Garvan Walshe
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Civic entrepreneur building tech for democrats of all parties and none at Article7.eu. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy.
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Excellent choice.
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Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
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Caoimbhe
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Holywell.
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What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Shada Islam can criticise Israel as much as she likes - accuse them of genocidal acts or even genocide itself, but to omit Hamas’s murder and rape of civilians 2 years ago that produced Israel’s response, however violent she may believe it to have been shows a profound lack of judgment.
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Deeply troubling.
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Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
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The Tories are now against Shakespeare and the rule of law.

They want to throw the Britain’s greatest achievements into the bin.

There’s no way any of this is “conservative.”
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So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
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😂😂😂😂
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UK think tank report on East Europeans in 2010 vs UK think tank report on East Europeans in 2025
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Go ahead. Start the discussion. What do you think it would mean?
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During the last parliament all of the great offices of state were at one point or another held by Tory MPs from ethnic minorities. Including the PRIME MINISTER.

Jenrick is trashing his own party’s record. He belongs in Reform.
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During the last parliament all of the great offices of state were at one point or another held by Tory MPs from ethnic minorities. Including the PRIME MINISTER.

Jenrick is trashing his own party’s record. He belongs in Reform.
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It is sometimes and sometimes it isn’t. There are both economic and cultural factors going on. Vox in Spain is most popular in upper middle class areas for example.

Nostalgia seems a big deal across different social classes.
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Dunno, maybe he’s complaining that a black person currently occupies the job he wants.
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v strong psoe from a solid poster, and the pp’s internal one at the last election at least
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Takfiri tories

(Homage to Alan Duncan’s phrase from 2005: the Tory Taliban)
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Why any party leader would want to turn what was once a broad church into an even narrower sect than it's already become, who knows? I've almost given up trying to understand her, tbh - except as a performance artist, maybe.
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TIL that when John Adams made criticising POTUS illegal, contrary to article one of US Constitution, the first jailed under it (for criticising Adams for making the law) was Wicklow-born Congressman Matthew Lyon. A "natural provocateur", a "class warrior", got himself re-elected from jail.
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Magnificent peroration to Simon Schama’s @financialtimes.com weekend essay on defending freedom of speech in the era of Trump - with help from Milton, Jefferson et al.

on.ft.com/4gSqvDw Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
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This would be a test case for whether they object only to organisations that start with an “E” or to all those that have an “E” in their name somewhere
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And: immigration policy isn’t just a matter of the sovereignty of the country to which people arrive

It also needs the country where they’re from to cooperate.

Immigration policy is inherently international like trade policy. You can’t actually do it on your own

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Kemi Badenoch says she will send people "back to where they came from"