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Tory Liverpool region mayor candidate got Boris Johnson to endorse her.

Facebook is the zombie internet now. Good read this. https://www.404media.co/email/24eb6cea-6fa6-4b98-a2d2-8c4ba33d6c04/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

American Midnight by Adam Hochschild Explores the factors at play in the build up to the USA’s entry into WW1. Espionage Act. IWW “Wobblies”. Veterans of the Philippines War forming their own vigilante groups to crack down on unions. A young J Edgar Hoover and the Bureau of Investigation. And much more. All knitted together in great style by the author.

Bet plod over there have been itching to use their expensive military grade equipment on the woke student blob bringing American values into disrepute.

And New Model Army

https://mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcasteo Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger are joined by Maurizio Molinari, editor of Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica to explore exactly what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is doing with Italian state media. Renowned historian Antonio Scurati was booked to deliver a monologue on a talk show on Italian broadcaster RAI 3 on 25th April, Italy’s Liberation Day, when it commemorates victory over fascism. In this speech, he was planning to accuse Meloni’s government of sticking to ideologies of neo-fascist culture. But then his appearance was cancelled—leading to allegations that the Italian PM is trying to turn state broadcasters into her own “megaphone”. She wouldn’t be the first European leader exert control over their country’s media. There are concerns that Meloni is planning to take the Italian media down a similar road to that of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, where independent journalists operate in a climate of fear and intimidation. Alan Rusbridger Editor, Prospect

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, hey Lee?

Top article on Echo app Women weep in dock as their horrific crimes shown in court https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/gang-abducted-woman-walked-home-29027126?utm_source=app They weren’t under the DWP so comments closed.

Shame they don’t get their knickers in a twist over subsidised military spending. If ever a country needed to double drop a few garys and stick some tunes on it’s the good old US o A.

US plod is building a Cop City in Atlanta, have killed protestors there trying to save the forest, are now highly militarised, and often receiving training from the IDF. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/16/georgia-cop-city-police-shooting-evidence-manuel-paez-teran https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/

Didn’t want to read that but glad I did. Klopp has given everything and just looks shattered. Players’ have dropped off but it’s fine margins. Score when you’re on top and game management is different. A few posters on the match thread pointed out the way the ref gave every soft decision to them, and they got away with a fair bit. The free kick for their first was a joke but that’s how we’re reffed. Slight touch, opponent goes down, free kick. Agree it’s worse than losing out or a final cos of the nature of it.

It’s funny cos it’s true.

Hearn getting interviewed yesterday. World’s off to Saudi. Shite.

Article about the Birmingham pub bombings, and the fit up by the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad. https://open.substack.com/pub/birminghamdispatch/p/wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios

There’s that chip on your shoulder again you moaning scouse bastard.

Spot on. Posted the link before but worth another look. https://simonduffy.info/blog/colonialism-version-3

Thanks mate, the usual dodgy accounting and soundbites as you point out.

Did they even build any railways in Kenya? https://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/operationlegacydoc/

Defence procurement is notoriously fickle. There’s still middle aged men fighting on Facebook aircraft groups about the TSR2 project.

Plenty of money for BAE systems not so much for child literacy and development.

More councils across the country selling off assets to fund short term spending. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68825258