Adam Cain

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I think that it would be a good week to publish the #russiareport

Absolutely pissing down with rain right now. Checks calendar. Ah, of course. Wimbledon fortnight.

Slight caveat over polls commissioned by interested parties, but this is quite encouraging. I think it also shows where the Lib Dems should be going over the next 4 years. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeacewww.theguardian.com Polling shows voters in south of England switched because of Conservative inaction on polluted rivers and beaches

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Over to you Blue friends.

Quite pleased to see Corbyn elected. Not a fan of his policies at all, but clearly popular in his constituency for many years. Much more appropriate to be an independent than a Labour MP continually rebelling against his own party.

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“How the occupants of No 10 brought us austerity, #Brexit , Partygate and an economic crash…If you’re feeling nostalgic, or just possibly a little angry, here is a recap of the lurches, plunges and nausea of 14 years on the Tory rollercoaster.” #GTTO www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Did that really happen? 14 years of chaotic Tory governmentwww.theguardian.com How the occupants of No 10 brought us austerity, Brexit, Partygate and an economic crash

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Reposting this because apparently everyone was watching the football last night and not reading book reviews about child abuse, but you have no excuse today

I reviewed Lucia Osborne-Crowley's account of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial: a painful but important book www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – a voice for the powerlesswww.theguardian.com In this painful, candid book, a reporter with a history of abuse sits in on Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, identifying bias in all its forms and dramatising the lives of the victims

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it's kind of weird, I've never done this before, between two shitposting I'm begging people to watch my new movie

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So far we have one screening, the premier sorted, and here's the link where you can buy tickets. I really appreciate if you could come. www.genesiscinema.co.uk/checkout/sho...

The Whip - September 4, 6:45 pmwww.genesiscinema.co.uk 194902 - The Whip - Screen 1 - September 4, 6:45 pm

This, from Ian Dunt, is not only a magnificent evisceration of the Tory/Reform/Right-wing Press nexus, it shows how we need to change the whole practice of politics.

“The moral case for competence: that's what the Conservatives are discovering right now. It's what they've been discovering over the course of the last five weeks. And, with any luck, it's what they will discover good and hard next Thursday. “ iandunt.substack.com/p/14-years-o...

14 years of Tory ruleiandunt.substack.com Some shattered conclusions from a broken brain

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just reupping this for the growing and increasingly annoying 'FPTP Is Bad Actually' crowd

certain people: "52/48 is an overwhelming mandate for changing absolutely everything, you lost get over it" also certain people: "if they get a supermajority they shoudn't just do what they like"

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25 June 1938 | A German Jewish boy, Henrik Shteinhart Tzukerman, was born in Berlin. His family emigrated to Belgium. In October 1942 he was deported from Malines / Mechelen do #Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.

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Here it is

Oh yeah btw I found a 12th century poem that lists a whole bunch of practices that medieval folks thought were good for your health and one of the very first things is bathing and washing.

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Who knows, maybe it was forced? bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russiabylinetimes.com As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never conf...

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“Of all the hills to die on, the Tories choose William Hill”

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Reform is 53% owned by Farage and is a ltd company not a party. It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam

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I love non-conforming Victorians and Edwardians as they completely undermine the "all this is modern woke" attack line. Here's my queen of it. Dress reform activist Dr Mary Edwards Walker who said "I don't wear men's clothes: I wear my clothes."

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Every single word of this from @roberthutton.bsky.social I’m repeating myself but - entirely orthogonal to policy questions - it would be genuinely deleterious for our political culture if the Tories didn’t receive an absolute electoral kicking.

The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk It would, Grant Shapps says, be bad news for British democracy if Labour won too large a majority next month. For a moment I wondered whether his words reflected a realisation that his own party had…

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The Past meets the Future. Gruppenfuehrer Farage encounters Labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul in Clacton.

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Tell them what you think of their disgusting sense of entitlement on July 4th

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You can't overstate the historic importance of the next Labour government. It has to show that liberal democracy works. iandunt.substack.com/p/hidden-in-...

Hidden in the manifesto: Labour's war against populismiandunt.substack.com Farage cannot be defeated by rhetoric, he can only be defeated by competence.

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Friends of the Earth has given the thumbs up to the Lib Dem manifesto: “an impressive document recognising the interconnection of the climate and nature crises with existing societal inequalities.”

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Wealthy Dulwich College educated ex stock and commodities broker says wealthy Winchester College educated ex hedge fund manager is disconnected by class and privilege from how the ordinary folk in this country feel. British right wing politics in a nutshell.

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Today I Learnt That the late Bob Cryer MP was an extra in TheRailway Children, as he worked on the heritage steam railway where it was filmed, ad is even referred to by Bernard Cribbins ("Right away, Mr Cryer") in the climactic "Daddy, my daddy" scene.

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Just going to leave this here. www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Met chief says millions of men are danger to women and girls in England and Waleswww.theguardian.com National strategy beyond policing and criminal justice system needed to tackle problem, Sir Mark Rowley says

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Drinking game for the debate tonight: Go to the pub and have a good evening with friends instead of wasting your time watching two politicians say the stuff you could predict in advance they're going to say.

This, of course, is exactly what Sunak has been doing, and to a lesser extent the Tories have been doing since Cameron at least.

Don’t blame voters for a far right surge in Europe. Blame the far right’s mainstream copycats

Don’t blame voters for a far right surge in Europe. Blame the far right’s mainstream copycatswww.theguardian.com Far right ideology has not changed, it has become normalised in the minds of voters, thanks to a snowball effect