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This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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in Disney’s next Marvel film the hero won’t criticise the villain or even stand up to them
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
in Disney’s next Marvel film the hero won’t criticise the villain or even stand up to them
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
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You've always suspected it, so it's time to get an answer -- do companies deliberately make customer service inconvenient so you'll just go away?
YES
The Atlantic got the receipts…
YES
The Atlantic got the receipts…
July 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You've always suspected it, so it's time to get an answer -- do companies deliberately make customer service inconvenient so you'll just go away?
YES
The Atlantic got the receipts…
YES
The Atlantic got the receipts…
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After some back and forth, wanted to come back to the general points about the NOAA/NWS staff cuts. If you cut the staff and budget of the fire department in half you should expect that every fire death going forward gets and should get a very close examination to see to the extent to which ...
July 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
After some back and forth, wanted to come back to the general points about the NOAA/NWS staff cuts. If you cut the staff and budget of the fire department in half you should expect that every fire death going forward gets and should get a very close examination to see to the extent to which ...
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Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
wapo.st
June 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
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The IDF has just issued a statement saying Bob Vylan could develop a nuclear weapon by the time Reading Festival comes around.
June 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The IDF has just issued a statement saying Bob Vylan could develop a nuclear weapon by the time Reading Festival comes around.
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Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
June 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
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Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
June 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
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The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"
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Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA
May 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA
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As a former commander of the space station who flew with Russian cosmonauts, seeing my one-time comrades turn into Putin loyalists and supporters of the invasion of Ukraine was revealing. It taught me a critical lesson about how seemingly normal people—men and women I’d con...
https://bit.ly/43owc5T
https://bit.ly/43owc5T
Space United Us. Putin Tore Us Apart.
Former International Space Station commander: Watching my Russian cosmonaut friends turn to the dark side was a troubling lesson in how easily normal people can be bribed into supporting a tyrant.
bit.ly
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
As a former commander of the space station who flew with Russian cosmonauts, seeing my one-time comrades turn into Putin loyalists and supporters of the invasion of Ukraine was revealing. It taught me a critical lesson about how seemingly normal people—men and women I’d con...
https://bit.ly/43owc5T
https://bit.ly/43owc5T
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
The Seventy Eight Steps
The Seventy Eight Steps
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Nineteen Weeks
Nineteen Weeks
May 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
The Seventy Eight Steps
The Seventy Eight Steps
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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The people that promote “alternative facts” are now saying that math is “woke”
Math is math
Math is not “woke”
Math doesn’t have illogical values
They are numerical values
Math is math
Math is not “woke”
Math doesn’t have illogical values
They are numerical values
April 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The people that promote “alternative facts” are now saying that math is “woke”
Math is math
Math is not “woke”
Math doesn’t have illogical values
They are numerical values
Math is math
Math is not “woke”
Math doesn’t have illogical values
They are numerical values
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.
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Was Steve in charge of Reform's new slogan?
I think we should be told!
I think we should be told!
April 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Was Steve in charge of Reform's new slogan?
I think we should be told!
I think we should be told!
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