My Twitter experiment ended in early 2025. I like politeness, engagement, humour... and to follow only 50 accounts... All opinions are subject to alteration - sometimes the correct response is to swear.
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When you say that flags on roundabouts isn't about racism, that may well be the case for you. But these are the people you're throwing in with... Every argument about immigration has racism at its core. Peel back even one layer, it's always underpinned by racism and white supremacy. Always.
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
@ianbetteridge.com Possibly the most foul example in years ... “Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers?” Categorically, NO!
www.amnesty.org.au/refugee-and-...
a phrase so sweet and true from @michaelharriot.bsky.social now every time somebody accuses me of being "politically correct" instantly I will correct them to "literally correct"
When Tiffany Cross referred to WH adviser Stephen Miller as a “white supremacist,” apparently, people who don’t own dictionaries were outraged Fortunately, we found someone who can clarify things
"butt-snorkling" is too comedic an image this scene is as obscene as if each cabinet member in turn approached the president sank to their knees and prayed
At Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump’s performance “seemed right out of the Kremlin playbook,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. What did he reveal about his Administration’s true plans?
"we could play the dystopian universe" ... complacency and hypocrisy in staggering equal measure
Wow!
Why doesn't the Labour Party simply point out this fact and say it was a good thing?
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
Tax-funded travel to faith schools is not a necessity – it’s a subsidy for a parental preference. If local authorities continue to provide this benefit, then they must also support families who reject a faith school in favour of a school without a religious character. humanists.uk/2025/08/28/t...
at least this widespread MAGA ineptitude is "making the trains run on time"
NEW The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
US imported cosplay fascism is still fascism... I guess we should expect a nasty mix of cruelty and ineptitude from Reform UK... and from its voters.
There is nothing wrong, or racist, about flying the flag of your country, but the organisers behind Operation Raise the Colours are hardened and extreme far-right activists. @therestpolitics.bsky.social
Rationalist, humanist, ethical, secular: the late 19th century saw the formation of various organised non-religious groups applying these labels to themselves. But who were they and how were they connected? New article from @humanismedu.bsky.social ⬇️ understandinghumanism.org.uk/articles/rat...
Miller is more deranged than Trump and more organised.
Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
Ed Davey has to throw himself into water to get BBC coverage of Lib Dem talking points. Farage honks like a goose and the BBC acts as if he's laid a golden egg.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class. But it's not too late to turn things round. Me in Time magazine time.com/7312223/uk-i...
Fans of a certain South London Premier League side might be interested in this newly-designed shirt...
Failing that, the BBC might take their lead from the description offered on the letters page of September's ASLEF journal and choose to introduce Farage as "the milkshake-wearing toad face" ...
Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.
Paul Simon's song, "You Can Call Me Al".
Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...
Thankfully there is in Donald Trump a President who places highly his solemn duty to ensure the laws of the United States are faithfully executed.
7am, the radio alarm goes off, the BBC again is talking about Farage... May we have a day when they don't platform ahead of everything else whatever he is wishing to parp about?
#Thatshumanism is an introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and new posters about humanism for schools. Have a look... humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
He's every bit as much a pathologically lying sociopath as Trump.
Vladimir Putin (4% approval, 90% disapproval) has the tiniest edge on Prince Andrew (5% approval, 85% disapproval)
Another possible item for Newswatch, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Similarly, BBC news yesterday referred to continuing large protests against immigration while showing images of large groups of pro-immigration protesters clearly identifiable by their "welcome here" placards...
UK HAS NO MORE ROOM UK has 280 people per km2 (Holland - 585; Belgium - 385; Germany - 238) IMMIGRANTS ARE STOPPING YOU GETTING A HOME Housing shortage is because of sell off of council homes/failure to build more, and transition from housing for living to housing for profit
It tells me a lot about myself that the desire to challenge here Roger's punctuation, grammar, or syntax is much stronger than any desire to challenge his sentiments.
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Is there a potentially successful long game these companies and institutions are playing - that eventually all the kowtowers will be able to sue the US government for the wrongs of this era... ...and that if those corrective times never arrive, well, what other move do you have in a shakedown ... ?
A damning list, one that Trump is incapable of reading, one that countless people close to him are choosing not to summarise in a form Trump might understand...
I've remembered another... "Eveningtime" ...or is it "evening time" ? The rain will sweep in from the Atlantic, "arriving about evening time" It's a double hedging of bets on the expected time by use of "about" and with a span of time that is broader than evening that is "evening time" !
We want to be able to vote with hope - not out of fear. Elections should be exciting, not depressing. Wherever they live and whoever they support, every voter deserves to know their voice will be heard. Let's transform how we do politics. Let's get PR done.
