We talked a lot about how to deal with the UKโs NEET problem, which became incredibly topical less than a few hours later ๐ง๐
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We talked a lot about how to deal with the UKโs NEET problem, which became incredibly topical less than a few hours later ๐ง๐
08.12.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There'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
08.12.2025 08:22 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Let me know what you think! Hope trains behave for you
07.12.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The way TikTok feeds users rightwing content discussed here. Itโs just one horror on top of another.
07.12.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I 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 didnโt have to do National service talking about France & Germanyโs 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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๐ SUNDAY SCHOOL: Algorithm & Blues
๐ How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
๐ช National service in France, Germany... and UK?
๐งบ Good news on the laundry front
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
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This has made grin, so I'm sharing it ๐ @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Excited to read!
06.12.2025 00:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The CEO of Palantir.
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05.12.2025 08:54 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We 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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โI 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?โ @pimlicat.bsky.social
04.12.2025 11:32 โ ๐ 64 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1A good statement from Martin Tod who hoped to run in the now postponed Hampshire & Solent Mayoral race
www.martin4mayor.org.uk/news/article...
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.
04.12.2025 09:57 โ ๐ 758 ๐ 180 ๐ฌ 51 ๐ 7๐ What's past is prologue ๐
๐ช๐บ Brexit's back alright
๐ณ๏ธ lessons from 2024 GE
๐ฐ media's Reeves derangement
๐ง 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
03.12.2025 21:44 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 44. 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
03.12.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 475 ๐ 57 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 6Our 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
Follow Democracy for Sale to get all these stories, and support our work democracyforsale.substack.com
๐ด 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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03.12.2025 21:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Big story from investigative journalists just breaking. Also on ITV News at 10: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
03.12.2025 21:53 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2Pleased 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
03.12.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 1972 ๐ 565 ๐ฌ 43 ๐ 18I'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.
03.12.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Adding:
"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.
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