Sandra Wood

Sheppey really is a magical place. I'm amazed it doesn't get more love - and so close to London too.

None of this really matters - I haven't even seen a bank note in months - but I do think there's something useful in finding people and events in British history that act as unifying ideas which bridge ideological divides - Turing is a perfect example.

Apparently this is right-wing coded now, but I wouldn't have thought for a second before selecting historic milestones. I am, as ever, utterly alienated from the British public.

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Signs and slogans high,
Brian skips the status quo,
Rebel with a grin. 😀

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The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?

Great piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on how people (and markets) frame Trump's words as rational and deserving of reasoned analysis.

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Watching some CNN in a hotel. The channel delivers news about Trump's latest words within the normal frame of those words being rational and deserving of analysis. Mind you, most news orgs do this.

There is obvs no rationality here but viewing it through that news org frame awards it with some.

Conservative Harriett Baldwin, "The UK should play a role in helping Donald Trump being successful, by allowing our bases"

*she's then cut off by Fiona Bruce*

It was when I was running the data team at the Guardian and it was an emerging story/scandal that response times, A&E four hour, and the 95% RTT were all starting to get missed. I think at this point govs would kill for the figures that were being hit then.

Stand up and fight for the values of the party for goodness sake. Not to mention the fact that economically, immigration works in our favour.

I can’t bear it. The cynicism of it is repulsive too. The relentless narrative that immigrants must be blamed for the state of the country because otherwise voters might actually hold governments to account… ie those who are *actually* responsible.

All to appeal to some racist voters who won’t vote Labour anyway.

I just cannot see a rational explanation for this… or indeed for any of the post-Brexit immigration tiny-mindedness. Just shrinking horizons, denying opportunities, trashing our soft power and torching our universities.
A radicalised bloody-mindedness that’s turning us into a mean little backwater.

We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.

How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...

Mimetic politics is the 21st century gateway to fascism

Green's Sian Berry, "This war with Iran from Donald Trump is an illegal war"

"And Reform and the Conservatives were completely wrong"

"The British people are opposed to this"

"We learned the lessons from Iraq, that getting involved in American aggression doesn't end well"

With everything else going on I missed Badenoch committing the Tories to a policy of “enforced” assimilation into officially approved culture.

“We tried to be nice to everybody… and it didn’t work.”

Said someone who hasn’t got the first clue about what it takes to be nice.

Badenoch is so tediously aggressive… and dim.

It's annoying just how right Baudrillard was.

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.

And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

£5 note timeline (modern era):

1971–1990: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1990–2003: George Stephenson

2002–2016: Elizabeth Fry

2016–present: Winston Churchill

I dunno, but did the racists in Reform get all bent out of shape when the hero of Waterloo was dropped from the fiver?

Fraser Nelson says you can't blame the Labour government for the Conservative government underfunding our military and defence since 2010

Surely same can be said of not blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the Conservatives underfunding public services since 2010, too?

And the co-host of Peter Mandelson’s drinks reception before last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was…

Sorry, not sorry.

It takes so much to lay your soul bare and share your story and your trauma - especially in the current climate of public discourse. It’s not my place because I don’t know you - but I am proud of you ❤️

This was the hardest speech I've ever made, speaking about my own experiences of our justice system in opposition to my own party's proposals on courts.

Very grateful for all of the gentle and kind responses, and hope I have given a voice to other survivors who feel as I do without my platform.

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Apparently, we now have to justify why we are against the ending of jury trials in order to solve a problem caused by the state underfunding the justice system for decades.

What's next? Why we shouldn't bring back capital punishment to solve the prison overcrowding crisis?

#r4today