Take a look at the word-tics of weather presenters. Whether to create drama, or in a belief that it helps with clarity, additional false or needless syllables abound. Winds become "burlustery"... and rain bands never head south because they can only head "southwards". I'm sure there are more...
...and the same little Englanders always go to the European Courts when they lose...
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...
Eliot, While you have my attention... if it can be said that humans have "grown cleverer but not wiser", at once the smartest things on earth, and the most dim, is there any way AI can avoid, while it learns its limitations, becoming so clever that eventually it will become just as dim... ?
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social One for Newswatch, perhaps...
This is terrible. It sort of beggars belief that no government has properly got to grips with libel and hate spreading on online platforms, even as those platforms displace traditional media www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Are they trolling Trump about that incident with the ketchup?
You caveated your point, got mansplained by the @BBC presenter that you must caveat your point, and, while stating that you had in fact caveated at the very start, were talked over and instructed again to caveat your point... I'm thankful you have the strength and ability to fight for truth.
how young a child is when they first express that they are in the wrong body may be the most important thing as there is history of this occurring in children way before any formed feelings of sexual attraction way before any awareness that political positioning can be applied to sex or gender
"treating people like animals" is a phrase that needs to be retired because love, care, attention, protection, food, medicines, shelter... is what people and animals should be getting
Zelensky wore a suit this time.
Despite endlessly decrying “imported rape gangs”, we previously revealed that ex-Britain First activist Warren Gilchrest has been convicted of multiple sexual offences against children. He is serving 3 years for his role in the racist violence in Manchester last summer.
“Can you imagine if a Muslim judge on the Court had said Allah told him to side with Palestine?” For Zeteo, Alonso Gurmendi on the Christian Zionist ICJ judge who keeps backing Israel because “the End Times” are here. She should be removed, or forced to recuse:
TL:DR DAG calling out the lawyerly bullshit while as ever avoiding the word "bullshit"...
How ‘distinguished’ UK lawyers made an unconvincing case against the recognition of Palestine By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Victoria McCloud has launched a case against the UK in the ECtHR challenging the process that led to the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex. 💪🏻🙌🏻 McCloud is arguing that the supreme court undermined her article 6 rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear representation from her 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Money as a quantum phenomenon www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... If you wanted something to think about today, try this.
NEWS: For Women Scotland’s new lawsuit is politics by injunction, and trans people pay the price #transrights #LGBTQ+ https://beatransally.substack.com/p/news-for-women-scotlands-new-lawsuit
Grandmother, Grandfather... - tell me, what did you do during the 47th presidency?
NEW BLOGPOST: Why did the jury acquit Ricky Jones? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/16/w...
This is my favorite so far!
Meanwhile, a child dies of measles in Liverpool. When governments give false legitimacy to anti-vaxxers, it emboldens them, erodes trust in science, and people die. Science is the candle in the dark. Vaccinate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Holding a placard is not ‘terrorism’ labourhub.org.uk/2025/08/10/h... by @davidosland.bsky.social
I'm crestfallen - I thought you were doing these at 0500 before heading off for an early shift...
This "on this day" is remarkably similar to a previous episode.
Donald Trump, you can do much better than this. It's not even gold.
No child should be subjected to unnecessary #FGM or #circumcision. Tell your MP it's time to protect boys from non-consensual religious and cultural genital cutting. 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/mp-letter-ci...
By chance today... @robwords.bsky.social @ianbetteridge.com
Thank you so much! Post is here, if anyone is interested: sandraduffy.blog/2025/05/21/r...
If Twitter were a real town square, it would be a permanent crime scene.
The latest superb @contrabandcamp.bsky.social post from @michaelharriot.bsky.social, a writer who uses history to tell urgent truths instead of cherrypicking it for propaganda. Highest recommendation!
Our message to Dem leaders must be this.
Op Ed: Say her name, use her pronouns! Respecting a person’s name and pronouns is not ideological. It is basic ethics! 😡 https://beatransally.substack.com/p/op-ed-say-her-name-use-her-pronouns
This is not an Oxford comma problem; it's a comma problem.
Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
62% of Brits would support a law prohibiting the #circumcision of children for non-medical reasons. Are you one of the 62%? Join our campaign 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/religious-su...
Why taxing the rich won’t trigger an exodus youtu.be/eJMPBgygPn8?... People say higher taxes will drive the rich away. But here’s the truth: most wealthy people stay put — and even if some do leave, the UK keeps their houses, pensions and financial assets.
"Holocaust Memory in a Time of Genocide" Writing for Zeteo, Israeli Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg asks: What is the meaning of Holocaust memory in a reality where Israel is committing genocide?
My latest blog for @natsecsoc.bsky.social. The truth is, some interpretations of Islam (like any religion) are not compatible with British values - but sadly, Muslims promoting more liberal interpretations are too often ignored or even silenced. www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2025...
Photography by Alfie Goodrich 
