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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I genuinely think part of the ‘raw milk’ mania is coming from people who simply don’t know what pasteurisation is or why it’s done, and this is why history and heritage education matters.
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I genuinely think part of the ‘raw milk’ mania is coming from people who simply don’t know what pasteurisation is or why it’s done, and this is why history and heritage education matters.
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Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
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“Our results suggest that traditional gender norms, particularly those linking masculinity with red meat consumption and car use, play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints."
from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
Dudes emit more greenhouse gases than women do. It's the cars—and the meat.
Gender roles "play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints,” study finds.
www.motherjones.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Our results suggest that traditional gender norms, particularly those linking masculinity with red meat consumption and car use, play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints."
from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
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How nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !
May 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !
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Lurching to the right on immigration will never get Reform supporters to vote Labour again but it will push progressive voters towards the Greens and Lib Dems. As well as being morally grotesque, truly baffling Starmer’s team don’t get the electoral maths of today’s speech.
May 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Lurching to the right on immigration will never get Reform supporters to vote Labour again but it will push progressive voters towards the Greens and Lib Dems. As well as being morally grotesque, truly baffling Starmer’s team don’t get the electoral maths of today’s speech.
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STOP CALLING CARE WORK LOW SKILLED
Foreign care workers will no longer get visas under immigration crackdown, says home secretary
Foreign care workers will no longer get visas under immigration crackdown, says home secretary
Care workers will no longer be recruited from abroad under plans to "significantly" bring down net migration, the home secretary has said.
news.sky.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
STOP CALLING CARE WORK LOW SKILLED
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“I genuinely believe most people just want to let people be themselves. All they’re doing is making a tiny portion of society who have a really tough time anyway have an even tougher time.”
David Tennant on trans rights.
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
David Tennant on trans rights.
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
David Tennant on sex scenes, Doctor Who and his run-in with Kemi Badenoch: ‘The trans debate has become unnecessarily cruel’
As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor talks about playing a dastardly lord in the small screen adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, and whether he’d return to the Tardis
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“I genuinely believe most people just want to let people be themselves. All they’re doing is making a tiny portion of society who have a really tough time anyway have an even tougher time.”
David Tennant on trans rights.
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
David Tennant on trans rights.
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?
April 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?
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Could someone please explain to me what the Equality Act has to do with women’s toilets? Honestly, I don’t have time to read the 85 page judgment but how can someone else using a loo that I use constitute discrimination against me? It makes no sense to me.
judgment.how
April 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Could someone please explain to me what the Equality Act has to do with women’s toilets? Honestly, I don’t have time to read the 85 page judgment but how can someone else using a loo that I use constitute discrimination against me? It makes no sense to me.
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“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis
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Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize
Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize
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This is what it comes down to in terms of how we actually function in society: not “what is a woman?”, but “how do you know I’m a woman?” Nobody has ever asked to inspect my gametes or chromosomes. Presentation is literally all anyone is going on.
I mean I’m a fairly femme cis woman but I don’t carry any ID on me that shows my gender. How could I *prove* I am a woman, if I had to, in a way that isn’t just “well she looks like a girl, fair enough”?
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is what it comes down to in terms of how we actually function in society: not “what is a woman?”, but “how do you know I’m a woman?” Nobody has ever asked to inspect my gametes or chromosomes. Presentation is literally all anyone is going on.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
theonion.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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I really think this goes for national government too. Large numbers of people voted Labour because you can’t get an ambulance to come to your house any more and there’s sewage on all the beaches. If those things aren’t solved, then… where does the electorate go from there?
We have essentially broken any social contract between the electorate and the local services they pay for. So I won’t be massively surprised if a bunch of people come in and say “let’s do this totally unworkable thing” and local electors go sure ok, the current situation isn’t working, whatever
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I really think this goes for national government too. Large numbers of people voted Labour because you can’t get an ambulance to come to your house any more and there’s sewage on all the beaches. If those things aren’t solved, then… where does the electorate go from there?
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I tell you how unserious this “protecting women” idea is. Discourse started a couple of weeks ago about misogynistic violence due to a TV show which in itself is grim but instead of discussing how to tackle misogyny in boys from an early age they proposed a phone ban.
April 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I tell you how unserious this “protecting women” idea is. Discourse started a couple of weeks ago about misogynistic violence due to a TV show which in itself is grim but instead of discussing how to tackle misogyny in boys from an early age they proposed a phone ban.
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the Atlantic, according to those working in the sector.
Although “the situation here is nowhere [near] as bad, censorship does happen and there are some deeply worrying examples of library professionals losing their jobs and being trolled online for standing up for intellectual freedom on behalf of their users”, said Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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This is exactly the important thing to keep in mind about Starmer et al.
No he's not. Giving in implies that he doesn't want to do this stuff.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
March 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is exactly the important thing to keep in mind about Starmer et al.
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When I read this I think of several of Labour’s excellent backbench MPs and wonder what they think of this, of how Starmer is treating the landslide majority they earned for him.
I have not seen such a blatant anti-immigrant statement based on falsehoods, pitting people against people, in some time. Statement made by Keir Starmer at today’s immigration summit.
March 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When I read this I think of several of Labour’s excellent backbench MPs and wonder what they think of this, of how Starmer is treating the landslide majority they earned for him.
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"No return to austerity" latest
March 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"No return to austerity" latest
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🔴 Protest Crackdown in Britain Now Amounts to ‘State Repression’ And the Labour Government is Continuing the Trend, Warn Campaigners
Infringements on the right to protest have been ’emboldened’ by successive governments, report argues
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/p...
Infringements on the right to protest have been ’emboldened’ by successive governments, report argues
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/p...
Protest Crackdown in Britain Now Amounts to 'State Repression' And the Labour Government is Continuing the Trend, Warn Campaigners
Infringements on the right to protest have been 'emboldened' by successive governments, report argues
bylinetimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🔴 Protest Crackdown in Britain Now Amounts to ‘State Repression’ And the Labour Government is Continuing the Trend, Warn Campaigners
Infringements on the right to protest have been ’emboldened’ by successive governments, report argues
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/p...
Infringements on the right to protest have been ’emboldened’ by successive governments, report argues
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/p...
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BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025.
It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025.
It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
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US deports hundreds of Venezuelans "despite" court order.
Meaning, of course: "in breach of".
On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders.
Crisis point reached.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meaning, of course: "in breach of".
On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders.
Crisis point reached.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.
www.bbc.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans "despite" court order.
Meaning, of course: "in breach of".
On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders.
Crisis point reached.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meaning, of course: "in breach of".
On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders.
Crisis point reached.
www.bbc.com/news/article...