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Socialist.
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BREAKING: Kennedy Niece Maria Shriver:

"It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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If 26 people remember your appalling racist behaviour as a schoolboy and are willing to call you out for it 50 years later you cannot simply brush it off and say it doesn't matter.

"The child is the father of the man," as William Wordsworth once put it. And this father was a nasty bullying bigot.
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Robert Reich
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Victoria Derbyshire, "The Prime Minister Keir Starmer orders a probe into foreign interference in UK politics"

Nick Watt, "It's not about saying did Russia influence the Brexit referendum"

Only Labour could run an investigation into foreign interference and ignore Russia's influence on Brexit 🤷‍♂️
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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It never ended
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Appalling 🚨💙
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
@lbc.co.uk James O'Brien. Are you aware that everyone running a business is now required to verify their identity? Photos are submitted & are then checked against passport / driving licence data. ....
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Doctors who are tasked with keeping people safe in extremely difficult circumstances have been flagging up patient safety concerns for months, and *this* is how our Health Secretary responds.

Despicable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections...

#AccountabilityIsComing
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye

Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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And there we go

Poorer households suffer more yet again

While the rich barely notice

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Income tax threshold freeze will hit poorer households harder, experts say
Move will have greater impact on living standards of taxpayers in bottom half of income scale, thinktanks say
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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As Xmas approaches, 4.3 children in the UK - almost 1 in 3 - live in poverty

In the world's 4th richest nation, this is an obscenity, and politicians who are allowing this to continue should hang their heads in shame

Always remember, maintaining poverty is a political choice
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I think most people living in the UK would be astonished to know that this country is now more wealthy than Germany, and ranked 4th in the world

The millions struggling to eat and heat will be rightly wondering, where the f*ck it is?

www.forbes.com/sites/lewisn...
The World’s 50 Richest Countries 2025
From glittering alpine lakes to the neon-lit skylines of East Asia, here are the world’s richest countries, according to UBS.
www.forbes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades.

Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee, has said that the home secretary is seeking to “use children as a weapon”.
How new asylum policies will affect child refugees
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Yes, Matt Goodwin is very, very, very racist.

Very stupid, obviously, and doesn't understand the policy, but also, very, very, very racist.

#Budget25 #bbcpm

bsky.app/profile/drje...
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.

We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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How can you have a Judge appointed by the Government be in charge of deciding Guilt in crimes against the Government?

(IE Palestine Action supporters)

This isn't justice it's BS.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM