Patch Thompson
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November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
Returning to my 'Jeremy Corbyn has never organised anything' bit, yet again...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Returning to my 'Jeremy Corbyn has never organised anything' bit, yet again...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Ultimately the minimum wage is a brilliant tool, but it can’t compensate for “we haven’t built any housing”, “we have cut cash transfers to the bone” and “all the third spaces have been cut to pay for social care”.
The minimum wage is not a cure all — we’re asking too much of business
Politicians spend too much time uttering cheap rhetoric about cheap labour
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ultimately the minimum wage is a brilliant tool, but it can’t compensate for “we haven’t built any housing”, “we have cut cash transfers to the bone” and “all the third spaces have been cut to pay for social care”.
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Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
Like, one of the key reasons for his success so far has been his ability to position himself on the 'acceptable' side of bigotry. It's why he's run a mile from Tommy Robinson. What is "savvy" about ignoring this?
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Like, one of the key reasons for his success so far has been his ability to position himself on the 'acceptable' side of bigotry. It's why he's run a mile from Tommy Robinson. What is "savvy" about ignoring this?
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The “savvy” view is usually wrong - both morally but also as analysis. Farage’s views and character are a really important part of why the polls are where they are!
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The “savvy” view is usually wrong - both morally but also as analysis. Farage’s views and character are a really important part of why the polls are where they are!
There is one of the LBC news screens outside the station I commute to for work. Guarantee that this evening, it will have 'Labour RAID on MILKSHAKES' all over it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
There is one of the LBC news screens outside the station I commute to for work. Guarantee that this evening, it will have 'Labour RAID on MILKSHAKES' all over it.
Just do 1p on the basic rate of Income Tax. No one would notice after six months. I beg.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Just do 1p on the basic rate of Income Tax. No one would notice after six months. I beg.
1p on the basic rate of Income Tax. I beg.
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1p on the basic rate of Income Tax. I beg.
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Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
Fucking hell
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fucking hell
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More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The attempt at a knowing bit of self-awareness in the second post really sends me.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The attempt at a knowing bit of self-awareness in the second post really sends me.
'The inquiry didn't consider that we can't be trusted to act like grown ups'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covid-19 inquiry: DUP leader criticises Baroness Hallett following report
Robinson said Baroness Hallett did not put enough weight on how NI parties have to work within a mandatory power-sharing coalition.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
'The inquiry didn't consider that we can't be trusted to act like grown ups'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Honestly though some people will still repeat back to you “Keir Starmer hates briefing it’s just not his style, he hates that way of doing politics” um ok
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Honestly though some people will still repeat back to you “Keir Starmer hates briefing it’s just not his style, he hates that way of doing politics” um ok
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In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
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1p on Income Tax would raise 20 times this, cost the average person around £30 a month at most, and, crucially, not risk collapsing one of our most valuable sectors.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
1p on Income Tax would raise 20 times this, cost the average person around £30 a month at most, and, crucially, not risk collapsing one of our most valuable sectors.
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The University of Lancashire - a fairly typical post-92 institution - brings 25,000 students and over 3,300 directly employed staff to Preston and Burnley.
Good luck with your regional growth when you're gutting places like that.
Good luck with your regional growth when you're gutting places like that.
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The University of Lancashire - a fairly typical post-92 institution - brings 25,000 students and over 3,300 directly employed staff to Preston and Burnley.
Good luck with your regional growth when you're gutting places like that.
Good luck with your regional growth when you're gutting places like that.
The government has been warned, repeatedly and loudly, about the house of cards that is higher education funding. And their response has been first to ignore it, and then to propose action that will actively make things worse.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The government has been warned, repeatedly and loudly, about the house of cards that is higher education funding. And their response has been first to ignore it, and then to propose action that will actively make things worse.
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That's made me feel a bit emotional, well done Eze.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
That's made me feel a bit emotional, well done Eze.
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This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
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