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Raymond Snoddy
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Writer and media consultant. Former media editor of @thetimes and @FT, and presenter of @newswatchbbc. Now a free agent.
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Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.
I hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.
He said: “Gutted I couldn’t attend the wedding. I wanted to come, but I heard that half the guests were Welsh, and I don’t know. Who knows what would have happened with all those foreign speakers there. I don’t know.”
This is at a time that his party are trying to convince people in Wales that they should elect them to the Welsh Parliament.
Big credit to the Guardian for breaking this story: theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…
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“I put him to bed with paracetamol and Nurofen and I went in in the morning and he was dead - it was that quick.”
Author and poet Michael Rosen remembers the sudden death of his late son Eddie to Meningitis C in 1999.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA world by declaring that "universal health coverage" is a "moral imperative" for society — destroying Republican talking points in a single blow.
This is what real moral leadership sounds like...
“Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just,” said Leo.
The leader of the Catholic Church — a staunch opponent of the casual cruelty and apathy towards suffering that defines modern conservative movements — was speaking at at conference about healthcare inequality organized by the European bishops' council, Italian bishops' conference, and the World Health Organization.
“Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” he said, because it “an essential condition for social peace.”
“Healthcare must be accessible to the most vulnerable, not only because their dignity requires it but also to prevent injustice from becoming a cause of conflict,” the pope added.
The speech was a potent counter-argument to the austerity measures favored in the United States, where countless Americans regularly go bankrupt due to medical debt. Democrats have long pushed for expanding healthcare, while Republicans oppose it on "fiscal responsibility" grounds when in reality they just want to funnel more money to the rich through plutocratic tax cuts and costly foreign wars.
Pope Leo said that eliminating healthcare inequalities will be especially helpful to younger generations battling mental health "because invisible psychological wounds are no less severe than those that are visible."
He warned that"distance, distraction and desensitization to the sight of violence and the suffering of others lead us toward indifference."
"Yet all men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer: on the pain of the lonely, on those who for various reasons are marginalized and considered 'outcasts,' " he added. "For without them, we cannot build just societies founded on the human person."
Predictably, right-wingers on social media are condemning Leo as a "communist" for daring to suggest that wealthy, modern, civilized nations should take care of their sick. What do you think?
Please ❤️ and share if you support Pope Leo!

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"High treason"… Shocking poll: 74% of Americans accuse Kushner of dragging Washington into the war for Israel’s benefit.
A new poll shows that 74% of Americans suspect that Jared Kushner “most likely committed high treason” by sabotaging Iranian peace negotiations and acting as an agent for Israel to push the United States into this war.

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MAGA News: Joe Kent is suddenly being investigated for leaking classified information while Trump offers private national security briefings to anyone who will pay him.
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and something meaningful has to be done about it at the international level such as proper levels of taxation
Joni Askola@joni_askola
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
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