The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.
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The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.
I really don't think it should be tenable for Labour government ministers to have still remained mute about such a visible, vocal rise of racist abuse in our country by this rally on 13th September, being held by Tommy Robinson, with the proactive support of Elon Musk, the radicalised X owner
Quite.
5 September 1895 | A German Jew, Leo Lowenthal, was born in Berlin. On 3 March 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
A brilliant analogy.
This nailed it.
I disagree. There has been no change in the IQ of either of the parties for the obvious reason.
The ECHR is a British creation that protects us all. While other party leaders talk about leaving it, rewriting it or watering it down, Liberal Democrats stand firm.
The Guardian becomes the first publication in the US to report on Trump’s secret pact with Putin to return asylum seekers.
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
How to deal with Reform (& much of the Conservative Party and media), from @anandmenon.bsky.social "I’d like to see the government tackle head on the problems inherent in stoking racism, junking the rule of law, and sending people back to the Taliban." www.independent.co.uk/voices/farag...
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Thank you.
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The UK cannot leave the European Convention on Human Rights without violating the Good Friday agreement. If in doubt, read it. www.gov.uk/government/p...
#SaveAzovstalDefenders
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
🕯️ Kyiv bids farewell to two-year-old Angelina and her mother, whose lives were cut short by a Russian missile on August 28.
"Britain is better than this - forget Farage, we need more decency and humanity." 🚨 Share if you agree 🔁 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/britain-better-plastic-patriots-like-35797820
As if it's not bad enough, it's even worse when you consider the history of that tweet. It started off by saying "immigrant free." He then amended it to read "Abdul free." He's made the racism and colour prejudice explicit. It's appalling.
What the actual fuck?
Taking back control - and giving it to Trump and Vance (also it wasn't an 'online safety law' that applied to her advocacy of burning asylum-seekers to death - it was the pre-Internet Public Order Act of 1986)
"A boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, walked past the counter-protesters with his father and shouted 'Send them back' 'Go back where you came from!"
This isnt a ban on them buying things we all know they cant afford- its an attack on those in the community who help people who are seeking asylum. If we gift things, this will cause suspicion and investigation.
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
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Wee bit late with that advice.
Massive terrorist attack. Should dominate news in Europe for weeks. But it hardly made headlines today. Enormous shame.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Have we completely lost our fricking minds? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Sorry to harangue you on this but if I were you, I would drive back and complain about their response. The simple fact is that the publicity they give to this man is simply not proportionate.
Then do whatever you can do to resist. Stand up now or regret it later.
🙏 With his throat cut, thrown into a pit, he crawled for 5 days to Ukrainian positions. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a soldier named Vladyslav is being treated, who survived torture by Russian troops and managed to escape from captivity.
Imagine doing a deal with a bunch of fundamentalist crazies with no interest in the rule of law. Don't know what the Taliban are thinking.
Sorry to come across a shouting but there's lots that we as individuals can do. We need to make a noise about this and not let it go through on the nod. Rant. over.
Because we are letting him do so. We are sitting here and allowing him to get away with it. It's up to us as individuals to stand up and say sling your bloody hook. Have you even considered telephoning the BBC and complaining about the coverage they're giving him? If not, why not?
In what same world is the man who played a major role in inflicting Brexit still calling the shots? Such a failure of politics.
Too many folk overthinking this. "Mass deportations are an abhorrence that a civilised country should not countenance". That's all. No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.
There was so much to criticise in Farage's speech that it is genuinely hard to know where to start. No 10 could at least have just picked one. Instead they now sound like they are agreeing with what he has said
Russia has signed a decree to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, ending its commitment to the treaty against torture and inhuman treatment it joined as a Council of Europe member. publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/000...
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, investigation reveals
Attacks on asylum seekers - and those who help them - must stop. Now. 🚨 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/22/asylum-seekers-are-being-targeted-and-so-are-those-who-help-them-its-a-disturbing-new-reality
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers
It is rather fabulous.
May each one of you have a gorgeous evening. Stay safe each one of you. And do tell Russia to fuck off.
Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
What the Daily Mail et al have to say regarding asylum protests is probably far less relevant than what is going on in people’s instagram reels, TikTok, and YouTube shorts, etc. It’s there the real bespoke brain rot and radicalisation is going on. The newspapers maybe lend a sheen of corroboration.
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are welcome here: New series highlighting their positive stories in Scotland begins
The Civil Rights movement did not begin with politicians. It began with the PEOPLE, activists, community leaders, everyday people. Maybe be the change YOU want to see.
Funding is expected to be agreed next year for a Memorial for the Remembrance of the Victims of Communist Dictatorship in Germany to be built in Berlin. Victims’ associations say the memorial is “long overdue”. (By @strackchristoph.bsky.social for @news.dw.com) www.dw.com/en/berlins-m...
🇺🇦 "It’s important to remember — helping Ukraine is not charity. It is an investment in shared security," — D. Kuleba, MFA (2020–2024) It is crucial to continue supporting Ukraine — with weapons, financially, diplomatically, politically… Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/the-war-is-n...
And here are the front pages of papers now canonising Connoly, on the recent one-year anniversary of the Southport massacre. Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra". None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.
Short answer: no. Longer answer: of course fucking not. More detailed answer: this has previously been suggested and was found to violate international law, including maritime law, risked increased loss of life and, minor point, a possible declaration of war on France. news.sky.com/story/is-it-...
On Independence Day of Ukraine, let's honor those who gave their lives for its freedom🕯️
Labour needs to be pushing clips like this as much as they can. It's a really convincing way to change the narrative. I agree with you about how genuine he seems. It's a natural interaction and doesn't look at all forced. Other politicians would kill to be able to connect with the public like this.
Look what they have done to him. He's just one example. When this is all over, when Ukraine has won, I hope there are plenty of cells at the Hague. I really do.
If only they were being replaced.
Lucy Connolly who tweeted about setting fire to hotels (later deleted) is being labelled a political prisoner by some. If I or a person of colour suggested setting fire to places where majority white people were staying or any people for that matter, would I or they be afforded such status?
Lucy Connolly can say she was a "political prisoner" and the BBC can report this without scrutiny. But facts matter. She is no Rosa Parks or Mahatma Gandhi. She's a racist who incited violent arson, wanting to see people killed just because they're asylum seekers. See quoted tweet for details.
Article headline: "National Flags Have Started Lining Our Streets - Who Is Putting Them There, And Why?" me: £100 says it's racism fourteen paragraphs into the article: "the co-founder of the movement has ties to the English Defence League and Britain First" 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮
Let's just cut to the quick eh, just say she's a liar. No more need be said.
It's that but a lot worse because he's saying he'll sign return agreements with the Taliban and other murderous autocratic states.
They haven’t won yet because people are fighting them and winning
🇺🇦 Kherson Mayor Volodymyr Mykolaenko Released from Russian Captivity, — Suspilne The former mayor of Kherson was kidnapped by Russian military on April 18, 2022.
"I was Keir Starmer's political prisoner?" "Really? And what politics got you imprisoned?" "I publicly advocated for vulnerable people to be burned alive"
Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense. Wonder why.
Instead of saying "This is not normal," we need to start saying "This is wrong." or "This is bad."
Here’s a suggestion. Rather than overhaul the current immigration appeal system to grab some headlines, why not properly fund it and properly fund its judiciary. It won’t grab the headlines but would surely be a more effective route to speeding up the appeal system.
She would be rather upset if if it was a left-wing army coup wouldn't she? She just presume that the army would be on her side and that's not a given.
Reminder of what Allison Pearson was hoping for during the school summer holiday.
Why Haven’t Sanctions on Russia Stopped the War? The Money Is Still Flowing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/b...
Make fascism fear our flag again.
If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.
That is a glorious picture. I love it.
Jesus wept.
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.
Farage is no patriot. Patriots don't go abroad to tell lies about the country they love. Farage hates our country, and everything it stands for.
Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
The only thing I can say in response to this is Jesus. Then again perhaps Jesus fucking Christ. Who are these people?
I hereby request FIFA to remove all World Cup matches from the United States.
Well, that certainly something different to worry about.
Liverpool. Never let us down. Thank you, Scoucers.
Well, don't keep us in suspense, what is the Merlin app? I for one need to know.
This is quite fabulous.
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
🔴 Overnight, Russia threw FOURTY ONE (41) glide bombs on Kramatorsk & its people, reports local administration. Three civilians were injured, around 60 houses/flats were damaged, as well as garages, two stores & a service station. Power & internet lines were damaged around the sites of the strikes.
National Guard as a stand in for China’s People’s Liberation Army: boots for ballots, sirens for speeches. Different flag, same choreography. When’s the next Tiananmen Square moment?
1000 peer reviewed human beings who have a brain cell have concluded that Alex Jones is off his rocker. I mean seriously, does anyone listen to this crap?
To every single person in Ukraine, you are bloody inspiring. Your resilience, fortitude, and bloodymindedness are amazing..
Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia now underway. #explodey
Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported in March to El Salvador, triggering a months-long legal battle between his lawyers and the federal government.
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