Newly elected UK PM Keir Starmer says Britain must rediscover its identity
05 Jul
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Newly elected UK PM Keir Starmer says Britain must rediscover its identity

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Politics tamfitronics Newly elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said Britain needed to rediscover its identity and undergo a wider reset, in his first words outside his new office at 10 Downing Street, promising to fight to restore trust in politics and serve all voters.Greeted in Downing Street by a large crowd of cheering aides and supporters after formally accepting King Charles’s invitation to become prime minister, Starmer’s first address made the case for moderate politics to repair voters’ broken trust.“It is surely clear to everyone that our country needs a bigger reset, a rediscovery of who we are, because no matter how fierce the storms of history, one of the greatest strengths of this nation has always been our ability to navigate a way to calmer waters,” he said.“This depends upon politicians,...
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UK General Election: Which football team every party leader supports including die-hard Arsenal and Liverpool fans
04 Jul
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UK General Election: Which football team every party leader supports including die-hard Arsenal and Liverpool fans

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Politics tamfitronics The UK general election is upon us, and although football and politics generally don’t mix, it’s intriguing to see which side the next prime minister of the nation may support. As England and Gareth Southgate embark on Germany in the hopes of trying to bring football home for the country – the UK may have changed drastically in regards to a political stance on their return. Thursday the 4th of July 2024. A day when UK citizens head to polling stations all across the nation, only to wait with bated breath as to who may be the next ruler of the nation.But beyond the endless debates and campaign trails, there’s a...
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Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Watts
04 Jul
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Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Watts

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Politics tamfitronics A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.That may not be the first thing on the minds of British voters as they go to the polls on Thursday. It is probably also a minority view in the rest of Europe or the US, where people are too much in the thick of a polycrisis to consider anything outside politics and economics as usual. But from a distance, in my case from the Amazon rainforest, there is a very different explanation for the tremors being witnessed in the old world and the new.How rising emissions distort our political ecosystems is not nearly as well understood as the scientific certainty that they are heating our world. Hundreds of academic papers detail the...
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