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Here's the most recent census data from the ONS, showing Bradford residents' country of birth.
80.1% report their country of birth as England.
Robert Jenrick's dog whistle sounds more like a foghorn.
80.1% report their country of birth as England.
Robert Jenrick's dog whistle sounds more like a foghorn.
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Here's the most recent census data from the ONS, showing Bradford residents' country of birth.
80.1% report their country of birth as England.
Robert Jenrick's dog whistle sounds more like a foghorn.
80.1% report their country of birth as England.
Robert Jenrick's dog whistle sounds more like a foghorn.
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Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise.
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
May 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise.
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
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⏰ Labour needs to wake up
🚨 If anything like these vote shares happened in a general election, the far right would win a landslide majority thanks to our broken voting system
🎰 First Past the Post is a gamble with Britain's future
🌹 #Labour4PR
🚨 If anything like these vote shares happened in a general election, the far right would win a landslide majority thanks to our broken voting system
🎰 First Past the Post is a gamble with Britain's future
🌹 #Labour4PR
May 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
⏰ Labour needs to wake up
🚨 If anything like these vote shares happened in a general election, the far right would win a landslide majority thanks to our broken voting system
🎰 First Past the Post is a gamble with Britain's future
🌹 #Labour4PR
🚨 If anything like these vote shares happened in a general election, the far right would win a landslide majority thanks to our broken voting system
🎰 First Past the Post is a gamble with Britain's future
🌹 #Labour4PR
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A two-part object lesson in how performative authoritarianism done by the left is never enough for the right.
April 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A two-part object lesson in how performative authoritarianism done by the left is never enough for the right.
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One reason conservatives beat centrists is that they look at polling and think "we have work to do" instead of "this is an immutable fact of reality that we are powerless to tackle."
On any number of issues they have moved the needle through sheer bloody-mindedness and media saturation.
On any number of issues they have moved the needle through sheer bloody-mindedness and media saturation.
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up, because the latest Rasmussen poll showed low net favorability ratings on immigrants and that gulags are a toss-up issue for suburban moms. #savvy #clever #wonk #nobeliefs #noprinciples
April 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One reason conservatives beat centrists is that they look at polling and think "we have work to do" instead of "this is an immutable fact of reality that we are powerless to tackle."
On any number of issues they have moved the needle through sheer bloody-mindedness and media saturation.
On any number of issues they have moved the needle through sheer bloody-mindedness and media saturation.
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Was literally just thinking about a thing I read thirty years ago which is still true. Pre-Thatcher and Reagan what tended to happen was a progressive party would get in and make radical social changes, and then a conservative party would get in...
March 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Was literally just thinking about a thing I read thirty years ago which is still true. Pre-Thatcher and Reagan what tended to happen was a progressive party would get in and make radical social changes, and then a conservative party would get in...
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Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
February 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
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If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me?
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me?
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
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After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee
After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee
A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering
Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making apotheosis lifts Margaret Thatcher to iconic realms,…
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee
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This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.