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I should add I am making no assumptions about his immigration status, whether he proscribes any religion or his political/social views.

BBC new headline that “train hero” named as Samir Zitouni.

I wonder if any of the people who (incorrectly) jumped to assume the train knife attacker was a Muslim / immigrant will be equally quick to note the Arabic name of the train guard who heroic put his life on the line… no of course not.

I agree with your frustrations but worth considering that EVs are bigger as they need space for the batteries. So this would be (in part) a green vehicle tax

The there’s the generational divide over the meaning of “slut”. Having to explain to my Boomer mum that she shouldn’t call my messy sister one and why was a memorable conversation!

BBC headline, “landmark deal to cut global emissions in tatters after US pressure”.

C**ts. Mess up your own country, but f**k off messing with a hugely important (symbolic) climate initiative.

Is this the average a person would pay/recieve or the average society pays/receives? The latter suggesting weighting for size of population in each category - it will make a big difference as there aren’t many 90+ people.

Also possible to phrase as “lots of Reform backs don’t actually know Reform’s policies”?

Just adding the link to show this is real… www.gov.uk/government/n...

Jenrick and Badenoch this week seem to have really leant into the mission of making the Conservatives completely unelectable 👏😅🙌

I know, I know. But his defence and later claim was skin colour as a proxy for general uniformity: “We all want mixed communities”. The stats show he doesn’t see Indian, Pakistani, Caribbean, African, etc as mixed cultures. Ie only white/non white matters.

Handsworth’s ethnic mix is 25% Pakistani, 23% Indian, 10% Bangladeshi, 9% white, 8% black Caribbean, 8% Black African (and some other groups) - that is incredibly diverse (culture, religion, etc). So Jenrick *must* be meaning a shortage of white people when he says there’s insufficient diversity.

In case there is any doubt, Handsworth’s ethnic mix is 25% Pakistani, 23% Indian, 10% Bangladeshi, 9% white, 8% black Caribbean, 8% Black African (and some other groups) - ignoring skin colour that is incredibly diverse (culture, religion, etc). So he *must* be meaning non-white skin colour.

He says it’s not about skin colour but Handsworth’s ethnic mix is 25% Pakistani, 23% Indian, 10% Bangladeshi, 9% white, 8% black Caribbean, 8% Black African (and some other groups) - ignoring skin colour that is incredibly diverse (culture, religion, etc). So he *must* be meaning skin colour.

I believe this makes sense if you see it as a route to cancelling the mid-terms - can’t hold elections if you are “at war”. And that fine to your base because you also have convinced them you would have won, if they were held…

I think he’s building up the rhetoric ready to cancel the mid-terms “because America is at war” - I believe that’s the long term strategy here.

I seem to have missed the “sharp leftward turn”!

I think these poll miss the strength of feeling. A lot of people a dissatisfied with Starmer for sure but the numbers who hated Johnson and Truss were unprecedented. (Though Farage may replicate them). I don’t know, but I think this is a more mild dislike.

His equivocal position is perfectly judged. His Trump-liking supporters/financiers see nothing to worry about while other Reform-leaning voters take comfort in the lack of explicit support. Surely the trick is to push him off the fence - having no view is not good enough. Then some get upset

Staggering

Mayor Humbinger image from Nickelodeon.fandom.com

Watching the 2021 Paw Patrol movie with the kids and it seems so much darker/prescient in the era of Trump2.0…

Wow. In most places having worked for a UN Agency would be a positive. In the current USA it is a reason to overturn a green card…

It’s an own goal for Phillipson. Many Labour members are deeply upset with the leadership and this biased support makes it really, really clear how to send a protest vote.

Carol Ann Duffy poem “State/Banquet”

Carol Ann Duffy has a new poem that is pretty powerful (imo) on the hypocrisy that is playing out in the UK with Trump’s visit.

While some in the UK obsesses about immigrants attacking women/changing our culture, a 20 year old Sikh woman in the UK was raped by 2 white men and told “You don’t belong in this country, get out.” The horrific truth of some of our “defenders”. 🤬

5 million extra NHS appointments since the general election. 🙌 let’s get back to talking about policies and results.

Johnson’s tweet is so American in its language, if he actually wrote it hopefully it because he is going to focus more on the US than the UK and (fingers crossed) leave us alone.

Labour’s new plan for workers’ rights passes a milestone The Employment Rights Bill aims to reverse a generation of employment legislation. Its third reading in the House of Lords was its last major hurdle

A Labour milestone. The Employment Rights Bill clears its last major hurdle in Parliament. Labour honours it promise to restore workers rights to help make workplaces fairer.

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I’d not heard of this, interesting idea and doing something to immediately highlight and raise awareness to address fatal incidents instinctive sounds like a great idea.

Keir Starmer (and national government generally) have no role in day to day policing decisions. This is the UK not USA.

The Right (media and politicians) are really gunning for renewables, following Trump. Just to state some basic facts (disputed only by uniformed or unhinged):
- new solar and wind generation is MUCH cheaper than new gas generation (for UK)
- screwing the climate and costing more is CRAZY