Shabana Mahmood to limit refugees to 30 months in UK
Shorter asylum period can be renewed under hardline policy aimed at stopping rise of Reform UK
Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
01.03.2026 22:06
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If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
28.02.2026 09:31
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Sectarian.
The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word.
Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy
27.02.2026 13:35
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Oh ffs
27.02.2026 13:47
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Ancillary accommodation can’t legally be let separately to the main property
27.02.2026 10:53
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Great work Jim. Very well done
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The good news, of a sort, is that AI will likely never get so smart that it meaningfully, or even efficiently, replaces human labour, much less art or science, or human connection. The pathway toward AI being a “reliable, profitable and scalable” replacement for human beings is very narrow, and that path vanishes to micron-width once, say, the global economy shutters tens of millions of jobs while quadrupling the price of every component necessary for AI companies to keep making the tiny, marginal gains it needs merely to maintain its current level of cataclysmic unprofitability.
The bad news is that this means very little when a $700bn hype machine is currently telling every CEO on earth that their magical spellcheck technology means that they should sack tens of millions of employees while raising the price of every microchip on the planet. A hype machine staffed by avaricious tech companies and the sensible former politicians they employ. A hype machine giddily swallowed by governments and companies and journalists as they present themselves to Silicon Valley’s wallet inspectors, time and time again.
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23.02.2026 09:33
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Far too much fun, this.
22.02.2026 10:59
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Hahaha ffs this is why Scottish Championship is top Friday viewing
20.02.2026 20:02
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One day there will be a reckoning for how Arsenal Football Club dealt with this case. And I’m afraid that includes the manager
12.02.2026 12:02
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<staff kitchen>
NAZGUL #1: I just...
NAZGUL: #2: What?
N#1: Like... Seriously? We're hunting HOBBITS now?
N#2: I mean okay but clue was in the name
N#1: True, but still
WITCH KING <entering>: Hey
N#1: Hey
N#2: Hey
<Witch King leaves with coffee>
N#1: Maybe we should have said something
N#2: Maybe
11.02.2026 12:14
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You can answer questions on their instincts most clearly by tracing the fate of the two child benefit cap: They knew it was driving children into poverty; they resisted scrapping it because it polled well; they were forced to backtrack by own MPs; they now claim it as a central plank of the agenda.
11.02.2026 12:36
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arguably the biggest news of the week that Lisa Nandy is currently doing something related to her brief
09.02.2026 15:27
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If it ever seems like GenX and elder Millennials are obnoxiously loud about queerphobia and, specifically, trans rights, you have to remember we grew up in a society saturated by homophobia and decided "never again". This shame and hatred must not simply be redirected. It must end with us.
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That’s a lovely deep cut
04.11.2025 22:01
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On top of all the obvious reasons the membership would never go for him, he’s very unlikely to hold his seat next time
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