I don't disagree with you at all but some leadership would help, don't you think? What do you think it will take to fix this?
13.09.2025 21:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@dsabato.bsky.social
Deputy Head (Academic), History and Politics teacher, sports fan, long suffering Leeds United supporter
I don't disagree with you at all but some leadership would help, don't you think? What do you think it will take to fix this?
13.09.2025 21:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Genuine question though, Sam, where is Starmer on this? Comms are his and his team's weakness, but the silence is deafening.
13.09.2025 21:18 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Utterly ridiculous decision making by the BBC. Who got paid to organise this?
20.07.2025 08:09 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Way to engage teenagers in politics @bbclaurak.bsky.social. The week the govt announce plans to extend the vote the best they can do for their panel is 4 middle aged white men (including Farage again, no Greens)
20.07.2025 08:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Agreed. It's what he's looking for.
14.06.2025 18:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He's not even close to the truth. 3 people crossed the border, 99.999% drop in border crossings, no inflation?!
13.05.2025 15:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One ship heading to the USA from China... $564 million in goods, $417 million in new tariffs on those goods.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Edu-oligarchs? In what sense? And why? No one forced her decision on Ofsted, it was tin-eared.
05.05.2025 09:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You need to go through the back catalogue. Cricket did it for me, baby race is another tear jerker.
05.05.2025 08:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Which one was it? There are so many that'll do this to you. It's joyous but man they can pull on the heartstrings
04.05.2025 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not sure I agree. These teams have a spell of 3 or 4 games, then fall back, it can't be sustained.
26.04.2025 19:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The White House Twitter accountβs dishonest & hideous doctoring of a New York Times front page describing Senator Chris Van Hollenβs meeting with a wrongly deported man with no criminal record.
The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out βanti-wokeβ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.
18.04.2025 19:10 β π 6828 π 1428 π¬ 284 π 73Senator Chris Van Hollen is on his way to El Salvador to discuss bringing Kilmar Abrgeo Garcia back home.
16.04.2025 11:13 β π 10239 π 1564 π¬ 477 π 132Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriorsβ win tonight: βYes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.β
16.04.2025 07:09 β π 66684 π 11442 π¬ 1120 π 1048Market manipulation
09.04.2025 17:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 090 day pause on tariffs... what happened to bringing the factories back to America?
09.04.2025 17:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
02.04.2025 01:09 β π 136264 π 20234 π¬ 10614 π 1608BTW let's just be clear that these numbers are utterly made up, adding in all sorts of random stuff. By these calculations the EU charges the US 4x the tariffs that Brazil does. Not "reciprocal" in any way whatsoever.
02.04.2025 20:35 β π 621 π 177 π¬ 14 π 13The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
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One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trumpβs treatment of Zelenskyy.
βIt made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.β
π¨ BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterdayβs meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacationβonly to be met by hundreds of furious protesters.
Couldnβt have happened to a better guy!
Class from Starmer
01.03.2025 21:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
28.02.2025 19:31 β π 23252 π 5815 π¬ 442 π 280Buyer's remorse, only one month in.
20.02.2025 09:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Where are the Democrats here?! Where are the moderate Republicans? Obama? Clinton? Anyone?
19.02.2025 22:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0True colours firmly on show here.
20.01.2025 21:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just started reading this too. It's brilliant. Jones is an exceptionally good historical writer.
17.12.2024 06:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Only just breaking on BBC, why the delay?
17.11.2024 08:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Creating a starter pack gives serious energy. I just wouldn't dare.
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