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Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
There's still room to drop further. "Trump’s handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling" apnews.com/article/trum...
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
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This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
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Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
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Lady in pink who speaks English as her third language
Says the statement from Reform UK's Nigel Farage criticising English as a second language for school children is "bang out of order"
"Because you don't need English as your first language to communicate" #BBCQT
Says the statement from Reform UK's Nigel Farage criticising English as a second language for school children is "bang out of order"
"Because you don't need English as your first language to communicate" #BBCQT
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Lady in pink who speaks English as her third language
Says the statement from Reform UK's Nigel Farage criticising English as a second language for school children is "bang out of order"
"Because you don't need English as your first language to communicate" #BBCQT
Says the statement from Reform UK's Nigel Farage criticising English as a second language for school children is "bang out of order"
"Because you don't need English as your first language to communicate" #BBCQT
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If you going to write about the Farage school stuff you would surely, at the most basic minimum, actually read the stories about it.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
If you going to write about the Farage school stuff you would surely, at the most basic minimum, actually read the stories about it.
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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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I knew Philp was an oleaginous bastard but not that he was quite this much of a fool.
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I knew Philp was an oleaginous bastard but not that he was quite this much of a fool.
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My guess is that it's partly due to people having been waiting so long that they have a wider range of problems (but I might just think that because that's what happened to me).
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My guess is that it's partly due to people having been waiting so long that they have a wider range of problems (but I might just think that because that's what happened to me).
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Very helpful thread on why waiting lists aren't falling much despite a lot more appointments being offered.
NEW: Hospital productivity growth is beating the government’s targets. So why hasn't the NHS made more progress on cutting elective waiting times?
In a new @theifs.bsky.social comment, we examine what’s driving the divergence between two of the government’s biggest NHS priorities.
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In a new @theifs.bsky.social comment, we examine what’s driving the divergence between two of the government’s biggest NHS priorities.
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NEW: Strong productivity growth and increasing funding has meant English hospitals have been delivering much more elective (pre-planned) care.
So why isn't the waiting list going down more quickly?
🧵 @maxwarner.bsky.social and Olly Harvey-Rich examine what's going on:
So why isn't the waiting list going down more quickly?
🧵 @maxwarner.bsky.social and Olly Harvey-Rich examine what's going on:
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Very helpful thread on why waiting lists aren't falling much despite a lot more appointments being offered.
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There's a campaign for FIFA's ethics committee to investigate and I'm sure that's not in any way an oxymoron.
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a campaign for FIFA's ethics committee to investigate and I'm sure that's not in any way an oxymoron.
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Just seen an article on BBC Sport suggesting that Trump's FIFA peace prize award may have been in someway corrupt. And I am shocked to my core.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just seen an article on BBC Sport suggesting that Trump's FIFA peace prize award may have been in someway corrupt. And I am shocked to my core.
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Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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New post out from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"The enemy within"
On Trump's mad national security strategy, what it means in practice, and how Europe should respond.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...
"The enemy within"
On Trump's mad national security strategy, what it means in practice, and how Europe should respond.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...
The enemy within
How Europe should respond to Trump's National Security Strategy
samf.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New post out from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"The enemy within"
On Trump's mad national security strategy, what it means in practice, and how Europe should respond.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...
"The enemy within"
On Trump's mad national security strategy, what it means in practice, and how Europe should respond.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...
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Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
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A little signal that Trump's powers to control his party through bullying are waning.
BREAKING:
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A little signal that Trump's powers to control his party through bullying are waning.
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Yep it's all starting to fall apart.
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Yep it's all starting to fall apart.
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Lots of this about: see also the briefings against Mike Johnson, the number of congressional retirements, members of the house GOP agitating for the release of the Venezuela boat strike etc. There's also going to be a hell of a fight about the possibility of ending the Obamacare subsidies.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Lots of this about: see also the briefings against Mike Johnson, the number of congressional retirements, members of the house GOP agitating for the release of the Venezuela boat strike etc. There's also going to be a hell of a fight about the possibility of ending the Obamacare subsidies.
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Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT
"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT
"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
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Nigel Farage’s former school says allegations that the Reform UK leader made racist and antisemitic remarks about fellow pupils are “profoundly distressing”
Nigel Farage’s old school says racism allegations are ‘distressing’
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Nigel Farage’s former school says allegations that the Reform UK leader made racist and antisemitic remarks about fellow pupils are “profoundly distressing”
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Of course he does. It’s what his Leader Ian Cooper did before he was sacked…
Councillor denies making racist TikTok comments
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tick tock Chris Large. ⏰
Councillor denies making racist TikTok comments
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tick tock Chris Large. ⏰
Staffordshire councillor denies making racist TikTok comments - BBC News
Reform UK said it was not taking any action against Chris Large over the TikTok account in his name.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Of course he does. It’s what his Leader Ian Cooper did before he was sacked…
Councillor denies making racist TikTok comments
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tick tock Chris Large. ⏰
Councillor denies making racist TikTok comments
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tick tock Chris Large. ⏰
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President Trump, "Without us there is no world. Without the US economy there is no world. One of the reasons other countries great, we allowed them"
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
President Trump, "Without us there is no world. Without the US economy there is no world. One of the reasons other countries great, we allowed them"
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Thanks to everyone (especially @adambarnett.bsky.social) for the suggestions. There were so many pro-Putin statements by Farage, we turned them into a Griftmas Advent Calendar bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thanks to everyone (especially @adambarnett.bsky.social) for the suggestions. There were so many pro-Putin statements by Farage, we turned them into a Griftmas Advent Calendar bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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Thousands of people are in hospital with the new and dangerous strain, and health bosses fear this may turn into the worst flu season on record
Should I get an NHS flu jab because of the H3N2 strain?
Thousands of people are in hospital with the new and dangerous strain, and health bosses fear this may turn into the worst flu season on record
www.thetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thousands of people are in hospital with the new and dangerous strain, and health bosses fear this may turn into the worst flu season on record
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Thanks to everyone (especially @adambarnett.bsky.social) for the suggestions. There were so many pro-Putin statements by Farage, we turned them into a Griftmas Advent Calendar bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM