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Are you fucking kidding me? He wanted to leave! He provided fuck all opposition to Brexit.

This is no better than Reform promising mad shit but the difference is, unlike JC, Reform can win, even under FPTP but especially with the emergence of Corbyn’s party.

He just keeps helping Farage.

Hi @sfrost.bsky.social

Westminster by a summer's night

Had a lovely afternoon tea. It wasn't cheap and the bill included a "discretionary service charge of 15%". When paying the bill there was the suggestion of a tip. When did we turn into fucking America, and since when were we expected to tip twice.?

The ITV documentary about Lucy Letby is very good. Old school, public interest broadcasting which assumes the intelligence and the conscience of its audience. Anyone with the slightest interest in the case should watch it.

All Together Now? One Man’s Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England – review Mike Carter retraces a jobs march undertaken by his communist father in the 80s in this powerful portrait of a country in crisis

Can I recommend All Together Now. It's about the People's March for Jobs and.... other stuff www.theguardian.com/books/2019/j...

Mission creep, cost, safety, there are so many reasons why the ID card route is really, really stupid @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2004/05/05/c...

A fascinating thread with lots of food for thought

You know what, one like, one opinion about elections (or related).

Good thread. The 'Freemen of the Land' comparison, which hadn't occurred to me, is, sadly, apposite. The wider issue is that a minority amongst erstwhile 'remainers' still refuses to accept that the British polity qua polity (in the most general sense & with all its flaws) did Brexit to itself. 1/2

So this is how democracies drift into dictatorship.

The organs of state nod along. The satirists crack jokes and do no more. The press and other appeasers simply turn a blind eye. The people... for the most part... just groan & let it happen.

And very soon the future is no more.

There was no plot against Brexiter Corbyn. He took himself down by being an unelectable, incompetent, desperately stupid disastrous disaster socialist and friend of anti semites everywhere. Stop this crap

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.

We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.

New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

As someone that advised on EU law & dealt with the EU during part of my professional life knowledge about what the EU is, why it exists & how it functions is woefully poor in the UK. This is, of course, ultimately a failure of the UK education system.

A favourite memory from #RideLondon

The radicalisation spiral Why does it happen and can it be stopped?

New post:

"The Radicalisation Spiral"

Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it?

With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

At some point the stock markets are going to work out that Donald Trump and his gang of fascist imbeciles are financially illiterate crooks. Was this the week they sussed it out?

I'm telling you, that party is evil

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

What to make of Trump's attempts to charge Obama with treason? A typically Trumpian exaggeration is a crude attempt to distract from the Epstein scandal, but underlying it all are Trump's fears over the 2016 election

open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Missing #RideLondon this year

It's decades of short sighted stupidity @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social

NB Anthony Seldon is a pompous arse

An excellent thread laying bare the almost criminal neglect of language learning by successive UK governments.

‘Global Britain’ my arse.

This is a video of a bear on a trampoline. Whatever argument you may or may not have tonight is invalid.

Danke!

New report shows a catastrophic decline in formal language learning - HEPI A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, The Languages Crisis: Arresting decline by Megan Bowler (HEPI Report 192), sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big drop in formal language learning....

You can read up on where we are now. TL:DR language learning is a fucking disaster area www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...

There is also considerable damage to the goal of opportunities for all. If you go to a private school you are far more likely to learn foreign languages www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magaz...

Slump in modern languages threatens economy and national security The decline in pupils studying a foreign language is bad for them — and bad for Britain

And that knock on effect is causing real damage to the UK. www.thetimes.com/uk/article/w...

‘It’s a vicious circle’: The British Academy responds to news that 60% of English schools find it difficult to hire qualified language teachers - Language Trends Survey 2024 The British Academy has responded to the British Council’s annual Language Trends report, which reveals that 60% of schools in England have faced challenges hiring qualified language teachers.

And now we have, since #Brexit, "Global Britain". Or Global Britain my arse, and only if Jonny Foreigner speaks English. Because we have got worse at languages and there is a knock on effect www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/vicious...