Pete
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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
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Sadiq Khan, who won his mayoralty again in 2024, is being ‘rewarded for failure’, while an identical honour for Andy Street, who literally lost his, is not…
What could possibly explain this glaring anomaly?
What could possibly explain this glaring anomaly?
this kind of obviously biased headline is so frustrating when MSM is fighting for credibility
1) New Year’s Honours list is nominated by public not by political leaders
2) Khan has won three elections so the average Londoner clearly doesn’t think he’s a failure
1) New Year’s Honours list is nominated by public not by political leaders
2) Khan has won three elections so the average Londoner clearly doesn’t think he’s a failure
December 31, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Sadiq Khan, who won his mayoralty again in 2024, is being ‘rewarded for failure’, while an identical honour for Andy Street, who literally lost his, is not…
What could possibly explain this glaring anomaly?
What could possibly explain this glaring anomaly?
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"I’m just Rish’, sang Sunak, the only Ken in history to be smaller than his own action figurine. It was hard to look at him without thinking about the chef from Ratatouille after being abandoned by the rat"
My review of 2024 in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/26/2...
My review of 2024 in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/26/2...
2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended
Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion
bylinetimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM
"I’m just Rish’, sang Sunak, the only Ken in history to be smaller than his own action figurine. It was hard to look at him without thinking about the chef from Ratatouille after being abandoned by the rat"
My review of 2024 in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/26/2...
My review of 2024 in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/26/2...
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The US is about to experience what the UK did after the EU Referendum: a mandate won on empty rhetoric creates a vaccum that demands filling, but is impossible to fill, since there is no consensus as to the contents - and zero chance of consensus among narcissists to whom only domination matters.
December 28, 2024 at 1:56 PM
The US is about to experience what the UK did after the EU Referendum: a mandate won on empty rhetoric creates a vaccum that demands filling, but is impossible to fill, since there is no consensus as to the contents - and zero chance of consensus among narcissists to whom only domination matters.
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The woes of the govt are overdone. Their biggest problem is a consistent tendency to favour tactics over strategy. And failing to change the law to protect British democracy from Musk's money, is the worst example of this yet. My piece for
the i.
inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...
the i.
inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk will unite British politics - against them
We are primed for manipulation
inews.co.uk
December 28, 2024 at 10:38 AM
The woes of the govt are overdone. Their biggest problem is a consistent tendency to favour tactics over strategy. And failing to change the law to protect British democracy from Musk's money, is the worst example of this yet. My piece for
the i.
inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...
the i.
inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...
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Achieving economic growth is vital if the Prime Minister is to deliver on his promises to the country.
But the answer is *not* a regulatory race to the bottom.
www.bestforbritain.org/pm_writes_to...
But the answer is *not* a regulatory race to the bottom.
www.bestforbritain.org/pm_writes_to...
PM writes to regulators but Brexit deal remains the real barrier to growth
Campaigners are calling on the Government to tackle the barriers to growth created by Brexit following reports that the Prime Minister, Chancellor and Business Secretary have written to UK regulators.
www.bestforbritain.org
December 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Achieving economic growth is vital if the Prime Minister is to deliver on his promises to the country.
But the answer is *not* a regulatory race to the bottom.
www.bestforbritain.org/pm_writes_to...
But the answer is *not* a regulatory race to the bottom.
www.bestforbritain.org/pm_writes_to...
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My recent article about Nigel Farage's 38th appearance on #bbcqt, kindly published by @yorksbylines.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 9:36 AM
My recent article about Nigel Farage's 38th appearance on #bbcqt, kindly published by @yorksbylines.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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Should be in every newsagents window.
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Should be in every newsagents window.
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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🔴‘Britain’s Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It’
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
'Britain's Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It'
Startling new research reveals that this year's General Election was the 'most disproportionate ever' with millions of votes wasted
bylinetimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:41 PM
🔴‘Britain’s Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It’
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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In 2022, Brexit cost us £1M a day. So, Mark Francois and Ian Dullard Smith decrying universal phone chargers as a loss of sovereignty is beyond pathetic. Your idiotic ideology has failed, lads.
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee
New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM
In 2022, Brexit cost us £1M a day. So, Mark Francois and Ian Dullard Smith decrying universal phone chargers as a loss of sovereignty is beyond pathetic. Your idiotic ideology has failed, lads.
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No plan for more tax rises, says UK PM Starmer.
Wrong pledge.
Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality.
Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%.
Can't build good society on injustice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wrong pledge.
Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality.
Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%.
Can't build good society on injustice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No plan for more tax rises, Starmer tells BBC
The PM says voters can judge him at the next general election on whether their living standards have improved.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 7:39 AM
No plan for more tax rises, says UK PM Starmer.
Wrong pledge.
Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality.
Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%.
Can't build good society on injustice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wrong pledge.
Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality.
Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%.
Can't build good society on injustice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump and Badenoch are opposing diversity – and big business is beginning to side with them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Don’t be different. The right wing is coming for you is you are.
Trump and Badenoch are opposing diversity – and big business is beginning to side with them
As the FT reports this morning:
US companies are accelerating their retreat from diversity and inclusion initiatives amid an all-out assault from conservatives emboldened by the election of Donald Tru...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 6, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Trump and Badenoch are opposing diversity – and big business is beginning to side with them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Don’t be different. The right wing is coming for you is you are.
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"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
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...there is a responsibility that comes with Welshness to engage with our country and demand better. Even if that involves the least Welsh of all actions – causing a fuss" an excellent summary of the Welsh condition by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The most infuriating thing isn’t that Wales is treated as a non-country – it’s that we accept it | Will Hayward
From the the Barnett formula to the humiliation of having an English ‘Prince of Wales’, you’d never catch Scotland allowing this treatment, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:40 AM
...there is a responsibility that comes with Welshness to engage with our country and demand better. Even if that involves the least Welsh of all actions – causing a fuss" an excellent summary of the Welsh condition by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The meme I didn't know I needed
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
The meme I didn't know I needed
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🔴The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
Budget 2024: The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves' Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:29 PM
🔴The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
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If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 AM
If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
November 28, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
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🔥 The new EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are set to create unique challenges for UK businesses and Northern Ireland’s place in the UK…
…coming into effect on Dec 13th.
…coming into effect on Dec 13th.
Post-Brexit GPSR rules: pulling another thread in the fabric of the UK
EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are set to create unique challenges for UK businesses and Northern Ireland’s place in the UK
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 7:16 PM
🔥 The new EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are set to create unique challenges for UK businesses and Northern Ireland’s place in the UK…
…coming into effect on Dec 13th.
…coming into effect on Dec 13th.
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“Obviously there will be no return to freedom of movement, the customs union or the single market” says Prime Minister Keir Starmer at #PMQs
In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%. Hiding from it won’t make it go away
In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%. Hiding from it won’t make it go away
November 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
“Obviously there will be no return to freedom of movement, the customs union or the single market” says Prime Minister Keir Starmer at #PMQs
In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%. Hiding from it won’t make it go away
In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%. Hiding from it won’t make it go away