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Knives out for Rayner

So the right wing media’s latest obsession is that Angela Rayner once owned a council flat! And that she might have profited from its sale and possibly maybe didn’t pay about £1-2k of capital gains taxes (but who needs evidence … Continue reading

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Don’t worry, we are getting a laser

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How British exceptionalism caused brexit and makes it so hard to reverse

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New labour – more of the same

Originally posted on daryanblog:
In the UK its rare we get any good news these days. But with a worsening cost of brexit living crisis, it looks all but certain the Tories will lose the next election, as there’s no…

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What’s up with Scientology?

Originally posted on daryanblog:
Scientology isn’t something I talk about too often, but its worth checking in on what’s going on with them. The cult is now beset by multiple challenges, most notably a high profile MeToo case, which they’ve…

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Tory post-brexit immigration policy is a failure

Originally posted on daryanblog:
While Brexiters will often claim they voted for “sovereignty”, its a well known fact that this is a dog whistle for “we hate foreigners”. And it was implicitly understood that the justification for the Tories hard…

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News round up

Originally posted on daryanblog:
Police state So the UK is now officially a police state. In the last few months the government has passed laws prohibiting noisy protests or anything which could cause disruption. Which does sort of raise the…

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Really dumb money

Originally posted on daryanblog:
History might not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And the other week it did so again, with a string of bank failures in the US one after the other. Meanwhile Switzerland went from being a…

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Brexiter’s elites conspire

Originally posted on daryanblog:
For quite some time now in the UK if you argue against brexit, you are labelled as an elitist, defying the will of the people….even thought polls increasing show “the will of the people” has turned…

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Debunking right wing myths – the great replacement

Originally posted on daryanblog:
One rather bizarre and dangerous conspiracy theory propagated by the far right is that of the great replacement. The idea is that the whites are being gradually and quite deliberately replaced by non-whites (notably Muslims). It…

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