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Ha, ha! "Out of the mouths of babes..."
Another take on how #Brexit is perceived by the younger generation.
Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie | The Guardian
> My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie
Great article by @lewis_goodall...
The country hasn't gone left / woke / politically correct, it's that the Conservative Party have gone far to the right.
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The Tory right’s radicalisation should trouble us all - New Statesman
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/the-tory-rights-radicalisation-should-trouble-us-all
> One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality.
Been discovering new circuits in the very local area...
Can see this becoming the training ground this spring...
Just watched "Code 8" on Netflix, pretty good, let's see what Part II brings...
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81194641?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=more&vlang=en&clip=81637935
> In a city where people with superhuman abilities are ostracized, a power-enabled man turns to the criminal underworld in a bid to help his ailing mother.
Loving this from @rafaelbehr
"Johnson gave away Britain’s seat on the board of a trading superpower in exchange for a hill of worthless sovereignty beans."
The Trump revival will force Starmer to acknowledge the sheer folly of Brexit | Rafael Behr | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/24/keir-starmer-donald-trump-special-relationship
> It’s hard to imagine the vindictive despot and the former human rights lawyer enjoying a ‘special relationship’, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
@iandunt on corruscating form again on the moral degradation of politics in the UK by the Conservative Party...
Lee Anderson succeeded precisely because of his inadequacy
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/lee-anderson-succeeded-tory-party-inadequacy-2859064
> He is a symbol of a political culture that has gone terribly, terribly wrong
Good, if long, view of the upcoming year of politics in the UK from @josh_self_
Essentially, fun, fun, fun, for political junkies...
The view to 2024: What next for British politics? - Politics.co.uk
https://www.politics.co.uk/5-minute-read/2023/12/28/the-view-to-2024-what-next-for-british-politics/
> 2024 could see power change hands between the Labour and Conservative parties for only the second time this century.
A superbly cynical article by @iandunt and on the illusory "benefits" of #brexit - a national folly that will keep making my country poorer...
Finally the true meaning of Brexit is revealed: an extra 68ml of wine
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/true-meaning-brexit-revealed-extra-68ml-wine-2825578
> It is a supreme national victory, after decades of persecution
Good article, with no political bias...
"Escaping poverty, violence & climate crisis are factors, but the main driver is rich societies demanding cheap labour... encouraged by economic and labour market liberalisation, which have fuelled the growth of precarious jobs that local workers won’t take.
Politicians from left to right know this reality, but they don’t dare admit it."
Everything politicians tell you about immigration is wrong | Hein de Haas | The Guardian
The impact of the Ukrainian invasion go well beyond the country itself, the global future implications are so important, as set out here...
Opinion: Would You Sell Them Out?
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/23878
> If we stop supporting Ukraine... we will all be talking about disaster: across all of these dimensions: food supply, war crimes, international instability, expanding war, collapsing democracies. Everything that the Ukrainians are doing for us can be reversed if
