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"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
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Shameful.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
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Shameful.
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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If you read anything today, please make it this excellent piece. Racism & nativism are catastrophic & must be defeated if we’re to avoid disaster. Voluntary migration is great & makes a better world for us all. Expand free movement wherever possible. We have to stop apologising & go on the attack.
"Go to any small town, in the US, UK, or EU, listen to young people there and you’ll hear talk of 'getting out.' If that is what they want, they should be free to make a go of it. Free movement with other countries increases their choices in doing so." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If you read anything today, please make it this excellent piece. Racism & nativism are catastrophic & must be defeated if we’re to avoid disaster. Voluntary migration is great & makes a better world for us all. Expand free movement wherever possible. We have to stop apologising & go on the attack.
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fascinating watching people who celebrated the rise to power of an ex-human rights lawyer, as a sign that sensible, law-based politics had returned, now making excuses for their man’s refusal to uphold international law
January 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Fascinating watching people who celebrated the rise to power of an ex-human rights lawyer, as a sign that sensible, law-based politics had returned, now making excuses for their man’s refusal to uphold international law
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Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical.
It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.
And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.
And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical.
It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.
And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.
And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
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this goes for his voters, it goes for powerful businessmen and women, it goes for congressional republicans, and it goes for international actors, without exception, the single most predictable outcome of making a deal with trump is that he'll renege on it, and yet it's been happening for decades
January 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
this goes for his voters, it goes for powerful businessmen and women, it goes for congressional republicans, and it goes for international actors, without exception, the single most predictable outcome of making a deal with trump is that he'll renege on it, and yet it's been happening for decades
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People are talking a lot about Iraq but I worry the better comparison is Libya.
Western Elites promised positive outcomes for Iraq and in a really warped way tried to deliver and got lots of criticism for it.
They promised nothing about Libya and utterly destroyed and it's barely a footnote.
Western Elites promised positive outcomes for Iraq and in a really warped way tried to deliver and got lots of criticism for it.
They promised nothing about Libya and utterly destroyed and it's barely a footnote.
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
People are talking a lot about Iraq but I worry the better comparison is Libya.
Western Elites promised positive outcomes for Iraq and in a really warped way tried to deliver and got lots of criticism for it.
They promised nothing about Libya and utterly destroyed and it's barely a footnote.
Western Elites promised positive outcomes for Iraq and in a really warped way tried to deliver and got lots of criticism for it.
They promised nothing about Libya and utterly destroyed and it's barely a footnote.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Rules-Based international order.
a man is smiling with the words if the rule you followed brought you to this
Alt: a man is smiling with the words if the rule you followed brought you to this What use was the rule? This is the character Anton from no country for Old men. An embodiment of pure evil who is objectively correct here.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Rules-Based international order.
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Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
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"A chickenpox vaccination programme is beginning across the UK, and will be offered alongside the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab, in an immunisation called MMRV."
The Times article say experts are hopeful they can end the disease in a decade.
The Times article say experts are hopeful they can end the disease in a decade.
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 AM
"A chickenpox vaccination programme is beginning across the UK, and will be offered alongside the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab, in an immunisation called MMRV."
The Times article say experts are hopeful they can end the disease in a decade.
The Times article say experts are hopeful they can end the disease in a decade.
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Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.
An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.
January 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.
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there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
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Just saw someone call AI the most important technology of the last 20 years, and man, we cured AIDS. We cured Sickle Cell. Those are technological miracles. The fucking economy killing lying machine that happily makes CSAM doesn't even crack the top 1000.
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Just saw someone call AI the most important technology of the last 20 years, and man, we cured AIDS. We cured Sickle Cell. Those are technological miracles. The fucking economy killing lying machine that happily makes CSAM doesn't even crack the top 1000.
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together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?
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Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
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This is it!
Falling for reactionary BS about "free speech" has led us to basic rights being actually threatened and removed
They never wanted debate or discussion, their point was always about putting the very humanity of marginalised communities back in the balance
Falling for reactionary BS about "free speech" has led us to basic rights being actually threatened and removed
They never wanted debate or discussion, their point was always about putting the very humanity of marginalised communities back in the balance
This kind of legal action against universities will chill the free speech of all who advocate for the rights of minoritised peoples. This was the bill’s intent. Lobbyists are already using it to shut down speech they don’t like.
Unless universities stand up strongly for ALL freedom of expression…
Unless universities stand up strongly for ALL freedom of expression…
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is it!
Falling for reactionary BS about "free speech" has led us to basic rights being actually threatened and removed
They never wanted debate or discussion, their point was always about putting the very humanity of marginalised communities back in the balance
Falling for reactionary BS about "free speech" has led us to basic rights being actually threatened and removed
They never wanted debate or discussion, their point was always about putting the very humanity of marginalised communities back in the balance
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Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
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There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.
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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.
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I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
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December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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If my organization had no space for the fundamental decency of Robin Ince then I would probably start asking deeply searching questions about the goals of that organization.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If my organization had no space for the fundamental decency of Robin Ince then I would probably start asking deeply searching questions about the goals of that organization.
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Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...