Sir Nick

You guys wanna see a dead body 🤣💀

have written a very controversial column, in which I argue that 1) it's good that Le Pen has been barred from standing in the next election 2) it's good to celebrate that she has: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-con...

How Labour can avoid a one-term disaster: a Brexit and PR roadmap Britain is at a crossroads. The next general election may determine the fate of the country for decades to come. But Labour face a daunting…

If Labour lose GE 2029 so badly that they're not even in power as part of a coalition, they might as well shut the party down.

Nobody will forgive them for being midwives to an emboldened Tory/Reform axis.

Not when it was so eminently preventable with better choices.
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Michael Heseltine has shown time and time again he’s on the right side of history.

Brexit was sold on a bed of lies and dark money.

It is time for Keir Starmer to represent the majority by getting growth, prosperity and security back by rejoining the EU.

#Brexit

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

If Rachel Reeves were serious about growth, she would look to the EU Editorial: There is one shortcut to prosperity: reverse some of the damage of Brexit

If Rachel Reeves were serious about growth, she would look to the EU

There is one shortcut to prosperity: reverse some of the damage of Brexit

www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

If Rachel Reeves were serious about growth, she would look to the EU Editorial: There is one shortcut to prosperity: reverse some of the damage of Brexit

If Rachel Reeves were serious about growth, she would look to the EU

There is one shortcut to prosperity: reverse some of the damage of Brexit

www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

"Trump doesn’t care about taxpayers and never has; he cares only about his own image… The problem with Trump using… USAF flights for deportation purposes isn’t just that it’s outrageously expensive… other countries have… domestic laws about… foreign military aircraft in their airspace"

#r4today

Mugshots of the offenders in a Glasgow child sex abuse ring.

Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
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Speaker at the Auschwitz-Birkenau commemoration: If you truly lack memory, your enemies will design one for you.

#bbcpm

Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’ The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time. Byline Times tips its hat to Prince Harry

Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’

The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/p...

Courage begets courage.

Shame on any member of Congress who meets with a recalcitrant, pardoned seditionist. Even if they can't feel the shame, we know this can't be tolerated in a democracy.

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”

So, she took a breath, and spoke.

There'll be time tomorrow to come to terms with what's happening. Tonight I think it's best just to get quite pissed.

Teenager stabbed in transphobic attack by gang outside Harrow roller blades disco The victim suffered nine knife wounds and was subjected to transphobic slurs

In so many ways this is what anti-trans so-called "legitimate concerns" being pushed and normalised by prominent figures lead to.
Young trans people scared to be open out of fear of facing abuse in the first place, and attacks against them anyway when they are.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Big-Shot Lawyer: I Won’t Represent Meta Any More Thanks to Zuckerberg A lawyer representing the social media giant in a copyright dispute with famous writers said he could no longer “in good conscience” keep working with the company.

A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
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Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer - Politics.co.uk Ed Davey will call on the government to negotiate a new customs union with the European Union (EU) to “turbocharge our economy in the medium and long term.” Delivering his first major speech of 2025, ...

YES.

“Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer”

Many people (including me) have been warning for a long time that because of the gaping Labour vacuum around Brexit, the Tories may end up denouncing it first.

We're not there yet but we're much closer.

If the Tories do reverse-ferret Labour will end up stuck.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I couldn’t give a damn about Badenoch’s speech today. They’re out of power. 4+years from an election. Incapable of working out where they went wrong. Unapologetic for the damage they’ve done. Pathologically dishonest and very unpleasant. Nothing she says will change that. Nothing she says matters.

In 1947, America had the Hollywood Ten, who refused to cooperate with fascism.

In 2025, America will have the Hollywood Three, who will eagerly collaborate.

Bloody hell Starmer, get your head out of your arse and talk about Brexit now.

Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer - Politics.co.uk Ed Davey will call on the government to negotiate a new customs union with the European Union (EU) to “turbocharge our economy in the medium and long term.” Delivering his first major speech of 2025, ...

Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges

Let’s do it!

www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

Picture of James MacCleary MP delivering speech.

💥 It passes!! 💥

The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading.

No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down.

Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏

Much like “Labour are scrapping the bus fare cap”

No, it was due to end this year, Labour are actually extending it (although it is rising to £3)

If our press actually did their jobs instead of shilling for the Tories then the national anxiety level would be cut in half.

A brilliant reception for the launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Europe with the @europeanmovent.co.uk providing the secretariat.
Delighted to be a vice chair & look forward to participating in a new forum for debate in Parliament on our crucial future relationship with Europe.