Bluesky
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If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/aa94...
What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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The racist morons attending this hateful “Unite the Kingdom” march are awful and I despise them. As a Londoner, I cannot emphasise strongly enough how this goes against everything I love about the city. The diversity and multiculturalism of London is the strongest part of it.
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We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Labour need to give the public a reason to vote for them, as they can’t pitch “change” anymore (unlike the Greens) and 25%+ of voters don’t care about Reform’s cruelty. I would like them to move away from “cost of living” as they can’t control or deliver on it as well as “be mean to migrants”.
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