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At an event with DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said officials will push to end "all vaccine mandates" in law. "Every last one of them is wrong," (Politico) That’s measles, polio, chicken pox and tetanus… America’s anti-science anti-intellect shift is going to kill so many people.
Nigel Farage facing greater scrutiny from US Congress than the BBC
Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs" Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
Poorer pupils in England ‘bounced out of some subjects’ by costs, Families can't afford ingredients for food/nutrition subjects, instrument lessons for music, fieldwork trips, foreign visits in languages, home technology. Lives unfulfilled by inequitable distribution of income and wealth.
To be fair, that couple were probably tired out after a hard day painting flags on roundabouts
No scary movie could truly capture the sense of fear and utter horror of being all alone in a house on a cold, dark, rainy night, sitting down on the toilet and the seat being warm.
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.
The irony of journalists complaining that someone else should have done their job.
This!
As we seem to be talking ECHR again, here’s my Venn Diagram from more than a decade ago.
What we desperately need is a reliable and deep analysis of BBC coverage of UKIP, Farage and Reform compared to other parties over the last ten years. We all know it's disproportionate; we just need it in black and white figures. Then: Ofcom.
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Dog stealing the show! 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
"Outside of a modest community of journalists, politicians and think tankers on BlueSky, the British political class is basically strapped to a website which has been designed to encourage radicalisation." @iandunt.bsky.social insight on the shite-stirring right.
Missing out hiring hitmen and beating children.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
Jenrick can't control who stands in the background of his photos, but he can decide whether to attend protests with a far-right message and a documented history of being organised by the far-right. He knows this. He goes anyway. Once upon a time it would have been a sackable offence.
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
This is real two-tier justice blatant right-wing incitement to murder migrants ignored opposition to genocide by the Israeli terrorist state punished
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
We are utterly sick of the BBC's obsession with this story. On every fucking headline for 5 years and more. We get it. The BBC, once the beacon of humanity and internationalism is now in the clutches of right wing rabble rousing xenophobes. GFY.
They do but the BBC doesn't find it useful for its agenda.
BBC still stirring up hatred to migrants? WTF happened to it?
I remember Ernest Saunders released from prison for Alzheimers and curiously recovering. Different laws for different people.
An octopus on the run.
Here's Trump with Brexiters Farage, Raheem Kassam, and Arron Banks. And here's Raheem Kassam boasting about Russia defeating Ukraine in half a day, and Farage and Arron Banks parroting pro-Russian propaganda lies. Without Russia's little friends, there would have been no Brexit.
The missing outrage is that his original false claim led to a string of replies on his FB site suggesting that they should be drowned. That's the measure of the man and of the people who support him.
Plagued by dementia, Trump has forgotten his last instructions so needs to have them repeated.
Not that I had much faith before, but that clip of Angela Eagle saying “we hear your concerns” about the rioters has really laid bare to me just how monumentally unfit Labour is to the present moment
The Lib Dems who despite a 60 year history of being pro EU, shoe horned into government the most anti EU party in Parliament then campaigned for a referendum that didn't require a super-majority then spent the next few years attacking Corbyn who had actually campaigned to remain?
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
Yaxley's going down, down, down.
Strewth!
Starmer sees it as his life's work to alienate the Labour vote.
A Rare sighting of the deep blue underside of a glacier during a collapse caused by glacier calving.
This was written for America but I'm looking beadily at you, BBC.
I agree with much of what's in this post but nonetheless it kind of irritates me. It is long past time to stop talking about this in abstract, neutral terms, as though simple truth vs. falsehood is the relevant distinction. That just elides the real problem ...
Neo Nazis are killing Europe.
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
Hope not Hate; proper journalism.
Members of one of the UK’s biggest Neo-Nazi groups have been involved in organising anti-migrant protests outside a hotel in Essex, which has led to 10 people being arrested. Two members of the far-right group Homeland can be seen as the administrators of Facebook page Epping Says No
400,000 just announced.
Farage will be on the proscribed terrorist list any minute now Annnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy minute now... "Please stop calling them the ‘Farage Riots’, demands man behind the Farage Riots"
It doesn't look disfiguring at all. I hope you aren't sore or suffering discomfort. Best wishes.
This was basically Jacob Rees- Mogg's lame excuse too.
The Warsaw Ghetto was deliberately starved by the Nazis. It's a strange and repellent model for Israelis to copy.
“British food is too heavily seasoned” is exactly the nineteenth-century perspective that we need to counter all those tedious American takes that British food is bland
Consumers paid more overall: Transaction prices were 70 percent higher in markets with 16 sub-prices than in those with one price, on average."
"Higher total prices: Sellers' total asking prices were 60 percent higher in markets with 16 sub-prices than in those with one price. Comparing prices was more difficult: Buyers were 15 times more likely to select a higher-priced option in markets with 16 sub-prices than in those with one price.
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"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new report that suggests consumers tend to pay more for products that have more complex pricing structures.
The notorious despotic Roman Emperor Caligula's name meant small boots. You call it coincidence,
it's complicated and deceptive for a reason. It's not negligence or ineptitude, it's deliberate.
It looks lovely on you.
Best take a bodyguard.
Bluesky: why when I see a notification can't I go from there to the original thread? Am I missing something?
Why does the BBC give a multiple proven liar's version rather than a considered opinion from a medical expert?
The TERF controlled Labour Party Forum ran this news while criticising the move and was joined in by others talking about brain age or 'they might vote for Corbyn'. I asked if I'd strayed on to a Daily Mail site.
Anne Dudek was very good in it.
There was an excellent and witty C4 comedy TV series on a Glasgow book club.
Trump: I'm going to do something illegal. Pundits: He can't do that. GOP: 🤷♂️ Dems: It's a diversion. T: Done! Lawyers: That's unconstitutional. Media: Is it really, tho? Lawsuit. Judge: You can't do that! T: Lol loser, Appealed. Supreme Court: All hail the God King! Repeat.
In other news the government is handing out 2/3 of a billion pounds to people rich enough to spend up to £35,000 on a vehicle.
Canada will only take the US seriously if it begins to imprison the MAGA activists for their crimes and shuts down Fox News.
Nothing more than a death camp.
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
This Parrot Accuracy is insane.
My family, East Suffolk, would also say, 'I'm all of a muckwash.'
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.
Feel very lucky to own a sample of Becky Burke’s forthcoming comic about her 19 days of incarceration in an immigration detention centre in the USA. I wrote about Becky in April for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Except he didn't stay quiet, he actively campaigned to Remain. You mistake media muffling for silence. Once the referendum vote was announced, how would he have been portrayed as going against the democratic vote of the nation?
The Lib Dems led a vicious smear campaign against Corbyn, claiming daily (literally) he was anti EU while the Tories led the pincer movement claiming he was a Remainer. In his speeches he reserved the right to criticise the EU but was definitely a Remainer. It's daft blaming Brexit on Corbyn.
It's predictable button pushing. Words in the right wing press bring in fees that can be used for holidays in France.
13 Nov 24: Emily Sheffield appears on #newsnight 4 Dec 24: Emily Sheffield appears on #politicslive 8 Jan 25: Emily Sheffield appears on #politicslive 3 Apr 25: Emily Sheffield appears on #bbcqt 9 Jul 25: Emily Sheffield appears on #politicslive
Woke up with more to say about the historical significance of JD Vance's dismissal of the idea that America is "purely an idea." His political party was LITERALLY FOUNDED on this bedrock claim--that the Declaration of Independence's assertion of human equality is THE foundational American principle.
Badge of honour, mate.
There are so many different ways to have a sexual relationship, many of them gentle. Someone wanting to be intimate should easily adapt to your current situation. If they are worth it.
Why use the term, "common sense" just because Reform used it. Why not say Reform is readmitting racist misogynist bigots and attempting to excuse it? Pandering to their double speak is normalising it.
I'm chubby and love a milf so there you go. Good to hear you're getting your mojo back. The healing power of a drag show.
B- but the BBC is sooo fascinated by everything Reform does. It must be an honest mistake by their editorial staff.
So, do I have this right? The Reform UK parliamentary setup currently comprises a leader, a deputy leader, and a chief whip, whose only job is to ensure the only woman in the group does as the three of them say.
Shame about the last three words.
It's all kicking off for Farage.
He must be kicking himself.
Ohhhhh this guy, ok
I switched my account to ToshWuffing but you've blocked it. I still want to cheer you on.
Are you denying Corbyn campaigned to stay? Have you read his Remain speeches? You can say 'crap' but I can quote his actual words back.
Given the result, what else could he have said without being hugely misrepresented? He campaigned to stay. I read his speeches and while he reserved the right to criticise the EU on specific policies he said the case for remaining was overwhelming.
Yet I remember John McDonnell, Corbyn's closest ally suggesting a second referendum on the terms of any withdrawal very early on after the Brexit vote.
How long does it take for top journalists to finally notice what has been obvious to the general educated public for years? One has to simply watch the 6pm BBC TV News then follow it with the 7pm Channel 4 News to see how far the BBC has fallen.