Jeremy Bate

I thought Lewis was good. These are the questions that Zack is going to have to deal with, and I thought Zack did well: gave good, reasoned, answers, didn't get flustered or tetchy, and stayed calm and friendly. Respect.

YouTube video by LBC 'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

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We all live in hope that one of the mainstream media might pick this up and run with it. But I’m not holding my breath.

The undoubted Russian links, and his continual lies about them, could be a real Achilles heel for Farage with the people floating around the outer edges of the Reform cult.

There are plenty of ways to humanely control British borders. So why isn’t Keir Starmer using them? | Enver Solomon Labour’s incoherent asylum policies are vilifying refugees. A better and more compassionate route is possible, says the Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon

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Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

What leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would really mean Kemi Badenoch takes the wrong side in a historic struggle

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Why We Need to Talk About Englishness English identity is not something to be afraid of or suppressed within the notion of ‘Britain’ – but to be valued and explored, writes Caroline Lucas

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 impeccable coordination!

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Another Angry Voice (@anotherangryvoice) Nobody is banning you from flying the British or English flag. Nobody is trying to take away your bacon; force you to eat sourdough if you don't like it; banning you from drinking cow's milk; or stop...

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No Boris Johnson, Charlie Kirk did not represent "common sense" His murder was a tragedy. Yet it was politicised by his own side instantly. The reaction revealed much.

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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk Political Violence Doesn't Stay Contained. It Cascades - and Democracy Pays the Price

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“Big” is a weird word Etymology and the limits of explanation

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"Yield, man!" Another dark moment in United States law and policy

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What Banksy's RCJ mural maybe gets wrong Judges are not to blame for the protest laws promoted by the executive and passed by parliament and implemented by the police and prosecuted by the Crown

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She was the last: Penguin starvation crisis sparks call for emergency fishing ban The fate of the hoiho - among the world’s rarest penguin species - rests with two ministers.

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death.

She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony.

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Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be) Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”

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I did!

Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens | George Monbiot By caving to the hard right and corporate greed, Labour has left a gaping hole the new Green party leader is best placed to fill, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Steve, you are the exemplar of niche - respect🤟

Martin Davies (@martindavies631844)

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Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago?

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Politics and story-telling A short essay for an English bank holiday

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What Trump Doesn’t Understand About ‘America First’ It’s time for Europe and the United States to accept how different they actually are.

The Trump administration “should cease believing that ‘America First’ must be ‘America Everywhere,’” @nickclegg argues. “And Europeans should stop moping about the fact that the U.S. has chosen a very different trajectory driven by a different worldview.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

On the recognition of Palestine A close look at an unconvincing letter from "distinguished" UK lawyers

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Alexander Verbeek (@theplanet) Stunning 3D chalk illusions.

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This.

Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.