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Huh weird that now liberals are desperate for an Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning or Reality Winner to leak the unredacted Epstein Files.
Perhaps if they hadn't lined up with the establishment in demanding maximum repression of whistleblowers back then, leakers would be more forthcoming.
Perhaps if they hadn't lined up with the establishment in demanding maximum repression of whistleblowers back then, leakers would be more forthcoming.
December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Huh weird that now liberals are desperate for an Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning or Reality Winner to leak the unredacted Epstein Files.
Perhaps if they hadn't lined up with the establishment in demanding maximum repression of whistleblowers back then, leakers would be more forthcoming.
Perhaps if they hadn't lined up with the establishment in demanding maximum repression of whistleblowers back then, leakers would be more forthcoming.
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I’m sure churches did food banks when I was a kid but I do not recall hearing the words “food bank” until the 2010s. About three million people rely on them now and it’s not even a problem, let alone a crisis. And that’s how easy it was to just revoke your living standards, without any great fuss.
Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."
er, no.
er, no.
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’m sure churches did food banks when I was a kid but I do not recall hearing the words “food bank” until the 2010s. About three million people rely on them now and it’s not even a problem, let alone a crisis. And that’s how easy it was to just revoke your living standards, without any great fuss.
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Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
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Look at the power the lads have, when they want to use it. Look at the causes they choose to use it for. Is it any wonder (points at everything collapsing, or on fire and collapsing).
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Look at the power the lads have, when they want to use it. Look at the causes they choose to use it for. Is it any wonder (points at everything collapsing, or on fire and collapsing).
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This is why I say the British press is so much more poisonous than e.g. Fox News. Fox might be wackier and more insulting, but alternatives are available. In Britain, this is everything: all channels, all day, every day of the year. Unrelenting.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is why I say the British press is so much more poisonous than e.g. Fox News. Fox might be wackier and more insulting, but alternatives are available. In Britain, this is everything: all channels, all day, every day of the year. Unrelenting.
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The Guardian's editorial desk calling Hyde like Goldfinger calling Oddjob.
'Marina, it's time. Activate the centrist dads.'
'Marina, it's time. Activate the centrist dads.'
Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde
Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde
The Green party leader is riding high in the polls. But across the political spectrum, uncritical adulation leads nowhere fast, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Guardian's editorial desk calling Hyde like Goldfinger calling Oddjob.
'Marina, it's time. Activate the centrist dads.'
'Marina, it's time. Activate the centrist dads.'
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You feel like you’re going absolutely fucking nuts, paying close attention to events and to the way they’re covered. But it’s not you, it’s because there are tacitly agreed stories and specific goals, and reality must be forced to bend and break, to fit into these existing structures.
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
You feel like you’re going absolutely fucking nuts, paying close attention to events and to the way they’re covered. But it’s not you, it’s because there are tacitly agreed stories and specific goals, and reality must be forced to bend and break, to fit into these existing structures.
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The very sharp disjuncture between reading the executive summary of the EHRC Labour report; then reading the actual text of the Labour report, and then reading what the press were telling the public was in the EHRC Labour report. Then noting the chasm between the allegations, and what was found.
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The very sharp disjuncture between reading the executive summary of the EHRC Labour report; then reading the actual text of the Labour report, and then reading what the press were telling the public was in the EHRC Labour report. Then noting the chasm between the allegations, and what was found.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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I asked someone why bosses get 100x the pay when they don't do 100x the work.
They said 'because they take 100x the risk'.
No they don't. The point of a ltd company (a 200+ yr old innovation) separates business liability from personal to *limit* risk.
If the worker doesn't get paid, they starve.
They said 'because they take 100x the risk'.
No they don't. The point of a ltd company (a 200+ yr old innovation) separates business liability from personal to *limit* risk.
If the worker doesn't get paid, they starve.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I asked someone why bosses get 100x the pay when they don't do 100x the work.
They said 'because they take 100x the risk'.
No they don't. The point of a ltd company (a 200+ yr old innovation) separates business liability from personal to *limit* risk.
If the worker doesn't get paid, they starve.
They said 'because they take 100x the risk'.
No they don't. The point of a ltd company (a 200+ yr old innovation) separates business liability from personal to *limit* risk.
If the worker doesn't get paid, they starve.
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The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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If the whole point of the Blue Labour project was to tack rightwards in order to prove their 'electability' and 'seriousness' to the Founts of Public Opinion - but now they're still printing screeching op-eds as absurd as any under Corbyn (as we all predicted) - what was the point of the project?
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If the whole point of the Blue Labour project was to tack rightwards in order to prove their 'electability' and 'seriousness' to the Founts of Public Opinion - but now they're still printing screeching op-eds as absurd as any under Corbyn (as we all predicted) - what was the point of the project?
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Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
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I get a surprisingly large number of responses saying “This is because the public are stupid” but for real, if that was the key issue, then it wouldn’t be necessary to constantly shitehouse people with the most misleading and inflammatory messages they can get away with. There would be no need.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I get a surprisingly large number of responses saying “This is because the public are stupid” but for real, if that was the key issue, then it wouldn’t be necessary to constantly shitehouse people with the most misleading and inflammatory messages they can get away with. There would be no need.
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Labour's growing authoritarianism is deeply sinister.
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Labour's growing authoritarianism is deeply sinister.
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
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You cannot satisfy demands made to deal with 'the problems of immigration' because immigration itself does not cause these problems.
They are caused by the same people who retain power in neoliberal society: exploitative bosses, landlords, state elites enforcing austerity, etc etc.
They are caused by the same people who retain power in neoliberal society: exploitative bosses, landlords, state elites enforcing austerity, etc etc.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
You cannot satisfy demands made to deal with 'the problems of immigration' because immigration itself does not cause these problems.
They are caused by the same people who retain power in neoliberal society: exploitative bosses, landlords, state elites enforcing austerity, etc etc.
They are caused by the same people who retain power in neoliberal society: exploitative bosses, landlords, state elites enforcing austerity, etc etc.
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The single greatest evil of the last 50 years has been to frame governments instructing their own central banks to increase the supply of their own sovereign currencies as 'borrowing'.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The single greatest evil of the last 50 years has been to frame governments instructing their own central banks to increase the supply of their own sovereign currencies as 'borrowing'.
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Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
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Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
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Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power.
This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk