ‘No Kings’, Trump and the GOP can’t escape their own ‘Nazi’ problem
While they smear ‘No Kings’, Trump and the GOP can’t escape their own ‘Nazi’ problem
While they smear ‘No Kings’, Trump and the GOP can’t escape their own ‘Nazi’ problem
www.independent.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Equinor has resubmitted its #Rosebank application, meaning the government will soon decide the oil field's fate.

As @carolinelucas.bsky.social outlined: "the case against Rosebank is overwhelming".

From breaching climate limits to offshoring any benefits, read why approval would be a grave error 👇
The evidence is clear, the Rosebank oilfield would do nothing for the UK
This post is by Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion 2010-2024, former leader and co-leader of The Green Party, and co-president of European Movement. Last week, it was leaked from the top of g…
greenallianceblog.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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The IMF forecasts are a great example of how economic data is used to tell stories.
In headline growth terms: the UK is forecast for the 2nd fastest growth in the G7 in 2025.
On a per capita basis: joint 2nd lowest.
Pick your measure and time frame and choose your own adventure.
October 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Young Republicans / TPUSA MAGAs proven to be actual genocidal racist-incel-trolls, a very shocking and unforeseen development.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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All those years of attacking ‘the Brexit deal’ rather than Brexit itself have helped only Farage. It was always Brexit.
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Whenever I put cutlery back into the drawer after the dishwasher, I always move the spoons around and bring the old ones to the top. It's nothing to do with hygiene, I just don't want the spoons to get upset about not making tea.
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM