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Here mainly for international news. Disheartened by the rise of evil in middle earth.

I quit Amazon, Apple was never my thing and de-google as much as possible.

Union member. PhD. NHS.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Minority may be, it's not common sense
December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Blue racist anti-immigration Labour has many spiritual fathers, any loud-mouthed cringe white supremacist and intolerant bigot. Their extreme voices are so rare that they cultivate their precious.

Making up that anybody gets offended by Sikhs being Sikhs at work is dystopian
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Welcoming refugees in need is beneficial for the economy if they are allowed to work. It works like regeneration. It has happened in Germany especially in small towns. Spain and Portugal are also good examples. England is so full of itself that it misses a great opportunity
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“Staggeringly, Brooks found “no records of any individuals travelling by small boat to claim asylum in 2017 or before” – not one case.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Before Brexit there was no small boats crisis: more proof that leaving the EU made everything worse | Jonathan Freedland
Keir Starmer insists there’s no case for rejoining. But his migration plan and other desperate Tory fixes merely seek to repair the damage, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is not going to work but he can have Hungary
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“The evidence on being “happy” is even worse for Americans (they are ranked 24th by Gallup) and even better for Europeans (four of the top five happiest nations in the world seem to be in the EU, and the fifth is Iceland).”

theconversation.com/europe-must-...
Europe must reject Trump’s nonsense accusations of ‘civilizational erasure’ – but it urgently needs a strategy of its own
The US is wrong to try to impose its worldview on Europe – but it has been able to do so because European leaders don’t have a strategy of their own.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Demise of the Trump administration by court refusals was not in my forecast.
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
How can starmer/Labour kid themselves so badly? He has lost his base, there is no ring they can win in.

I don't think they are on Bluesky, not in touch. Probably still hanging on xitter
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For it to be so ingrained in a 9yr olds brain at adult age it must have been truly terrifying.
A 17 year old bullying a 9 year old speaks volumes about the vileness of Farage

Dulwich College has failed all children apart from its worst bully.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
These types are past their peak. Just showing their ignorance of the economic impact of Brexit on the UK. Nothing has become better, migration got worse.
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM