These are the people that #Starmer and the #Labour cabinet has chosen to side with.
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These are the people that #Starmer and the #Labour cabinet has chosen to side with.
What precisely is it about refugees that the former human rights lawyer doesn't like? I think we should be told.
Cue current recipients handing them back.
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
He (Sam Coates) hasn't posted to Bluesky for more than six months. But maybe he lurks in the shadows.
Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel
Facts: Total trade (Goods + Services) between US and India in 2024 in $Billions Exports to India = 83.3 Imports from India = 128.9 So no, not "very little business". This isn't difficult to check:
Can someone enlighten me as what #JackStraw is up to here?
My local #Labour MP is Mark Tami. His website is www.marktami.co.uk The front page has a "Latest News" section that was last updated in November 2020! The recommended way to follow him is via X or Facebook, both owned by extremist right wingers (won't use). He will be looking for my vote in 2029.
1 September 2025 is the day Labour went FULL REFORM. They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale. Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
What next? Will we see him demonstrating how to set fire to a refugee hostel?
Speaking of #Remigration, shall we start with self-confessed illegal immigrants the #Musk brothers?
Having failed abjectly to make an impact in the US government, Musk turns his attention to failing miserably in the UK. Someone send him back to where he came from. South Africa wasn't it? #Remigration
Piper Alpha
I hope the couple who racially abused this healthcare worker in Halifax have the chance to contemplate their actions the next time they turn up for hospital treatment.
UK Council Tax: "A tax designed by someone with an expensive house"
This is excellent reporting. Thank you. Make known the identities of these goons and hold them to account for their actions. They've had it too good for too long and it's good to see citizens pushing back.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
X should simply be blocked in the UK. It’s not a social media platform. It’s the personal propaganda and disinformation platform of an extreme right wing enemy of Britain.
Well, since the value of total US imports from all countries in 2024 was $3.36 trillion, it's hard to see how tariffs alone could exceed that figure.
Or "Stanford" to give the university its proper name
"I wasn't employed by Cambridge Analytica."... "I was employed by Cambridge Analytica." That #AlexPhillips?
Well, "bigger than *that of* the US" I can believe, but not "bigger than the US"!
Is she another of those like #Oakeshott and #Carswell who sit in distant lands and decry the state of England from afar?
Well that should keep Jeffrey #Epstein out of the headlines for a day or two.
Is it because he is dead?
Congressional Medal of Honor for Judge Sookanan when Trump is evicted.
Trump thinks he's going on Mt Rushmore when he dies. Despite being a multi-convicted felon, a self-confessed abuser of women, the leader of an insurrection, defender of child sex traffickers.........
Is that "obliterated" in the sense of "lightly damaged"?
Oopsie! Found out. They're making it too easy.
I hope Norway has enough sailors to crew the new ships.
Doesn't the UK Home Secretary have the power to revoke the UK citizenship of African-born US resident Douglas Carswell on the grounds of national security?
Douglas Carswell's "Letter from America". Born in Africa. So patriotic, he doesn't live in the UK any more. But still likes to pontificate from afar. The thinking woman's #IsabelOakeshott.
Next they'll have Pete Kegsbreth ordering the US #SpaceForce to eradicate those real #rainbows that form in the sky after rain and threaten the nation's security.
I note especially in the piece by "journalist" #CaroleMalone where she described Diana as #brain_dead, hours after she had been declared brain dead following the crash. #touching
It will anyway.
They've probably never heard of #JamalKhashoggi or what the Saudi authorities, that now own their football club, did to him. Still, #HowayTheLads eh?
Perhaps Trump has finally accepted he's not getting a Nobel Peace Prize. So he's going for a prize not yet in existence: The #NobelWarPrize.
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.
Politicians in the US chose to let this happen. www.thetimes.com/article/98ba...
Wow, powerful image!
"They hate God" is a big leap from "they don't believe in God".
And we all want to see what Pam Bondi saw in the #Epstein Files that were "on her desk".
Also Maxwell would presumably not consider a setting in which (hypothetically) Trump raped a child to be an "inappropriate" one - by her standards.
UK (Wales)
After the upgrade will the #Holocaust Museum include exhibits about other genocidal episodes like the one being perpetrated by #Israel right now in #Gaza?
Is this why so few Israeli hostages remain alive?
Do we know yet what happened in #Alaska to cause #KarolineLeavitt to come out of the meeting room where #Trump and #Putin met reportedly looking like she'd seen a ghost?
If he starts yelling "Ok, I colluded with #Epstein to rape children", you will let me know?
Geez I wonder why. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
Yesterday evening. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
Imagine the outcry if the #Israeli Prime Minister and several of his ministers were similarly assassinated in their capital by a Houthi air strike.
But I thought we couldn't trust federal data. Or do we trust data that shows the regime in a good llight but distrust data that does the opposite? Publish unflattering data and your boss is fired.
Now freeze some #Israeli assets too.
A little thought experiment. Imagine today we were witnessing the razing to the ground not of #Gaza City, but #TelAviv. Its residents, starved by months of seige, being killed, maimed or forcibly removed while the entire infrastructure of the city is destroyed. Would our reaction be the same?
Mustn't be powered by AI, otherwise it woud have given you 5.
Never heard of this lady,quick Wikipedia search reveals, that "Since 2018,she has acted in support of U.S. nuclear small modular reactor company Terrestrial Energy,for which she received share options in 2018,now lapsed,and again in 2023",& she's now advocating for an SMR to power the steel works 🤔
Thanks for this information. These people have no principles and even less shame.
Has he told Mrs Kirk of his plans?
It's time to move the #UN General Assembly out of #NewYork. "US to stop Palestinians attending UN meeting in New York"
Things that don't surprise me about #Tesla
The sad reality in America, perfectly captured by @bjennings90.bsky.social.
Reminds me of the guy who replaced all the window panes in his house then found the crack was in the lens of his glasses.
Is this the judge saying "Thank you, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch. Your ecouragement of protests at the hotels has made my decision much more straightforward"?
You forgot to say #ThankYou and now one of #JDVance 's angels has died.
Prediction: the Daily Mail will dust off its "Enemies of the People" headline tomorrow. They just have to change "ies" to "y". @dailymail.co.uk
Via Full Fact -
"Kids, don't inject disinfectant"
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
Will Israel be reporting how many of the hostages were killed by Hamas and how many by Israel?
Ofsted is the UK's Education Standards Office. I think you mean Ørsted.
Santorini?
Do you think it's a bit strange that not a single photo has emerged from this meeting? Usually meetings in the White House with prominent politicians prompt promotional photos. Why not this time? Has Tony Blair gone shy?
Just in case you forgot…
I have to say it feels good to read "former Tory MP" in relation to Philip Davies.
But sanctions against the genocidal regime in Israel? "No, never, that would be antisemitic"
JDVance: "I'm a "Never Trump" guy".
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
Look to countries like Australia, New Zealand, UK to see how to react to mass shootings and prevent them in the future. But I suspect that the solution won't be acceptable to US sensibilities.
If you're ever looking for the truth in anything Trump says, simply invert it. You won't go wrong.
The Minneapolis attack wasn't "unintentional" though.
It's unlike the #Trump Administration to be so coy about releasing photos of the president meeting at the #WhiteHouse with prominent world figures. Is the cloak and dagger at the insistence of the #TonyBlair camp?
Has this organisation been proscribed as a terrorist group by Yvette Cooper? In the same way that neo-Nazi groups Maniac Murder Cult and Russian Imperial Movement were. Oh and Palestine Action. Will attending the concert lead to arrest as a terrorist?
Wouldn't you have thought that, after his jubilant reaction to the Truss/Kwarteng budget that finished off the political careers of its champions, #AllisterHeath would have crawled under a rock and never again put pen to paper to express an opinion? Ever. These people have no shame. #DailyTelegraph
🎥Our latest video is out now!🎥 We investigate a US military contractor hired by Britain to conduct surveillance over Gaza which operated over Nuseirat refugee camp shortly before an Israeli bombing killed over 30 Palestinians. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r7C...
That's easy. The Israeli lobby is very influential in British politics. - If you express support for Palestine Action you risk arrest and a long jail sentence. - If you express support for Israel, a terrorist state committing genocide and other war crimes in Palestine you won't get arrested. QED
"Before her death, Richardson had discovered Kennedy's personal journal from 2001, in which he recorded sexual encounters with 37 different women." Any surprise he's a Trump favorite?
"During his marriage to Richardson, Kennedy was known among his friends for sending explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had taken, according to Vanity Fair. He reportedly engaged in multiple affairs during the marriage". Continued......
I don't know. I can't make my mind up about RFKJ (!) "Kennedy is a Roman Catholic. In 2005, journalist Michael Paulson called him "a deeply devout Catholic who attends daily Mass" Continued......
Alas.
I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that a private company like "The Reform Party UK Limited" exercises control over who it interacts with.
I think "complimentary" was the word you were looking for.
The new Australian chief executive of Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water was sacked from his last job as head of Sydney Water and has been accused by a trade union of being responsible for a “toxic” workplace culture ✍️Martin Shipton
Cop Casually Threatens To Shoot A Black Man In The Head
Ash Sarkar on Israel and its allies in the west holding a conference on the future of Palestine that doesn't involve any Palestinians, but does include Tony Blair.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
It's Andrew Neil, so.....
In Savannah, GA, police officers forcefully slammed a handcuffed, non-resisting man headfirst onto the concrete.
Great catch by the videographer.
Using bombs supplied by the USA....probably.