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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK.
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK.
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Never forget who Nigel Farage is.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Never forget who Nigel Farage is.
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It seems increasingly clear that the plan is to shut down as many hospital departments as possible, send patients home and roll out new privately run hubs with less NHS oversight than ever. While oceans of public money goes to private banks and private healthcare.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It seems increasingly clear that the plan is to shut down as many hospital departments as possible, send patients home and roll out new privately run hubs with less NHS oversight than ever. While oceans of public money goes to private banks and private healthcare.
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"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
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Robert de Niro, "Trump doesn't understand humanity.. He has no empathy.. He wants to hurt this country.. To hurt people"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Robert de Niro, "Trump doesn't understand humanity.. He has no empathy.. He wants to hurt this country.. To hurt people"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
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The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
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• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
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Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
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What did I tell you?
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What did I tell you?
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Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
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Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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Anti-ICE commercial from Women's March
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anti-ICE commercial from Women's March
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Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
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‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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This retweet is something else
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This retweet is something else
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Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
Met Police Urged to Launch Investigation Into Boris Johnson For Covid Misconduct
Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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Substitute 'Corbyn' for 'Farage'
and the proof of Farage's antisemitism
would be headline news
on every TV channel
& newspaper in the UK
every day
for months on end
and the proof of Farage's antisemitism
would be headline news
on every TV channel
& newspaper in the UK
every day
for months on end
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Substitute 'Corbyn' for 'Farage'
and the proof of Farage's antisemitism
would be headline news
on every TV channel
& newspaper in the UK
every day
for months on end
and the proof of Farage's antisemitism
would be headline news
on every TV channel
& newspaper in the UK
every day
for months on end
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To be clear the Labour party just took £20bn out of the education budget in a lightly understood transfer of the hole in special needs funding to the education department without the funding.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Warning of £20bn timebomb as Reeves switches Send funding in England to education department
Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
To be clear the Labour party just took £20bn out of the education budget in a lightly understood transfer of the hole in special needs funding to the education department without the funding.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Reeves: "... one of the main reasons children end up in hospital is because they are poor"
So why didn't you scrap the cap 16 months ago? Instead you deliberately chose to keep hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty & you've only scrapped it now because you've been forced to
So why didn't you scrap the cap 16 months ago? Instead you deliberately chose to keep hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty & you've only scrapped it now because you've been forced to
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reeves: "... one of the main reasons children end up in hospital is because they are poor"
So why didn't you scrap the cap 16 months ago? Instead you deliberately chose to keep hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty & you've only scrapped it now because you've been forced to
So why didn't you scrap the cap 16 months ago? Instead you deliberately chose to keep hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty & you've only scrapped it now because you've been forced to
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Reeves' defensive crouch has defined her economic policy. Just try not to upset anyone, close your eyes and hope for the best.
inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...
inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reeves' defensive crouch has defined her economic policy. Just try not to upset anyone, close your eyes and hope for the best.
inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...
inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...