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Javier Durán @tortondo.bsky.social · 3h

Como destrozar a tu rival político con solo 2 palabras:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h

One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?

Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office

Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration

www.ft.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 3h

Poor old Alberto!

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 3h

The poisonous Robert Jenrick absolutely and inarguably nailed by @stephenkb.bsky.social. Shame on all those inside the Tory party and beyond who make excuses for his race-baiting.

Good morning. The big story of the final days of Conservative party conference has been provided by Robert Jenrick, who complained of not seeing a single white face while spending an hour and a half in Birmingham.

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 3h

Sánchez isn't Cicero but he's very good indeed at replies in parliamentary debates, watch to the end if you don't understand Spanish you'll get the point. I'll explain in the next tweet

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Feijóo cita a Sánchez en la comisión del ‘caso Koldo’ del Senado y este le responde: “Ánimo, Alberto”

El líder del PP anuncia que llamará al presidente a comparecer este octubre. El jefe del Gobierno contrapone sus medidas en Sanidad y sobre el aborto con la mala gestión de comunidades del PP

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 3h

That is magnificent!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 4h

"We have only a few years to save the West and we must do these by preventing the widespread study of Western literature, thought and art. I am right-wing." Thank-you for attending my TED Talk.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 4h

What are the Western values the people advocating closing down our universities and the study of thought, literature, language, art and history believe in?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

It is hard to overstate the total inadequacy of these portly men with guns.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6h

"The very people who pledged that Brexit would result in surging levels of non-white immigration, now froth with rage that their promise came true." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

open.substack.com

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

That's linked to point 1

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

I learned all the skills that have served me well for 35 years of working life studying medieval English history at university. I helped build what is now a very big British business on the back of them. Training people to think critically, analyse evidence and present arguments is never a waste.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

The relentless short-termism and stupidity that pervades our politics can be attributed to three things, IMO:
1. Politicians and broadcasters believing the right wing press speaks for England.
2. The Westminster bubble.
3. Our electoral system.
They are all very closely linked.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7h

The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

At 61, me and her are among the youngest people in Sidders.

Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 7h

Sidmouth, Devon which has the highest number of over 90's as a proportion of the British population with 6% of people over age 90 & 22% over age 80. 👇
BBC News - 'Thriving not just surviving' in over-90s capital
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Thriving not surviving' in Sidmouth Britain's over-90s capital

Sidmouth has the highest rate of over 90s in Britain but what is the town's draw for nonagenarians?

www.bbc.com

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 16h

The state knows what is best for your kids. The Tories have travelled a long way very quickly.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17h

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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