Hilary

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Cornwall Reform UK councillor resigns from party Councillor Rowland O'Connor says he will sit as an independent after

One Reform Councillor has finally given his head a wobble...

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Sorry Tories, after the shitshow of the last fourteen years, the corruption over VIP lane for ppe, the merry go round of prime minister, the joke that was Johnson and Truss, you don't get to wave it away with "we made some mistakes but look at our new policies".

One big Q Nobody asked: “Will you or your family benefit financially from the Gaza rebuild?” (Spoiler: of course they will)

Asking about Kushner was the closest they came👇🏽

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

It may not solve all of problems currently facing the world, but I think we can all agree that bringing back gargoyles, mixtapes, and handwritten letters with wax seals would be an important first step.

Just in from BBC News:
Ex-PM Sunak joins Microsoft and AI firm as paid advisor
Summary: The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments...
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‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥

#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.

His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.

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Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Who could have predicted this could happen? You know apart from absolutely everyone.

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

If you want to abolish a tax on poor people you cut VAT.

If you want to abolish a tax that is almost entirely on Multimillionaires you cut Stamp Duty.

Please, please, please, don't be too stupid to understand this.

Pakistan has launched two missiles at Kabul, Afghanistan. The target was a vehicle believed to belong to Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

“Compared with the kids who run foreign policy in this country, I've more respect for Putin than our lot.”

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

Was out early the other morning and passed a battered blue transit van parked up by a field, clearly releasing pheasants to be shot by arseholes. How the fuck is this not illegal, purely for the danger to drivers from the suddenly homeless and confused birds running onto 60mph roads?

The Tories are heading towards extinction because once you've fed voters with enough far-right poison, they vote for the real fascists, not your pale copy. They vote for the leaders, not the Tory followers scrabbling along after them.

You defeat fascism by fighting it, relentlessly, tooth and nail.

RFK Jr now making a connection between circumcision and autism. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Fuck me, America.
You're perilously close to the stage where your government will burn a woman as a witch if they think she weighs the same as a duck...

🚨BREAKING: Belgian federal authorities have arrested three young suspects in connection with what prosecutors said was an attempted terrorist attack on the country’s politicians, including Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

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Exclusive: ‘The Penguin Lessons' author accused of historic sexual abuse Survivors call on Lionsgate to withdraw Steve Coogan film adaptation and for film royalties to be donated to charities, writes Cathy Newman.

Exclusive: A Channel 4 News investigation reveals shocking allegations the author of The Penguin Lessons - a memoir turned into a hit film starring Steve Coogan - abused boys at a school in Dorset in the 1970s

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I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Seems legit.

Problem is that now that America is a post-democracy oligarchy, it doesn’t matter if policies are unpopular

Reminder that the best defence against authoritarianism is ALWAYS absurdism. It doesn’t matter how natty your jackboots are, nobody looks scary when oppressing Creatures.

I would say this…

But this podcast is a must-listen to understand what happened at Conservative Party conference and whether Kemi Badenoch’s stamp duty plan adds up

Properly insightful analysis from ace @instituteforgovernment.org.uk colleagues and @patrick-pme.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers