In London, hate will never win.
Cymraes in Sheffield. Retired to spend more time with my books. Labour. Inclusive Anglican. Libraries. Cake.
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In London, hate will never win.
🇬🇧 Charles III, King of the United Kingdom: “Today; as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine to deter aggression.”
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Ask me again on 1st December!
Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.
One of the greats has passed. Robert Redford was a celebrated actor, director, and someone who held a mirror up to America. His work will live on, but we Ordinary People will feel The Sting of his loss for years. Rest among the stars now, and when you see heaven, may a River Run Through It.
All hail VICTOR!!! He's a real-life hero whose selflessness & courage is an inspiration to us all. Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery. I salute you, sir! 🫡
BREAKING: Trump says a true thing.
Whooooooooooo!
Fish fingers, peas & chips with ketchup!
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Horrible.
Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability
As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... We need to make the same thing happen this time.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Even RFK Jr.’s own family says he’s a danger to public health. His sister and nephew called on him to resign after his reckless anti-vaccine testimony. They’re right—Americans deserve science, facts, and leadership rooted in truth. www.axios.com/2025/09/05/r...
Bridlington, 1925, by William H. Barribal.
Prefer author unless they are tedious readers.
it's real support from actual racists
Stigmata??
Isn't it time to leave Rayner alone? Not only is this a ludicrous "her nan's hairdresser's cousin once may have kicked a puppy" story, half of it is basically gossip about their marital breakdown that Bella and OK would blush to print - let alone a former newspaper of record. It's just vicious. ~AA
Did you want to see Trump getting booed at US Open—after USTA asked broadcasters not to show it?—there are many videos of it on Tik Tok. Here is one www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6cSDxAV/
Gotta keep women down and their guilt for no reason up. What a colossal embarrassment and disappointment RFK is to his family.
Trump and his allies are plotting to subvert elections — from “emergency powers” to nationwide gerrymanders. Media silence is deafening. We’re covering it. Here’s what you missed, and exactly what you need to know.
Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.
Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order over the weekend directing the city’s police force not to cooperate with federal agents in a potential crackdown on crime and immigration.
Flower costumes worn #onthisday in 1942 by interned Japanese-American preschool children celebrating Labor Day (the first Monday of September) at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in Newell, CA. #OTD @usnatarchives.bsky.social
August 7th column: will the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about the push to relegitimise racism be heard or recognised? Not yet! www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
Trump fled back indoors after hearing himself booed. Does that mean we get six more weeks of summer or what.
Holy shit! During the national anthem at the US Open men's final, the moment Trump is shown on the jumbotron the entire stadium erupted in boos. To say the pedophile president is loathed in his own hometown would be an understatement. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
As opposed to ‘we set fire to our own economy to build a paradisic deregulated tax haven for polluters, billionaires and rent-seekers, and now:…’ bsky.app/profile/wulf...
It isn't mostly about the boats, it isn't mostly about the growth, it is rather a generalised feeling that the system is working against ordinary people. Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... there will be consequences for lying. Right? Right?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “When we are seeing falling numbers of parents getting their children vaccinated, and a resurgence of disease we had previously eradicated, it is shockingly irresponsible for Nigel Farage to give a platform to these poisonous lies”
Reform conference hears King's cancer linked to Covid vaccines www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform 'Next Step' conference is told that the Covid vaccines probably gave the King and the Princess of Wales cancer bsky.app/profile/seaw...
Oh for goodness sake. 🤷
The Reform party conference has been told that Covid vaccines are the probable cause of cancer for the King and the Princess of Wales The party chose to platform Dr Aseem Malhotra, a prominent ally of RFK Jr in their dangerous maverick campaigns against vaccines www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Such a brilliant episode "l'll say a mass .."
Claws can be clipped.
Get a cat!
Eric Adams is staying in the race, so it's a good time to re-up this — what should be a central issue in the campaign if it weren't for the million other things he's been up to:
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Recognising that her twin passions were music and children, she quietly withdrew from royal life and took a job as a music teacher at a primary school in Kingston upon Hull. She even stopped using the title Her Royal Highness. In the staff room she was simply "Kath", and to the children "Mrs Kent".
Sad to see her go but good Rayner has shown she has integrity & resigned. Pity Johnson, Sunak, Zahawi etc etc didn't also have the same integrity. Oh and that woman who crashed the UK economy.. Plus the guy who lobbied Congress against the UK this week. Didn't see the media circus questioning him.
She’s therefore been the subject to endless snobbery and classism and extra scrutiny from day 1- another reason she was foolish not to be meticulous.
She was therefore threatening to them, because she authentically spoke for the same people they (erroneously) claim to speak for and could not be dismissed as a liberal elite- their favoured tactic with anyone they don’t like.
Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.
Me too!
Another load of George-wash hits the fan. Lovely hearing Kate screech at the delusional Amber. Enjoyed that probably more than a grown woman should. #TheArchers
Sometimes, Kate is just magnificent. #TheArchers
Oh l love them too. She is frightfully clever!
Seems reasonable www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
He's a bit shouty isn't he?
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
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Love it! 😂😂
An awesome book sign @efrogwraig.bsky.social @navithefairy.bsky.social
What will Trump order should be done about his own anti-American activities? #r4today
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
This is on you Republican senate. You knew he wasn’t fit for the job and you approved him anyway. Now people are going to die.
@kat4obama.bsky.social
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
He was fabulous.
Agreed.
8. Bone spurs finally healed! 9. January 6 made a national holiday. 10. He’s moving to Russia to be with the man he loves.
1. Giuliani's medal ceremony. 2. Melania is pregnant. 3. New haircut! 4. Declares himself dictator for life. 5. Arrests entire U.S. population as a precautionary measure. 6. Declares NATO a terrorist organization. 7. New Vice President is Ivanka!
Today, Gov. Andy Beshear encouraged Kentucky’s small businesses that are creating jobs and investing in our communities to apply for a tax credit of up to $25,000 through the Kentucky Small Business Tax Credit (KSBTC). Read more: tinyurl.com/3e6z7dt3
Andrew Cuomo calling Trump to ask for support.
👏 Llongyfarchiadau Elfyn Evans Ar ôl gorffen yn ail yn Rali Paraguay mae’r Cymro yn dal ei afael ar frig Pencampwriaeth y Byd
This is insane. Every environmental indicator is flashing red, and Badenoch's response is just to give up and burn everything while we still can. Badenoch once said "I'm a conservative, not an arsonist". Yet when the challenge is to conserve the planet, it's "burn, baby, burn".
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” – The Bear on why leaving the ECHR would be a really Bad Idea.
Love this!
#OnThisDay 1982 in the Guardian: ‘Cricket and the Left’…
‘Who would not want to dance to Boogie Wonderland?’: Alison Balsom’s honest playlist
Very pleased to see a review of ‘Just Earth’ from Mark Avery. Mark has been involved with all these tricky ecological subjects for about as long as I have, so good to have his thoughts on this book (which was quite hard to write, although hopefully not hard to read) markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
Blue States make the money, Red States take the money. The. Biggest welfare queens are the red states.
Reform Ltd have lost 15 counsellors in three months. Thank goodness they are not in charge of the country!
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Sunday book review: Just Earth by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s... 'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem' #naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
Has to be a 999 call in that case.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
HMRC chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvency. Insolvent businesses sold in secret deals (pre-packs) which pay-off secured creditors, jettison others HMRC loses. It is a secondary preferential & unsecured creditor. There is no economic assessment of pre-packs.
Coolest president ever.
Are they hiding behind your shoes?
What??
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% Parent company officials say trade dispute is causing 'significant headwinds' and 'significant impact' Richard Woodbury · CBC News · Posted: Aug 30, 2025 2:00 AM CST | Last Updated: 11 hours ago
"Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by US border patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators solve a crime against his family."
Al Ramsay 