Paul Trembath 〓〓
@paultrembath.bsky.social
Mostly here, occasionally at the other place. He/Him.
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Extraordinary that the Green Party should be given serious scrutiny, but the Reform Party must be given unchallenged airtime and column inches.
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Sorry kids, Greens’ fantasy politics don’t add up
Now Zack Polanski’s party is polling level with Labour it’s time to subject his platform to the scrutiny given to the grown-ups
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Extraordinary that the Green Party should be given serious scrutiny, but the Reform Party must be given unchallenged airtime and column inches.
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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EXCLUSIVE: A family of Palestinian refugees fleeing the brutal war in Gaza were evicted from Blackpool’s controversial Metropole Hotel asylum facility the day after they spoke to ITV News journalists about their living conditions.
national.thelead.uk/p/refugee-fa...
national.thelead.uk/p/refugee-fa...
'Horrifying' treatment of Palestinian family-of-seven fleeing Gaza conflict - booted from asylum hotel day after speaking to journalists
The Blackpool Lead has exclusively revealed the family was moved the day after speaking with ITV News – with just two hours' notice.
national.thelead.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A family of Palestinian refugees fleeing the brutal war in Gaza were evicted from Blackpool’s controversial Metropole Hotel asylum facility the day after they spoke to ITV News journalists about their living conditions.
national.thelead.uk/p/refugee-fa...
national.thelead.uk/p/refugee-fa...
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Worth remembering that whatever skepticism we might have about what specifically in the Epstein materials, the royal family of the UK saw enough for them to more or less do a damnatio memoriae on the king’s brother while he’s still alive.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Worth remembering that whatever skepticism we might have about what specifically in the Epstein materials, the royal family of the UK saw enough for them to more or less do a damnatio memoriae on the king’s brother while he’s still alive.
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“No 10 says Johnson has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them had parties during Covid.”
No 10 says Starmer has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them briefed against Streeting - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“No 10 says Johnson has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them had parties during Covid.”
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I like "the most next Prime Minister" as a new insult.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I like "the most next Prime Minister" as a new insult.
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The marker of a non asshole is whether you agree Begum should be allowed back into the uk
Conditions at Syrian al-Hol and al-Roj camps are "inhuman, dangerous, and degrading", independent report says.
New review urges UK to repatriate Shamima Begum, others from Syria
Conditions at Syrian al-Hol and al-Roj camps are "inhuman, dangerous, and degrading", independent report says.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The marker of a non asshole is whether you agree Begum should be allowed back into the uk
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Wait, so Deborah Cohen is annoyed that Michael Prescott didn’t notice her anti-trans campaigning at the BBC?
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wait, so Deborah Cohen is annoyed that Michael Prescott didn’t notice her anti-trans campaigning at the BBC?
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True but you also have to tax the ever loving shit out of them so that the top quintile, decile, 1% etc aren't capturing massive amounts of spending and purchasing power and distorting the whole economy.
You absolutely have to bribe your top quintile with goodies, because 1) it limits zero-sum brain disease spread 2) it creates a powerful constituency for a public services floor, & 3) the admin/cognitive load of means testing means they'll get theirs anyway, so you end up subsidising them regardless
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
True but you also have to tax the ever loving shit out of them so that the top quintile, decile, 1% etc aren't capturing massive amounts of spending and purchasing power and distorting the whole economy.
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perating a children’s home that is not registered with Ofsted is a criminal offence
Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website
Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website
Cornwall council offered suppliers £6m to staff illegal children’s…
Regulators intervene after UK local authority accused of normalising unlawful placements
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
perating a children’s home that is not registered with Ofsted is a criminal offence
Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website
Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website
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Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.
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Good morning.
Liberalism got us into this mess and has shown no ability or interest in getting us out of it.
Liberalism got us into this mess and has shown no ability or interest in getting us out of it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Good morning.
Liberalism got us into this mess and has shown no ability or interest in getting us out of it.
Liberalism got us into this mess and has shown no ability or interest in getting us out of it.
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This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.
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Good thread. I suppose if I’ve learned anything from the last few years, being downwardly mobile due to circumstances beyond my control, it’s that personal responsibility and compassion for others come together, and one of our tasks is to defend society against those who would have us reject both.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Good thread. I suppose if I’ve learned anything from the last few years, being downwardly mobile due to circumstances beyond my control, it’s that personal responsibility and compassion for others come together, and one of our tasks is to defend society against those who would have us reject both.
