Linguabrand

I have a BA and an MA in Politics, I've taught it for more than a decade & I'm obsessively interested in it. After almost two years of Labour government, I have absolutely no idea what their pitch to the electorate is.

We’re called the party of working people for a reason.

American server says there is a big difference between how White customers treat them when they make mistakes vs how Black customers treat them - “This is how white people are when you make a mistake in a restaurant, ‘oh, no biggie, no problem.’ And they still tip like $10, $12” - “Black people when you make a mistake. ‘Mm yeah, I need to speak to your manager. I need to speak to your manager. I need you to comp my entire meal, and I'm gonna write a review to corporate and tell them how terrible this establishment is, and we're not tipping. You get a better job.’” She also fingers black customers give her a very bad attitude compared to white customers This post had over 51k likes and over 1000 comments so I read through the comments Every top comment were servers saying they experience this exact same thing

UK history has been recorded since before the Domesday Book. Men could be awarded university degrees in 1230. Cambridge finally capitulated and awarded degrees to women in 1948. Men first took seats in Parliament in 1265. Women had to wait till 1918. Men could vote in 1832. Women had to wait till 1918. Men were legally persons in their own right. Women were chattels (the property of fathers or husbands) until coverture was finally knocked on the head in 1991. That’s not a typo. 1991. It is true that one of us is certainly silly and historically illiterate. I leave it to serious historians to decide which…

Daisy Eastlake, "You said you would withdraw from the UK-Israel trade agreement, trade was worth £6.2 billion in 2025, do you accept policies like this come with an economic cost? And how would you plug gaps like that?" Zack Polanski, "I don't think we should be putting a cost on people's lives" "We've seen an ongoing genocide in Gaza. We've seen hundreds of people die in the last 24 hours in Lebanon. As well as schoolchildren who have died in Iran" "It's totally unacceptable" "So the first thing is that there is no price on this and that we are protecting human life" "Second, what does economic sovereignty look like?" "Are we relying on countries that have bad human rights records, or human rights abuses, or terror acts, as we see this rogue state of Israel doing at the moment" "It's clearly important that we disentangle from that" "Either more robust sanctions, or making sure we have an industrial revolution in this country" "Whether it's building the wind turbines for the climate crisis, or the productivity of the future" "That means we wouldn't be relying on countries committing human rights abuses"

🟢 Green candidates in revolt after refusing to renounce call to abolish jails. Party HQ had claimed Kate Nevens supported prisons as “last resort”. But she says she wants “complete abolition”. Opponents say Greer and Mackay have lost control of bonkers candidates. Link⬇️

Mad Miliband genuinely believes that countries are looking at the UKs sky high energy prices in some sort of amazement. Is he really that delusional?

The co-founder of Women of the Lane says her group opposes the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi as Tottenham manager and she will stop attending matches over the issue.

🚨DERANGED: RAF Illegally BLOCKED 160+ White Male Pilots to Boost Diversity — MoD Confirms “This is one of the craziest decisions ever made by any branch of the British state ever!” The RAF literally paused hiring white men, preferring to recruit NO ONE over a qualified white male pilot, all to hit woke diversity quotas for women & ethnic minorities. A senior female recruitment officer resigned in protest, calling it illegal & immoral. MoD inquiry confirmed: it WAS unlawful positive discrimination. Over 160 male pilots had training suspended. 31 got compensation. This is deranged. Putting ideology before competence doesn’t make our military stronger, it puts national security at risk.

TRUMP: “We shot down three of our own planes with Patriot missiles. But it’s all good bc the pilots survived and are still flying today.” WHAT?!?! How embarrassing. And why is he acting like this is some great achievement?