No. Because that would be to overturn the rule of law. Even Farage is eligible for the law’s protection
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No. Because that would be to overturn the rule of law. Even Farage is eligible for the law’s protection
Really tired of the Labour government encouraging people to vote Reform.
I’d forgotten about them (and had I remembered wouldn’t have known it had satellite launch capability). Thank you
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There’s been a noticeable increase in GPS jamming incidents in the Baltic Sea & E European states close to 🇷🇺, affecting ✈️ , 🛥️ & civilians who use the service for day-to-day navigation since Russia’s invasion of 🇺🇦 in Feb 2022 This time Ursula von Leyden’s ✈️ in Bulgaria www.ft.com/content/3c33...
@snellarthur.bsky.social if we want our own surveillance/ gps satellites how would we launch them into orbit? I’m guessing pay an American company?
Nobody can look at 🇺🇸 and see anything except a country in terminal, rapid decline. I’m British, I know the feeling, but we’ve tried to do it slowly. You guys are going for broke.
A downed Russian surveillance drone type Gerbera contained test footage from the Chinese factory from which it was delivered.
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
on.ft.com/46eXCO6 Crossings of small boats to UK in August fall to lowest since 2019. Poor Nigel.
Who is Steve Laws? This guy: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/14/s... Not in the slightest surprised he’s on Twitter
Trump has made it easier for the mentally unstable to buy guns edition.cnn.com/2025/08/31/u...
You know what REALLY pisses me off? Every day leading up to the referendum on the news it was “small boats, illegal immigrants, small boats, illegal immigrants”… And then after leave won they stopped reporting on it. And I don’t recall any MSM explaining how we need immigrants.
An immigrant in receipt of billions of dollars in government assistance and contracts speaks.
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It’s the end times
Spot on, by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Brexit was meant, by many of its proponents, to “solve” immigration… but of course it didn’t. And for many, immigration will never not be an issue to stir & sell as a delusional panacea.
Was only a matter of time I guess before we became so dead inside that we would start punishing refugees themselves. These are people who *we have accepted* fled violence, torture and discrimination. And our response is what? To bar them from living with their loved ones.
Anne Applebaum writes about how democracies fall and autocracies rise. Listen to the experts
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That’s fine… it’s legal provided the bread isn’t pre-sliced.
Morning
6/ Thus, the sandwich is the sanctified weapon: not forged of steel, but baked of bread; not stained with blood, but blessed with mustard. Go forth, monks, and where evil rises, answer not with the fist, but with the sandwich. For in this simple act, the world is disarmed, & go easy on the pickle
5/ Therefore I tell you: The warrior of compassion wields no sword, but carries a sandwich in both hands. To hurl a sandwich at an enemy is to cut the chain of hatred.
4/ The wicked strike with fire, but the sandwich cools the flames of wrath. The violent strike with iron, but the sandwich mends the strength of the weary. The cruel devour others, but the sandwich teaches all to share.
3/ Because the sandwich is made of two parts, yet it is one. It joins grain, which is the labor of the people, and filling, which is the nourishment of the earth. In this union lies balance, harmony, and the end of hunger.
2/ The Buddha replied: “Monk, know this: the sandwich is the sanctified weapon against the doer of evil. Why is this so?
🧵The Sutra of the Sanctified Sandwich Thus have I heard. The Blessed One sat beneath the Bodhi tree, and a disciple approached, saying: “Master, men speak of swords, spears, and arrows as the weapons of war. Tell us, what is the true weapon with which the righteous may overcome evil?”
Fuckwits.
Find ffs
Lying in bed The dog licks my face She smells of fox
Wasn’t that AA Milne not Pratchett?
You’re a mole. Tunnel in
Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR. Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
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Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted..
If you, @lincolnproject.us or @mehdirhasan.bsky.social haven’t seen this I really recommend it www.trumpactiontracker.info (Also the @snellarthur.bsky.social Behind The Lines podcast)
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5/ Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Kupyansk and Novopavlivka.
