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Nothing they are doing suggests to me that Starmer and his team understand the depths of the hole they have dug for themselves nor how they got there - which indicates this could still go lower.
I wish you the very best of luck, and I wish your current employers the very worst. Like you said, they should have valued you more.
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said
Have an 80s tune right back 😁 youtu.be/zefaQgPqqac?...
Also, you inspired me to update mine. Not quite as descriptive as yours, though.
Sane!
Yes, but probably for the best. After all, being known as the inventor of SPD Crocs is probably not something any same person would want for themselves.
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
It’s a trap: if migration or identity politics is framed as the central crisis, voters who care most about it will prefer the “original” over the copy. The far right gains credibility, while centrists hollow out their own.
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
This comes following previous investigation from @martinrw.bsky.social here 👇 www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...
Yes, it’s a BMW. What else would it be? #WorldBollardAssociation 🤭
The toilets to be closed cost between £2,600 (Charlbury) and £45,530 (Woodstock) to run each year. Several of the toilets are sited near car parks, where WODC offers free parking at an annual subsidy of around £0.5m.
Yes, but I completely oppose any vehicles being crushed. Confiscate them, and sell them on. All cars have an enormous embedded CO2 footprint, and crushing them helps nobody.
I agree completely
🚨BREAKING: Defend Our Juries leaders arrested in clear violation of international law This is a terrifying example of UK authorities’ willingness to use authoritarian practices. amn.st/63327A6z3d
The UK now has a clear and unambiguous left-wing alternative. You don't need to endorse the vile concessions of a Labour party that has desecrated its legacy by bending to racists and transphobes. You don't need to endorse untested parties with no name. @greenparty.org.uk is the left alternative.
This is how dictatorships behave
This is how you do junctions folks. Lovely clear shading to make it clear that there could be those on cycles, a nice bright colour, white dashes. The cycle lane is continuing clearly. Marvellous! … 5/12
I'm sorry, but I must have lent my bike against this barrier. Can't imagine any other way that it fell...
Amen!
No idea. I don't know enough about it to be able to answer that, sorry.
Does your elected representative know about #MyRideOurRight? 🚲 My ride: Cycling should feel liberating, not intimidating. ✊ Our right: Safe, accessible journeys for everyone. 👉 https://action.cyclinguk.org/page/172411/action/1?ea.tracking.id=BS
You just summed up cops the world over 😔
Rather undermines a central plank of many “cyclists need regulating like cars” arguments
Hard agree. But drivers know roads policing is nonexistent.
Every day I see illegal typefaces, spacing, and 4D plates. Drivers know the risks are very low, at most they'll get a slap on the wrist fine. The only way to tackle this is impounding, with punitive storage and release charges. Word will spread quickly.
Pretty much 🤣
In Plymouth, waiting for youngest daughter. Parked in a multi-storey car park, with quite narrow ramps. Laughing my rear end off at the wankpanzer driver who has to do 20-point turns
Absolutely smashed it. Transphobia does not pay on the left. Lessons for Labour, Your party, or any other party that relies on the votes of people whose brains are not rotted by right wing propaganda.
The mere fact that a small trial detected 1000s of ghost plates simply underlines the fact that roads policing is effectively non-existent.
'The pilot scheme ... forms part of a major road safety drive by the PCC which aims to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on West Midlands roads.' @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
Regular reminder that “pedestrian guardrail” is not there to protect people, it’s there to allow drivers to go faster and take more risks
As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
"I am here to offer bold leadership and to fight for a country where no one is left behind." @zackpolanski.bsky.social writing for The Guardian hours after being elected as the new Leader of @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Best thing for the Greens, best thing for the UK. Bloody well done, @zackpolanski.bsky.social!
If you wonder how come far right propaganda has become so dominant in shaping Western worldviews, this is well worth watching. Billions of dollars have been ploughed into it over the last two decades and it’s working in the UK as well as the USA. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/01/h...
FFS. To paraphrase Thatcher.... There's no such thing as The Market, there are merely fat, rich bastards that want to rip off as many people as they can in order to amass as much wealth as they can.
😂😂😂😂
I normally have oat milk, and am at the point where a latte made with cow milk tastes off.
The Home Office's own (excellent) research summary says a) asylum seekers come to the UK primarily because of social networks/ties b) welfare and labour market policies are *not* a big "pull factor" c) safe routes would help freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...
The more I think about "Union Jack bunting on our garden shed" the funnier it gets. IT'S A GARDEN SHED. WHY DO YOU HAVE BUNTING ON A GARDEN SHED.
This is what a politician with absolutely zero integrity looks like.
Always great to see a driver accelerate past you only to stamp on the brakes and cut in front of you whilst also nearly taking out a pedestrian. Thankfully the police agreed that this driving was below the standard expected of a competent driver. Fine & points in the post.
