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Lizzy Price
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illustrator, but here for the wtaf is happening now.
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So many to choose from.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Deafening Duck by Justin Worsley.
“Is there anything more annoying than a noisy duck having a video call on a train?” By Justin Worsley.
February 7, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Our laws always seem so toothless when dealing with the powerful.

From regulation of water to cybercrime to infected blood to post office scandal.. let’s have an inquiry and push the issue into the long grass.
February 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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I have a book for children coming out in March on this very theme. Loss & the space they leave behind. 💔
January 27, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Quite a turnaround for Starmer faithful Polly Toynbee, to call for a leadership election. Not sure a change of leader is what we need, but a change in the narrative & the strength to take on - and win - arguments.
The final paragraph is spot on imo.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here is the Starmer tragedy, a good and clever man not made for politics or leadership. His lack of arrogance and his earnest endeavour is what his admirers like, but lack of political instinct and firmness of direction is a fatal flaw. Turning the party round after Corbyn was a triumph. His convictions are deep-dyed Labour: children's opportunities, green investment, workers' rights. But No 10's over-cautious wariness of the right stifled the telling of that story. Look, I slid into the past tense because that is where he is almost certainly headed. His legacy will be a far longer list of good things done than anyone heard tell, because it was never well told. How he goes and who succeeds is the next story.
January 27, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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We must take him literally, but not seriously, or seriously but not literally…
seems to be the mantra of those who claim they know best, including Justin Webb… but no one anticipated this level of world chaos whatever they like to tell us.
January 20, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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The Right confects an issue, whips up a media frenzy of misinformation & racism, and Labour is too afraid to tell the truth.
He pointed to the UK, where tremendous attention had been given to court cases where the convention on human rights had stymied the expulsion of criminals. "And again here, the figures simply don't correspond with that," said O'Flaherty. "The figure is tiny, and it's completely manageable in any modern rule of law state. And very few of these cases ever reach the European court of human rights because there are all those checks and balances at the national level that kick in first."
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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As Farage rides high in the polls (albeit partially waning) more needs to be done to expose how destructive a force he has always been in our public life - undermining security, the economy & national unity.
His popularity remains a stumbling block to our ability to make urgent pro European choices.
All of a sudden all those arguments against a European branch of NATO or an EU defence union look ridiculously naïve, Brexit looks like a Russian plot and almost certainly was, and the Polish and Finnish armed forces look like our best hope. But it is the speed that all these needs to be reacted to that is really frightening. Western democracies are slow to awaken, arm and act. They always have been but we cannot afford another 1930s one hundred years on. We have 5 years at most.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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It’s so clear why no victim would ever forget this. But I would also argue that the perpetrator would equally never forget that sense of ugly racist power.
Farage has suggested that it is inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget? I know I haven't forgotten. I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me.
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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What a fucking joke. What does it even mean? The corrupt accommodation of lawless thuggery.
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It is not just for social issues that ppl vote labour. Allowing the markets to rule, & underfunding regulation, has let to increased inequality & broken services.
Private greed, public squalor is the legacy of right wing govts. I would argue that the public voted again in 2024 to change that.
Now let us consider the negative side. These are almost all related to economic policy. In the past, when a Labour politician announces that they have a novel idea about how to run the economy, it is often a sign that people are about to lose a lot of money. For almost all of its history, the party has bet against the profit motive and the power of markets. They've ignored thousands of years of economic history, and then been surprised when this does not work electorally or economically.
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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As such a stickler for accuracy, how come Prescott’s own quote of Trump’s words were themselves inaccurate?

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/145187...
In the document, Prescott writes: "Fifteen minutes into the speech, what Trump actually said: 'We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.' It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it." The full version of the quote that Prescott cites reads very differently. Here it is below, with the sections Prescott uses in bold. "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. "Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Harrowing story. The UK likes to tell itself stories about how generous we are, watch films about Nicholas Winton, & how ppl abuse our ‘hospitality’.. but the reality of how we behave towards the most desperate & vulnerable is a world apart.
"I have a few simple words to say to the Home Office: you destroyed my life," he says. "How can they hold on to a person for 17 years who has done nothing wrong? Being an asylum seeker here is like living in an open prison. I'm still having flashbacks. I wake up in the morning and forget I'm no longer an asylum seeker, because I'm so used to living without status. I have been so tired and so broken on my journey to get leave to remain here. I came here to seek protection but until now I have been barred from work, study and travel. If I had not found a good firm of solicitors who were prepared to help me, I would still be barred from doing all those things." Ussu is hoping that at last he will be able to progress and contribute to British society, working, paying taxes and volunteering.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Day 2.
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Oh not again .. “The NHS is getting more and more expensive” says Kate Ferguson of the Sun.

