So do Musk, Yaxley-Lennon and their organisations meet the criteria for "terrorist organisations"? www.gov.uk/government/p...
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So do Musk, Yaxley-Lennon and their organisations meet the criteria for "terrorist organisations"? www.gov.uk/government/p...
So someone can get arrested for saying genocide of Palestinians has to stop. But Elon Musk, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and their followers like that person in the clip can incite violence but they get away scot-free? Here is the government's own criteria for terrorism www.gov.uk/government/p...
Looks like free-speech absolutism is relative.
While I agree that is still a proportion that needs to be noted and taken seriously, it does not deserve being portrayed as equal to the prevailing view.
That is my point - we see what we see (or more precisely, get shown). It doesn't reflect society as a whole. When you look at British Social Attitudes survey for example, 13% of those surveyed had consistently negative views about immigration, Black people and Muslims. natcen.ac.uk/publications...
๐งช I often think of Albert Einstein leaving Germany.
The media class also need to be held accountable for the illusion of equivalence they are giving these voices. I completely blame them for Brexit - how they platformed the narratives with little challenge.
What's worrying is the fact they are on THE BEE BEE SEE, that it has become normalised. It is ok to be openly racist now. Remember how Rylan Clark quite happily regurgitated the same bullshit about asylum seekers on This Morning.
It's almost as if the BBC created Farage and now Reform by promoting him, mainly via BBC Question Time. Telling us they were merely reflecting public discourse is bullshit as they were the ones who set it all up in the first place.
Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins. That's some impartiality right there BBC ๐ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage
No, the media platform them because they know they will get airtime and clicks. Why on earth would Farage feature so often on BBC Question Time - even before Reform and he became their leader?
If only he could hear himself speak
Left: "Mass immigration.. We're losing our identity, our culture and our safety" Right: "My mum's Yemeni-Israeli, my dad's Russian-Polish, they met in America, my dad grew up in Australia, and my children are half Chinese" Man a product of mass immigration is complaining about mass immigration ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Reform is setting the "political weather" because the BBC is giving it a platform for setting the "political weather".๐คท BBC under pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage - featured in more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
Wakefield did that with MMR and the Lancet published it. A case series of 12 children. It took 12 years for the Lancet to retract it. That's how all this mess started.
I tried to check his registration the other day and couldn't find him. Is he still on the GMC register, or am I not searching correctly?
Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed. Like if they should. RT if Israel should be kicked out
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.
Even *they* found it unpalatable, perhaps!
This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they canโt describe him the way theyโre describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did
Until Moroccanoil is removed as a sponsor, Israel will never be removed from Eurovision.
All I can see is: ๐ต I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, When I met you. ๐ถ
I remind you that Kirk was NOT an elected official or official of any kind. The fact that TACO made a statement about his death, while remaining silent about the assassination of Melissa Hortman speaks volumes. I also know of no protocol whatsoever to lower the United States flag for the
Boris Johnson, the king of bullshitters, should really try to STFU sometimes.
Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence. What a legacy.
The left isnโt โdancing on Charlie Kirkโs grave,โ weโre just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.
Here is the transcript as captured by MS co-pilot
Watch how Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP, try to spout bullshit about asylum seekers allegedly committing more sexual offences than white British men and got caught out by Nick Ferrari. youtube.com/shorts/6eE21...
Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
I'm sorry they had to witness it. They were there when it happened.
Without comment:
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Charlie Kirk said the Epstein files should be released, prior to his assassination, which made a lot of MAGA and Trumpโs circle angry. "The DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein...Every file should be released to the public."
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
Charlie Kirkโs Turning Point USA is an extremist hate group. Its primary strategy is โsowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.โ
It's absolutely fine to say you don't wish this on anyone and yet, at the same time, show absolutely no empathy for a man who spent his lifetime showing no compassion for other people. Your compassion has limits. There is no obligation to feel sorrow. Thanks to @therapyjeff.bsky.social
We donโt yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that youโd know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.
Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"
What will it take to change people's minds about gun control in the USA? Not even the loss of children's lives has made a difference in the past.
Bohemian Rhapsody flash mob Absolutely delightful. #timelinecleanse vm.tiktok.com/ZNdba61a2/
The same "free speech" that allowed him to spout his hatred for trans people on every platform possible, including several broadsheet newspapers and more recently, on a questionable BBC interview? Then complains when he finds out bigotry has consequences? What a shame that won't bring his wife back.
Did they get confused with 1 million likes
Don't just ban. Arrest them for war crimes.
Wonder how long the graffiti Banksy sprayed next to was up without anyone having to come out and remove it.
So it was never about women's safety. What a surprise.
Incredible paragraphs from Allison Morris here
There's a difference between being politely critical and going completely off the rails to the point of online threats and bullying. He was warned, but he chose to be pig headed. He deserves everything he gets.
While Linehan has an absolute right to present his defence in the context of the court room, it is quite unreasonable for him to be given the resources of a national television channel such as the BBC to spout his hateful rhetoric.
Linehan is in the middle of a criminal trial for assault on a minor, yet for some inexplicable reason the BBC are choosing to broadcast an interview with the defendant, a most unusual state of affairs.
Lush has launched a trans flag bath bomb to help support transgender and gender-diverse people around the world. 75% of the sale price of the Lush Liberation vegan bath bomb will be donated to organisations that advocate for transgender rights, including TransActual, My Generation and TENI
Hmm
Malhotra? Bullshit? No kidding!
Angus Dalgleish made claims against the mRNA COVID vaccines because he was working on a competing vaccine project, Biovacc-19. The Biovacc-19 team believed the "lab leak" theory and said that there were "non-human" elements to the virus... www.voicesforvaccines.org/just-the-fac...
An international group on a mission to deliver humanitarian aid by sea to Palestinians in Gaza said that one of its boats, docked in Tunisia, had been struck by what it believed was a drone, resulting in a fire.
New modelling by Gilead Sciences shows we're off-track to meet current targets - but hope is not lost.
Since when could a UK news organisation broadcast an interview with the accused prior to their trial on criminal charges of incitement to violence and harassment? Or am I missing something? The BBC had three reporters on this- did they ask a lawyer? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Finally a sensible article on this! Well said Suzanne Harrington ๐๐ โLinehan โ whose extreme hatred of trans people and his inability to STFU about his extreme hatred of trans people has so far cost him his career, family, and every last shred of credibilityโฆโ
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Absolutely unbelievable to see egregious anti-science nonsense being given an airing like this. Well done @lewisgoodall.com for calling it out. โA broad churchโฆ freedom of speechโ - and thatโs the excuse for platforming not just misinformation but disinformation.
The London HIV Prevention Programme has published a landmark report: Towards Equity: Reimagining HIV Prevention for Londonโs Black Heritage Communities. It highlights inequalities in HIV outcomes and calls for anti-racism, cultural competence & community leadership in prevention. bit.ly/465flq1
So he seems to be developing a competing covid 19 vaccine...
Will that "eminent oncologist" please step forward and reveal yourself.
We all know it's going to be hard to prove, with typically long lead time and confounders. But once someone like Malhotra has planted that thought into people's heads, it's going to be hard to refute. Malhotra is the new Wakefield.
Lovely day to show solidarity with Gaza in Hove. ๐
How is calling out the deliberate killing of an entire nation's population by the state of Israel antisemitism?
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. Itโs a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
The "patriots" have invaded Hove - well, just, because they ran out of flags. ๐ Thank goodness because I thought for one moment I was in Benidorm. But wait, you can't tell you're in Spain in Benidorn, of course! ๐คช
Well, well, well. Anti-LGBT, promoting conversion therapy, banning trans care. It was never about "protecting women."
Just realised I haven't heard much bullshit from him lately, and it's because I don't go on Twitter that often.
Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined the Parliament Square protest, to once again oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban. He, and over a thousand others, face a 'terror arrest' because of the draconian proscription of a direct action group.
NEW: Today might see the largest mass arrest in British policing history. Huge crowds in Parliament Square to protest the Gaza genocide & support Palestine Action. A group which, in a moment of political insanity, was proscribed a terrorist organisation by the UK Government. (๐ธ Saul Staniforth)
Brie is basically a squashed camembert
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
Lemkin Institute release, Statement on the UKโs Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. Read it here โ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ bit.ly/EHRCUK
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
Rep Jamie Raskin calls Reform UK leader Nigel Farage โPutin loving, free speech, imposter, and Trump sycophantโโผ๏ธ
Funny how Fartage is normally all over the fckng media like a rash but when he's completely demolished during a US congressional hearing it's all about Angela Rayner
Graham Linehan is literally in court today for harassing, cyberstalking, and assaulting a trans child. He's saying his victim doesn't exist.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
A deeply troubled and troubling human He called me homophobic on Twxtter; Iโm gay and lived through periods of appalling homophobia
He latched onto a tweet I wrote about supporting the trans community. Caused a pile on and labelled me a groomer because I identify as queer
He did the same with me declared I was a danger to children and should be reported to OFSTED. His evidence I wrote a book called The Inclusive Classroom and supported trans people
He found a tweet of mine where I said โThe Sun donโt care about womenโ and called me a handmaiden and a man because they had a pun about trans people on the front page that day. Cranks in my replies for days.
Me too. He tried to tack down my employer (who is me) and got his minions to scroll through my very few public Facebook posts looking for "evidence i had trans identifying family members". The most incriminating thing they had was me looking for second hand aviary panels to build a new quail run...
Heโs the only person on social media who has ever started pile-ons against me. More than once.
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his โstanding up for womenโ schtick is baloney.
When I posted that I was the "lesbian staffer" that quit Duffield's office, Linehan went for me and I had days and days of abuse (Duffield did nothing natch). It was probably the most online homophobia I've ever experienced, and he called me a disgrace to gay rights.
Nigel Farage Is Promoting Free Speech In America โ While Reform Bans Journalists In The UK www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ni...
GMC May '24: Antisemitism & Islamophobia are completely unacceptable. Doctors must treat all with respect, keep personal views from compromising care & ensure information shared is accurate. Protests alone arenโt FTP issues โ only behaviour that risks safety or public confidence #LawAtTheFrontDoor
It wasn't just one tweet. This man has HISTORY.
40 mile an hour onshore winds this afternoon, and I stumbled upon a foam party.
Stop Brazilian steel export to the genocidal Israeli Military Industries. We call for immediate public pressure on Brazilian authorities to revoke the export license for this shipment before it leaves the port of Santos. #BlockTheBoat #SanctionsNow
Boycott and pressure these companies now for their complicity in Israelโs occupation, apartheid and genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
It's a good question.
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