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We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Own that fraud 👏
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Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
May 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
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I've written to British Transport Police asking for clarity on the specific changes they've made to their policy following the Supreme Court ruling.
With EHRC guidance still pending, it's vital we understand how these decisions were made and what they mean in practice.
With EHRC guidance still pending, it's vital we understand how these decisions were made and what they mean in practice.
April 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I've written to British Transport Police asking for clarity on the specific changes they've made to their policy following the Supreme Court ruling.
With EHRC guidance still pending, it's vital we understand how these decisions were made and what they mean in practice.
With EHRC guidance still pending, it's vital we understand how these decisions were made and what they mean in practice.
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Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
1/17
Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
THREAD
Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
1/17
Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
1/17
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🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country?
Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s
But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades.
What’s going on?
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@thetimes.com
Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...
Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s
But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades.
What’s going on?
1/7
@thetimes.com
Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...
March 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country?
Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s
But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades.
What’s going on?
1/7
@thetimes.com
Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...
Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s
But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades.
What’s going on?
1/7
@thetimes.com
Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...
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Turning the neighbors into transphobes by blasting 100 Gecs
March 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Turning the neighbors into transphobes by blasting 100 Gecs
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My 7 year old nephew, son of two music lovers said to me today that he thought my job was in Parliament Funkadelic. If only!
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My 7 year old nephew, son of two music lovers said to me today that he thought my job was in Parliament Funkadelic. If only!
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My buddy who thinks it’s gay to eat eel: do you have any fish shaped like a pussy maybe?
February 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My buddy who thinks it’s gay to eat eel: do you have any fish shaped like a pussy maybe?
Very disappointing to see that my MP has joined the likes of George Galloway in tacitly supporting the rape, murder and ethnic cleansing of Ukrainian civilians.
If that money was going to Palestine, you'd rejoice. Rightfully so.
Utterly pathetic and unprincipled.
If that money was going to Palestine, you'd rejoice. Rightfully so.
Utterly pathetic and unprincipled.
What the government can’t afford:
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
February 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Very disappointing to see that my MP has joined the likes of George Galloway in tacitly supporting the rape, murder and ethnic cleansing of Ukrainian civilians.
If that money was going to Palestine, you'd rejoice. Rightfully so.
Utterly pathetic and unprincipled.
If that money was going to Palestine, you'd rejoice. Rightfully so.
Utterly pathetic and unprincipled.
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the russians started the war in ukraine. in 2014.
the americans and europeans are complicit in not taking that seriously. for nearly a decade they continued business with russia as usual, acting as if the territorial integrity of a european nation didn’t need to be defended.
the americans and europeans are complicit in not taking that seriously. for nearly a decade they continued business with russia as usual, acting as if the territorial integrity of a european nation didn’t need to be defended.
February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the russians started the war in ukraine. in 2014.
the americans and europeans are complicit in not taking that seriously. for nearly a decade they continued business with russia as usual, acting as if the territorial integrity of a european nation didn’t need to be defended.
the americans and europeans are complicit in not taking that seriously. for nearly a decade they continued business with russia as usual, acting as if the territorial integrity of a european nation didn’t need to be defended.
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'I'm divorcing you and I insist that you write out a list of all the things you are going to do better after we no longer have a relationship!'
💥 European capitals have been sent a demand from the US to specify what weapons, money and how many peacekeeping troops they can send to post-war Ukraine, in what officials said was the price for Europe having a say in the Trump-Putin deal over Ukraine
www.ft.com/content/1924...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1924...
@financialtimes.com
US demands Europe sets out arms and troops support for postwar Ukraine
Call for detailed proposals as European leaders seek role in Trump-Putin talks
www.ft.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
'I'm divorcing you and I insist that you write out a list of all the things you are going to do better after we no longer have a relationship!'
But on all measurable accounts the US economy is good? The only thing uncharacteristically high is the national debt but that's hardly a signifier of the strength of the economy both as a whole and for individual Americans?
the US libs can't believe the economy is bad because there was a blue president too recently. once the red president has been in there a while they will mysteriously come around
February 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
But on all measurable accounts the US economy is good? The only thing uncharacteristically high is the national debt but that's hardly a signifier of the strength of the economy both as a whole and for individual Americans?
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What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.
February 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.
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give it a few more years…
February 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
give it a few more years…
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“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
February 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Putin and Xi will be grateful for the phrase “disrupting a tired diplomatic paradigm.”
Not equating today and 30s/40s, but we need a Klemperer to record and understand shifts in language.
Not equating today and 30s/40s, but we need a Klemperer to record and understand shifts in language.
February 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Putin and Xi will be grateful for the phrase “disrupting a tired diplomatic paradigm.”
Not equating today and 30s/40s, but we need a Klemperer to record and understand shifts in language.
Not equating today and 30s/40s, but we need a Klemperer to record and understand shifts in language.
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The most frustrating thing about continuing failure to skewer Farage is that his grasp of detail is non-existent. It’s why he gets petulant when exposed to even mildly decent questions. Interviewers just need to zone in on one element of the bullshit & interrogate it until his ignorance is exposed.
Farage on #r4today decrying the increase in costs & red tape since Brexit & calling for Brexit to be “done properly”.
No longer part of the customs union/single market -both of which simplified bureacracy- the costs & red tape on trade have ofc ballooned.
Why was this not put to him directly?
No longer part of the customs union/single market -both of which simplified bureacracy- the costs & red tape on trade have ofc ballooned.
Why was this not put to him directly?
February 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The most frustrating thing about continuing failure to skewer Farage is that his grasp of detail is non-existent. It’s why he gets petulant when exposed to even mildly decent questions. Interviewers just need to zone in on one element of the bullshit & interrogate it until his ignorance is exposed.
The world should unite and isolate you regardless. The American electorate have proven they can not be trusted as the world's superpower.
When China is a more reliable ally and less destructive to the West, something is very wrong.
When China is a more reliable ally and less destructive to the West, something is very wrong.
Gaza doesn't belong to Israel, it doesn't belong to the US & it doesn't belong to the intl community. Gaza belongs to PALESTINIANS. If the US follows through with its imperialist conquest the world should unite and isolate us. We've set dangerous precedents that can't hold for the future of humanity
February 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The world should unite and isolate you regardless. The American electorate have proven they can not be trusted as the world's superpower.
When China is a more reliable ally and less destructive to the West, something is very wrong.
When China is a more reliable ally and less destructive to the West, something is very wrong.
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"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify. To combat any security threat posed by disordered information we need to teach young people these skills"
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify. To combat any security threat posed by disordered information we need to teach young people these skills"
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
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"...a president who is willing to disregard constitutional norms and legal guidelines."
Or just: "break the law"?
The road to autocracy is paved with euphemisms.
Or just: "break the law"?
The road to autocracy is paved with euphemisms.
‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump
More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"...a president who is willing to disregard constitutional norms and legal guidelines."
Or just: "break the law"?
The road to autocracy is paved with euphemisms.
Or just: "break the law"?
The road to autocracy is paved with euphemisms.
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Hope it’s a negotiating tactic.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
NEW: Yvette Cooper rules out a youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU: "That's not the right starting point for us at all."
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
February 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hope it’s a negotiating tactic.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.