If English people want to fight Farage and the menace of nationalism then they could do worse than embrace all the many good things about England.

#StGeorgesDay

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I respect other people's rights to hold such religious beliefs as the wish. But the idea that a Syrian soldier in the Roman army who died 1800 years ago now lives in Heaven and intercedes with God on England's behalf strikes me as potentially somewhat farfetched.

Once you understand that the government isn’t working for the rich and entitled any more, all the media (owned by the rich and entitled) coverage makes complete sense.

Don't know if this was deliberate by Labour but an unusually brilliant move if so: the row will bring the PPB (and the remarks) to a much bigger audience than it would otherwise hit. And they can still run the "uncensored" ad online.

How Corruption Got Legalized in America (and What We Can Do About It) YouTube video by Robert Reich

For decades, rich and powerful interests and their right-wing political allies have been executing a secret plot to buy our political system — and it may get a whole lot worse.

@davidsirota.com reveals the full story of how we got here, and what we can do to get out of it.

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The cult of personality is very weird (esp. Corbyn) - like you I try to take a balanced view & don’t expect ‘perfection’ from public figures.

There seems to be two camps in accounts I interact with here; anti-Starmer & pro-Starmer. I'm in neither. When he's good IMO, I say so & when he's bad, I call it. Like all of us, he has good and bad traits so in my view it's a false dichotomy to be always pro or anti. Plus He's better than any Tory

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Anyway, Happy St George's Day to all who celebrate.

I've been thinking about English things I love, and as it coincides with Shakespeare's purported birthday (and death day), here's the sweet spot.

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Olly Robbins's revelations are a dangerous moment for Keir Starmer Drawing a line under Lord Mandelson's appointment is proving impossible for the prime minister.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is Henry Zeffman, the chief political correspondent of the BBC Politics team, in the pay of the Tory party or is he simply following the orders of his boss Robbie Gibb? There probably has been a version of the evidence given by a version of Robbins ... 1/8

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU It’s almost poetic that the loudest voices now decrying Britain’s immigration numbers are the same ones who fought hardest for Brexit.

Their outrage misses a fundamental truth that too few people grasped at the time: when we were in the EU, we actually had a far better handle on migration than we do now.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/did-...

Glory days!

Push for EU membership to galvanise progressive support, report argues A new report by Best for Britain shows that a push for UK membership of the European Union would galvanise support among progressive voters. The report highlights that a pro-membership position offers...

Labour should “push for EU membership to galvanise progressive support”, report argues :
www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_...

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Farage urged to act against candidates with racist, misogynistic and homophobic views Exclusive: Despite the pledge to employ the best vetting system in British politics, some Reform UK candidates have been condemned for their ‘grotesque views’ posted online

“Reform plagued by vetting issues”
Candidates found to have “grotesque” views.

Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it.
It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform.
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Used up:
* 45% of Precision Strike Missiles
* 50% of THAAD interceptors
* 50% of Patriot air defence missiles
* Tomahawks and long-range missiles down by 20–30%

This creates a “near-term risk” for any conflict with a major power like China.

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"Asked why New Zealand does not suffer from the rage of older white men like in other western Anglo countries, PM Jacinda Adern replied, 'Because we've never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here The guy has wreaked havoc on civil society in (the) US," a tweet re-shared on

She's not wrong!

"We accidentally made an animated graphic for Reform and then did a party political broadcast for them by mistake."

I hope the takeover of InfoWars by @theonion.com and @timheidecker.bsky.social that resulted from the bankruptcy brought on by Alex Jones’ evil attacks on the victims of Sandy Hook brings you as much joy as it does me.

Hot Type: 'False Prophets Are Making False Messiahs Out of Tyrants' After 'Trump Jesus' and J D Vance 'popesplaining' the theory of a just war to the Pontiff, Heidi Siegmund Cuda interviews Dr Matthew Taylor on defying the real 'antichrists' of Christian supremacy

Have a read of this. Subscribe to @bylinetimes.bsky.social and its supplement if you don't already. It's one of the few sources of news you can truly trust and it's only £45 ish per year.

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Well that’ll be Brexit. And rightwingers being told by their money men that there’d be votes in it for them.

Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump.
It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both.
And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good.

Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes.
Just get your shit together.

Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely

Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!

No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...

Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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Voters want a Brexit U-turn, Starmer needs be bolder, says UK's top pollster Labour should end its 'strategy of silence' on Europe if it wants to revive its fortunes Sir John Curtice said

👏 Neil Kinnock: “The special relationship has to ultimately mean rejoining the European Union – or to be more accurate and forward-looking in a changed and changing Europe, it has to mean joining again.”

How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems t...

This is such an insightful, wide ranging and ultimately hopeful interview with @quinnslobodian.com

How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds

With Matt Gallagher on @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Our new report finds that Brits support rejoining the EU.👏🇪🇺

Read more here: https://www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_membership

Similarly, historians will retch at Zelensky’s treatment in the Oval Office & beyond. We all moved on to the next abomination without even stopping for sandwiches…

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

Good move!

And can I just add… No one at Palantir seems to be able to read or write.

“We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism”

Take out the vapid tautologies and you get:

“We must resist pluralism”

Great tell.