Now they have come for the Sociologists. How is this not content/viewpoint discrimination and therefore unconstitutional? Where is our First Amendment now?
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Matt Goodwin propagating untrue stories - "Some evenings, I canvassed streets where nobody spoke a word of English" - + Nigel Farage's stories about Oldham, where UKIP failed to produce an election petition
There is no Reform election petition in Gorton + Denton
Very Trumpian.
(Spectator)
FIFA peace prize winner Trump couldn't care less whether Iran goes to the World Cup
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In 2024, the govt had to rename the statutory enquiry process for DA deaths to ‘Domestic Abuse Related Death Review (DARDR)’* because suicide is the most common cause of death in domestic abuse cases.
(was Domestic Homicide Review)
Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.
Good job that AI and technology can minimise civilian casualties in war 🙄
This is a great thread. So much political commentary of the past couple of years has been plain wrong.
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
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Photo of a man riding a bicycle on a path through high grass on hills.
“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.”
-Grant Petersen, bicycle designer and author
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
..the fact Mahmood is using precisely the same sort of deliberately misleading language as Goodwin, Jenrick, Lam and Farage tells us all we need to know about how acceptable/fair she thinks her policies actually are to Guardian readers/the British public.
Initially most people will be internally displaced by conflict. Most people have neither the resources or contacts to cross an international border to become a refugee. The longer a conflict goes on however the more routes are created, both in terms of smuggling and trafficking. 1/4
Let he who celebrates taking academic jobs be the first to let AI take his job.
Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: forklifts can already lift heavy things better than most fitness fanatics. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years.
Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
Excellent critique of the media’s normalization of the far right.
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
These people aren't 'anti migraint'. They're anti 'people who they don't see as white'. Can we call them racists please, and stop entertaining their hate speech?
Well done to Tories and Labour for smashing that Overton window
As the Kurds who had depended on US support, were betrayed and massacred in their thousands in the 70s, Kissinger famously dismissed the deaths: "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers.
They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?
A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.
The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.
If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.
Now run a similar story about a Sudenese family who is being bombed, or a Gazan family who is living in a refugee settlement, or a Rohingya family who is fleeing genocide in Myanmar. White people - who have chosen to move - are humanised, while others are dehumanised in order to persecute them.
Aunty Shabana, you can go on GB News all you like, but their viewers and the Reform/Restore/Reclaim/Advance voters will never accept you. No matter how hardline you are.
Whereas Starmer has no political ends and won’t stoop low to achieve them 🙄
There is no doubt that Goodwin stood in the constituency because he saw it as a winnable by-election. He was the betting favourite on the day he announced. Reform put a lot of energy into the campaign (as he did himself). There is no way they had a view it was unwinnable.
Starmer’s time in office has been one mistake after another. Iran will be his Iraq. And Labour never atoned for their lies over Iraq and it’s where the trust was first broken.
'Separatism' is when British Muslims vote for the most socially liberal candidate in the race to stop Matt Goodwin, who Kemi Badenoch herself explicitly said was a threat to minority life in this country, becoming an MP.
They care about people fleeing for their own safety now
The Labour Government burned net-zero policy to try and appease Reform, got trounced in the polls and a by-election anyway, and are now facing yet another surge in oil prices that'll display to everyone how bad an idea that was
