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Once more into the breach... The right wing press is, as should be expected, furious that the UK is not invading Iran, or rescuing tax dodgers from the Gulf or sending in the gunboats or some such.

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03.03.2026 08:51 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill

💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform

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🌹 #Labour4PR

02.03.2026 22:53 — 👍 85 🔁 53 💬 4 📌 4

Rouge male Rogue Male is an excellent British thriller about a posh English gent who tries to assassinate Hitler.

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02.03.2026 09:14 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The time bomb Having torn up a treaty with Iran, then “destroyed” its nuclear weapons programme and then demanding a new identical treaty with Iran, Trump has now launched an all out attack on Iran, with Israeli su...

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28.02.2026 08:32 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

A death sentence So the by-election results are in and as predicted the headlines are that this is a disaster for Labour, which it is.

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27.02.2026 07:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

A simple solution I always find it a bit cynical when parties like the Greens and the Lib Dems ask for Labour to stand aside so that they can beat the Tories or Reform.

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26.02.2026 07:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

AI and the future I am giving a talk at a school on the world of work today.

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25.02.2026 07:58 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The future is orange As someone said on social media, watching Lord Mandelson being arrested is the greatest thing they have seen since Margaret Thatcher was driven away from Downing Street in tears.

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24.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Delusions I only know of two films about ice hockey.

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21.02.2026 06:28 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

"C'est unique au monde, nous sommes les seuls à pouvoir le faire": comment la SNCF prolonge la vie de ses TGV afin de répondre au besoin croissant de trains BFM Business a eu l'occasion de visiter le technicentre du Landy, près de Paris, où des TGV en fin de vie, normalement voués à la casse, sont remis à niveau pour être utilisés encore plusieurs années ...

This SNCF exceptionalism 🤦‍♂️

"C'est unique au monde, nous sommes les seuls à pouvoir le faire": comment la SNCF prolonge la vie de ses TGV

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EVERY railway has programmes to do this. DB is extending the life of ICE1 series by 10 years!

20.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 54 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1

On the map I got a little depressed the other day because of a map.

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20.02.2026 07:08 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Happy endings? As more and more money and more and more power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of the ultra wealthy, you have to ask yourself, “ How do they think this is going to end?”

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