Compared with other similar countries we spend less.

Before you destroy the model, compare how much we put in .. it’s been underfunded & demoralized for 14 years. #bbcaq

www.nhsconfed.org/articles/are...
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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And yet the Right are fearful of not having the intellectual heft of the Left. Hence orgs like the Marshall backed Pharos foundation.
Did the Left fear of seeming out of touch with its “Red Wall” mean it underplayed its intellectual thinking?

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/143582...
Beyond the formal fellowships, the Pharos Foundation has also given out book grants to fund research, boasting that the first of these has already secured a deal with the prestigious mainstream publisher Allen Lane. This casts the talent-spotting net even wider. The Paul Marshall ecosystem can not only pick which broadcasters, politicians or pundits it wishes to back, but it can give a huge career boost to academics who might provide the movement with intellectual heft in future, too. This is the informal cultural network that the right believed the left dominated in the past, replicated deliberately and at scale by a small group of ultra-rich men surrounding Marshall - who between them control or influence bodies at every step of the chain.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Absolutely this. Her blythe assertion about the rules based order put in place after WW2 is wildly wrong, and all the more bewildering because of her history.
The rules based order was put in place because we had just seen how states could behave if unchecked.
thing. She told the Sunday Times that: 'Put simply, the international rules-based order is based on the idea that everyone would want to be nice to each other post-war. The reality is that's not true and loads of people will exploit that generosity. If we're not going to stand up for ourselves, we will lose the most precious things that we have? Counter-point: the rules-based order was put in place not because we assumed everyone would want to be nice to each-other. It was put in place precisely to make sure that they would find it difficult to be the opposite. It was put in place, among other things, to help people like those of Katie Lam's ancestors who fled the Holocaust and settled in the UK.
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Despite the widely acknowledged catastrophe of Brexit & its by-product of hollowing out of the Reform-aping Tory party, the Brexit revolution continues to eat its children, gobbling up any remaining shreds of honesty, integrity, sanity. Cleverly the latest opportunistic idiot.
(Private eye)
S S ed, S FOLLOWING THE PACT AWKWARD times for Tory shadow housing secretary James Cleverly, as Kemi Badenoch announced on 3 October that the UK would leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) under a Conservative government. In April 2023, when he was foreign secretary, Cleverly keenly rejected the idea, saying: "European countries which are not part of the ECHR is a small club. I am not convinced it is a club we want to be part of... Sometimes when some people say we have got to leave the ECHR, what I hear is they think we don't have the standing or the authority or influence to make changes or amendments that need to be made... I don't buy into that." Badenoch has ruled that anyone not agreeing with her new policy "cannot stand as a Conservative candidate at the next election" Luckily for Cleverly, he has now decided he does support leaving the ECHR after all, claiming there is "at best a fag paper between" him and Badenoch on the issue.
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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At the current rate of social mobility in Denmark it takes 2 generations for ppl to move from the bottom 10% of income to the middle. In the US & UK it takes 5 generations. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC programme 3 Ages of Child at 34 minutes in.
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The Tory party is dead, empty, devoid of ideas, principle, self respect. This matters because of the alternative. In refusing to acknowledge their own disastrous legacy, they could only ape Reform. In doing that they have destroyed themselves.
And so we end up here, with Badenoch: this vacant, shattered woman, trundling along a pathway of humiliation and self-erasure. We end up here, with Jenrick: a degenerate little bore, as inept as he is amoral, who will say anything, no matter how vile and disreputable, in order to secure attention. These strange, terrible children, dancing on the corpse of a party which was once home to Disraeli and Churchill. Tragedy and farce, played out simultaneously, in tandem.
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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“A return to the Cold War era” says Simon Calder on the new biometric rules on eu travel. Queues queues and more queues. “Heaven knows what it will be like on the first Saturday of the Summer holidays”.
Brexit. The gift that keeps shooting us in the foot. #r4today
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Think this article is spot on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers' protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction, a place where everyone drives everywhere, a place where the queer and the gender-fluid are told from birth that they simply do not exist, a place where citizenship is defined along narrow ethnic lines and everyone else is there on sufferance, where the super-rich and well-connected can simply do and consume as they please. A place where the poor are simply cleared out of sight.
October 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM