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@ClarkeMicah @PeterKnigh34577 Mostly closed by then Secretary of State for Education, Margaret Thatcher

.@peterknigh34577. No. Grammar schools had existed since the days of William Shakespeare. Butler’s 1944 Act brought them into the state system with merit-based entry . 30 years later most of them had been destroyed

Dear @Keir_Starmer, Suggest you give this a watch This is Jonathan Miller taking on Enoch Powell Calling out the baselessness of racial fear and hatred …and we need our leaders to follow suit, not perpetuate it.

Hoy me han preguntado sobre las palabras del Juez de la Audiencia Nacional, Eloy Velasco, sobre si una cajera o una feminista debería o no hacer leyes. Esto he contestado 👇

@PabloIglesias 🔸Tienes derecho a la palabra , siempre que digáis lo que yo quiera que se diga . @IreneMontero " Dicen que las normas obligan a quitarnos el pañuelo palestino. Las normas también prohíben los genocidios y aquí está Europa apoyando uno " .

Burgos gets ready!

Interesting result in Truro and Falmouth. Labour wins but with almost 2,000 less votes than 2019. Not much evidence of enthusiasm for the policy-lite Starmer party. More revulsion at the Tory record. #Jen4TruroAndFalmouth

Interesting result in Truro and Falmouth. Labour wins but with almost 2,000 less votes than 2019. Not much evidence of enthusiasm for the policy-lite Starmer party. More revulsion at the Tory record. #Je n4TruroAndFal

Valencia immediately finds accommodation for people displaced by the fire. Contrast Grenfell tower shambles valencia.es/val/actualitat…

An actual "hard choice" would be asking rich Britons and big businesses to pay more tax, to spend on solving the country's multiple crises and dragging it into the 21st century. Actual courage is standing up to the powerful, not standing up to the poor.

Part of the 2024 Labour Manifesto 'What we will not do' so far:

Sickening when you read the rest of Thatcher’s speech on The Rule of Law that Starmer choose to borrow from today 😡

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

@slumoflegs Vox is the Spanish fascist party

also the grafitti that says 'fuck Vox' suggests that U2's The Edge was here at some point

When all the guitar menders are too short you need a....

@slumoflegs @cooljinzo @SniffanyATN Omg

I finally met @cooljinzo irl, with @SniffanyATN & we had a nice chat about wrestling that made me so over-excited that when I went to Tesco afterwards I accidentally pressed a button on the checkout to say yes to donating 15p to the poppy appeal & couldn't reverse it

@KateEwert Sorry to hear this. I'm sure you would have done well. I agree with Keir Starmer :-“The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.”

Spain's socio cultural chasms!

Just watched ambulance crew arrive for man in some difficulties. Fainted then staggering. 15 minutes from start of incident to their arrival. So much for the moaners. Oh I'm in Seville, Spain.

Reginald Perrin and the original anti-growth coalition (1977)