His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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And this is apparently controversial!? It is indeed good news, I’m hoping the tide is turning and safety and fairness for women starts to become more important
This!! MSM need to actually start interrogating their policies and not just immigration, if we can see that is what’s needed, why can’t journos? 🙄
I swear by loaf sofas, looking forward to seeing the finished beauty!
That was my take? For the sake of queer media! The write up about LGBTQ journalists facing more abuse seems disconnected from the headline and related sexual misconduct issues? That could be a fair assessment and something to focus on but this wrongly conflates the two in my opinion?
I thought it was an odd piece to completely bypass the sexual misconduct allegations that appears to be the root cause of their particular issues and potential downfall?
The richest man on the planet could probably solve child cancer himself using less money than he burned destroying Twitter.
Instead, he used his influence to strip $190 million from the budget for pediatric cancer research.
What a fucking asshole.
I thought this until I read this point:
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‘The political left wants to dismantle sex stereotypes (gender) & critiques 'gender identity ideology' that is, a belief in innate 'gender identities' that should over-write biological sex’ that’s where I see myself, perfectly explained, I find the ‘right wing bigot’ generalisation bizarre and lazy
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."
Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)
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The new asylum stats show the impact of the Labour government unblocking the asylum system. More initial interviews took place in both August & September than during the last government's backlog clearance. In June there were 1,157 interviews - August there were 10,327 and September 11,540.
If you bring central London to a halt to campaign against catastrophic climate change you're treated as a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
But if you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies
While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea
New on Democracy for Sale
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Creative industries are worth more than life sciences, motor manufacturing, aeropsace and oil and gas in the UK economy, says the FT
From the FT the other day. I had no idea.
In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks
Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.
Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/
Same, I’m with you on alllll that!
I worry about these blocklists, I saw one yesterday entitled something like ‘transphobics’ and found there were very reasonable people, no hatred, no abuse but had feminist or GC in their bio. Seems a shame that conversation could be shut down before it’s even begun.