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@senseichanning at that other place. Professional Gambler. Can be found at www.bettingemporium.com and on Racing TV.
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Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".

Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The whole turkey pardon thing has always been a sick joke but this
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Our campaign was anchored in the voices of struggling New Yorkers. Yesterday, we brought those voices straight to the Oval Office. We made clear that housing, safety, and lower costs are what New Yorkers need and what our administration will deliver.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Glasman has such a sepia-tinted view of class, and zero ability to recognise the way economy and society has changed - in good and bad ways. Precarity, the new working class - there is lots of good thinking about this. To call him a third-rate theorist would be an insult to third-rate theorists.
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Successive UK govts have failed to achieve sustainable economic growth because of:

Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment

When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
House of Lords Economy Debate 13 Nov 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.

A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Reeves expected to reveal cut in UK growth forecasts for next 5 yrs.

Can't get sustained economic growth:
16m live in poverty.
24m live below socially acceptable living standards.
Real average wage unchanged since 2008.
4.5m get less than living wage.
Regressive taxation.
Profiteering unchecked.
Reeves expected to reveal cut in growth forecasts for next five years in budget
OBR has reportedly downgraded predictions after review that blames lack of investment under Tories
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Landlords are allowing precarious, uninhabitable living conditions right across the UK — but as an assertive local fightback by tenants in Manchester shows, major victories can be won through collective action.
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Landlords are allowing precarious, uninhabitable living conditions right across the UK — but as an assertive local fightback by tenants in Manchester shows, major victories can be won through collecti...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves hints at welfare cuts.

Why do govts not cut corporate welfare?

Subsidies for auto, steel, oil, gas, biomass, internet, shipbuilding and others, without any equity stake.

Profiteering by energy, water, phone, house builders, care home, dental care companies.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves hints at more welfare cuts after previous rebellion - but authority on shaky ground
The government's earlier efforts to reform welfare and save £5bn ended in an inglorious failure.
news.sky.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"I think we need to be talking about the food on the table, the heat in our homes, and yes....the means of production."

We are building a socialist alternative to establishment politics.

Help us do it.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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‘Is there anything we can do to alleviate flash flooding?’

Lots - & it’s good to see @floodmary.bsky.social talking here about working with nature, reducing paved areas & rain gardens

But we also need land use change across whole catchments - more trees, restored peat
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is there anything we can do to alleviate flash floods in the West Midlands
Experts say housebuilding and concrete drives are making floods worse, but that there are things we can do.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists
Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Thousands died.

Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.

He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.

Will he be held to account,?
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.

Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.

Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The old Labour right and blue Labour are not the same thing. Blue Labour is doomed to fail precisely because it is not an authentic working class movement or outlook - it’s a think tank project gone weird led by a literal professor…
October 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.

He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body .

Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.

Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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UK Budget – is this the end of democracy? youtu.be/g0lEbH2kEw8
UK Budget – The End of Democracy?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Since I was elected leader of the Green Party, 100,000 new people have joined.

In just over two months:

170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.

This is only the beginning.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times.

People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🌹🚨 New episode of the Labour Left podcast out now!

Momentum Vice Chair @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social sits down with Labour MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social to discuss fighting racism within Parliament, her recent campaign for Deputy Leader - and more!

Don't miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lo...
Bell Ribeiro-Addy Interview Labour left Podcast
YouTube video by Labour Left Podcast | @BrynHGriffiths
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM