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Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
❗️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.
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
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Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Brexit - the gateway drug to a dangerous obsession with immigration - next come deportation schemes, #Farageriots, increasing authoritarianism, overt racism from politicians and media, cruelty as policy, leaving the ECHR… On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Most Scottish family story ever
ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids Truthout truthout.org/articles/ice...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Heroes without capes 💪 “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids” www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history. Labour must get rid of him.
If he wants to make the argument that human beings are inherently dangerous, one of the first things you'd want to address is whether they should be allowed to be armed.
From another place
Labour's attitude to immigration is both deplorable and tragic, and it would not look out of place at a Reform rally. If you're not paying attention to Twitter, here's everything that Starmer tweeted about immigration in August...
Appeals court says Trump's fentanyl and reciprocal tariffs are unlawful. Looking forward to the 6-3 SCOTUS decision which upholds them anyway because the Constitution clearly states Trump is an omnipotent God-Emperor destined to reign upon the Golden Throne until all is returned to dust.
We are so fucked.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
What the hell is this nonsense from @skynewss.bsky.social ? Why are they even toying with the ‘political judiciary’ line? Dangerous foolishness from a respectable news outlet. @sophyridge.bsky.social any chance of an internal editorial chat… news.sky.com/story/politi...
Trump thinks slavery is just fine.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Un. USED. Unused. Kidneys. I’m going to start screaming and never stop.
He’s trying to get her killed…
Disgraceful.
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time in the last week on some abject, lame oligarch-owned press attack on Byline Times because someone can’t read company accounts. More anon
The RW in the US and Europe have figured out that people won't fight back anymore. They'll proudly state how they won't be intimidated when other people are attacked, and that the law, or 'karma', will eventually sort out the bad guys. But the net result is that nobody actually does anything.
Watch and listen.
'Death toll will be unimaginable': Trump appointee called 'serial killer' after new move
"Flag on Devon roundabout updates with rainbow and peace symbol" Would be terrible if this sort of thing were to start happening. ~AA www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Now we do not have to imagine what the world would look like if America started treating its most reliable allies like enemies. Remember this moment. (Gift article. Please read.)
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
If Labour begin preparations for negotiating to rejoin the EU, we could be back in by around 2030-2031, turbocharging Labour's second term. If they stick to their Brexit maximalist stance then we're not going to be rejoining until the 2040s or later, after the horror of a 2029 Reform government.
Exclusive: A Russia-based Yandex employee is the sole maintainer of a widely used open-source tool embedded in at least 30 pre-built software packages in DOD. ⬇️
You can have shit experiences with any airline, but Ryanair is the only one which makes clear that it actively hates you.
Assault rifles and riot shields? Uselessly clustered in a giant pack? They're not even making an effort to pretend this is about safety. It's naked intimidation. And yet NYTimes just a week ago referred to ... all this ... as using DC as a "laboratory for a militarized response to urban violence."
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
What an unbelievably stupid time to be alive.
This is what happens when Labour decide to play on the same diabolical playing field as Reform: the Overton window catapults to the right. It is on their collective heads. They had the numbers and the clout to yank the national conversation in a completely different direction, but opted not to.
The worst president in American history — TWICE!!!
Last year, in an address to the Society for the Rule of Law Institute (@chkbal.bsky.social), Ambassador John Bolton warned that, if elected to a second term, Trump would abuse and corrupt the Justice Department to carry out retribution. Watch. (ht: @greggnunziata.bsky.social)
The key is to do whatever it takes to not let them do it, rather than protest that they did (which is what we're seeing in the US).
North Korean propagandists would consider this an implausible and unacceptable level of toadying up to the Supreme Leader.
Reminder Reform UK Ltd is a private company. Nigel Farage is on track to install Govt as a Sovereign Corporation with himself as CEO at the helm, accountable to his shareholders rather than voters. Thread
Just a constant word salad of the worst words
I presume those calling for ‘mass deportations’ and deals with the Taliban will be excusing themselves from poppy wearing and Remembrance Day events from now on…
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
there are no words for how evil, craven & abhorrent this is
Every time living standards fall, Nigel Farage blames migration. And every time, Keir Starmer nods along. People are struggling with the cost of living and blaming migration won’t fix that. Scotland deserves better - a fairer, wealthier, welcoming future with independence.
*Another* day of shame. Each one worse than the one before. The cowardice and the corruption that have brought us to this point… where fascism and racism are being normalised as political positions worthy of respect and votes… It’s such a cynical and unforgivable abuse of power.
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
The people around him are so afraid of him that they won’t even tell him how math works
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
⚡️Ukrainian soldier survives after 5 days crawling with throat cut by Russian troops.
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
A Farage government will actually ask the Irish government, and the nationalist community in Northern Ireland, to agree to give up the ECHR provisions in the Good Friday Agreement.
Dear #BBCNews. I'm sick and tired of you promoting this Poundshop fascist. Please stop it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We all are. Their circular logic is that they cover him because he's popular but he's become popular because they've platformed him, relentlessly, for over a decade. Without the BBC we may still be in the EU and not looking forward to living under fascism without human rights.
The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .
During the worst phases of the Brexit debate it was visible that mainstream journalists are more interested in spectacle than facts. That‘s why they are cheering on the Reform takeover now. They love the spectacle and don‘t care about the immense damage to the country.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
There are over 1,000 victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and abuse. But Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell are not victims; they are collaborators and participants. Neither deserves a moment of peace before they rejoin their partner in Hell. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Gives the lie to "We don't need the ECHR, we have our own Human Rights Act", doesn't it. RefUK may be the biggest existential threat to our freedom and way of life for 80 years. Start taking this seriously if you're not already.
I cannot type the words I actually want to say, so for now I’ll just hope these people are haunted forever.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
@mercyscrewjones.bsky.social
Sounds like the soft launch of an announcement of a dictatorship to me.
***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
This guy, I swear.
First, the Trump Admin unlawfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a gulag in El Salvador. Now, days after he was reunited with family, they want to deport him to Uganda. This is another shameful violation of his right to due process & Trump must stop targeting him immediately.
This photo will be shown in history books as an example of deep and unabiding cruelty. You can't reform this.
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.
jeez, the man's an idiot.
I think it was taken just off Portobello Road outside Aston House. Then there's this. Recorded in 1982 just a little way up the road on the corner of Denbigh Terrace (40 seconds in). youtu.be/hdkkBQZEU7g?...
Keir Starmer promised Britain strength through a U.S. deal. But now Trump has humiliated him, imposed tariffs, and left our businesses exposed. If Starmer had chosen EU alignment, Britain 🇬🇧 would be negotiating from strength, instead, we’re at the mercy of Trump’s whims.
EXCLUSIVE: The UK civil service forces Scots to classify their qualifications as 'other' in job applications, the Sunday National can reveal 🗣️ 'It undercuts the whole ‘union of equals’ rhetoric. Unless you’re playing by the English education system, you’re going to be an other on this island'
British immigrant to Spain tells GB News the reason she moved to Benidorm is that there are too many immigrants in the UK And her friend says the cost of living is lower and better inside the European Union than back in the UK which is outside the EU
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
Dear Lord Glasman Kindly fuck off. Love Nigel.
Lucy Connolly tried to claim in her appeal that she didn’t know what a guilty plea would mean. Her first lawyer brought *comprehensive* receipts demonstrating that wasn’t true. As Sunder says, she’s repeating claims a court very clearly found to be false.
But I thought Pam Bondi had it in her desk—at least, before she told Donald Trump his name was in the files.
No, Lucy. People hoped prison would make you have a good hard look at yourself, to see how radicalised you’d become. Instead, you’ve learned nothing and, with help from your cynical right wing friends, you’re now grifting from your utterly bogus victimhood. That makes what you did even worse.
This felt inevitable: an interview with Allison Pearson given top billing in the Telegraph. Connolly suggests Starmer should relearn what freedom of speech means and "what the laws are in this country". I think he knows but Connolly/Pearson clearly don't. No lessons have been learned in prison.
3 years later London 1981 Photographer Robert van der Hilst. www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
President Zelenskyy: When Russia raises the issue of security guarantees,I honestly don't know who is threatening them yet.They attacked us, they’re on our land.I don't quite understand what guarantees the aggressor needs.Guarantees of what?
The UK Government is reportedly set to sign a multi-billion-pound contract with Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer If the £2 billion deal goes ahead, it would see Elbit Systems train up to 60,000 British soldiers a year
Greg Jackson, "Our biggest offshore wind farm is paid not to generate energy 71% of the time" "40% of all of the wind energy we could have from Scotland is paid to be not generated" "We need to fix this because this is what is pushing people's bills up"
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
Nobody standing up against Tommy Robinson’s incitements to racial hatred. Instead Conservatives and right wing press idolising a woman who pleaded guilty of inciting racial hatred and violence. Horst Wessel stuff. Measure the temperature as the hatred heats up
🇦🇪🇮🇱UAE's FY4942 military cargo aircraft landed at Ramon Airport, Israel. Marking the first delivery of arms to Israel from the Emirati nation. The aircraft had to avoid Jordan's airspace, indicating Amman did not give the UAE's Il-76 clearance.
A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
Ofcom refuses to investigate GB News over a call to shoot and starve disabled benefits claimants. The watchdog says the channel has a right to "freedom of expression" even if it means calling on air for disabled people to be killed bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...