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🎙️ On this week's Commons People, me and @nicholson_kate1 discuss Andy Burnham's ever-confusing stance on Brexit, his comments on Russian interference in the EU referendum and why Labour’s "great communicator" keeps ending up with his foot in his mouth.
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President Zelensky tells Fox he’s willing to freeze the fighting along the current front lines to end the war with Russia
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Absurd simpering obsequiousness from a representative of the most powerful country on earth, and another American humiliation, to add to the growing, growing list.
Steve Witkoff to Putin:
You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian.
You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.
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It doesn't matter whether or not you agree with the proscription of Palestine Action.
Imagine if Rooney had promised to fund ISIS or Al-Qaeda with the proceeds of her work. Would the New Statesman be up-in-arms about the decision to remove her books from sale then? I doubt it.
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Islamist terrorists tried to murder Salman Rushdie and everyone associated with The Satanic Verses. Who precisely is threatening to murder Sally Rooney and the staff at Faber & Faber? Yvette Cooper?
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
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Reform's Danny Kruger: acting in the least-fine traditions of British politics. thecritic.co.uk/farage-lands…
ALT To warm up for the Great Leader, we heard first from Danny Kruger, who had an important message: you just can’t trust Muslims. “We see millions of people who are taught to believe something different,” he explained, “who are taught by their clerics that their loyalty isn’t to the United Kingdom, but to the global Islamic community, that your religion is in fact a political allegiance, and it’s not to Britain.” Kruger is supposed to be the party’s intellectual, so we can assume he knows that exactly the same was said about Catholics in the 1830s and about Jews in the 1930s. Perhaps that’s why he felt the need to explain his thinking a little further. “The problem isn’t with individual Muslims, far from it!” he said, anxious for his audience to understand that he distrusts Muslims as a group, not one-on-one. “In fact, I think we could win support from British Muslims.” The audience in Plymouth, or wherever it was, didn’t look wild about that idea. “If you’re a British citizen,” Kruger
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BBC Expert Explains How Donald Trump Has 'Delighted' Russia Over Ukraine War
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"A town got hit or whatever."
Anhelina, a one-year-old, was killed in her stroller by a Russian Shahed yesterday in Kharkiv. Her mother, Inna Mariukhna, was also killed.
⚡️ "Some people in a town that got hit or whatever, but mostly soldiers die."
Trump on Russian shelling of civilians in Ukraine.
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Andy Burnham: "At a time when people are really struggling, it’s right that we look in a responsible way at maximising the existing energy reserves we have in Britain."
Zack Polanksi: "This is climate vandalism."
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Andy Burnham Hit By Angry Backlash As New Gas Drilling Approved In North Sea
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I think Russia should stop murdering innocent human beings and should stop trying to conquer a neighboring country. Why can’t the U.S. administration say that, ever?
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Man City scandal tip of the iceberg as football erodes from the top || Stephen McGowan
"In Scotland people know how toxic the stench of scandal can be. Fourteen years have passed since Employee Benefits Trusts and side letters entered the national vocabulary and Rangers fell off a financial cliff. The bitter scars from those events still weep, angry and raw.
"Former Ibrox chairman Sir David Murray popped up on the podcast Graeme Souness Tackles the other week to rouse sleeping dogs from their slumber.
"Murray used his recent autobiography to appeal to Rangers supporters to remember him only for the good times. He was pushing the same line on the podcast, telling old mucker Souness that the Ibrox club were ‘targeted’ by an HMRC witch hunt.
“'It hurts me very badly,' said Murray. 'Okay, I’m remembered for the end, but I would like to think I’m remembered for Laudrup, Gascoigne and 35 trophies.'
"A bit like the captain of the Titanic asking people to remember him for a smooth push-off at Southampton, Murray knows better than anyone why HMRC used Rangers as a high-profile test case.
"EBT arrangements were used between 2001 and 2010 as a form of disguised remuneration to avoid tax and national insurance contributions on player earnings. In 2017 even he had to admit that EBTs and the non-disclosure of side letters to the SFA or the SPL gave Rangers the ‘opportunity to get players that we perhaps would not be able to afford”.
"While some still get misty eyed over Gazza and nine-in-a-row, then, plenty of Rangers fans blame the former owner for Craig Whyte, administration, Charles Green, Mike Ashley, liquidation, Sevco, Duff and Phelps and the recurring issues which led to just three trophies in 14 years. That’s David Murray’s legacy right there." 👇
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'A Total Embarrassment': Robert Jenrick Mocked For Criticising Policy He Tried To Bring In
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The Greens are on 10%, the lowest recorded for the party since September last year, just after Zack Polanski became leader, ELEVEN points down from their peak in March.
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Reform types like @LeeAndersonMP_ badly misjudging the public mood by attacking Burnham on this.
Some criticism of this being beneath a PM totally misses the fact that this isn’t just an everyday annoyance, the behaviour of enforcement companies is seen as emblematic of a rigged/exploitative system and is entirely the sort of cause of misery people want a govt to tackle.
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