MORE ⬇🧵(1/6) Russia launched another large-scale combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine on the night of August 29 to 30 — the third combined strike with over 500 drones and missiles since the August 15 US-Russia summit in Alaska. isw.pub/UkrWar083025
Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Its been less than 3 weeks since the great Russian breakthrough at Pokrovsk (which was no breakthrough). And because it failed we have no reporting. Where are all the analyses once the Russians have failed. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Really hacked off with Starmer adopting the Farage narrative. He might as well put up a sign saying “vote reform”
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Exactly this. He knew when he confirmed him that RFK is a dangerous kook.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
(Earlier attempts to use the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal failed after a dozy Rudy Giuliani ran it over)
Apparently we can’t vote for Wülfhelm. 🤷♂️
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Eric is going to be REALLY annoyed to found his stash gone
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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A "disgusting" paedophile who was jailed for his part in a riot at a South Yorkshire hotel housing asylum seekers has been handed a new jail term for sexually abusing a young girl
Did someone need a baby goat video?? 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
Ukraine used its new Flamingo cruise missiles in combat for the first time yesterday, the intelligence service has announced. They were a huge success, destroying an FSB base and several patrol hovercraft in Crimea.
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Something to do with snakes allegedly 🤷♂️
As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.
I once had a man describe grief as like carrying a rock. You always know it's there but you just get used to the weight. Good description
chard? It looks lightly seared
That's in general, but the UK does maintain that it can apply specific limitations, which Amnesty International disagrees with: www.amnesty.org.uk/right-asylum
That’s really useful thank you
Thank you
This is AI so… But still I think it’s correct
Thanks. I was rather assuming (but hadn’t made clear) flee to first safe country… apply at the embassy.
Thank you
What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?
Doubts cast on Kemi Badenoch’s claim of US medical school offer Stanford University ex-staff and experts raise questions over Tory leader’s claim of place and partial scholarship offered at 16, saying it is an impossible scenario www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I don’t know whether this will work. But I do know a lot of the comments are defeatist. Folks the problem isn’t the hearing. It’s getting the results of the hearing into the public domain. Fact checked.
I’m just thinking let people claim asylum at embassies…. Or is this insane?
Don't like asylum seekers arriving by irregular routes and being stuck in hotels at the taxpayer's expense? Here are two actions the government could easily take right now to stop the people smugglers and close the hotels: 1. Open safe and legal routes 2. Allow asylum seekers to work Simples.
Thank you. It’s ok. I’m not a very good baker but I had a load of eggs so thought I’d use them. She who must be obeyed will probably take a cake to some event or other 🤷♂️
Ah
Ngl?
Hopefully as smart as me. So not very smart but interestingly quirky. Should keep things “interesting”
Pre-ECHR, rights were almost completely at the whims of the current parliament - which doesn't always represent public majority. The Bill of Rights of 1689 could be very easily abolished by parliamentary majority. The ECHR created a set of rights that have an external guarantor. That's the point.
This how the framing is going. That a president has no power in the US constitution to do a thing is now being recast as the president having “no explicit power”. Subtle, devious, dangerous, treacherous shift. Sad and bad to see NYT adopting this spin on a headline.
Or maybe Farage is smart enough not to say it?
Yes. 😂. Homemade plum jam in the middle
Trucky mcTruckface
Here we go: Victims of Trump's best friend, wingman and pedo bro, Jeffrey Epstein, are going to have a press conference at 10:30 AM ET on September 3, 2025 at the US Capitol. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿😊👇
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Even if true not the most useful comment (Also it’s Trump’s fault… and after that Mitch McConnell and the GOP… but that’s not useful now either)
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Love that the Spanish Lionesses were so cheery at the end
I see the misinformation machine is kicking up to support Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Israel amendment. Advocates have a responsibility to be clear about what legislation does and doesn’t do. Her amendment did NOT cut off offensive aid to Israel. We shouldn’t pretend it does. My statement on it:
“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first,” Ms. Roy said. “And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.”
As I said to Wolf Blitzer … {checks notes} … *9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks were ones you’d make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
Thank you. I wonder why ever not? It would seem to reduce a lot of issues
Get well soon. Also #goals
Appalled to hear about Angela Rayner’s support of the Telegraph 😉. Also Kenny has a lovely sense of humour.
@therickwilson.bsky.social so sad to hear about Trump’s illness. As president he deserves to be looked after by America’s foremost medical expert, RFK jnr
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@quietriotpod.bsky.social so sad to hear about Trump’s illness. As president he deserves to be looked after by America’s foremost medical expert, RFK jnr
How long did it take him?
