#Westminster

1/ This article is everything wrong with @BBCNews and shows why much of its output is propaganda, not journalism. Awful. Going to use this thread to pick it apart piece
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I obviously have quite a lot going on today, what with @TessaRDavis testing positive - but Brexit has dominated my personal and professional life for quite a while & I'd
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10 Buildings I haven never gotten out of my head. 1. All Saints, Margaret Street. Westminster, London. William Butterfield, 1859. Hearty on the outside and inside, a level of sophistication
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Latest panelbase poll for the ST. Independence: Yes 54%, No 46% List vote and seatsSNP: 50% (+8) 74 (+11)Tories: 18% (-5) 24 (-7)Labour: 15% (-4) 17 (-7)Greens: 8% (+1) 9
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Why, if we have a such strong critique of Labourism and we’re lowercase labour transformed, do we say that a political revival of the working class needs partly to go
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Today is the day! At around 2PM I will be officially sworn in as the Senator from the First Senate District. I’m excited! I’ll take my oath today on my
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1. So, after a year of dilemma & research re Brexit, against an international socialist background I’ve come to conclusion that Brexit isn’t about British freedom. It’s about swapping European
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Lunacy.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/06/17/drinking-outside-pubs-banned-central-london-post-lockdown/ - Drinking outside common in this area. Enforcement will be hard, especially as customers are used to doing it. So you'd n
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Watch a debate on Online Anonymity in Westminster Hall this afternoon at 1430h London time, led by @DamianHinds. Will be interesting to see whether MPs understand that real anonymity includes
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Jo Coburn immediately activates talkover mode when Owen Jones notes how racist the Spectator is. Why is that? Is it because they supply a large number of guests to her
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Reasons not to lose your mind and accept the necessity of @YesCymru reaching across a reasonable amount of the political spectrum, a thread: 1. Yes Cymru is non-partisan. It does
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THREAD: When explaining structural problems with the way the Canadian parliamentary system works, it can often seem very abstract, but occasionally reality interjects, and the WE scandal is showing an
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1/ New year, new MRP model, and an inevitable raft of takes. Here are my thoughtshttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/detailed-poll-shows-boris-johnson-risks-losing-his-majority-and-his-seat-7tm9p3dp7 2/ Equal seats is about what would b
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Tonight could see the hard, frankly boring aspect of being mayor of Greater Manchester - the local government bit - heaves back into view, having been eclipsed by the 'king
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We need a real conversation about journalism & bias. There’s a veneer of so-called objectivity when there really is no such thing which is being revealed in some recent anti-poverty
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1/Nos da cyfellion/good evening comrades! @himbo_girl here. This is your LGBTQIA+ History Month takeover of Labour for Indy Wales. I will be writing this thread in English but feel free
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