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It remains quite funny that, as the Tories regale us with their fourth female leader, and their second of colour, the Labour Party is still punching itself in the face over which hideously bland white man might save them.
New face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour | Zoe Williams
New face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour | Zoe Williams
Both share a fixation with process over project and have an absence of values, which can only result in a trail of broken promises, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It remains quite funny that, as the Tories regale us with their fourth female leader, and their second of colour, the Labour Party is still punching itself in the face over which hideously bland white man might save them.
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Just like Savile. That's why no one who mattered objected and why no one was brought to justice. They saw it as a victimless crime.
Truly. This was the worst part, no different from R.Kelly:
"Some critics of the press's performance say ruefully there may have been a class element at play. As described in court documents, Epstein and his associates recruited young women from working-class backgrounds and disrupted families."
"Some critics of the press's performance say ruefully there may have been a class element at play. As described in court documents, Epstein and his associates recruited young women from working-class backgrounds and disrupted families."
It’s a genuine conspiracy.
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just like Savile. That's why no one who mattered objected and why no one was brought to justice. They saw it as a victimless crime.
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This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
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No one 'earns' a trillion.
Abolish the rich.
Abolish the rich.
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
No one 'earns' a trillion.
Abolish the rich.
Abolish the rich.
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last year i had to have some cautionary scans, and it took weeks to get to the bottom of a “all clear as per previous scan” result (i’d never had a previous scan) because of clinical staff overworked with admin tasks.
i’m still not 100% convinced of the answer tbh.
i’m still not 100% convinced of the answer tbh.
I find the glee here about making thousands of hard working NHS staff redundant - and simultaneously therefore ensuring that clinical staff's workloads are increased even further with administration tasks they didn't sign up for - both tone deaf and distasteful.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
last year i had to have some cautionary scans, and it took weeks to get to the bottom of a “all clear as per previous scan” result (i’d never had a previous scan) because of clinical staff overworked with admin tasks.
i’m still not 100% convinced of the answer tbh.
i’m still not 100% convinced of the answer tbh.
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This is legit why exec level in a lot of places are obsessed with copilot.
It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).
It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is legit why exec level in a lot of places are obsessed with copilot.
It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).
It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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As @flyingrodent.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, the Harvey Weinstein scandal directly challenged the elite impunity and degeneracy that Jeffrey Epstein typified, and the response was a deranged, all-channels backlash to make clear such uppity behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated from the plebs.
Extra maddening because we are currently living through the backlash to #MeToo, which was attempting to address precisely behaviours and attitudes like this! We are living in the reaction to a movement that attempted to confront this mysterious behaviour head on!
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As @flyingrodent.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, the Harvey Weinstein scandal directly challenged the elite impunity and degeneracy that Jeffrey Epstein typified, and the response was a deranged, all-channels backlash to make clear such uppity behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated from the plebs.
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So, we're about five years on from the end of this period, in which people like Glasman, with the assistance of the horrible British media, screamed blue murder about how the left were Hitlerian racists. Would we say the results of this have been good for everyone?
Victoria Derbyshire has apologised after she failed to challenge a Labour lord when he branded the party leadership under Jeremy Corbyn as 'racist, lunatic politicians'
Victoria Derbyshire 'sorry' as Labour lord makes 'shameful' Jeremy Corbyn jibe
www.thenational.scot
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
So, we're about five years on from the end of this period, in which people like Glasman, with the assistance of the horrible British media, screamed blue murder about how the left were Hitlerian racists. Would we say the results of this have been good for everyone?
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Is Ofcom coming for VPNs?
Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted.
"VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted.
"VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Is Ofcom coming for VPNs?
Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted.
"VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted.
"VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
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The Guardian gave Goodwin lots of space in the 2010s to whitewash racism as Legitimate Concerns, imbue those Concerns with faux working class authenticity, and denigrate anti racism as the bleatings of a cosmopolitan elite. Its a bit late to start Noticing now.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation
Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Guardian gave Goodwin lots of space in the 2010s to whitewash racism as Legitimate Concerns, imbue those Concerns with faux working class authenticity, and denigrate anti racism as the bleatings of a cosmopolitan elite. Its a bit late to start Noticing now.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...