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Mark Jones
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OU philosophy graduate, ACA
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Can we adjust the bubbles to show who the real snowflakes are?
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The news from Italy was sufficient for me to convince my bosses to lockdown before the official lockdown - how could Government have ignored it?
The spread of the virus globally and, in particular, the escalating crisis in Italy were clear warning signs, which should have prompted urgent planning across the four nations. Instead, the governments did not take the pandemic seriously enough until it was too late. February 2020 was a lost month.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Labour have lost more voters to DKs, Greens and LibDems than to Reform 👇

Labour at the Margin...
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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"The Brexiter argument always rested on a fundamentally contradictory conceit: (i) that the EU had become a massive part of our politics, our economy and our lives (true) and (ii) that it would be easy to leave and straightforward to do so without a deal, therefore meaning our leverage was strong (untrue)."
May 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Everything Simon Wren-Lewis says in this seems so obvious it's baffling that Starmer cannot see it 👇
The possible death of the Conservative party is such a momentous milestone in UK politics that you would think the other main traditional UK party, Labour, would be doing everything they could not to make the same mistakes. Yet incredibly Labour seem to have decided to follow much the same strategy that failed the Conservative government so badly. They too are employing rhetoric and making policy that says Farage is right about small boats and immigration. This is alienating parts of their core vote just as the Conservatives alienated its southern heartlands.
May 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Key point 👇
Bluntly, why would other countries want to get closer to, let alone ‘stand should to shoulder with’, a Britain making weaselly deals with Trump even as Trump punishes their economies and even threatens their territory? In the process, any political kudos Starmer has garnered, both domestically and internationally, for his post-Trump leadership on defending Ukraine from Russian military warfare may quickly be lost if he is unwilling to defend the UK and its allies from US economic warfare.
April 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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God, if only someone in the Labour administration could remember this👇
March 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Excellent post. Improper balance is something that the BBC have been guilty of many times, and this despite a critical report by Steve Jones into the BBC's science coverage back in 2011. Key paragraph:
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Wikipedia has an excellent discussion of Hitler's possible monorchism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Liz Truss wants everyone to know she didn't crash the economy
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM