Interested in politics, religion, philosophy (especially German Idealism). Politics mainly centre Left, Social Democrat. Labour Party member. Posting from 🇬🇧 UK.
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Former Ukrainian POW Oleksandr Strafun: From the moment of his release from Russian captivity in June 2025 — to just 2.5 months later, surrounded by love, proper medical care, and the support of his fiancée (now wife) Olena. This is what happens when life and love win and when it’s Ukraine 🇺🇦
"Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone is a powerful anthem of unity, highlighting that despite differences, all people are equal and should coexist peacefully. Its messages challenged prejudice and celebrated inclusivity, as the band was one of the first major integrated rock groups.
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Doing your own research never seems to include randomised control trials or people who have dedicated their lives to studying the field.
You’re having surgery. Do you want: A) A trained surgeon or B) Someone who’s done their own research online? You’re boarding a plane. Do you want: A) A trained pilot or B) Someone who’s done their own research online? You’re selecting someone to ensure the health of a nation. Do you want…
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
The government should be blamed for not pushing back aggressively against bad faith TV immigration coverage. But the prime culprits are the broadcasters: their news reporters, correspondents, editors and producers are amplifying and repeating lies. They are colluding in deception. It is shameful.
Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
I have trust in our courts to arrive at the right judgment
I watched the Court of Appeal decision. It's incredibly detailed and carefully argued. Inevitably, influential people in the media and politics who do not know the law and/or care about it will trash the judgment because it suits them to do so. They are the true enemies of the people and of the UK.
And you do pay taxes when you buy stuff. It's called VAT (at least in the UK)... or perhaps he is talking about Amazon?
People used to blame mental health problems. Now they are blaming the treatment of mental health problems.
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
If you swallow Access Hollywood everything else is a detail and that's on the US population really
I mean we're a long way from Toqueville
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
I thought the Daily Mail was in the pro-Meghan camp
The veterans have taken the fight for democracy to Trumps front door so have the 'resistance ' called on its followers to head for DC to support the people who have literally risked their lives to protect America and its people?
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
US Senate Report Shows Private Equity 'Devastates' healthcare. Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices, High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell. Listen to the survivors.
I honour wolves, ancestor to our most faithful animal friend.
Did you know a wolf’s sense of smell is key to survival?🐺👃 They can detect animals over a mile away, and the part of their brain devoted to scent is the size of a human fist, much larger than in humans. Wolves use this powerful nose to track prey, recognize pack members, and avoid humans. #WolfFact
Don't offer your support on social media, if you are physically able then join them! These brave souls risked their lives for their country, and for you! Go to Washington and stand shoulder to shoulder with the veterans, you owe them that much!
The Mail is now wailing pathetically because the EU is controlling its borders. The Brexiters never bothered to think or mention that Brexit would make the British potential illegal immigrants across most of Europe.
Lavrov once again rejects Zelensky's legitimacy. It is clear that Russia still wants a puppet regime in Kyiv and that Putin has no intention of meeting Zelensky face-to-face, which would be a huge humiliation for Russia's weasel-faced dictator.
Jeremy Hunt literally owning a property empire, sells a number of properties and avoids a huge slice of tax. Nothing said. Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous. Working class girl, getting above her station. Aspiration, only when it suits. This country eh?
Arrests are up by a third and offending is down following the Met’s crackdown in crime hotspots. I’ll continue to prioritise neighbourhood policing and provide record funding for the Met to tackle the issues that matter most to Londoners, including shoplifting and anti-social behaviour.
In 2008, I made a super-low budget historical drama about 1066 for Channel 4. It was fun, we had our characters speaking Old English, Old Norse, and Norman in the first scene, then they suddenly dropped into English I’ve been surprised it’s taken this long for another 1066 drama to come along
It's here: An absolute beast of an episode. The story of the worst speech in post-war Britain - how it came to be, what it said, and what happened afterwards.
There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...
The anger directed at the Labour Party is almost completely media driven. Really scary.
In today's least-shocking news that we all knew before, Fox staff and producers all along the election wasn't stolen in 2020 and lied for ratings. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
America has fallen.
So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?
🚴♀️ London has done it. We’ve just been crowned Europe’s favourite city for cycling, a fantastic recognition of the progress we’ve made to make our city greener and more accessible for all. Our cycling boom is good for Londoners and is putting us on the map for cycle tourism.
A tale of two vibes.
