@post_liberal

Deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine for reasons wretched and divine

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I’ve written an essay about why 1950s Ireland had some of the highest institutionalisation rates in the world. Hopefully you find it interesting. (Link in reply.)
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Most fundamentally, if you arrive in a Downing Street promising to pass power down from the centre to the people, but instead pass it up to Brussels, you aren’t Mr Localism any more.
Mark Wallace
@wallaceme10h
Rejoining the EU might help Labour squeeze the Lib Dems - but it would also mean gutting Andy Burnham’s own policy agenda, from devolution to reindustrialisation to trade to regulation. My latest for @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/burnham-…

Burnham is walking straight into a Brexit trap of his own making

Mark Wallace: The PM came to office promising to give power back to ordinary people. Rejoining would do the exact opposite

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During the French Revolution's Reign of Terror people were mass murdered by being tied to barges which were then sunk in rivers & canals. The only limit to Robespierre's psychopathic & paranoid violence was the technology available.
Capel Lofft
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The chaos of the Revolution and the Terror led to chronic political instability, which led to the imposition of a military dictatorship, and the dictator in question - Napoleon - reinstated slavery. So I'm not sure this is quite the killer argument this person thinks.
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"Why are you signing players who are not good enough for Manchester United!" 🤔 "They've got problems all over the place!" 🗣️ Steven Gerrard questions Man United's recruitment as their season goes from bad to worse! 🔴
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81% of white evangelicals said that their families had been in the United States for at least three generations. About 40% of Muslims said that they were immigrants themselves to the United States. Among Hindus it was 72%.
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Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme #artbots @hassam
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In 2023/24 NHS Kent spent £640,000 on autism and ADHD services across the county. In 2025/26 that spending increased to £28.91m. NHS Kent forecast that 2026/27 spending on autism and ADHD services in the county will be between £32m and £46m.
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Ed West@edwest11h
Hits a man over the head with a bottle twice, continued to kick him while he lay defenceless on the floor >>>> escapes with a telling off xitter.cf/SkyNews/status/2114693…
Sky News
@SkyNewsOct 26
BREAKING: Chris Brown has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months, therefore avoiding jail time. Brown pleaded guilty to affray over a confrontation at a London nightclub in 2023. trib.al/FfaizNt 📺 Sky 501
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Joo
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This is where Lara Bird’s job is. UK taxpayers pay her £98,599 per year for the privilege. Did she get lost?
The Courier@thecourierukOct 26
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP detained in Israel after trying to enter Palestine ift.tt/4O8GQKM

Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP detained in Israel after trying to enter Palestine

Lara Bird has been detained in Israel after trying to enter the West Bank.

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We have a Californian minimum wage for an economy which, outside of London, is roughly at the level of Bulgaria.
Paul Coleman
@Paul_B_Coleman13h
Britain’s new minimum wage: £27,456 a year. Higher-rate income tax kicks in at £50,270. Wage compression the Soviet Union could only have dreamed of.
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I demand a government app that shows me where the cheapest marmalade is
BBC News (UK)
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Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes' bbc.in/4zTnQ4K

Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package

The chancellor will axe tariffs on some staples as part of plans to give households "breathing space".

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AMERICAN RELIGION THREAD (🇺🇸):
Pete@post_liberal16 May 2023
Miscellaneous thread about religion in America (🇺🇸):
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‘In that group {twenty-somethings} weekly church attendance skyrocketed from 31% in 1950 to an all-time record for young adults of 51% in 1957…It was this GI generation who…led the surge to church in the late 1940s and 1950s…This surge had no partisan political cast’
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‘Religious vitality was marked not merely by increasing attendance, but by the institutional commitment embodied in church membership that burgeoned from 49 percent of the adult population in 1940 to 69 percent in 1960’ goodreads.com/book/show/7841…
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Mark Irvine@Mark19578h
Israel is hold an election today There has not been an election in Gaza since Hamas drove out its rivals (by force) in 2006/07 A planned election in the area of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority - has just been cancelled by the Palestinian Authority
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MARTIN LEWIS THREAD:
Pete@post_liberalSep 26
The problem with the popularity of Martin Lewis, as an economic advisor for the masses, is that it reflects a stagnant economy and, consequently, an economic ethos geared towards extracting more from a fixed pie instead of trying to make the pie bigger.
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Ed Conway on the limitations of the MoneySavingExpert economic model archive.ph/2026.10.18-002513…
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Its Martin Lewis’s world. You are just living in it.
BBC News (UK)
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Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes' bbc.in/4zTnQ4K

Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package

The chancellor will axe tariffs on some staples as part of plans to give households "breathing space".

bbc.com
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Noticing
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Those of us with longer memories will recall the IEA leading the charge to scrap the net migration target and liberalise immigration rules before the Boriswave. When the CSJ proposed a higher salary threshold in 2019, Christopher called it “particularly stupid”.
Christopher Snowdon
@cjsnowdonOct 26
Watching the penny very slowly drop at The Economist is always a pleasure.
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