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  • Millionaires ask Andy Burnham to tax them more

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  • I noticed this in the article:

    Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Lineker is "very welcome to pay more tax he can write a cheque to the Treasury, no one is stopping him."

    But I guess Lineker might argue that he's saying all wealthy people should shoulder the burden of taxes, rather than just him individually

    I guess it's not surprising that the Tories will think of any creative excuse possible to protect their wealthy backers from having to pay even a single penny more in tax

  • Starmer was a fabricator and a fraud. Good riddance

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  • Even if someone is more to the left than I am, is attacking Starmer so much really a good idea? If Labour fails over the next few years then the most likely consequence will be a Reform-led government.

    It reminds me of people on the left refusing to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 because they thought she was too pro-Israel. The consequence was Trump regaining the presidency, and Trump seems much more pro-Israel to me than Harris would have been.

  • Starmer was a fabricator and a fraud. Good riddance

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  • I disagree, I think Starmer is a decent guy, more so than the Tory PMs we've had for a long time

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    Labour should ditch triple-lock pensions promise, says OECD

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/jul/15/labour-should-ditch-triple-lock-pensions-promise-says-oecd
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    Ukraine allies gather in Paris to step up defence aid, heighten pressure on Russia

    www.france24.com /en/europe/20260713-ukraine-allies-gather-paris-step-defence-aid-heighten-pressure-russia

  • British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

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  • Support for Reform correlates with fewer academic qualifications (see chart below, from here) so maybe what has happened is that politicians for too long have failed to help people with fewer academic qualifications. Maybe that's why such people are willing to support a different sort of politician like Farage.

  • British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

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  • I just watched that, good video. I hope his victory is binevitable.

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    British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

    www.ipsos.com /en-uk/british-public-more-likely-prefer-count-binface-wins-clacton-election-nigel-farage
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    Western Europe records hottest ever June as climate change drives heatwaves

    www.rfi.fr /en/international/20260709-western-europe-records-hottest-ever-june-as-climate-change-drives-heatwaves

  • Britain must now unite behind Count Binface

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  • Yeah I did think that. But if I were such a person, I think I would quite enthusiastically support the bin, since it is clearly the lesser of two evils.

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    Count Binface For Clacton

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    Britain must now unite behind Count Binface

    www.newstatesman.com /politics/uk-politics/2026/07/britain-must-now-unite-behind-count-binface

  • Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP

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  • Maybe they're not unified because they believe in a common good, but instead because it serves the interests of each of them to see Farage make a fool of himself and potentially lose support in the polls

  • Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions

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  • Is he? I don't think Newsom demonises immigrants as much as Trump does... and Newsom has talked recently about favouring federal taxes on very wealthy people, to fund things like healthcare, while Trump seems to be happy to allow the wealthy to keep getting richer and act however they want towards the American public.

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    Farage is likely to win in Clacton but can his credibility survive?

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2026/jul/08/nigel-farage-win-clacton-credibility-survive-reform

  • Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions

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  • I think it's fair to say that you shouldn't blindly vote for someone just because they're a Democrat. You should definitely evaluate the person. But I think Gavin Newsom specifically is an alright guy and I think he would lead a fairer administration than Trump's, if elected. But I guess most people, if elected, would lead a fairer administration than Trump's.

  • Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions

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  • If Newsom is the Democrat candidate in 2028, I think that's an alright outcome. I think he would be a better president than Trump. Not just because he has a "D" next to his name, but instead because his viewpoints seem more rational and fair than those of Trump.

    Some people might think that Newsom isn't progressive enough, but whoever is the Democrat candidate, they need to have broad enough appeal to win a national election. If the candidate is someone who is very progressive then they might alienate a lot of centrist voters and fail to win a national election.

  • Could Farage quit? Questions swirl over Reform UK leader’s future

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  • I think Farage will be the prime minister following Burnham, unless anti-Reform voters unite behind a single party like Labour.

    At the moment, anti-Reform voters are split among Labour/Greens/LibDems/SNP/Plaid, and because of First Past the Post, this is likely to make Farage the prime minister.

  • Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan

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  • I don't think the US blew up Nord Stream. There's a Ukrainian man in Poland who is wanted in Germany for blowing up Nord Stream. But a Polish judge refused to extradite the Ukrainian man to Germany because he thought a Ukrainian attack on Nord Stream would have been a justified response to Russia's "bloody and genocidal attack" on Ukraine:

    If Ukraine and its special forces… organised an armed mission to destroy enemy pipelines – which the court does not prejudge – then these actions were not unlawful... On the contrary, they were justified, rational and just

    As for your claim of a "coup", I don't think that can be considered true in any way. Ukraine's parliament voted to remove Viktor Yanukovych from the presidency. That's democracy at work.

  • Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan

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  • I don't like the current governments of the US or Russia, but let's remember that Russia is currently waging an invasion of a European country while the US is not. I hope Europe can build sufficient defence capabilities to prevent further Russian aggression towards Europe, or indeed any future American aggression towards Europe.

  • Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan

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  • I think it's right for the UK and Europe in general to invest in defence. Europe is on its own; nobody else will defend the continent. If Europe can't defend itself then it probably won't be long until the US or Russia or China decides they'd like a piece of European land for themselves (well Russia is already trying to take European land of course).

  • Iran's supreme leader says legal cases must be pursued against US, Israel over 'child killings, war crimes'

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  • Sure it looks unlikely that the US will become more humane soon. The best hope is that a more humane leader wins the US presidency in 2028.

    As for a multipolar world, I don't think it would necessarily be better. China is the most powerful nation after the US, and I don't think China is a bastion of humane government, given their political repressions, such as their treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Then there's Russia and their invasion of Ukraine.

    Hopefully the world will become more humane but I guess that terrible things like wars and genocides may continue.

  • Iran's supreme leader says legal cases must be pursued against US, Israel over 'child killings, war crimes'

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  • I don't like the current government of the US, but I also don't like the current government of Iran. I wouldn't see either government as a "necessary evil" - I would rather see both countries have more humane governments.

    Also I wouldn't see the "weakening" of the US or Iran as a goal. I think they just need more humane leadership, who can wield power in a moral manner.

  • Iran's supreme leader says legal cases must be pursued against US, Israel over 'child killings, war crimes'

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  • Iran killed civilian protestors, but yes it seems the US killed civilian children. I think both regimes are bad.

  • Russia was behind arson attacks targeting Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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  • you “know” that “Russia has a pattern of this sort of behaviours” because the BBC told you so

    No. Other reliable sources have also mentioned the stories I raised. Here is the UK police talking about the Russia-backed arson of a warehouse in London. And here on the UK government's website you can find the report of the inquiry into the Salisbury poisonings (with a Russian chemical weapon) in 2018.

    That inquiry which I mentioned was conducted by a senior judge, who concluded this:

    Petrov, Boshirov and Fedotov were members of an operational team within the GRU – the Russian military intelligence agency responsible for foreign intelligence gathering. I am sure that, in conducting their attack on Sergei Skripal, they were acting on instructions. I have concluded that the operation to assassinate Sergei Skripal must have been authorised at the highest level, by President Putin.

  • Russia was behind arson attacks targeting Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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  • My experience with them is that they get the facts right.

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    ​John Healey resigns as defence secretary over military spending

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2026/jun/11/john-healey-resigns-defence-secretary-military-spending
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    Facing a seismic by-election, the people of Makerfield tell us what matters to them

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/ckg4dywykjeo
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    Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2026/jun/08/silicon-valley-meta-maga-politics-nick-clegg
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    Here is Andy Burnham’s route to save Labour: a new manifesto, a new election and electoral reform

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/may/25/andy-burnham-save-labour-manifesto-election-electoral-reform
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    Labour could beat Reform in general election if led by Andy Burnham, polls suggest

    www.itv.com /news/granada/2026-05-20/labour-could-beat-reform-in-general-election-if-led-by-andy-burnham-polls-say
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    Ukraine ‘entirely justified’ to plan strikes against Russian energy and military targets after Kyiv attacks, Zelenskyy says

    www.theguardian.com /world/live/2026/may/15/russian-attack-kyiv-ukraine-europe-live-updates-latest
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    How Keir Starmer's plans are going down in the EU

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cwy2k7re9jdo
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/03/amazon-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-centric-smartphone/
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    UK needs nuclear deterrent independent from US, Ed Davey to say

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2026/mar/15/uk-needs-nuclear-deterrent-independent-from-us-ed-davey-to-say
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

    arstechnica.com /ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/
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    The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/mar/08/iran-war-keir-starmer-donald-trump-us-israel