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Manchester City, charged with breaking Premier League financial and other rules for about a decade, have managed to commit more than 300 million pounds on new players since January. While the club denies the allegations, this thing has been hanging around now for seven years. Not a good look.
June 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Manchester City, charged with breaking Premier League financial and other rules for about a decade, have managed to commit more than 300 million pounds on new players since January. While the club denies the allegations, this thing has been hanging around now for seven years. Not a good look.
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The results were never impressive and often plain wrong, but there was a chance it could put millions out of work, so we destroyed the planet.
June 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The results were never impressive and often plain wrong, but there was a chance it could put millions out of work, so we destroyed the planet.
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“The children of Gaza need protection,” Unicef said. “They need food, water and medicine. They need a ceasefire. But more than anything, they need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
One afternoon in Gaza, two family tragedies: the childhoods cut short by Israeli airstrikes
Relatives’ trauma over events of 23 May reflects a daily reality in Gaza: the killing and maiming of its youngest citizens
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“The children of Gaza need protection,” Unicef said. “They need food, water and medicine. They need a ceasefire. But more than anything, they need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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It never left us.
May 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It never left us.
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Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.
ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky
Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament
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May 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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Strong FT editorial on much of the world’s shameful silence on Gaza, even as Netanyahu threatens to escalate Israel’s offensive. on.ft.com/433Mp02
May 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Strong FT editorial on much of the world’s shameful silence on Gaza, even as Netanyahu threatens to escalate Israel’s offensive. on.ft.com/433Mp02
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Once you've reduced immigration, closed some universities, accepted Brexit is permanent and told everyone how patriotic you are - what then?
How are you growing the economy? Improving public services? Reducing poverty? Etc etc...
How are you growing the economy? Improving public services? Reducing poverty? Etc etc...
May 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Once you've reduced immigration, closed some universities, accepted Brexit is permanent and told everyone how patriotic you are - what then?
How are you growing the economy? Improving public services? Reducing poverty? Etc etc...
How are you growing the economy? Improving public services? Reducing poverty? Etc etc...
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I like this thread.
As I've said before, everything about current British politics can be summed up by 'the (electoral) beatings will continue until morale improves'.
May 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I like this thread.
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They literally gave him a red Sith lightsaber!
May 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
They literally gave him a red Sith lightsaber!
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The previous two generations of my family stayed in Uganda and fought and they got caught up in two successive genocides as a result, the second genocide being even worse than the first, so I sympathise with this professor.
This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
May 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The previous two generations of my family stayed in Uganda and fought and they got caught up in two successive genocides as a result, the second genocide being even worse than the first, so I sympathise with this professor.
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As the years go by, it does look more and more like the main long-term political consequence of Brexit will be to kill the Conservative Party.
May 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
As the years go by, it does look more and more like the main long-term political consequence of Brexit will be to kill the Conservative Party.
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I'd like to wish Dame Andrea Jenkyns all the luck in the world explaining to Lincolnshire why it doesn't need seasonal immigrant labour and climate change isn't real
May 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I'd like to wish Dame Andrea Jenkyns all the luck in the world explaining to Lincolnshire why it doesn't need seasonal immigrant labour and climate change isn't real
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It's infuriating how much more honest and direct people abroad can be about the blindingly obvious effects of Brexit, while UK commentators continue to tap-dance around the issues.
Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy.
"When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA
"When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's infuriating how much more honest and direct people abroad can be about the blindingly obvious effects of Brexit, while UK commentators continue to tap-dance around the issues.
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A Labour party totally unwilling to make the simple argument: "What do you prefer, places for your kids, large numbers of jobs, and local economic uplift with our internationally renowned universities, or forcing out British-educated immigrants because racism and burning it all to the ground?"
April 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A Labour party totally unwilling to make the simple argument: "What do you prefer, places for your kids, large numbers of jobs, and local economic uplift with our internationally renowned universities, or forcing out British-educated immigrants because racism and burning it all to the ground?"
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Britain permanently weakened itself strategically, put an axe through its most important trading relationships, gutted the City of London and disrupted the lives and opportunities of millions to satisfy this guy, and it's still not enough. It will never be enough.
Farage:
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
April 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Britain permanently weakened itself strategically, put an axe through its most important trading relationships, gutted the City of London and disrupted the lives and opportunities of millions to satisfy this guy, and it's still not enough. It will never be enough.
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.
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On the Kherson-Kramatorsk train, a 57-year-old Ukrainian soldier cradles a cat in his arms and falls asleep.
He’s carrying it to a family in Kyiv. For a brief moment, there is no war - just warmth, quiet, and the steady hum of the train.
Photo: Khrystyna Bondarenko
He’s carrying it to a family in Kyiv. For a brief moment, there is no war - just warmth, quiet, and the steady hum of the train.
Photo: Khrystyna Bondarenko
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
On the Kherson-Kramatorsk train, a 57-year-old Ukrainian soldier cradles a cat in his arms and falls asleep.
He’s carrying it to a family in Kyiv. For a brief moment, there is no war - just warmth, quiet, and the steady hum of the train.
Photo: Khrystyna Bondarenko
He’s carrying it to a family in Kyiv. For a brief moment, there is no war - just warmth, quiet, and the steady hum of the train.
Photo: Khrystyna Bondarenko
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This is the window in which to explain that the twin threats of Trump and Putin now mean we must pivot back to the EU. If you explain people will understand.
April 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the window in which to explain that the twin threats of Trump and Putin now mean we must pivot back to the EU. If you explain people will understand.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.