Yvette, I'm confused.
On 21 March 1943, Winston Churchill suggested the creation of a Council Of Europe, and proposed that it offers safeguards for people's rights. In 1949, the Council Of Europe was established. Why does it matter? It is what gave us the ECHR. Only idiots would want to leave it.
Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it Why? When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted Public health must communicate our successes We must be visible
An Aquatic plant producing oxygen. #bluesky
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
A recent visit to France surprised me; vehicles there are broadly much smaller than the average in Australia, including a micro car class that isn’t even legal here.
After decades of it being unacceptable, It's hard* to put my finger on exactly when being openly racist in public came back to the UK. *June 2016. It was June 2016.
Well done, Sussex Bylines. Excellent analysis and the issue is urgent.
The same in England: we all see him as a massive weird freak.
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
In case you didn’t already know: “The world’s top genocide scholars have formally declared that #Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal definition of #genocide, marking a landmark intervention from leading experts in the field of international law.”
I wonder how many Labour activists at the General Election thought "In less than 18 months, the party I'm working my arse off for will be nodding along politely to policies previously associated with the BNP and National Front."
Cracking piece. This bit nailed it.
Worth noting this story comes from policy exchange, which was founded by Michael Gove. Who compared the Good Friday agreement to condoning the desires of paedophiles I wrote this almost a decade ago www.irishtimes.com/news/world/u...
Geese making noise outside, as they're preparing to fly away south, and take summer with them 😔
The Road Headed West – Leon McCarron During the economic crash of 2008, Leon McCarron was in a predicament: jobs were few and far between, and after a 6 month stint of working in New York city, he'd had enough. What he needed was an adventure, and what better adventure than to cycle across the…
I remember living under Apartheid. In fact, I still carry scars left by the South African Security Police, because I dared oppose it. The UK is starting to resemble Apartheid South Africa more and more each day. 😔
You're either very right wing, or very ignorant.
What a spineless little nazi bootlicker Starmer is.
Marx was right about everything. #marxistmonday
You can’t put a minimum income threshold for refugees if you have banned asylum seeking people from working. You can’t expect kids fleeing a warzone to have school level English. And none of this will “stop the boats.” You need safe routes. Honestly, they can’t find anyway to defend this.
"Give them time" "Come on, they inherited a massive mess from the Tories" "They do loads of good stuff that nobody's talking about" "The media are all against them, it's so unfair" "It's too early to judge" etc. Well, guess what... If you're a Labour apologist, YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
[Sky News, which has spent years inciting hatred against migrants] Wow, how could this possibly happen?
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Read this... #bluelabour
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
My first attempt at cycling the Grand Union Canal ended not far from Tring. The towpath from Tring towards Leighton Buzzard is dreadful even after weeks of sunshine, and extremely awful after rain.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Living in four star luxury at the Bell Hotel? Sounds like 💩 to me
Former UN Chief EXPOSES October 7 Myth
I worded that clumsily. Make music. It doesn't matter if that's clacking desert spoons together, or singing out loud (however good). The very act of making music is an essential human element and it will make you happier. Bad human music is far better than AI crap.
Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.
What has the ECHR ever done for us?
PEOPLE make music, and making music is soul food. It doesn't matter if you sing out of key, can't hold a beat, and struggle to learn to play any instrument. What matters is that you make music. Real music, not AI crap.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Yeah so as I was saying, we already have a Reform government in all but name.
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:
2025 was the hottest summer on record. So far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Re-upping an article from last year about the billionaires funding the dark money network that is ravaging US politics, media, and our daily lives.
It is slop. It has no character, no emotion, no context to our history or experiences. Its a scam to destroy artists because artists tend to stand up against the TechBros rhetoric.
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.
Cycle routes should be designed by (average ability) cyclists.
Why are the right wing only screaming about the first?
Are people genuinely proud in some way of the uneven, wiggly, indistinct, irregular, not at right angles, not resembling a flag red smears across mini roundabouts? What garbage is this?
Article 8 of the ECHR is the protection on which not only all positive trans law rests but also most LGB rights to, as well as those of families where one parent wasn't born in the UK. It prevents asylum seeking families from being split. It is utterly monstrous for Labour to want to weaken rights.
Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.
I knew that @bhlabour.bsky.social candidate in Brighton's Queen's Park by-election was Blue Labour, but turns out he also retweets vile transphobic and racist content from the SDP and Spiked. Good job @bhgreens.bsky.social are putting all our effort into making sure Marina Lademacher beats him!
They're such ugly scars on the landscape
Absolutely
Think it's time to stop saying Labour are playing to the fash and accept they are fash under Starmer.