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I identify as human with whatever pronouns you want to use. I'm a Yorkshireman with all the qualities and disadvantages that entails. Brought up in earlier, more settled times, I worked in scientific research for 17 years before moving into computers, lecturing and management. Politically liberal left 
I’m an avid reader of scifi and writer of erotic and other fiction. I am a #longbow archer, father to 4 and grandfather to 10. You can read more from me at https://strider48.wordpress.com
IntroductionI identify as human with whatever pronouns you want to use I'm a Yorkshireman with all the qualities and disadvantages that entails. Brought up in earlier, more settled times, I worked in scientific research for 17 years before moving into computers, lec

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. By the artist Frank Riot.

The poster says it better than most speeches:

When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

Who will they blame then?

What will they have gained?

A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay.

'This is a story about inequality, financial power, failed neoliberal economics and the political choices that created modern Britain.'

Why inheritance tax proves Britain is grotesquely unequal https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/17/why-inheritance-tax-proves-britain-is-grotesquely-unequal/

Why inheritance tax proves Britain is grotesquely unequal

The Financial Times has published remarkable data on inheritance tax in the UK. Just five London parliamentary constituencies paid more inheritance tax than the whole of Scotland and Wales combined. Ten London seats paid more than the entire north of England over five years. But the FT then drew the wrong...

Funding the Future

In Lebanon as elsewhere, the US-Israeli genocidalists have been documented fiercely targeting rescue workers to ensure mass civilian deaths and casualties. Overt wark rhyme.

Bomb an apartment block, bomb and shoot at the rescuers, launch grenades at the rescuer-rescuers, repeat.

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/meet-the-lebanese-rescue-workers

> A bracing report from Southern Lebanon on the rescuers surviving triple and quadruple tap Israeli strikes to save lives.

Mike Johnson thinks the Congressional salary is too low and he wants us to "have some sympathy." I'll give him the same advice he and other corrupt elites give working people suffering on $7.25/hour:
•Get a Second job at $7.25/hour
•Go to college with an 8% loan
•Stop buying avocado toast
•Split rent on a studio apt
•Move in w/your parents
•”Find something new”
•Make coffee at home
•Learn to code

Be Best!

"Billionaires will leave if you tax them"

Oh no not our beloved billionaires who destroy our climate, ruin our air and water, leech our power grid, steal our data, monitor our every move, profit off our misery, refuse to give anything back but the absolute rock bottom bare minimum, and buy politicians to keep it that way. Whatever shall we do without them?