Alex
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Andy Burnham has so far
✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec
✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres
✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide
✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter
✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec
✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres
✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide
✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter
The thing about this is I don’t really care about who we listen to per se, it can be from any region.
Just please drop the social conservatism and stop trying to slash welfare. If it’s going to circle back to that stuff I don’t want to hear it, I’ve heard enough
Just please drop the social conservatism and stop trying to slash welfare. If it’s going to circle back to that stuff I don’t want to hear it, I’ve heard enough
EXC: Andy Burnham says Westminster has failed Northern towns for decades
*Says many MPs couldn't find Makerfield on map
*Vows to unite “too factional” Labour party
*Says by-election will shape UK for years
*Warns Britain risks US style division
*Joined on doorstep by Steve Coogan
shorturl.at/9eqdZ
*Says many MPs couldn't find Makerfield on map
*Vows to unite “too factional” Labour party
*Says by-election will shape UK for years
*Warns Britain risks US style division
*Joined on doorstep by Steve Coogan
shorturl.at/9eqdZ
June 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Andy Burnham has so far
✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec
✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres
✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide
✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter
✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec
✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres
✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide
✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter
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Analytically, this is why it's important to consistently talk about the political media class, to treat them as a single ecosystem of shared & mutually reinforcing interests, rather than as members of different parties & discreet professions that also overlap or interact
June 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Analytically, this is why it's important to consistently talk about the political media class, to treat them as a single ecosystem of shared & mutually reinforcing interests, rather than as members of different parties & discreet professions that also overlap or interact
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Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea.
But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
May 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea.
But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
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Incidentally, to do this would require rejecting the authority of the European Court of Human Rights, abandoning the human rights framework established in the wake of the holocaust, ripping up international treaties, and the UK becoming a hellhole, pariah state on the level of Russia or Belarus.
Article from a prominent GC campaigner in The Critic today, decrying the guidance for not going far enough:
"The only thing that will reverse the state we are in is to overturn the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove “Gender Reassignment” as a protected category in the Equality Act."
"The only thing that will reverse the state we are in is to overturn the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove “Gender Reassignment” as a protected category in the Equality Act."
May 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Incidentally, to do this would require rejecting the authority of the European Court of Human Rights, abandoning the human rights framework established in the wake of the holocaust, ripping up international treaties, and the UK becoming a hellhole, pariah state on the level of Russia or Belarus.
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Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham
"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!
Change to Rowing Clubs' Rules of Racing for transgender athletes sparks backlash - Cherwell
A change to Oxford University Rowing Clubs’ (OURCs) Rules of Racing means that only athletes assigned female at birth may now row in a Women’s boat.
cherwell.org
May 26, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham
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A mere ten years after this was absolutely obvious to the point of undeniable. Ten years pissed away by Britain’s Sensible Moderates on an insanely destructive, self-indulgent temper tantrum, because the public won’t agree they’re special golden boys and girls who deserve treats and applause.
May 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
A mere ten years after this was absolutely obvious to the point of undeniable. Ten years pissed away by Britain’s Sensible Moderates on an insanely destructive, self-indulgent temper tantrum, because the public won’t agree they’re special golden boys and girls who deserve treats and applause.
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It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!!
May 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!!
But if you vote Green you'll let Reform in....
May 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
But if you vote Green you'll let Reform in....
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I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed
May 7, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed
I can't get over how nakedly Islamophobic this is. I mean, The Spectator is trash but this is....
March 26, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I can't get over how nakedly Islamophobic this is. I mean, The Spectator is trash but this is....
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As Homer put it the better part of 3,000 years ago, the blade itself incites to deeds of violence; if you put these guys anywhere, they're going to brutalize people, because they're lazy, stupid thugs and that's what they've been hired to do
March 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
As Homer put it the better part of 3,000 years ago, the blade itself incites to deeds of violence; if you put these guys anywhere, they're going to brutalize people, because they're lazy, stupid thugs and that's what they've been hired to do
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Well, I think that says it more eloquently than I ever could.
March 20, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Well, I think that says it more eloquently than I ever could.
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A quick reminder of Starmer's leadership pledge number 4.
March 21, 2026 at 8:59 AM
A quick reminder of Starmer's leadership pledge number 4.
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Oh no, my magic beans
March 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Oh no, my magic beans
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It cannot be emphasized enough, the notion that the states of the imperial core care about human rights in the global South is an extraordinary farce. They are quite happy to produce open-air slave markets in a failed state if it suits their interests.
March 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
It cannot be emphasized enough, the notion that the states of the imperial core care about human rights in the global South is an extraordinary farce. They are quite happy to produce open-air slave markets in a failed state if it suits their interests.
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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
March 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
March 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
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A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
March 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.
Mahmood says that Labour has made refugee protection temporary, because "the intention of the 1951 convention" is that refugee protection should be a "shelter from the storm" and "safe haven" until it is safe to go home.
March 5, 2026 at 11:37 AM
This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.
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Welcome to the Museum of Thatcherism! I’m afraid we’ve had to increase prices for tickets and refreshments again, sorry, but it’s “what the market will bear”, isn’t it. You can purchase tickets to use the gender-policed toilets by downloading this data-scraping app
March 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Welcome to the Museum of Thatcherism! I’m afraid we’ve had to increase prices for tickets and refreshments again, sorry, but it’s “what the market will bear”, isn’t it. You can purchase tickets to use the gender-policed toilets by downloading this data-scraping app
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That seems pretty suboptimal
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
jonathanlarsen.substack.com
March 3, 2026 at 3:18 AM
That seems pretty suboptimal
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I love how the main impact of the internet on government seems to be to enable them to offload bureaucratic bullshit onto the general public, and this is mis-sold to us as "cutting red tape".
No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people.
No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people.
March 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I love how the main impact of the internet on government seems to be to enable them to offload bureaucratic bullshit onto the general public, and this is mis-sold to us as "cutting red tape".
No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people.
No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people.