The reason you don't give in to bullies is because they'll never finish bullying you. At some point you end up having to say 'enough' anyway so do it earlier rather than later.
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My latest.
Wow 10% solar on this bright and beautiful Christmas morning
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
In which @sturdyalex.bsky.social and I discuss how ancient Britons went about inventing law and democracy.
A public information thread.
Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why.
And nice enough help from nurses, builders etc
US heads towards the Civil War. In a c one month. Trump either has to back the civil war, or back down.
Red states occupying a blue city
“A staff mutiny forced the management of a plush British countryside pub to turn away JD Vance, just weeks after the same venue hosted Kamala Harris… the staff reportedly staged a mutiny, telling management that they wouldn’t show up to work if the venue accepted Vance’s dinner booking”
Government has got this spectacularly wrong.
If an organisation is breaking the law, prosecute it.
But arresting people for holding up signs is a waste of police time, it's increasing support for the organisation &, above all, it's a flagrant violation of free speech.
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Reform still soaking up the White Working Class vote all over in council by-elections.
The danger for other parties - and the rest of us - is that it’s increasingly being seen as the only authentic voice for that community.
Interesting discussion here with @columnist.bsky.social on law and literature
NEW
What makes a legal person?
If invisible corporations and inanimate objects can be legal persons, so can rivers and animals
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Agree from LiH
1/ - Trade Policy in 2025 -
Step 1. Donald Trump invents threatened new tariff rates on your country based on some combination of the trade balance, vibes, personal grievance, vibes, how much he likes you, vibes, or a Peter Navarro formula so stupid it made Lesotho enemy #1.
Also vibes.
In 2016 Trump took the slow road. Still didn’t work either way. Force is the only option Trump has.
Shut Grok down!
Commit to a functioning reporting system! (It is a legal duty, but one currently observed only in the breach)
Somebody wake up the regulators so that we can start to uphold the rule of law in this country.
Make Twitter Lawful Again!
Nick Timothy here, still making inflammatory falsehoods about migration
Kemi Badenoch believes everybody's identity is assigned at birth, and nobody should be able to change how they self-identify later in life.
Except for her, of course.
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Racism, and particularly the institutional kind is horrible and frustrating.
That said, neither me nor my son would be where we are today without the love and support of many of the white folks we've had in our lives. From family to teachers to friends.
Racists don't speak for them. 🧵
Or Boris. Who would choose that one?
Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.
Key point over Millei
Very interesting for Badenoch to choose this look https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4yj3rpjm8o
Labour will face two ethno nationalist, climate change denying, anti-human rights, isolationist parties at the next election. The character of modern Britain could alter radically in the 2030s.
Don't see how the Epstein thing can end in anything other than disaster for Trump. He's spent a decade building a conspiratorial pyre on which to torch others, only for it to go up in his own face.