So can we expect a 15 minute "exclusive" slot on the News at 10 or Newsnight reporting this article? I won't hold my breath.
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So can we expect a 15 minute "exclusive" slot on the News at 10 or Newsnight reporting this article? I won't hold my breath.
Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.
These people should remember that, in all likelihood, their ancestors were being accused of similar nonsense, in a city which has been shaped by wave upon wave of mass migration. Thank providence for the people who fought back and ensured Liverpool remains a warm,welcoming place
Another so-called "Save Our Women and Children" gathering in Liverpool next Sunday. Many of the participants of this march are who our women and children need saving from 😡 I stand with Scouse Nans against Nazis, doing what our pandering media and politicians should be doing.
But hang on, haven't they all been cancell..... Oh, I see what you did there.
Schrödinger's ethnic minority Brit, in 2025...
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
meanwhile, in Nuneaton
![Post on Facebook by young white Nuneaton mum 22h Whilst I'm ranting we walked from bowling to middlemarch and saw this... a coach load of immigrants being lead into the back door of the holiday inn!!! Hang the flags high and realise that this isn't a joke!! I'll be at the next protest for sure!!! I'm not racist I'm a MOTHER!!!!!!!!! [Photo across carpark of Holiday Inn Nuneaton to where there is a white coach with its luggage storage partly open and a group of men standing nearby]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreiaus3mlhcbkbwppcwa4vbctexav6vdewvxbf2a3v53cjxbbrmlp5i@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Aaaand they’ve just covered it up. Which is just another layer of irony… …given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
If rampant nativism and the self-immolating Labour party do somehow conspire to put Farage's brownshirts in Number 10, this substanceless dross should become a case study in how the fourth estate comprehensively failed us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is an excellent Associated Press piece - both dispassionate and accurate. Written for an American audience, it shows how slavishly #Farage has adopted #Trump tactics. The lies, exaggerations, incitement of the easily-led... Please read, and even better, share! 👍🏻 share.google/tExjdQt9olyY...
I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇
Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
Labour are not learning the one lesson that’s destroying them. Doing what the right wing want, does not appease the right wing or appeal the right wing voters, and trying to alienates everyone else. It’s like they have a moron or infiltrator pulling the strings. Oh, they do, McSweeney.
Unless it's the Brexit one.
Letters in The Times that sum up Labour’s deeply inadequate response to the perceived immigration ‘crisis’. Cruelty as policy and performative patriotism to try to pacify (rather than challenge) the frothing right wing press and the baying racist mob. It’s all just so gutless and wrong.
NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
I want Keir Starmer to lead - to call out racism, not mutter about bunting. To offer real refugee policy, not parrot Farage. To show Britain is better than this. Instead we’re cowering. We must do better. They must do better.
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
No, Lord Falconer. Labour should stop pandering to this nonsense. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
That's my dad joke for Christmas sorted out. 👍😅
Brexit has done more damage to the UK economy than “illegal immigration” I am sick of bullshit.
"Nobody needed magnets.. until 20 years ago" He is one incredibly stupid and very dangerous person. How can the sycophants who surround him live with themselves? This lunatic has his finger on the nuclear trigger! Somebody has got to stand up to him and tell him he's a moronic idiot. He's got to go.
This man is clinically insane. How can a president of the United States be so stupid? How do his sycophants look at themselves in the mirror every morning with any self-respect?
Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies. A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe. 🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
Listen to this success story! 💙 It's a decade since Syrian refugees arrived in Germany. Today, they're an indispensable part of the German workforce – especially in medicine! This is what the media SHOULD be showing you, instead of constantly pandering to the racists who just spread doom and gloom.
This is what I LOVE about Nigel Farage! 😍😍😍😍😍
So if I've understood this 'Raise The Colours' thing correctly, it's about intimidating immigrants, causing criminal damage, shouting racist abuse, costing local authorities money and generally behaving like a brainless tit.
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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".
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
The final sentence says it all ".....to hide their real motive – straight-up racism".
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.......
Ahh.... The Jacey - every teenage boy's target (and what a letdown when I eventually got in there if I remember correctly) 😄
Your #5OClockInspiration ..
The UK Emergency Alerts system will be tested on 7 Sept 2025 at 3pm. It shares warnings during emergencies like floods, wildfires and storms. Domestic abuse survivors with concealed phones might need to turn off alerts. Here's how you can opt out ⤵️ www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...
Absolutely, totally. That line makes my blood boil. It's disgusting. (See, you've set me off now 😂)
Just 1.5% of Universal Credit claimants are refugees. Someone should let Nigel Farage and his party know www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jus...
Would anyone care to remind the former Human Rights Barrister Keir Starmer that penalising people seeking asylum for their manner of entry is against international law? Not to mention how grotesque it is that the Prime Minister is sharing videos of people being detained.
"Are you a terrorist?"
"See elephants not unicorns..." Brilliant!
Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction It’s estimated Gaza had as much, likely more, explosives dropped on it as Dresden, Hamburg and London in WW2 www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
Obvious point this, but people need to stop believing what they are told by Farage, GB News, and the general declinist and alarmist media narrative and start paying attention to what is really going on regarding crime in this country. The BBC and mainstream media have a duty to get the truth out.
Pathetic. You either recognise that Palestinians have a right to their own state or you don't. Starmer obviously doesn't. It's not a bargaining chip, it's either a yes or no, right now.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤 The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇 Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
DAILY MIRROR: Don't look away #TomorrowsPapersToday
Regret - if it’s genuine - usually leads to a change of behaviour... not for Israel, for obvious reasons. Cold blooded murder is all part of the plan, along with mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. When will the ‘International Order’ step in...?
I would expect this under a Tory govt. but under Labour? Not the party Ive voted for since I was 18. Bad enough being arrested - but then they go through your house, violate your personal space and paw the stuff most dear to you. For protesting against the murder of innocents? WTAF?
In 2025, you can watch a genocide live. It’s entirely right the media should report on Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians but “live feeds” sums up the horror: the world watches fellow human beings starve as those with power do nothing.
The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.
This article really is a "jaw-dropping scandal". One of the scariest things I've read for some time. Labour - what the hell are you thinking of!
A tipping point has been reached. Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world. Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months. You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
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Ahead of the Government’s so-called “reset” review of the water sector lands on Monday, I’ve noticed a growing effort to pin the blame on the regulator, Ofwat. That’s a deep misdiagnosis of the problem. Here’s why. 🧵
It's a wonder we don't find these people covered in lamb's blood and speaking in tongues when they legislate, they're absolutely off their tits.
Wes Streeting took £224,575 in donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023-2025. 🚨🚨🚨 I find that unconscionable. Share if you agree! www.itv.com/news/2025-07...
Said in other countries, this would be labelled as religious fanaticism.
There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
A 'technical error'? We can think of other, possibly less complimentary terms for even firing a missile anywhere near children hoping for some water. news.sky.com/story/idf-bl...
At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
The £2.5k figure only applies in extreme cases: - People with severe disability - Full housing support, - Zero capacity for work. But sure, slap it on the front page in 200-point font like it’s some national epidemic. Why bother with nuance when there are vulnerable people to demonise?
Culture War Rules:
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.
Tell me why haven’t the press picked up on the rebranded Sure Starts? Why haven’t they commented on Reform’s MP who removed the whip from himself? Why aren’t they talking about the highest business confidence in 9 years? Why are they still on about Reeves tears? They’re poisonous!
Worth noting Labour bringing back Sure Start should be getting more headlines. A brilliant Blair-era policy scrapped by successive govts. It gave kids the best start in life, backed by evidence, and its removal hit families hard. Good to see it return. Credit where it’s due.
As the Act became law, I warned that it could be deployed against non-violent protesters, or anyone displaying a sign supporting them. I argued that it was unlikely to be used immediately, but would be available when a government found it useful. 24 years on, ... www.theguardian.com/world/2001/f...
27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
If you’re getting upset at political chants used by a pop group at #Glastonbury, wait till you hear what the #Israel government and #IDF have said… This is #Genocide … so have the courage to call it #Genocide.
If and when arrests begin, let the Prime Minister's words in 2003 be a major plank of the defence ...
The government's proposed Personal Independence Payment reforms are based on three popular fallacies: 1. Disabled people will work harder if money that supports them is withdrawn 2. There are loads of jobs just waiting to be filled with Disabled people 3. Disabled people aren't currently working
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/cutting-ba...
Edward Heath blocked US use of UK bases to defend Israel in 1973. Harold Wilson resisted US pressure to send troops to Vietnam. From the ’50s to early 2000s, the UK imposed full arms embargoes on Israel for breaking international law. We can choose not to be America’s poodle.
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Says the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, then killed thousands during Covid by being a dithering fool, then threw away his massive majority because he couldn't follow his own rules. Sit down and shut up you useless tit.
Video shows a young man carrying his dead father on a bicycle after he was shot while trying to secure food parcels at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site in Gaza. Israeli forces have killed more than 220 Palestinians at GHF aid distribution sites since they opened.
BREAKING: Huge panic in Israel as they realise the Madleen has fulfilled its true mission which was to show the world they are a bunch of genocidal cunts 😳
Would the UK media outlets please publicise the opinions of the Lib Dems and the Greens instead of this seemingly endless promotion of Reform who only have 6 MPs for goodness sake.
I'm confused. Are you saying you NEED to bbq with gas? In no way is that a BBQ. Charcoal/wood - that's a barbeque. Come on..... 😊
The CBI are right to call this an anchor on ambition. We need to break the link - stop the price of gas setting the price of the wind and sun. It’s bonkers. In 2023 we paid £43bn more than we needed to. buff.ly/lBnuryJ
Good for her!
For the record:
Sorry, Farrukh but I'm unfollowing you. In no way am I a fan of Trump but he expressly said it is NOT the job of the US forces to spread democracy around the world at the point of a gun. This post is just untrue, deliberately or otherwise.
This is revolting. www.facebook.com/auschwitzmem...
Your occasional reminder that the UK fishing industry adds less £ to UK GDP than Harrods in Knightsbridge and employs roughly the same number of fishers (ca 6000) as the store's full rota.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, "Food is being used as a weapon of war" "Children have already died from having food withheld" "We have a moral responsibility to act" "If we don't act immediately this was on us" "And we should be revisiting our free trade deal with Israel"
24H of attacks on Labour by the Express. At current pace, that's over 3,000 articles a year attacking Labour's Brexit betrayal. Don't tell me that ramping up our efforts to get closer to the EU further and faster would make a big difference to their torrent of hate. It's already dialled up to 11!
'Island of Strangers' by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-st...
Every bomb dropped, every child killed, bears the stain of British complicity. This genocide is made possible by the UK, US, and EU — arming, funding and shielding Israel as it massacres with impunity. How do those responsible sleep at night?
Just remember: Starmer could have used his speech on immigration to explain to people how Brexit has made immigration explode, and that that's why we need to rejoin the Single Market with Freedom of Movement. But he chose instead to follow Farage down his xenophobic rabbit hole. #NotStrangers
I understand why it's like this, but I will never forgive the web for shifting to a form where the two paragraphs of information I need only exist as a ten-minute video.
TTID #FBPE 