Dr Farbod

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone who might've missed it:

Just a shame that beautiful Gyokeres goal will be forgotten

Well, well, well... 80% of "donations" to Nigel Farage’s party are from donors or companies based overseas. This is not normal. And the public deserves to know what these super-rich donors want back in return.

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Dowman was petulant, but he’s a 16 year old lad who was getting kicked all evening. Perhaps the ref could try protecting him before punishing the reaction. Fewer fixtures, none of that quadruple nonsense. We’ll crowdfund the £150k Carabao Cup winner's prize money if we have to. 🙄

It's a Mickey Mouse cup anyway. #̶T̶h̶e̶Q̶u̶a̶d̶r̶u̶p̶l̶e̶ #TheTreble

Susanna Reid, "Why have you brought up rejoining the European Union?" Andy Burnham, "We have a decade of experience now looking back at Brexit, and I don't think it has played out as people said at the time"

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Serbia’s students turned disaster into defiance, grief into solidarity, and less than two years of resistance into victory. They built something new. They broke a grip on power that seemed unbreakable. Let this travel far beyond Serbia: Power is not permanent. Hope is not foolish.

I absolutely want my FoM restored. I will not vote for any party that does not intent to pursue this. news.sky.com/story/pm-ope...

Elon Musk Just what an incredible fall from grace… From innovative, eco-conscious, cool nerd… 
To depraved, entitled, evil, war-mongering, self-radicalised fuckwit.

It makes sense. Fake club. Fake kit. The only thing real about Manchester City is the 114 guilty charges.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

festering piece of shit.

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

👀 Republican on why he backs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social 👇🏽

Video calling. Once the stuff of science fiction, in an age when an international phone call could cost a small fortune. Now I can call a friend in New Zealand, patch in friends in the USA and Seychelles, and we can all see and speak to each other. For free. We forget how extraordinary that is.

Take a moment to remember what we promised Brexit would deliver: a well-funded NHS, less immigration, more jobs, flourishing businesses with no red tape, easy to get on the housing ladder, boom time for farming, fishing and steel industries... I do hope you're enjoying it.

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Humans will become the cows of the future. #TheMootrix #ThereIsNoSpoon

You cannot appease bigotry. You can only feed it. And every concession merely sharpens its appetite. “Every generation has to fight the same battles for peace and justice, for there is no final victory and no final defeat... ...So toughen up, bloody toughen up.” Tony Benn

A homeschooling role model

I bet those women don’t know they’re his good friends

Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point introduces an undercover reporter from Al Jazeera to a former UVF man who offers to do a contract killing for the right price. Ross talks about violence but says, once sting revealed, he was joking www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Gift Article👇 Art by @billbramhall.bsky.social

ITV said it "stands by its journalism" and the Reform programme was "produced in compliance with the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, relevant laws, and its broadcast is in the public interest... "Should the police get in touch we would fully cooperate.”

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I am in agreement with Oliver Holt. I don't like this feeling.

With the pro-Reform UK Russian bots down, more and more people are realising that Emperor Nigel Farage has no (even half decent policy) clothes! "Funny how things work out" via The London Economic

We are sensing a pattern

"The Brexit majority has gone for ever – rejoin now has a majority of 9m" "Millions of Brexit voters have died and the young want to get back in" Sounds like a plan #RejoinEU

Olaf with some food for thought, as always. Whilst we all should be incandescently angry, let's not become the very thing they want us to be. Creation is more powerful than destruction. #ParisRiots

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

Particularly frustrating when you remember large swathes of the media defending rugby teams kicking the shit out of Wenger sides. They had no duty to anyone to 'play the right way' and Arsenal just needed to suck it up.

Rejoining is an urgent necessity.