G🅰️reth
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When Sufjan Stevens wrote "and he takes, and he takes, and he takes" that was about my feed
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
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Yep - the government is consistently failing to make the case as to why it is investing more in defence and how the changing geopolitical system plus that whole war going on means it is increasingly needed
Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Yep - the government is consistently failing to make the case as to why it is investing more in defence and how the changing geopolitical system plus that whole war going on means it is increasingly needed
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
www.instagram.com/reel/DRRTZid... absolutely obsessed with the german foreign ministers incredible tiktok production values
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November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
www.instagram.com/reel/DRRTZid... absolutely obsessed with the german foreign ministers incredible tiktok production values
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Maybe this is one problem that can be traced back to Starmer - as a 60something relative poltiical novice he is not well equipped to understand this problem, and he surrounds himself with Blair era people who also built their mental models of politics in an earlier era. In which case, hard to fix.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Maybe this is one problem that can be traced back to Starmer - as a 60something relative poltiical novice he is not well equipped to understand this problem, and he surrounds himself with Blair era people who also built their mental models of politics in an earlier era. In which case, hard to fix.
I long for the sweet release of death
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I long for the sweet release of death
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Another avoidable mess the Starmer government has ended up in. Incapable of showing solidarity with trans people, they've now ended up in Crazy Town with the transphobes with no easy way out.
I suspect they're delaying it because its mental and unworkable - and is clearly aimed at the exclusion of trans, and gender conforming people, from society.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Another avoidable mess the Starmer government has ended up in. Incapable of showing solidarity with trans people, they've now ended up in Crazy Town with the transphobes with no easy way out.
Imagine getting blackmailed into being an informant as the result of a LinkedIn DM. I'd die from cringe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China in ‘covert and calculated’ effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says
Dan Jarvis gives Commons statement after MI5 alert about LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Imagine getting blackmailed into being an informant as the result of a LinkedIn DM. I'd die from cringe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Imagine if we’d spent the year leading up to the budget talking about the NHS…
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Imagine if we’d spent the year leading up to the budget talking about the NHS…
The inevitable pivot back to 'labour is the only progressive choice' comms at the next GE is going to be very hard. People don't forget this stuff being the only thing they ever hear about what the government is doing.
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The inevitable pivot back to 'labour is the only progressive choice' comms at the next GE is going to be very hard. People don't forget this stuff being the only thing they ever hear about what the government is doing.
The future of all the main UK political parties seems to be Fidesz without the massive state handouts for voters.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The future of all the main UK political parties seems to be Fidesz without the massive state handouts for voters.
Properly insane and offensive policy from Shabana Mahmood in its own right but why is the government continuing to bring up this issue when its supposedly got loads of other stuff on the agenda?
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Properly insane and offensive policy from Shabana Mahmood in its own right but why is the government continuing to bring up this issue when its supposedly got loads of other stuff on the agenda?
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Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show
Newly released documents from the convicted sex offender’s estate include text messages from him that appear to influence the lawmaker’s questions to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at a 20...
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Never explain, always complain
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Never explain, always complain
Tfw you're feeling yourself
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Tfw you're feeling yourself
Wes side story
Wes, A film by Ken Loach
The Kingdom of Wes-sex
Wild, Wild, Wes
Westonian SSR
Do you speak Wesperanto?
The Westado Novo
Wes, A film by Ken Loach
The Kingdom of Wes-sex
Wild, Wild, Wes
Westonian SSR
Do you speak Wesperanto?
The Westado Novo
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Wes side story
Wes, A film by Ken Loach
The Kingdom of Wes-sex
Wild, Wild, Wes
Westonian SSR
Do you speak Wesperanto?
The Westado Novo
Wes, A film by Ken Loach
The Kingdom of Wes-sex
Wild, Wild, Wes
Westonian SSR
Do you speak Wesperanto?
The Westado Novo
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A selection of fury from Labour MPs, ministers and advisors - “This is batshit crazy” “they are f-ing deluded” “did we watch the Tories and think, let’s have a bit of that?” “why are you slagging off your main rival and then putting him on the morning round to show everyone how much better he is”
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A selection of fury from Labour MPs, ministers and advisors - “This is batshit crazy” “they are f-ing deluded” “did we watch the Tories and think, let’s have a bit of that?” “why are you slagging off your main rival and then putting him on the morning round to show everyone how much better he is”