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How is the substance of the NSS on this issue any different to the language used? The underlying message seems to be the same. Here making clear it's more sympathetic to Putin's Russia than to liberal European states.
Should the UK be looking to learn from Trump's immigration policies?
Article from the Independent Reviewer on Terrorism yesterday (who was also on R4 Today).
The argument here is that the substance of concerns in the Trump Administration's NSS is correct, even if the language is a bit OTT.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I'm sorry, but this level of stupidity is off the charts. Badenoch could have brought the socio-economic inequalities duty in the Act into force *when she was literally the equalities minister*. How do people like this get dressed in the morning? How do they remember to drink coffee, not bleach?
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Steve Peers
Electoral Commission has published its annual data on electoral fraud for 2025. Total of 2 convictions, one for supplying false info when registering to vote; one for personation in relation to a postal vote.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
No change evident here.
William Hague's "Common Sense Revolution" is nearly 27 years old.
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The issue being discussed in the article seems a valid one to raise, but the impression given is that in certain circles there's a myopia about all this.
Imagine a Labour Govt putting its Comms out in a BNP/ National Front house magazine, alongside editorials calling for racist violence & civil war. Thereby boosting its circulation. And that Govt then saying, "unfortunately, we can't stop putting our Comms out there now, too many people read it".
Here the article refers to the Belfast knife attack, & Southport. Neither of them terrorist incidents. But no mention of the actions of far right groups in stoking the violence that followed both of them (& as it happens links to the US & Russia), which might well amount to terrorism.
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Badenoch is not only confused, but profoundly ignorant. The Equality Act *does* have provisions on class - section 1 of the Act! www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/1...
However govts - including the govt she was literally the *equalities minister* in!!! - have not applied this provision in England.
