Dieci anni fa il corpo di Aylan sulla spiaggia ci scosse per un istante. Poi tutto tornò come prima. La sua memoria ci chiede di non fermarci all’indignazione passeggera, ma di cambiare davvero. di @antonellanapoli.bsky.social www.articolo21.org/2025/09/diec...
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
They will be needed if the UK withdraws from the ECHR, triggering the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement, and the EU then rescinds the TCA.
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
Unfortunately, one of the first punk gigs I went to in the student's union back in the 70s ended when one of the roadies seized the mike at the end and tried to start a chant of "National Front". It did not go down well.
Whenever the media whip up a frenzy, my main questions are " what are they not reporting?, what are they covering up?"
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
They forgot about "Events, dear boy, events"
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Cameron used the threat of being outside the EU as his major weapon in the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. He thought that the same tactic would work in England in 2016.
Any acronym with an E in it seems to set the idiots off
Peak rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains. Scotland also has: Public ownership of water, lower water bills than England's. No university tuition fees for local students. No prescription charges, abolished in 2011. No two child benefit cap from March 2026. England must follow.
That also means rejecting the politics of fear and division. While others scapegoat migrants and refugees, I will never do that. Scotland has always been a welcoming country, and we will focus on improving the lives of everyone who lives here - not blame.
“The dense interconnectedness of the human family… means that in terms of our biology, there are no different races. We can all claim ancestry from across the world. Nevertheless, our politics is obsessed with distinctions based on national identity…” Gaia’s article more relevant than ever:
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We can, as long as we call them "Council of Europe" flags. The UK is still part of the Council of Europe, and the law permits the flying of flags belonging to International organisations of which the UK is a member.
Lastly, the fearless journalists speaking out in N. Ireland are often under paramilitary death threats. Some have been given 48-hour ultimatums to leave the country, others physically attacked, some had their homes fitted with bulletproof windows. And still nothing from the Justice Minister...
The Green Party of England and Wales, not the UK.
Alan kurdi would have been 13 years old today.
Notable that he sought to strike a deal with the far-right, rather than the centre-left.
The local RG university here has a campus in China, with numbers of students from China visiting the UK campus to do part or all of their course. At the end of the exam period, these students are expected to return immediately to China, without the opportunity to graduate with their classmates.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
The number of drug deaths in 2024 fell by 13 per cent compared to the year before, fresh statistics show. www.holyrood.com/news/view,dr...
You omit Scotland where SNP and SG are strongly pro-EU. They are, however, largely ignored by the UK media.
🔴Red Flags: The Far-Right Warning Signs Keir Starmer Is Refusing to See The Prime Minister must wake up and stop trying to appease the very forces trying to exploit anti-migrant hate in order to destroy his Government, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/r...
While bills rise and Westminster sits back, I am focusing on your priorities. We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket. That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
Perhaps they couldn't spell "Saxons"?
Utter pish. And what's with using Ulster in a headline about Northern Ireland/ The North. Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan are not ruled from London. No reason any Nationalist would ever trust a deal with Perfidious Albion without the ECHR. This is like Brexit garbage written by posh boys all over again.
What an incredible achievement by Jamie, Ewan & Lachlan Maclean! 139 days of unsupported, non-stop rowing across the Pacific, battling storms and breaking the world record - and all to help others get clean water. Scotland couldn’t be prouder. 💙 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musk's sheer lack of self-awareness is staggering. He is a prime case for remigration
Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta
I just asked the European Commission whether they would ask for the €50,000 back in this case, as it has clearly been used to develop a military product now contracted to be supplied to the IDF, in breach of Horizon rules. No comment on the specific case "have to look into it", spokesman says.
Bless Alf Dubs. 92 years old and still arguing for the rights of refugees, 86 years after he came to the UK. Wouldn’t it be nice if our politicians could regain some humanity and Alf Dubs could retire. Not looking likely, though, is it? #r4today
He suddenly remembered he too was an immigrant and made the change.
At what point is the Government going to stop saying it "understands the frustrations" of people actively trying to destroy them?
Peak rail fares have been scrapped on ScotRail trains, meaning passengers will no longer pay higher prices for travelling during busy weekday rush hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anyone who was speeding in their car while driving to a destination has "arrived by illegal means".
Starmer was a barrister. His job was to make any case given to him, whether he believed it or not. He seems to have carried that into his political life as well. (Apologies to all the truthful and principled barristers out there)
This is so short sighted it is hard to see it as anything other than vindictive. How are successful asylum seekers expected to integrate if they cannot bring their families once they have indefinite leave to remain?
They are quite proud of the title "perfide Albion" and are determined to live up to it.
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege. (📸 Hidden Palestine)
If he has dual nationality, there is no barrier to revoking his citizenship. Nor is his US residence a barrier, as the UK revoked citizenship from a woman in a Syrian detention camp.
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.
Noone is arguing against the "polluter pays" principle, but you suggested an immediate and complete moratorium on plastic production, which isn't practical until alternatives (that aren't equally or more polluting) are available. We need to move to reuse/ecycle, to reduce the amount of new plastic
It is a long time ago and my memory isn't great. Was it the UDA or the UVF that fired the first shots at the British Army in 1969?
Today’s news from Belfast. An actual proscribed terror group supposedly on ceasefire and enjoying the benefits of the Good Friday Agreement, doing actual terror. m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...
Possibly because if she actually named people, those people would have no incentive to press for her pardon?
For decades the Murdoch press has shrieked about high taxes, to the point a large proportion of the poorest in the country believe they are overtaxed. Freezing of the tax threshold has made it worse. And the "I'm paying for the sick/ elderly/unemployed" mentality makes the case for raising tax hard
In 2023, UK tax to GDP ratio was 35.4; 45.8% for France, 41.9% for Denmark, 42.8% for Italy. Graph doesn't show inequities. The UK's poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't have European levels of welfare on USA levels of tax. www.oecd.org/en/about/new...
UK Internal Markets Act stops Scotland and Wales pushing forward until Westminster makes a move in England.
What would you replace it with? Think of the amount of things from buckets to car and aircraft panels where plastics and polymer based composite materials have replaced steel, where polyamides have replaced cotton and linen. The environmental impact of reverting to these would also be high.
UK Government neutered the deposit return scheme in Scotland because they couldn't be bothered setting up one in England.
Unfortunately, we had Thatcher
The Ontario facility, which bottles Crown Royal products, closes in Feb in a move to improve its North American supply chain. Bottling for the U.S. market moves stateside. When Canada is being attacked, you don’t move your plant to the US and leave a whole Canadian town unemployed. #cdnpoli
And well done to Crystal Clean Windows who cleaned it for free "A huge thank you to Isaac Crystal Clean Windows York Limited. After this incident happened, he kindly came and cleaned our windows for free. We are truly touched by his kindness." www.crystalcleanwindowsyork.co.uk
Why do we persist in calling them hotels. They are reception centres set up in failing hotels which would have closed if the government hadn't pressed them into service.
“Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more”
ICYMI Flag shagger Lee Twamley was formerly in prison for smuggling people into the UK
Truth
The important takeaway for people in N. Ireland is that the PSNI have refused to deploy Public Order legislation when people seeking asylum are being terrorised in their accommodation here. The cosy relationship between PSNI and far-right / paramilitaries should be under the spotlight now.
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The Westminster system made people poorer with austerity and Brexit - and now it’s trying to distract from those failures by scapegoating people who have been through unimaginable hardship. It is pathetic, it is cowardly and I will have no part in it. #RefugeesWelcome
At least he didn't end "Thank you for your attention to this matter". Although it wasn't far off.
Given that a US company (ITT) successfully sued the US Government because the USAAF bombed the Focke-Wulf fighter aircraft factories it partly owned, I imagine damages claims are already on their way to the Kremlin.
Guardian lifestyle writers getting ever more detached from how normal people live.
Free speech. - as long as you say what they want you to say.
Free-Speech Champions and Cancel-Culture Scourge latest: "The Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire, Mick Barton has banned the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire Live, from speaking to him or any of his councillors 'with immediate effect'." ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
1/ Just because you have a PhD in health or science doesn’t mean you know shit about health or science. 🧵
Anyone who thinks these threats are a joke is either ignorant, a moron, or not paying attention. www.cbc.ca/news/world/d...
Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
OPINION: EU countries should form an alliance with other countries in Europe, like the UK and Norway, as well as those on other continents to promote non-authoritarian rules-based democracies.
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Looking at that poster, one wonders when Trump will start having his Christian Nationalists wear their purple triangles.
I wish I had your confidence in your second sentence.
The slippery slope towards fascism we were on just became a vertical cliff. Labour can't finesse or equivocate this. They have to repudiate the notion entirely, and stampede back towards civilisation. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
How many of that 50% hold Irish passports?
Un tireur tue deux écoliers et en blesse 14 autres dans une église à Minneapolis
The Green Party and Plaid Cymru have 4 seats each, the same as Reform. Sinn Féin have 7 seats. SNP have 9 Independents have 21 LibDems have 72. Why is every media channel constantly blasting out Reform propaganda? @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
Only North Korea comes close to full sovereignty in the modern world.
I don't care what Farage or others who say they have a simple immigration solution claim, the UK can't just walk out of international commitments without massive economic and political damage, that's a lesson of Brexit. Globalisation. We don't actually have full sovereignty.
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Far-right protesters in Perth opposing asylum seekers in a local hotel were outnumbered 2-to-1 by anti-racism campaigners | Sadia Sikandar @diyabutt.bsky.social
I've written about the concerted effort by the combined forces of the right to turn convicted race hate monger Lucy Connolly into a victim, a saint and a martyr. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
"Glasgow forty years ago was black with two centuries of smoke, its great industries vanishing, its spirit on life support. But it found its voice and expressed it through a big round yellow smiling face – “Glasgow’s Miles Better”, said Mr Smiley. And it was." by Martin Roche @cluthaman.bsky.social
Once hundreds of schools start closing across the country and the retirement age rises to 75, the current period of moral panic over immigration is going to look utterly ridiculous
There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
I’m sick of Westminster politicians blaming migration for their failures. Immigrants are our NHS staff, our carers, our neighbours. We are a welcoming nation and I’m proud of that. It’s not migration that pushed down living standards - it’s Brexit, austerity and rising bills.
It was not a gift from Spain, these were conquered territories. I suppose you think California, New, Mexico, Colorado, Utah etc were simply "ceded" by Mexico, rather than conquered in Palk's war on Mexico. The USA was in large part built on the appropriation and annihilation of indigenous tribes.
How long before he offers to save money on transport by executing them here and claiming a bounty from the Taliban?
Saw a Trump 2020 flag fluttering limply next to an English one over the M25 yesterday. Fairly clear that it's got fuck all to do with innocent national pride (lol) and more to do with turning England into a Temu Sandy Row.
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
I've just watched Dan Wootton's interview with Lucy Connolly and both of them kept making the apparently killer point that there were no riots happening when she sent her tweet... and er.. isn't that kind of the point? I mean she literally admitted to inciting racial hatred.
What has it got to do with the USA? Has she applied for asylum there?
Sadly, this is the nearest the current Tory party get to "quality"
Still colonial expansion following conquest, like Puerto Rico.
I certainly seem to remember it as a newspaper headline back then. The Labour slogan in 1964 was "End 13 years of Tory misrule"