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JF
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teacher, cat person, never a tory
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New analysis by the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700. /4
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If Labour abolish most trials by jury, and a future Reform government then takes us out of the ECHR, we'll end up in an incredibly scary place because we'll be at the whim of a handful of people.

(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
If you don’t see this trio of dictators, as a huge problem, why?
They are out to destroy human rights and anything that gets in their way to enrich themselves. They are all war criminals. The world will never be the same if we let them win.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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 9:26 AM
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
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 10:28 AM
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⚠️BE WARNED. Charter cities are coming to Brexit ravaged UK, this was the whole reason why the Tories' and Labour colluded on installing deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Suffolk's Forest City and the Ghost of Próspera: Why Britain Should Learn From Honduras
What happens when libertarian billionaires build “startup cities” promising prosperity but delivering corporate sovereignty? Ask the fishermen of Crawfish Rock.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I mean I’m so glad you have private healthcare and were obviously seen really quickly but PLEASE, don’t you fucking dare start talking about ‘targeted screening or other fast track treatments’ when your austerity has caused the mess the NHS is in.
David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and calls for targeted screening
Former prime minister says he wants to join ranks of those pressing for more checks on men who may have disease
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"The point of the Inquiry was to learn lessons. Are we learning those lessons? Reports come out, they make headlines, people get very angry, but is any money or resource going into systems' reform and preparedness for the next pandemic or the next whatever?"
💒 NEW Sunday School: Backing The USSR 🕵️‍♂️

🇺🇦 Ukraine "peace" plan
🫠 MAGA's Epstein meltdown
🙋🏼‍♂️ Farage's nazi past
⚖️ Reform's Russian bribes

AND

🦠 The Covid Inquiry Report

With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1dZQ...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Backing the USSR + Covid Inquiry Report
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 23/11/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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
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“The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.….Brexit”
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Too late. No one trusts you anymore. Your xenophobic madness has set things up for the fascists once they take over. Like a useful idiot, you've made it easy for them, laying the foundations for unprecedented cruelty, pain and suffering by doing Farage's work for him!
#RedReform 🔴🔵
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Johnson spent years charming, bluffing, and backstabbing his way to the top.

Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...

And thousands died.

@noosphere.app

www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
Boris Johnson: The Covid Tragedy and England's Clown King
Get news direct from reporters you trust.
www.noosphere.app
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Brexit has left us economically weaker, more isolated, and in the position of taking rules instead of shaping them. To restore our prosperity and global influence through shared sovereignty, we need to #RejoinEU
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.

Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Nathan Gill sentenced to 10.5 years for taking bribes to promote Russian talking points (something Farage apparently did for free).

Judge notes "grave betrayal of the trust placed in you by the electorate".

Good to see at least one far-right Reform crook held to account.
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Promoted, like so many of them, way above his capabilities. A country where going to the right school and having a posh accent, is enough to get you into no.10, is not a serious country.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.

A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.

And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM