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Brightonian wife married to a New Yorker wife. 🌈 Alphabet family member. Fuck terfs. Anti-fascist.
Ghanaian-British.
Cancer epidemiologist.
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The National revealed that Starmer's allies at Labour Together were hiring investigators to look into journalists and writers back in September, in this great piece by Richard Sanders and Peter Oborne

These are the people running the country. It's bleak.

www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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What must you have done to your brain to look at someone that supported a Genocide and say ‘he’s a good man’?
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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🇬🇧 The UK is becoming an ever more expensive place to live, especially housing and renting.

📈 We must give our country the best chance. We must boost growth. We must give our businesses a chance to prosper.

🇪🇺 Cut prices, boost opportunity, unlock growth. Align with the EU.
Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax
Halifax describes the figure as a "milestone", but potentially daunting for first-time buyers.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The plan is for the majority to own nothing and be in eternal debt.
This is fucking BLEAK
FOX: " Rent Now, Pay Later. It's a new option for renters who are struggling to make the monthly payment ... You pay them a fee or a monthly subscription, but if you miss the payments — that's when the interest rates go way up."
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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If you don't want to listen to BLACK AND BROWN VOICES.
Then listen to the words of SHAKESPEARE over 400 years ago.
Listen and reflect
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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I remember this episode. Jenny Jones was NOT playing with her

Happy Black History Month.

The more you know…
February 6, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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This will always be hilarious. Whitney was about that life 🤣🤣🤣🤣
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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If you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Here's Hannah Spencer on the need for MPs with different backgrounds. I've thought the same for years. The problem is our MPs mostly come from the same mindset, with similar backgrounds and qualifications. We need fewer lawyers and more scientists, artists, academics and everyone she mentions here.
February 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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How come almost everyone else knew that Mandelson was a liar who had been sacked twice for dodgy dealings with the rich and powerful but Keir Starmer thought he was just loveable old Mandy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top government figures to hand over private messages with Mandelson
The government collects communications over Mandelson's ambassador appointment as some of Sir Keir Starmer's own MPs call on him to stand down.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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This should be career ending in any decent society.
How many thought it was just a matter of time? I sure as hell did, and worse is on the way.
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Starmer fans out in force today, a desperate last ditch attempt to save their hero?
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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Animal testing is being phased out far too slowly. Public revulsion is clear, and so is the science: over 92% of drugs that work in animals fail in humans. This is a moral and scientific failure.

#AnimalWelfare #AnimalTesting
February 6, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Here's an impressive Zack Polanski on Starmer, Mandelson, McSweeney and Thiel – and on the importance of sometimes putting country before party politics.

[SOUND ON 🔊]
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski says

ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in securing the deals.

www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands
ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in…
www.thenational.scot
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 AM
No way! It's almost like all of that was just rooted in bigotry.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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The Mandelson scandal is turning into the biggest political crisis we've seen in years and I think there's a lot of political careers that (deservedly) are going to be ended by it
February 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones

#VoteGreen 💚

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones
The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has left, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Today's reminder: Nigel Farage is a traitor to our nation. He has accepted money from foreign governments and organisations that are enemies of our government and must face justice.

#FarageOut
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
England on a normal one.
Hell of a set of top BBC politics stories for the government
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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🇬🇧👑 HRH Prince Andrew Battenberg Saxe-Coburg & Gothe (Windsor)

🇬🇧👑 Don’t fall for the royal & british establishment’s FALSE narrative that Prince Randy Andy has had his titles removed

🇬🇧👑 Nothing has changed !!

🇬🇧👑 Andy, The Prince of Nonces, remains 8th in line to the british throne

#NotMyKing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM