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Jackie Chan speaking about Gaza. "Recently I watched a video. A child was asked, 'What will you be when you grow up?'"
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Jackie Chan speaking about Gaza. "Recently I watched a video. A child was asked, 'What will you be when you grow up?'"
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
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NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Yeah well the millions of people that will die becauase of him will haunt him forever. He will sit at a banquet of consequences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Musk calls Doge only ‘somewhat successful’ and says he would not do it again
Speaking on a rightwing podcast, the billionaire said he would not go back and lead the job-cutting program again
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yeah well the millions of people that will die becauase of him will haunt him forever. He will sit at a banquet of consequences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I'm not kidding: I reported on this FOUR YEARS AGO in "The Decade In Tory"
It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year).
And it's £2.50 on Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year).
And it's £2.50 on Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared
More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schools
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I'm not kidding: I reported on this FOUR YEARS AGO in "The Decade In Tory"
It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year).
And it's £2.50 on Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year).
And it's £2.50 on Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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A vote for a bill on rejoining the Customs Union won in Parliament 101-100.
The Government is now supposed to host a debate.
About 86% of Britons want to rejoin the Customs Union, including many who don't want to rejoin the EU.
Why don't we?
The Government is now supposed to host a debate.
About 86% of Britons want to rejoin the Customs Union, including many who don't want to rejoin the EU.
Why don't we?
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A vote for a bill on rejoining the Customs Union won in Parliament 101-100.
The Government is now supposed to host a debate.
About 86% of Britons want to rejoin the Customs Union, including many who don't want to rejoin the EU.
Why don't we?
The Government is now supposed to host a debate.
About 86% of Britons want to rejoin the Customs Union, including many who don't want to rejoin the EU.
Why don't we?
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Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".
And now everything is broken.
And now everything is broken.
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".
And now everything is broken.
And now everything is broken.
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Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
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Nature always tries to undo human destruction but humans will never stop their war on nature
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Nature always tries to undo human destruction but humans will never stop their war on nature
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Powell supporting Alan Sked at Newbury by-election in 1993 in the Anti-Federalist League days before they became UKIP. Farage had joined the AFL in 1992.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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It’s not going away.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It’s not going away.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’.
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New from me... I've been quoted in the Norwegian press about the chaos that is enveloping British Higher Education. Don't comment on this much now as after the disastrous White Paper we've passed the Rubicon, but thought I'd flag. www.khrono.no/15000-stilli...
15.000 stillinger kuttet ved britiske universiteter i år: — Høyere utdanning ødelegges
En tredjedel av britiske universiteters realinntekter har forsvunnet det siste tiåret. Nå kan det bli innført en ny skatt som vil ramme mange universiteter hardt.
www.khrono.no
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New from me... I've been quoted in the Norwegian press about the chaos that is enveloping British Higher Education. Don't comment on this much now as after the disastrous White Paper we've passed the Rubicon, but thought I'd flag. www.khrono.no/15000-stilli...
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REMINDER: As Tory Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick said he wanted “even more” asylum hotels. #ukpolitics
August 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
REMINDER: As Tory Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick said he wanted “even more” asylum hotels. #ukpolitics
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Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules
August 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules
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Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.
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Must read story. Misinformation from DOGE and Elon about USIP-funded work of an Afghani working with the US against the Taliban leads to his family’s kidnapping by the Taliban
3/ Halimi initially wonders if Musk’s accusation is an April Fool’s joke. After all, the decades of work he had done consulting for U.S. diplomats wasn’t in service of the Taliban; it was the opposite.
Little did he know his nightmare was just beginning.
Little did he know his nightmare was just beginning.
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
www.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Must read story. Misinformation from DOGE and Elon about USIP-funded work of an Afghani working with the US against the Taliban leads to his family’s kidnapping by the Taliban
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While Trump is floundering around on the world stage and appearing like a complete idiot, JD Vance is hanging out in England with British far-right extremists in an attempt to undermine British democracy...
Why the Vance visit was so much more than just a holiday..
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What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week
The vice-president has become the prince of the new reactionary right.
www.newstatesman.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
While Trump is floundering around on the world stage and appearing like a complete idiot, JD Vance is hanging out in England with British far-right extremists in an attempt to undermine British democracy...
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It isn't perfect, but Wikipedia is still the closest thing we have to a site that actually fulfills the original promise of the internet as a radical experiment in participatory democracy. We must protect it from AI slop at all costs. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia
Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It isn't perfect, but Wikipedia is still the closest thing we have to a site that actually fulfills the original promise of the internet as a radical experiment in participatory democracy. We must protect it from AI slop at all costs. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
August 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.