Assisted dying bill passes. Quite surprised but (imo) the right decision

About time. I want to know I can top myself in some comfort when I get too decrepit.

Lots of hurdles before it comes into law. I'd hold your breath

Not suggesting this of course but it can't be that hard to get hold of some smack.

Wow .
Here (Canada) been allowed for a while now ….
So late to the « party »

https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ves-not-labour

Bit weird to call it a gang when it’s two guys who didn’t know each other but yeah one getting 27 years should be a bit more noteworthy than it is. Wouldn’t have seen it if not for this post.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon...-donald-trump/

I wonder how Clacton's doing for an MP

**** this

**** this too. These are the people rounding up on so-called "benefits cheats". Kendall and her partner have an estimated joint income of c. £750,000 p.a.

Elon is a public governmental figure

This is actively foreign interference

**** Raynor, giving the go ahead to demolish this rare example of Art Deco building.

Brexit benefits keep raining down on us

I think they're really stretching it to make it about brexit but if it is then it's a plus for brexit because we damn well should have labs capable of doing this in the uk.

Mostly it sound like an excuse for pathetic failure.

That's a terrible government/organisational problem, clearly.

At least we can actually vote out people that make terrible decisions now.

Just maybe billions could have been wasted investing in rubbish like water saftey labs instead of the vital work of paying huge dividends.

Badenoch is on fire and spot on identifying the lethal threat to society posed by leftism. A domestic threat for the UK, like in all western countries.

https://www.thefp.com/p/kemi-badenoc...organic-social

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Classic liberal values—not left-wing progressivism, but the classic liberalism of free markets, free speech, free enterprise, freedom of religion, the presumption of innocence, trusted institutions within the rule of law, and equality under the law—all of those were missing when I was growing up as a child under military rule. And those values—that precious inheritance—are right now under grave threat here in the West.

Specifically, they have been hacked by ideologues operating on the inside. But if we can spot their trick, we can stop them from destroying the freest societies in the history of the world.

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That is the trick that those on the authoritarian left have pulled off. They have smuggled ideas and policies that look like liberalism but are anything but. They speak the language of the civil rights movement, but they aim to resegregate us. They preach about social justice, but they do not believe in the most basic ideas of fairness and equality. They demand our tolerance even as they seek to undermine the very culture and institutions that create that tolerance in the first place.

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The UK, like many countries, has generous laws to accommodate persecuted people who are seeking asylum. It was reported this year that one in seven asylum seekers who were housed together on a barge in southern England were converting to Christianity under the supervision of local church leaders.

I am not religious myself. But I am and always will be the granddaughter of a Methodist reverend—and I know the joy that comes to priests every time their flock grows. But I found it shocking that not a single one of these conversions was treated with any suspicion. Or it wasn’t until it was discovered that one “convert” was found to have committed multiple sexual offenses after arriving in the UK, and then went on to carry out a chemical attack in London on a mother and her two young children.

This is what I mean when I say that liberalism has been hacked. When a system that makes accommodations for the vulnerable is being exploited by opponents of that system, something needs to change.

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Pure gold everywhere

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None of us want our countries to be invaded. So, of course, we are against imperialism. Suddenly, a group turns up saying they want to promote anti-imperialism. Sounds important. The government gives them money. They get university grants. They write textbooks and bring their worldview into the school curriculum. And suddenly you find that anti-imperialism is directed solely against our own country—or the West. They’re not criticizing China. They’re not attacking Russia. In fact, in some instances, they praise Russia, which is actively carrying out an imperialist agenda in Ukraine.

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The first step is to explain the value of liberty. Our opponents do not value liberty. They see it as the freedom to do bad things, whether they are offensive or exploitative; that is all they think about. But liberty is foundational for a flourishing society, not just a philosophical “nice to have.”

The second thing we have to do is to stop the expansion of the state.

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Radical left horrendous, cancerogenic ideas killed a relative of hers, this explaines her stances

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Two years ago this month my cousin, who was living in Canada, killed himself. He was 27 years old and had fallen down the social media and internet rabbit hole of anti-natalism and pro-mortalism—leftist movements I’d never even heard of.

He had spent months, we found out, probably years, reading and self-radicalizing, learning about how human beings were a plague on the world, that our very existence was destroying the planet. These movements promoted the idea that having children was wrong—evil, even—and that ending your life was a better way to stop the spread of misery around the world. It was heartbreaking to know that these ideas had filled his mind and tortured him.

https://www.politico.eu/article/poll...market-access/

Really grave threat

I dont agree with badenoch's approach at all but if we dont get our act together then we're going to lose it all. One way or another very radical change is happening in front of our eyes. We can't 'manage' our way out of it.

All this home building stuff is really good from labour

I must have missed most of that. What do you have in mind?

Latest line was 'building homes where the demand is greatest' which is barely code for 'build homes where the private developers can make most profit'. Which will come with loads of promises but will basically be houses for the better off on sold off very cheaply, very valuable real estate.