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Nico Macdonald

@Nico_Macdonald

Entrepreneurship instructor @Accent_Global and @CIEEStudyAbroad / UAL external examiner @CSM_news / UK #ProgressSummit co-host / BIG POTATOES manifesto convenor

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Watching live: Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s framing speech from Bristol, flanked by robots (don’t make that joke) so UWE Bristol or an aerospace facility (twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…)

The Labour Party certainly appears to have changed. Some new themes, so somewhat…

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‘It’s no coincidence swearing has become acceptable at a time when the words we really want to speak have never been more policed… It’s like we’re being allowed to swear as a reward for lying’ – Julie Burchill ⁦(Julie Burchill⁩) ⁦spiked⁩ spiked-online.com/2024/01/03/how…

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An Opinium / Observer poll for the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU shows ‘a clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK [in all respects]’ (theguardian.com/politics/2023/…)

Notably, it doesn’t ask: ‘Is the way Brexit has been…

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Another hospitality business closes its doors.

Opening during the Pandemic, Skinny Dip Coffee in Margate’s Northdown Road high street did steady business for three years.

But the unspoken recession hit it this autumn, along with the inflation of food costs. So reduced…

Another hospitality business closes its doors. Opening during the Pandemic, Skinny Dip Coffee in Margate’s Northdown Road high street did steady business for three years. But the unspoken recession hit it this autumn, along with the inflation of food costs. So reduced…
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Welcome to another year of learning, autodidacticism, and making the most of our cornucopia of knowledge; honest debate and continuing to create change; championing human agency, ingenuity and innovation; and facilitating Human Progress against ignorance, bad faith – and Nature!

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‘This platform Substack is fantastic for me as I don’t have to ring up a magazine and say, “I have got a piece, will you publish it?”. So this is a brilliant new form, self-publishing, and I have a massive audience’ – Today programme guest editor Hanif Kureishi on his new way…

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“We respect everyone’s right to participate in political expression and activism, but avoid having political debates on our internal communication systems at work. 37signals as a company does not weigh in on politics publicly, outside of topics directly related to our business.”…

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‘They claimed it was “context dependent” whether calling for the death of Jews should be allowed on campus. But these are the same people who will punish people for micro-aggressions and they will kick people out inadvertently…

‘I don’t buy any of it, it is utterly ridiculous.…

‘They claimed it was “context dependent” whether calling for the death of Jews should be allowed on campus. But these are the same people who will punish people for micro-aggressions and they will kick people out inadvertently… ‘I don’t buy any of it, it is utterly ridiculous.…
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Discussing Denmark’s proposed blasphemy law, Tom Slater (Tom Slater) spiked podcast (audioboom.com/posts/8417213-…) notes that ensuring such laws don’t return to Europe is as much about protecting minorities within minorities and apostates, not least in the context of Islam.

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