Digitalis
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Can't do where and were. Sorry!
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Quite remarkable to see how many in Starmer's party are so trapped in a kind of Corbyn era PTSD that they can't grasp the kind of serious challenge the Greens represent rather than the 1980s flashback caricature of what Starmerites think the Left always will be.
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Quite remarkable to see how many in Starmer's party are so trapped in a kind of Corbyn era PTSD that they can't grasp the kind of serious challenge the Greens represent rather than the 1980s flashback caricature of what Starmerites think the Left always will be.
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The sheer laziness is one of the things that bothers me most about the style of column writing Phillips embodies.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The sheer laziness is one of the things that bothers me most about the style of column writing Phillips embodies.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
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“Russia wishes us harm and is working in a very organised way to inflict damage”
There’s been a lot of recent Russia-UK news - from spy submarines to the Salisbury inquiry.
So I asked someone who’s been tracking what’s going on why Russia has singled us out
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
There’s been a lot of recent Russia-UK news - from spy submarines to the Salisbury inquiry.
So I asked someone who’s been tracking what’s going on why Russia has singled us out
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Russia has made Britain its number one enemy
Ex-Nato official John Lough on how the UK is being “singled out” for Russian aggression
www.newstatesman.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“Russia wishes us harm and is working in a very organised way to inflict damage”
There’s been a lot of recent Russia-UK news - from spy submarines to the Salisbury inquiry.
So I asked someone who’s been tracking what’s going on why Russia has singled us out
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
There’s been a lot of recent Russia-UK news - from spy submarines to the Salisbury inquiry.
So I asked someone who’s been tracking what’s going on why Russia has singled us out
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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I refer to this a lot but it is, I feel, the British version of “everyone is 12” - at the end of Arthur Smith’s play An Evening with Gary Lineker, one of the main characters says to Angelic Gary “cigarettes are good for you now, aren’t they Gary?” and Gary nods wisely and that’s this, isn’t it?
I don’t get how Jenrick can actually believe that we should shrink the population and then start making more of our own things from pots and pans to what iPhones? How does he think that happens?
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I refer to this a lot but it is, I feel, the British version of “everyone is 12” - at the end of Arthur Smith’s play An Evening with Gary Lineker, one of the main characters says to Angelic Gary “cigarettes are good for you now, aren’t they Gary?” and Gary nods wisely and that’s this, isn’t it?
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
What is progressive Mr Labour? What is progressive????
However, I reiterate the original and main point I made which is if Digital ID can help reduce illegal work then that is a good thing.
And it is not progressive to lose control of who is entitled to be and work here.
And it is not progressive to lose control of who is entitled to be and work here.
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What is progressive Mr Labour? What is progressive????
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The quote tweets on this are yet another 'fun' datapoint in how badly the UK's cordon sanitaire has been eroded over the past year.
“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” A right-wing populist Reform UK government, however, “is a different proposition”.
Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer
Britain’s prime minister understands the size of the moment. He just does not know how to meet it
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The quote tweets on this are yet another 'fun' datapoint in how badly the UK's cordon sanitaire has been eroded over the past year.
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I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
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The Kemoi Badenoch energy that radiates off these anti-Reeves articles shows just how much having a figure who isn't a fucking clown as Opposition Leader actually matters - a principle that R Beloved Fourth Estate really cared about from 2015-2024 but mysteriously gave up on for some reason
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Kemoi Badenoch energy that radiates off these anti-Reeves articles shows just how much having a figure who isn't a fucking clown as Opposition Leader actually matters - a principle that R Beloved Fourth Estate really cared about from 2015-2024 but mysteriously gave up on for some reason
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Surely you’d type this number, this initial line, and you’d think “hang on a moment, what on earth am I claiming here?”
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Surely you’d type this number, this initial line, and you’d think “hang on a moment, what on earth am I claiming here?”
This is a stain that will not wash out @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is a stain that will not wash out @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Trans people are being systematically driven out of public life in the UK, and the labour government is doing nothing. Bright spots like @sarahowen.org.uk aside, party is the most civilly illiberal of my lifetime.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Trans people are being systematically driven out of public life in the UK, and the labour government is doing nothing. Bright spots like @sarahowen.org.uk aside, party is the most civilly illiberal of my lifetime.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
How to improve your car export numbers to Europe.
lol it's just "big truck big".
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
Trump to address White House at 2:00 pm ET Tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
How to improve your car export numbers to Europe.
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Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Pay for the country, get nothing out of it, and now get slagged off for it on top.
At this event Andrew Griffith (shadow business secretary) has gone all Maurice Glassman and slagged off the "lanyard classes", meaning in this case civil servants. MPs, like everyone in parliament, wear lanyards - apart from a handful who arrogantly assume everyone should just recognise them*.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Pay for the country, get nothing out of it, and now get slagged off for it on top.
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Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd
Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
Anyone else in Glasgow having an internet outage ?
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Anyone else in Glasgow having an internet outage ?
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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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It is really remarkable that this was just 12 months ago today. And that we woke up this morning to a country which will finally get rid of the two-child limit. The parents and carers we work with have been instrumental along with others especially @cpaguk.bsky.social in making this change happen.
A year ago today I joined some of the incredible @changingrealities.bsky.social parents at Downing Street who shared what changes are needed to end child poverty - incl why the two-child limit must be scrapped. It’s brilliant to see yesterday’s announcement after so much hard work from so many.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It is really remarkable that this was just 12 months ago today. And that we woke up this morning to a country which will finally get rid of the two-child limit. The parents and carers we work with have been instrumental along with others especially @cpaguk.bsky.social in making this change happen.
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Wake up to 400 emails on how I can hide my money from the Chancellor and, as ever, it's good to see the generous, warm-hearted, UK press in action.
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wake up to 400 emails on how I can hide my money from the Chancellor and, as ever, it's good to see the generous, warm-hearted, UK press in action.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
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if this finally happens - at fucking last
💥 Govt says fuel duty to *go up* from next September.
In the past the OBR has assumed that fuel duty would start to rise after a one-year freeze.
This time, the govt has said explicitly that it will only be frozen for five months, and will start increasing it after that.
In the past the OBR has assumed that fuel duty would start to rise after a one-year freeze.
This time, the govt has said explicitly that it will only be frozen for five months, and will start increasing it after that.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
if this finally happens - at fucking last