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This is a very simple coordination problem.
No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary.
Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary.
Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
Apparently staying on X allows MPs 'to shape political conversation'. Not clear which one, as no examples are offered. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.
‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X?
Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk’s platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents
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December 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is a very simple coordination problem.
No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary.
Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary.
Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
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This was a summary of the Brexit damage a year ago, just a few short months after Matt Vickers’s lot got booted out of office for grenading the place.
This epic damage is down to Brexit… and the Tory party.
He should feel nothing but shame and can stop lying to us all right now.
This epic damage is down to Brexit… and the Tory party.
He should feel nothing but shame and can stop lying to us all right now.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This was a summary of the Brexit damage a year ago, just a few short months after Matt Vickers’s lot got booted out of office for grenading the place.
This epic damage is down to Brexit… and the Tory party.
He should feel nothing but shame and can stop lying to us all right now.
This epic damage is down to Brexit… and the Tory party.
He should feel nothing but shame and can stop lying to us all right now.
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Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
It’s all there: more apprenticeships, more rights for workers and renters – and most of all, a focus on children. What a shame Labour wavers about saying so, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
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This is Johnson talking about rejoining Erasmus. A programme he promised not to leave and then did so anyway. Slamming the door on opportunities for our young people. Now he talks of gunning down those who attempt to fix his ruinous mess. The man is an irredeemable wanker.
December 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is Johnson talking about rejoining Erasmus. A programme he promised not to leave and then did so anyway. Slamming the door on opportunities for our young people. Now he talks of gunning down those who attempt to fix his ruinous mess. The man is an irredeemable wanker.
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The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
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Refreshing to see that Dubai has taken out the trash and deported Tommeh Robinson😁👍🏼
Maybe they should look at Isabel Oakshott’s tweets, and the other far right grifters who hate migrants that have immigrated there..
Maybe they should look at Isabel Oakshott’s tweets, and the other far right grifters who hate migrants that have immigrated there..
Tommy Robinson Right Wing hate monger deported from Dubai over insults towards Muslims after Dubais authorities were alerted to his hate filled tweets.
Massive respect for Clifton Ty Mitchell for getting the ball roiling by confronting Tommy face to face.
Massive respect for Clifton Ty Mitchell for getting the ball roiling by confronting Tommy face to face.
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Refreshing to see that Dubai has taken out the trash and deported Tommeh Robinson😁👍🏼
Maybe they should look at Isabel Oakshott’s tweets, and the other far right grifters who hate migrants that have immigrated there..
Maybe they should look at Isabel Oakshott’s tweets, and the other far right grifters who hate migrants that have immigrated there..
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The Israeli military killed six Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Israeli military killed six Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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FFS! WTF is it going to take to get this russian fucking puppet locked up?? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social Absolute fucking joke.
FFS Farage avoids police investigation over alleged electoral law breach because too much time has passed.. yup I shit you not..
17 months is ancient for Keystone Cops in Essex.. Seems like a police force of Reform supporters
If you or I broke the law or God forbid a migrant we’d be in cuffs🤬
17 months is ancient for Keystone Cops in Essex.. Seems like a police force of Reform supporters
If you or I broke the law or God forbid a migrant we’d be in cuffs🤬
Farage avoids police investigation over alleged electoral law breach
Essex force says report falls outside timeframe for prosecution while watchdog says it is looking into claims
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
FFS! WTF is it going to take to get this russian fucking puppet locked up?? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social Absolute fucking joke.
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Ludicrous
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage avoids police investigation over alleged electoral law breach
Essex force says report falls outside timeframe for prosecution while watchdog says it is looking into claims
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ludicrous
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study.
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study.
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
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“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
Trump’s Long-Term Damage
The things we won’t be able to fix even if we wanted to.
www.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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“The democratic threat is terrifying. The time for timidity is over, for appeasing the US, for pretending Brexit can ever work – and for allowing big money into politics. For a government so low in the polls, boldness is the only way up.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump wants a Europe in chaos – a sure sign for Britain to shore up its democracy | Polly Toynbee
With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donations, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“The democratic threat is terrifying. The time for timidity is over, for appeasing the US, for pretending Brexit can ever work – and for allowing big money into politics. For a government so low in the polls, boldness is the only way up.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wow. So we're in a reality where a crony of the president and his son-in-law aligned w/financing from sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi for a hostile takeover of the company owning CNN, a major film studio and HBO. Terrible times. https://loom.ly/RE7eJuw
It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros.
David Ellison calls Netflix's $82.7 billion deal value an inferior proposal and tells Warners shareholders that his coalition promises $18 billion more in cash and backing from
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wow. So we're in a reality where a crony of the president and his son-in-law aligned w/financing from sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi for a hostile takeover of the company owning CNN, a major film studio and HBO. Terrible times. https://loom.ly/RE7eJuw
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Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance
It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech
pdjukes.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
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Hundreds of millions. Wow, that's a lot. That's more than have died in every single war combined in the entire world since 1900.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hundreds of millions. Wow, that's a lot. That's more than have died in every single war combined in the entire world since 1900.
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Protests in Falkirk started after an asylum seeker was jailed for rape. There were 82 other reports of rape or attempted rape in Falkirk that year. One of the protest organisers has convictions for violence, and another for domestic abuse
#BBCNews - An angry confrontation and online abuse: Inside the #asylum protests in a divided town
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#migration #migrants #refugees
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#migration #migrants #refugees
An angry confrontation and online abuse: Inside the asylum protests in a divided town
A Disclosure documentary uncovers the figures behind the protests around asylum hotels which have divided communities.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Protests in Falkirk started after an asylum seeker was jailed for rape. There were 82 other reports of rape or attempted rape in Falkirk that year. One of the protest organisers has convictions for violence, and another for domestic abuse
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Chris Mason sounds utterly absurd, trying to turn the screws on Rachel Reeves while acknowledging that she has done nothing that one wouldn't expect a politician to do.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Chris Mason sounds utterly absurd, trying to turn the screws on Rachel Reeves while acknowledging that she has done nothing that one wouldn't expect a politician to do.
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This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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“The heroes of the Covid story are science and the NHS (and immigration, as even Johnson attested to, given the international healthcare team who treated him for severe Covid in hospital),” writes @profdevisridhar.bsky.social. Wise words as always www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar
To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global ...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“The heroes of the Covid story are science and the NHS (and immigration, as even Johnson attested to, given the international healthcare team who treated him for severe Covid in hospital),” writes @profdevisridhar.bsky.social. Wise words as always www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.