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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're probably right, actually:

Across the board, the British public are more positive about how the riots were handled now than they were at the time. Compared to a fortnight ago, the proportion of Britons feeling the police handled them well has increased from 52% to 63%, while the number believing the legal system has done a good job dealing with the situation has shot up from just a quarter of Britons (27%) to a clear majority of 57%.

Keir Starmer has also seen something of a turnaround. Now, the public are roughly evenly split on how the prime minister handled the riots, with 43% thinking he handled them well and 40% viewing his response as poor. At the time of the riots, the public had taken a significantly more negative view, with only 31% saying Starmer was reacting well compared to 49% who thought he was doing a bad job.

This improved view of the prime minister’s handling is apparent among all groups, but has been most notable among Conservatives, a third of whom (35%) now feel he did a good job, up from one in six (16%) a fortnight ago.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's weird that neither article mentions the riots. I get why the articles want to attribute the drop to things Labour has actually done or said, but I feel a lot of that drop in support is people seeing that chaos of late July and blaming the nebulous government.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Yet another successful export of the Empire, and, like our sports, the colonies are probably better at it than us.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But, but, Ukraine bad. The Azov Battalion is going to genocide all the Russian speakers.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone from the Midlands, I'd rather not exist than be associated with the Mancs.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can either pay and get ad-free access to our articles

But it's not ad-free access though.

Screenshot from the Mirror asking to pay £2 for non tracking ads or be tracked and read for free

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What advice could Jonathan Ashworth give? The guy lost his seat to a pro-Gaza independent, hardly the guy I'd want if I had a change of losing Michigan because of my administration's policy on Gaza.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How are half of these "Gen Alpha phrases"? The edging Wikipedia article was created in 2004, for example.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

Literally the fourth paragraph of the article:

The responses revealed that specific titles removed from school libraries included This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, a memoir about a young person discovering their sexual identity; Julián is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love, a picture book about a gender non-conforming boy who dreams of being a mermaid; and the alphabet book ABC Pride, by Louie Stowell, Elly Barnes and Amy Phelps, which introduces young readers to the alphabet while they learn more about the LGBT+ community.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago

Time to push the country into the sun.

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