Naomi Smith

We talked a lot about how to deal with the UK’s NEET problem, which became incredibly topical less than a few hours later 🎧👇

There's something here about the distance between politics and experts, because it isn't as if any of us are hard to find to say this Labour Customs Union chatter is going nowhere

Let me know what you think! Hope trains behave for you

The way TikTok feeds users rightwing content discussed here. It’s just one horror on top of another.

I remain very angry that far too little research is going in to ME and post viral conditions. We are failing/abandoning millions of extremely vulnerable people who need and deserve more.
Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Listen to two people who didn’t have to do National service talking about France & Germany’s moves to reintroduce it and whether it could work here. Plus a bunch of scary stuff about right wing content on TikTok.

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Sunday School: Algorithm & Blues Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/12/2025 · 54m

🆕 SUNDAY SCHOOL: Algorithm & Blues

🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front

With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

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‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots

This has made grin, so I'm sharing it 😍 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Excited to read!

The CEO of Palantir.

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POLITICOEurope on X: "🚨 BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US could be about to “betray” Ukraine, according to a leaked transcript of a call between European leaders strategizing about how to protect Kyiv.   Read the story: https://t.co/IT5wYmacsx https://t.co/9BhiFYyTXD" / X 🚨 BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US could be about to “betray” Ukraine, according to a leaked transcript of a call between European leaders strategizing about how to protect Kyiv.   Read the story: https://t.co/IT5wYmacsx https://t.co/9BhiFYyTXD

We all know as Europe does that Trump is an unreliable ally at best, untrustworthy for sure, and working for Putin at worst. High time they negotiated SAFE access for the UK & cracked on with helping Ukraine to victory

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“I thought Gullis had already moved over to Reform. It's a bit like when somebody tells you a celebrity has died, that you assumed had died 10 years ago. You're like: God, they were still alive, were they?” @pimlicat.bsky.social

Statement on delay of Mayoral elections until 2028 I was running for Mayor because I and my Lib Dem colleagues want to get things moving: improving our environment, delivering growth, getting more affordable homes, tackling the challenges of our healt...

A good statement from Martin Tod who hoped to run in the now postponed Hampshire & Solent Mayoral race

www.martin4mayor.org.uk/news/article...

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation | Editorial Editorial: Washington’s betrayal of its allies has been averted for now, but preparations must be made for a world where its support cannot be relied on

Europe cannot rely on Trump. We must stand with Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/03/the-guardian-view-on-us-russia-talks-on-ukraine-a-warning-to-europe-to-move-faster-on-security-cooperation

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

What's past is prologue Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 04/12/2025 · 1h 10m

🆕 What's past is prologue 🆕

🇪🇺 Brexit's back alright
🗳️ lessons from 2024 GE
📰 media's Reeves derangement
🧌 Dungeons & Dragons

@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social put the world to rights.

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Always fab having Sam on the show.

We catch you up on everything eu uk related, plus the lessons from GE24 for left and right, and Alex reveals just how much of a board games nerd he was as a young thing.

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i: Russian spies secretly entering UK on cargo ships #TomorrowsPapersToday

4. If legislators are to insist on food literalism, they should at least be consistent. There's no dinosaur in turkey dinosaurs (and not much turkey). If a vegan hotdog is ruled out on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should also be ruled out, as it contains no dog. 4/6

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Our investigation is also on @itvx.com news at 10pm tonight

This work has taken months. It exposes serious flaws in our democracy. Lobbying reform needs to happen - now

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BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”

🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister

Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.

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BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”

Big story from investigative journalists just breaking. Also on ITV News at 10: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

I've no idea what he's on about. It's the difference between 100% executive power on a minority vote share versus shared power that can curb the worst authoritarian/fascist instincts.

Adding:

"Wales needs and deserves to be treated as an equal part of the UK and the UK Government has a responsibility to act to deliver this equality."

The group includes former cabinet members and senior figures in the Welsh party.

BREAKING NEWS

Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.

They say:

"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."

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Labour can either be in opposition most of the time, or the largest party in power more of the time via coalition. PLP prefers the former, the members & unions the latter.