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Silvertown Tunnel Opens 🪶 A Backward Step For London

Simon Pirani ☭  First published on Monday in the London Evening Standard.9-April-2025The Silvertown tunnel, which opened to traffic on Monday, drives London backwards. The extra HGVs and cars it brings to east and south-east London will exacerbate air pollution, and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.Supporters of Stop the Silvertown Tunnel coalition outside City Hall on

Do Republican Dictionaries Not Have The Word ‘Context’?

Dr John Coulter ✍ The latest ‘equality’ propaganda stunt from the republican movement is to use the commemorations of the failed 1916 Easter Rising as an excuse to egg on the pro-Union community to attend such republican coat-trailing events. Republicans will use the excuse of how Sinn Fein elected representatives have attended Remembrance Sunday and Somme battle commemoration events, so

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Eighteen

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousSupreme Court Lets Trump Freeze Millions in Funding to Tackle Teacher Shortages'Infliction of significant harms': The Supreme

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Nineteen

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousSenior republican admits two of the Disappeared may never be foundTurkish people will not accept the death sentence for their

A Morning Thought @ 2558

A Morning Thought @ 2557

Masks Are Torn 🪶 Ex-Muslims From Frying Pan To Fire

Azar Majedi & Homa Arjomand ✍ Maryam Namazie, Council of Ex- Muslims of Britain, (CEMB) has written a propaganda piece entitled Azar Majedi and Homa Arjomand’s Islamist Propaganda and Morality! The title sounds more like a right wing leaflet (from Reform Party) than a political debate, a rational critique, as one would expect from a secular, atheist organisation who claims to

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Seventeen

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousIn southern Syria, a violent new Israeli occupation emergesThe Israeli army is facing its biggest refusal crisis in decadesOn 21

Jerry Coyne Slams FFRF For “Abandoning Science” While Repeating Anti-Trans Lies

Friendly Atheist 📜 When the Wall Street Journal is your megaphone, you’re not being silenced.In an essay published in print yesterday, on the Trans Day of Visibility, biologist Jerry Coyne wrote in the Wall Street Journal (archived link) about his recent self-own against the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He said the atheist organization is no different from “religious fundamentalists”

10,000 Angry White Men And Me 🪶 My Night With Reform UK

Open Democracy 📜Written by Sian Norris. Undercover at Reform UK’s biggest ever rally, I saw white men bond over fury at migrants, trans people and politicians'At Reform UK’s rally in Birmingham, the line to the men’s toilets is the longest I have ever seen.Snaking around the circular foyer of the city centre’s Utilita arena are dozens of men from all walks of life. Young, pale men