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A good and balanced response by the NEU to the government's report into antisemitism in schools. More resources should be devoted to tackling all forms of racism (as well as sexism).
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Surprised the FT is giving this any credence. It wasn't Russia that forced French govt into decades of education cuts. The students weren't sitting in +30C classrooms over the summer because of Mr Putin.
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UK friends, who's up for organising Sally Rooney samizdat?
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Me, carefully typing out Conell and Marianne's first tender love scene on my restored Imperial typewriter at 3AM while keeping a careful ear out for the police knocking on my door.
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Life and Fate is the greatest novel of the 20th Century
The Soviets believed all art is political, and produced seven decades of shitty art
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Here's mine. Fiction only.
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We didn't even want to play the game and you still lost
Israel’s national football team lost to Ireland’s national team on the pitch, but before the antisemites celebrate too much- remember, the IDF will defeat the terrorists they support!
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This is correct but always keep in mind countries often go to war even when the logistical numbers guarantees defeat. This was the case with the Southern States in the American Civil War and the Nazi invasion of the USSR
I'd doesn't matter how many Brits volunteer to sign up (or even get conscripted) - if you don't have jet fuel, diesel or enough steel capacity to replace lost equipment and depleted ammunition, then any war you fight will be lost... especially against a resource-rich opponent.
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Movie Grid - 09/25/2026: 7/9 correct ⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Score: 1992 moviegrid.io @moviegridgame
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Movie Grid - 09/24/2026: 8/9 correct 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩 Score: 2293 moviegrid.io @moviegridgame
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That the Starmerite wing is still predominat on the NEC after all the disasters that has been wrought by that faction, tells you an awful lot about the type of people who are still actively involved in the Labour Party.
🗳️🌹In terms of combined first preference votes, the slates achieved: Labour to Win: 11,660 Mainstream: 9,073 Momentum: 8,540 Restoration: 3,404
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Movie Grid - 08/24/2026: 8/9 correct 🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Score: 2293 moviegrid.io @moviegridgame
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More contributions from idiots who don't know what they are talking about. The right just won't own the fact they decimated the justice system along with the rest of the public sector in the 2010's. The current crisis is the natural result.
At least 10 more wings closed in operational prisons because they can't find the staff and the job his too unsafe to keep officers. Yet there are 5,500 HQ staff. Put them in uniform and deploy all who are operational outside crisis response. It can be done. But not by @MoJGovUK
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Remember when some Tankies were loudly proclaiming on here that all talk of Maduro's kidnapping being an inside job was playing into CIA psyops?
Brigadier General Elad Edri gave a presentation to Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez about the 'Project for the Reconstruction of the Future'. This is the same guy who was involved in Operation Cast Lead in 2009 against the Palestinians. It was that operation that led President Hugo Chávez to break ties with Israel and call its policy genocidal. Chávez told Le Figaro, 'What was it, if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians'. Sending Edri to Caracas was a deliberate move to rub the Chavista faces with the dirt of genocide.
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This is such an obvious lie. Absolutely shameless.
Zelensky: The USSR killed all the languages. They occupied the territories, killed the traditions, and destroyed the churches. They killed religion, traditions, and language for 70 years. Source: @LauraLoomer
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The thing Kshama talks about the most is how she will use her platform if elected to amplify workers struggles. You think the only thing she talks about us attacking DSA because that's the only time you pay any attention to her.
Sawant is running for Congress by explicitly attacking DSA. She talks about AOC and Zohran more than Adam Smith. And she can't even commit to BDS, putting herself well to DSA's right on Palestine. Pathetic.
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Applicable to pretty much any democratic country.
You guys have got to stop saying “of course this politician is disappointing, what did you expect?” You’re creating a permission structure for politicians to act against their constituents’ will without accountability. It’s not the nature of politicians that causes corruption. It’s moneyed interests. Dems in particular have exploited the fiction that they have to do some unpopular, right wing thing to “win” bc that’s the system they’re working with— even when the popular, left coded agenda item would make them more electable. And they get away with it, in part, bc of a failure to call out *why* they’re lying and voting with the right, and instead chalking it up to “politics.” There’s not a single Dem that would’ve been made vulnerable by not doing hagiography for Lindsay Graham. There’s not a single Dem that would lose voters by opposing the effort to combine the US and Israeli militaries. You may lose corporate donors, but that’s a good thing. And something voters should demand. The solution is public financing, no corporate money pledges, RCV etc— not affecting a weird cynicism that normalizes corruption.
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Pickford's short arms just couldn't get there #NORENG
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