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
Some will have noticed that I’ve quoted a fair amount of Richard Wollheim in the last eight years. That’s how long it has taken me to find the time to put this together: coming soon!
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
I’m delighted that UK Black Pride is back at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for its biggest ever event. Over two decades, UK Black Pride has become the world’s largest celebration of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean-heritage LGBTQI+ communities. bit.ly/3HhKbUa
Some people are beautiful whatever their age
No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.
I think it captures your essence
#adoorableThursday Farm Street Church W1
We can’t let weird stuff like the actual, rock bottom crime rates affect our number one industry, which is the imaginary crime industrial complex
This is a beautiful photo
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
It's just appalling
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
I would very much like either kind of legs....
Even though it was very clearly going to happen, watching the US become an autocracy in real time is still something to behold.
Just reflecting about how one of the undisputed roles of the state for centuries has been to provide reasonably reliable economic and demographic statistics.
About 10 seconds ago
Good stuff from Starmer today, but it's not enough inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
The President is a r*pist who is going to let his collaborator free. To hell with anyone who still supports him.
The right hates London because it proves them wrong. There's no more to it than that.
The Lionesses have brought football home 🏴 On Tuesday a huge victory parade and homecoming celebration will take place on The Mall from 12.10pm. Take part and show your support for our champions:
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Extraordinary how much of the media is essentially trying to incite rioting now. Not just legitimise or normalise but actively encourage. It is, of course, unlikely to kick off anywhere near them.
Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?
"In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals." Indefensible.
Do not forget Gaza. We may be powerless to act but we are not powerless to speak.
Harrowing testimony from a British Doctor in #Gaza on #wato. She’s seen several men all shot in the testicles, while queuing for food. Also, Israel bombed a WTO warehouse full of medical supplies. They knew what it was, they gave them warning to evacuate but not enough notice to get supplies out.
Joey did a 180 so hard the Lolita Express had to re-calculate its flight path.
To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim
Oh so the president could release secret files if he wanted to, you say?
Thames Water imposing a hosepipe ban today, at the height of anger at Thames Water, is the most Thames Water thing ever
The threat by Trump to prosecute Obama should make us so upset that we must demand he release the Epstein files right away.
I was a personal trainer for almost a decade. Honest to God, the number one thing I would tell my weight loss clients was to eliminate soda and fast food from their diets. Here, the "MAHA" Secretary of HHS is cheering on soda... at a fast food restaurant. Snake oil salesman.
I hope you experience as much joy in your achievements as this raccoon.
The Simpsons depicted Donald Trump in jail with the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein - what are the chances?!
What an amazing document: a four-volume journal/sketchbook/scrapbook kept by Jacques Gogois, a French child in Amiens, during the First World War. The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old. @sommecourt.bsky.social archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...
Good morning to everyone especially this truth seeker!
If you don’t occasionally spend a night eating Häagen-Dazs Belgian chocolate ice cream straight out of the container whilst watching a documentary on owls, then are you really living life to the fullest?
1700 Israeli academics, including Nobel laureates, university presidents, provosts and deans send a clear message to Israeli government: do not pursue the population concentration plan in Gaza, as this is immoral, and would constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity.
The unfortunate lesson of many elites and officials folding or readily joining is they won’t do the right thing on their own, they need to fear doing the wrong thing. When historians look back on this, they’ll say failure to punish earlier malfeasance—eg coup attempt—is a big part of why we’re here.
From the blocking of the release of the Epstein files to the illegal mass deportations of I.C.E., the Republican Party is a human trafficking organization.
It's amazing to hear a Tory ex-minister suddenly noticing that Ofwat has been asleep at the wheel for all the years her government has been asleep at the wheel watching Ofwat. #politicslive
More moss please.
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
Mike Pence has the courage! "Release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution. ... Anyone who participated or was associated with this despicable man ought to be held up to public scrutiny." www.cbsnews.com/video/mike-p...
Rather doubtful. Starmer remained in the Shadow Cabinet under Corbyn. Very much doubt Jess Philips story. Corbyn just wasn't electable and let in Johnson.
You know the ‘musicians never used to be political’ people? Do they know anything about Nina Simone? Or Bob Marley? Or Marvin Gaye ? Or Bruce Springsteen? Or Bob Dylan? Or the punk movement? Or ska? Or like LITERALLY ANYTHING AT ALL?!!!
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so. #mythofantiwartrump
