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James Connelly
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Emeritus Prof, Hull. Writing Collingwood bio / Philosophical Idealism, Environmental politics & ethics, Elections/electoral systems / /[email protected] / https://hull.academia.edu/JamesConnelly / https://www.minstersrail.com .. more

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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 1d
Strong "COVID infection rates won't go up if you just don't report them" vibes.
Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years
Public opinion polling agency says decision ‘solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities’
www.theguardian.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.
www.democracydocket.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d
No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d
🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American.

States that joined after Puerto Rico:
• Oklahoma — 1907
• New Mexico — 1912
• Arizona — 1912
• Alaska — 1959
• Hawaii — 1959

Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 3d
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense. They're more productive being with other fellow human beings"

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3d
The tiring thing about telling the truth to power is that they have the power innit

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 4d
Britain's security services have wised up to the risks from climate change to food security. When will the British government? My latest article for the Yorkshire Post
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
British security services are warning about supply of food, we need to treat farmers fairly - Andy Brown
There are a lot of very serious issues for the British security services to worry about right now. They include cyber attacks and deliberate attempts at political interference from Putin’s mobsters, t...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d
The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4d
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 4d
Bad Bunny has more rushing yards than either team so far

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 4d
Amid another wave of Trump lies about 2020 election, note today's analysis from elections security expert David Becker on Face the Nation

“Not only are our elections not rigged, they're as transparent, verifiable and secure as they’ve ever been, whether you like the outcome or not"

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 4d
"Utterly disgusting by this Govt."
via Protect the Wild

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 4d
"Reform producing a fake letter in Gorton & Denton is not a mistake. They did exactly the same thing in Caerphilly last year. This is a pattern, not a slip up, and it tells you everything about how the party operates when it thinks no one is watching closely enough."
www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst...
Truth Against Hate
Reform producing a fake letter in Gorton and Denton is not a mistake. They did exactly the same thing in Caerphilly last year. This is a pattern, not a slip up, and it tells you everything about how.....
www.facebook.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d
🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial

As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads

🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/
Drowning in Denial – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 5d
😅🤣

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d
Reform UK will face a police investigation in Gorton and Denton after admitting it sent out letters from a “concerned neighbour” which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters
Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party
www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 5d
Why do we keep repeating lies before refuting them? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/word...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d
Why Nigel Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage’s Epstein Hypocrisy
The Reform leader's own connections to the Jeffrey Epstein story are far deeper than he now pretends
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6d
George Monbiot"William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 6d
I edited this beautiful new issue of Bergsoniana. All issues including this one are available in open access here: journals.openedition.org/bergsoniana/...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7d
Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign"

Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

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James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social · 7d
In the 1930s students and dons referred to Wodehouse enthusiasts (including themselves) as xylodomists. A hybrid Greek-Latin word and thus not for the purist who dislikes the word television. But a good word.

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James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social · 7d
My simple rules for contemporary politics: 1) whatever the issue, the answer is not racism, or sexism, or hate ... 2) there are never simple issues to complex problems.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 8d
Matt is a genius:

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 8d
Huge surges in support for @greenparty.org.uk as activists volunteer in droves to campaign for a better future. Bland centrist politics has failed.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Green surge shows British politics has reached a turning point - and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski | Aditya Chakrabortty
At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8d
Ahhh … finally got it. NHS on the bus stood not for National Health Service but Nigel’s Hate Scheme.
therejoineuparty.com The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 9d
🤢 FIVE WINNERS. MILLIONS LOSERS.

🚨Brexit beneficiaries:
Johnson - PM
Farage - fame
Putin - a weaker UK
Epstein - ???
Steve Bannon - Far right Growth

Everyone else got higher prices, fewer rights, and a divided country.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 8d
Lord Mandelson‘s career as British ambassador to the United States.
Appointed because he was good at sucking up to rich and powerful Americans.
Sacked because he was good at sucking up to rich and powerful Americans.
Ends.