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Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
It's a good thing Trump's security ensured that he and Putin were never, say, in the back seat of the same car together. They did ensure that, didn't they?
I made this point in a post but as I have zero Bluesky following not surprisingly nobody noticed!!!!
I am AMAZED there are not more people at the very least pointing out that this lightning-fast deterioration in Trump's health, happened only a few days after he had a lovely cup of Polonium tea and a slice of Novichok marble cake, with his best friend from Moscow.
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Yeah, " " and " " should obviously have been capitalized for no reason.
Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
I don't think there'd ever be a day when I'd take flag exhibitionist advice (or any other kind of advice really) from Jenrick. What on earth's up with Starmer?
www.indy100.com/news/flags-u... C’mon, we had all this with the Tories ffs.
And if he did happen to discover what "ponder" means, there's no way he'd want his dumb supporters doing any of it.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Splendid skewering of Chris Philp, erstwhile Tory Immigration Minister complaining they are “sick and tired” of migrants being housed in hotels. Nick Robinson: Who opened the Bell Hotel (Epping) to Migrants? Philp: Well …the previous Government (ie HIS gov) www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/asyl...
Gary Lineker is up for "Presenter of the Year" at this year's National TV Awards. I can imagine that if he won it would "ruffle a few feathers". It's alright, you can skip past Mrs Brown's Boys. You know you want to. Vote here. nationaltvawards.com/vote
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
Looks like women aren't having babies because their heads fell off.
The audacity! Credit: @bbcstudios.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/LS37SNYjg8w?...
Finally! Old man Hitchens can tell me why I’m not having babies.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:
2 Sikh Men Assaulted By Teenagers In Racist Attack In UK, Video Emerges www.ndtv.com/world-news/2...
Racist attack teen forced victim to kiss shoe www.bbc.com/news/article...
York Chinese takeaway daubed with red paint including a St George’s cross, “cat and dog” and “go home” www.facebook.com/share/p/18tC...
🚨 Racist couple confronted on Newcastle bus!🚨 www.facebook.com/share/v/1AyK...
If that racist abuse in the Halifax park didn't horrify you enough, Sky News was doing a report from Nuneaton, and there was a racist attack on the brown man being interviewed while he was on TV. That's where we are in this country today. That's how bad things are.
Horrific video shows racial abuse of Halifax healthcare worker in park www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...
metro.co.uk/2025/08/31/r...
I don't understand the logic. Telling Musk to fuck off is largely popular with most of the electorate. Hell, telling Musk to fuck off is even massively popular on twitter.
While I can understand the logic of not wanting to engage in a direct row with a far-right narcissist who has a platform of 225m people, the extreme caution is different to even January, when Starmer hit out at Musk's "lies and misinformation" over grooming gangs.
Asked on Sky News about this tweet from Elon Musk, part of a recent stream of far-right messages from the X owner about the UK, education minister Stephen Morgan doesn't directly condemn or contradict it, saying the government "understand people's frustrations across the country" about migration.
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
This is utterly heartbreaking. People like Rylan, the media and many politicians need to stop the hate and lies! This is the lady who was racially abused by the old couple at the weekend.
Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was forced to land in Bulgaria and use paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled its navigation, the FT reports.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
I know that Sebastian Gorka is *always* a ridiculous buffoon, but throughout history inanimate objects have killed for more people than conscious ones.
“A group of cross-party MPs have set out a "ready to go" blueprint for an independent review of the UK's first past the post (FPTP) electoral system” - Good news! It’s time to upgrade our democracy! @appgfairelections.bsky.social www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey will table a Humble Address motion when Parliament returns this Monday to force the Government to publish the legal advice it has received on breaches of international law in the Israel-Gaza war
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
👇🏼 Grade two listed building now needs expensive repairs, because some dickhead has painted a Red Cross on it Hoping if caught they get same👇🏼2 years inside as the Stop Oil protesters who threw paint at a painting, who got extremely harsh sentences Because vandalism is vandalism 🤷🏼♂️
Phillips' is a masterpiece in the art of bad takes. "If I don't like something, it's woke." Also, shops sell sourdough bread BECAUSE PEOPLE BUY IT. In late capitalism, NO retailer can afford to offer something not being bought. Also, AFAIK precisely 0 shops have stopped selling normal bread.
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
Sorry Otto, I'm slipping this in here as it is significant, but no one is talking about it?
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I see the Daily Mail are outraged by this. Maybe when she’s arrested they can interview her and ask her where she gets her information from.
Kemi Badenoch say we need to get "all our oil and gas out of the North Sea". Problem is: it's not our oil, it belongs to the oil company who extracts it, as per the deal struck last century. The UK doesn't benefit, only the oil companies. Don't tell Kemi: BigOil helps fund Reform UK!
Q: What do you call a single crow? A: attempted murder
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
Other plans include bringing back free plastic bags in supermarkets and cancelling all smoking bans in public places
As ever, Dan is on the money. But when did facts ever stand in the way of a Sun front page reportedly based on Michael Gove’s testimony?
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.
Reform MP under fire for opinion on female police officers
Nigel Farage blamed Europe for his Essex asylum hotel court defeat and was brutally owned into next week
Even Reform voters now want to unpick this one Brexit measure, shock poll reveals www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Keir Starmer and Labour should be proactive calling this out, but they're so damn scared of losing a Reform vote they were never going to win. What is going on with this strategy of pandering to the far right, and is Morgan McSweeney just there as a Tory plant to wipe them out?
I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.
Posting this again. This is truly dreadful. This is what Fartrage, Tice, Anderson, Yusuf and Reform have orchestrated. I hope those racist people in Halifax that inflicted their hate on this family are imprisoned.
The new reform voters, imagine telling the grand kids their grandparents been nicked for racially abusing and attacking an NHS worker 😳😳😳 unbelievably messed up. 2 arrested. Deserve prison. Racist attack in park: Two arrested after racist attack on mum in Halifax park share.google/x62Wwds9EOhV...
Joseph Moulton of the York Flaggers campaign both condemned the racist abuse & went straight there to help clear it. He v clearly passes the good faith & benign intent test yorkmix.com/this-is-hear...
🚨🚨🚨 This video is just over an hour old now. The judge’s order to halt of the deportation of 600 children to Guatemala was upheld - for now! The person who made this video was threatened. Details on the following post.
North, south east and west Let's get rid of the racist pest
🌿 The Myth of the Highland Coo 🌿 A short delicate break from the ire and hatred towards Donald J. Trump can be found in these magical long-haired Highland cows! open.substack.com/pub/mjfree/p...
It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.
This is bonkers on a scale of human bonkery never imagined. So LA somehow manages to survive 4 years under Biden, but within 6 months of Trump, it spirals to the edge of total annihilation, before he does some pointless shit and prevents it?
Nigel Farage 'is a hypocrite' for lecturing on free speech while banning journalists
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
This guy is a f****** psycho. #Palantir #AlexKarp
Wales!
Sorry but I thought Royal Mail weren’t delivering to America anymore.
The Liberal Democrats have written to Nigel Farage to demand he intervenes after Reform’s Nottinghamshire County Council Leader blocked his councillors from speaking to local journalists from Nottinghamshire Live and the (BBC-funded) Local Democracy Reporting Service
I suppose it's a good time to share this email from Richard Tice when I asked for an interview last year... They haven't responded since, so @bylinetimes.bsky.social are also blacklisted by Reform over our investigative reporting
Do you have to use such infantile language as "hits back"? Your readers used to have a reputation for being educated. The phrase you're looking for is "whined like a fucking bitch".
No fracking here, Lancashire Reform UK tells Richard Tice
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
Richard Tice: I'd rather deal with the TALIBAN than be questioned by the British press! Reform UK defends banning Nottinghamshire Live.
The fact that you don't have Chinese takeaways in actual China whereas they're everywhere in Britain, and have been as far back as I can remember, leads me to believe this is very much a British cultural staple.
To me a Chinese restaurant take away is part of the fabric of the UK. This act is stupid, undignified and totally foreign. I find it amazing that the grwt grand children of people who fought to stop this in the mainland thing it's acceptable to behave like this.
It’s when people, with no sense of irony, say we shouldn’t judge the whole movement based on the bad actions of a few.
