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#confusion

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Wen

I do wonder whether Starmer, Reeves and McFadden have even bothered to trying to read the room. Cuts before considered review and reform (hey they have had long enough in opposition to consider what needs to be done - see works both ways) can only be timetabled because it allows them to claim ignorance of the consequences of their actions. And maybe a few backbenchers are growing spines, unlikely as it seems.

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · No 10 set to offer concessions to welfare rebelsBy Jessica Elgot
#PIP#Maladministration#Labour
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STOPDISINFORMATION

@ProPublica Empresas con conexiones políticas se benefician de las exenciones arancelarias de #Trump en medio del #secretismo y la #confusión — La falta de #transparencia del gobierno sobre las exenciones arancelarias ha preocupado a los expertos, ya que algunas empresas podrían estar obteniendo beneficios limitados a puerta cerrada. "Podría ser #corrupción, pero también podría ser incompetencia", declaró un lobista

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Wen

The Gruaniads headline writers get England (and maybe Wales) mixed up with the UK.

Under the proposals, counter-terrorism policing units would gain independence from local forces and become part of a new force covering at least England and Wales, and sitting in a newly created national centre for policing.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

Proper coordination is essential - but should not be a trojan horse in attempts to tie Scotland closer.

The Guardian · UK police chiefs draw up plans for national counter-terrorism forceBy Vikram Dodd
#Confusion#Guardian#UkPolitics
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Estelle Platini

The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

Contending Modernities · The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities | Contending ModernitiesThe birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.
#taboo#fetishism#sacred
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