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- Comment on Silent Courier: UK intelligence service MI6 launches dark web portal to recruit foreign spies 4 days ago:
I’m usually cautious about the establishment extending its capabilities but since all of my ideas about cooperative and global humanitarianism now suddenly appear to be out of sync with reality I just want my own boys and girls to be harder than theirs are.
- Comment on If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour? 1 week ago:
Totally. Especially if the rich can’t get around it.
- Comment on Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate intelligence firm part-owned by Starmer adviser 1 week ago:
It’s almost unbelievable how grotesque this situation is.
£20 billion in the hole, after paying dividends and bonuses, poisoning national waters and not fixing leaks and you can still find £130 million to pay spies, one if whom is already the Prime Minister’s bumchum, to try and stop the government nationalising you before the situation gets even worse.
Not sure whether I’m more disgusted at Thames Water or the government tbh.
How are Labour supposed to get the ‘highest growth in the G7’ while at the same time protecting the most outrageously failing companies?
- Comment on Bridget Phillipson: parents must do more about bad behaviour and attendance in schools 3 weeks ago:
You can have both parents go out and work full-time to make ends meet (don’t ask about economic inequality) or you can have them around to raise their children. You can’t have both Bridget, I’m sorry.
- Comment on Flags as symbols of prejudice, not pride – and a distinct air of menace. Welcome to England 2025 3 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t get to claim Englishness for their own politics without a challenge.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 4 weeks ago:
You’ll just get used to it over time. Think of it as spatial rather than numeric.
It’s actually easier on the brain in my opinion.
- Comment on Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s both. For example if you personally bought a piece of agricultural land and applied for planning to build a home on it yourself, you’d almost certainly be rejected.
Despite what you might hear there is still plenty of space though: Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out.
People just doesn’t want any of you to have somewhere to live on it.
- Comment on Britain’s lawyers are refusing to turn their back on Russian money 4 weeks ago:
Funny that they have option not to really.
- Comment on Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back 4 weeks ago:
Communities feel powerless because the law gives betting firms the upper hand.
One could say that the odds are stacked against them.
- Comment on Reeves considering tax on high-value homes to help plug hole in finances 4 weeks ago:
About time.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 5 weeks ago:
When I was at school we had one logo patch that got transferred to new blazers as we outgrew them and two ties - one for the first 4 years and another one just for year 11. That worked out at about £5/year, for ‘branded’ items. And there was even a monopoly on these patches and ties, which was the haberdashery on the high street.
[…] more than a quarter (29%) said they had forgone food or heating to pay for uniforms.
[‘The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone’](en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Spirit_Level_(Wilkinson_an… shows that in unequal societies people will priorities things which communicate social status over basic needs.
- Comment on Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis 1 month ago:
Man it’s not even just housing - pretty much everything that’s already teetering on the edge like water, transport, NHS, the National Grid, agriculture etc. is going to get clobbered. Bad timing for the UK.
- Comment on UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government 1 month ago:
I agree. I think the government will pay out though, because they are so wedded to the idea of private investment and want to get patted on the head by the City.
The one thing that would turn around Labour’s abysmal polling is to grow a pair and stop bending over for capital and tyrants. They won’t do it though. Sad times for the nation.
- Comment on Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them 1 month ago:
I think everyone should have access to their own garden or allotment. Allotments have an added social side which is great.
- Comment on Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increeased rent by £700 a month 1 month ago:
News like this accelerates loss of faith in our failed political and economic orthodoxy, so in a way I’m glad to see it.
It’s time now for a new and genuine progressive movement to come together and take the fight to Reform. I’ve signed up to the new Sultana/Corbyn/independent party but I would also recommend supporting a Green party under Zack Polanski, independent candidates who want to collaborate, and grassroots community projects.
Others analysis may differ but mine is that ‘the left’ is starting to pull together and we should get behind it.
- Comment on *sniff* *mumbles* 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud 1 month ago:
Me too. I’m sure it’s fine but someone should pop a message to the developers about it.