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It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
When you definitely are comfortable with your support of the Labour Party and definitely don’t need to self-soothe
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When you definitely are comfortable with your support of the Labour Party and definitely don’t need to self-soothe
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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Kids go to school hearing the drone. You brush your teeth hearing the drone. You go out hearing the drone. You shower hearing the drone. Everything you do, all the time, it’s always there. The Israelis clearly enjoy terrorising millions.
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Kids go to school hearing the drone. You brush your teeth hearing the drone. You go out hearing the drone. You shower hearing the drone. Everything you do, all the time, it’s always there. The Israelis clearly enjoy terrorising millions.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
Please. As someone with a partner hoping to apply for Long Residence ILR in the second half of next year, please tell me if we need to start making alternative arrangements
“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please. As someone with a partner hoping to apply for Long Residence ILR in the second half of next year, please tell me if we need to start making alternative arrangements
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The more I think about this, the worse it feels. Richard Dunstan, that "good friend" of Sex Matters, is suggesting I enjoyed being raped as a child.
I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The more I think about this, the worse it feels. Richard Dunstan, that "good friend" of Sex Matters, is suggesting I enjoyed being raped as a child.
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Please someone tell me if this is true or not
“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Please someone tell me if this is true or not
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A Home Office spokesperson said: “This government is committed to protecting genuine refugees who are fleeing war & danger”.
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A Home Office spokesperson said: “This government is committed to protecting genuine refugees who are fleeing war & danger”.
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Here is one of the candidates for "Antisemite of the years":
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Here is one of the candidates for "Antisemite of the years":
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Surely this can’t mean that switching visa means resetting the clock can it? The consultation says a baseline of 10 years right, so assuming there are no criteria to lengthen it, it would still be 10 years?
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Surely this can’t mean that switching visa means resetting the clock can it? The consultation says a baseline of 10 years right, so assuming there are no criteria to lengthen it, it would still be 10 years?
Please someone tell me if this is true or not
“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Please someone tell me if this is true or not
Interesting how their graphic seems designed to show Britain getting whiter
If the Chancellor had told the OBR what the Home Secretary says here is a firm commitment of the government, she would need > £7.5 billion of tax rises or spending cuts to afford to lift the two child limit. The fiscal forecast is based on not cutting immigration further & it drifting up to > 300k
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Interesting how their graphic seems designed to show Britain getting whiter
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This is 1 of several parents we’ve spoken with in the last 2 wks who are terrified about their future in the UK.
They work damn hard for shite pay while caring for British born & raised kids. This is who the govt is demonising & targeting with their cruel policies as they chase the Reform dog’s tail
They work damn hard for shite pay while caring for British born & raised kids. This is who the govt is demonising & targeting with their cruel policies as they chase the Reform dog’s tail
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
A low-paid carer from Ghana has cancelled all the benefits she is legally entitled to, including the disability allowance one of her children receives, owing to fears about her immigration status after the policy changes announced by the home secretary.
The radical changes to legal migration announced by Shabana Mahmood on 20 November will penalise those who are living and working legally in the UK, but who claim benefits. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is 1 of several parents we’ve spoken with in the last 2 wks who are terrified about their future in the UK.
They work damn hard for shite pay while caring for British born & raised kids. This is who the govt is demonising & targeting with their cruel policies as they chase the Reform dog’s tail
They work damn hard for shite pay while caring for British born & raised kids. This is who the govt is demonising & targeting with their cruel policies as they chase the Reform dog’s tail
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The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
Lol remember this one
Absolutely no need for anyone to pay any attention to Lord Glasman. No, this isn’t a Blue Labour government, and no, he isn’t some sort of guru to No 10. Thanks.
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Lol remember this one
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I say this as someone who is very much anti-intellectual - few politicians in this country did more to make anti-intellectualism central to political communication than Tony Blair
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I say this as someone who is very much anti-intellectual - few politicians in this country did more to make anti-intellectualism central to political communication than Tony Blair
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
Let it never be said that Labour doesn’t make a difference to ordinary peoples’ lives
Telling an Eritrean that they are being “sent home” is basically a death threat. Some Eritreans deported back to Eritrea don’t even make it past the car park in the Asmara airport
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Let it never be said that Labour doesn’t make a difference to ordinary peoples’ lives
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"the home office does not comment on individual cases"
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"the home office does not comment on individual cases"
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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They think they can balance the country being totally hostile to a relatively small number of asylum seekers; marginally hostile to migrants needed to fill work in key sectors (health, care etc) and international students; and very attractive to high skilled migrants in high pay sectors. They can't.
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
They think they can balance the country being totally hostile to a relatively small number of asylum seekers; marginally hostile to migrants needed to fill work in key sectors (health, care etc) and international students; and very attractive to high skilled migrants in high pay sectors. They can't.
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As the partner of a skilled worker visa holder and a patient at the dental hospital, this one is doubly important to me!
New petition: "Restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List"
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Deborah Okoligwe
#NewPetition
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Deborah Okoligwe
#NewPetition
New petition: Restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List
The Government should restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List and allow UK employers to sponsor qualified dental nurses already living here. This could help fill staff shortages, ease pressure on practices, and ensure patients get timely, safe dental care.
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
As the partner of a skilled worker visa holder and a patient at the dental hospital, this one is doubly important to me!