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Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End (jacobin.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.

Children in England growing up ‘sedentary, scrolling and alone’, say experts (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by daniel_callahan@jlai.lu to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Twix ad banned for encouraging unsafe driving (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by daniel_callahan@jlai.lu to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years (www.gov.uk)

submitted 12 hours ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Man who tried to smuggle £1.2m in suitcases out of UK jailed (www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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A man who tried to smuggle £1.2m in suitcases out of the United Kingdom to Lebanon has been jailed for 21 months, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Reeves vows to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by next election (www.lbc.co.uk)

submitted 7 hours ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Rachel Reeves outlines boosts for NHS and housing (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by daniel_callahan@jlai.lu to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Women in prison ‘punitively’ restrained 424 times amid mental health crisis (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by Pro@reddthat.com to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Revealed: Dozens of women with mental health problems ‘stripped’ and made to wear ‘last resort’ anti-rip clothing

UN urges UK to negotiate new Chagos deal that allows islanders to return (www.theargus.co.uk)

submitted 10 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by SleafordMod@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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This article notes that "right-wing governments, including the US and Hungary, are increasingly blaming falling fertility rates on a rejection of parenthood", as if today's young adults just don't want children.

But the author suggests that actually people do want children, and one of the main reasons they're having fewer children is because they can't afford many children.

Thoughts?

Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging UK policy on Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by RubberDuck@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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