James Freestone

James Freestone

@jamofree.bsky.social

Arsenal | Oasis | Music | Vinyl | Beer | Whiskey | Gin

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Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

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It happens so much — it's so endemic — that there's a danger you get numb to it. I can't explain why this one hurt me so bad. Please, please spend a moment to watch this. And imagine it's your mum, sister, daughter, partner or friend. These people are monsters. There's no other word.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Israeli settlers, all men, brutally attacked a US journalist, a woman, in an attempted lynching. The Israeli military provided the attackers with cover using tear gas and machine gun fire. Palestinians intervened to rescue her from being beaten to death.

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Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip

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BATMAN was released 37 years ago today. One of the earliest classic superhero movies, and among the most popular of director Tim Burton. The story of how it came to the big screen will have you dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight… 1/36

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🔴 Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms EXCLUSIVE: Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself bylinetimes.com/2026/06/09/r...

bylinetimes.comReform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed FirmsWigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself

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www.msn.com/en-us/sports... “Africa's best referee denied entry to USA, set to be ruled out of FIFA World Cup”

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social

Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...

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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

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If you don’t want politicians re-writing history for political gain please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call out this absolute rubbish with the actual facts. If UK news shows are not up to the job let’s do it ourselves

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it. We cannot allow him & others to rewrite history. youtu.be/vL7_mwSNMvc?...

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Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

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Premier League Simulation - 2025-11-26 I am not comfortable with the numbers here, maybe I don't have the mettle to be a favorite or maybe I am worried of being called a homer. I haven't done anything here to put my thumb on the scale, if I were (I am not) I would be pushing it down, not up😂

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Background to yesterday's violence is this banner unfurled by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans on Tuesday evening. Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters (traditionally left-wing and strongly anti-Netanyahu) were angered at what they saw as Maccabi supporters comparing them to Hamas. www.ynetnews.com/sport/articl...

ynetnews.comFamilies outraged as fans equate rivals with Hamas in Tel Aviv soccer derbyA banner at Maccabi Tel Aviv’s match sparked fury after linking Hamas with Hapoel Tel Aviv and Germany’s St. Pauli; Bereaved families called it offensive to victims of Oct. 7, saying it dishonored the...

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⚠️WARNING⚠️ Nine Datacentres coming to Wales by 2030 Data Centres: One Big Headache All part of Keir Starmer's AI Growth Zones launch back in Jan 2025. Are the people of Caerphilly aware that Caerphilly County Borough, sits in a deregulated Investment Zone within the Cardiff Capital Region? Thread

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31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating. It was a White man attacking Non-White people. Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made." Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

bylinetimes.com‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin ProblemFar from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Another American Idiot, from team Trump, pushing a stupid narrative about fossil fuels. They are the cause of high prices not the answer. These peeps should stay out of our biz, in my view. buff.ly/2WuCr6N

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Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.

James Ball@jamesrball.com

Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

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How much does the UK spend on welfare? 🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.). Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%. #ChartOfTheDay #Welfare

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After 3 years of being unable to name Thomas Partey as the PL star under investigation for alleged rapes, we now can as he’s been charged with 6 offences against 3 women between 2021 & 2022. The previous issue was privacy; now we must be wary of prejudicing the trial. www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...

nytimes.comThomas Partey, former Arsenal midfielder, charged with rape, sexual assaultThe 32-year-old previously could not be named for legal reasons.

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Before 2008, there had only been one treble from the "big five" leagues in 53 years. There have now been seven in 17 years Not a coincidence this was rise of the super club amid an economic crash, to go with multiple other forces... bsky.app/profile/migu...

Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social

My book, ‘States of Play’, is out now. It is really a modern history of football, and how it has been transformed by three main forces: geopolitics, especially autocratic states; a very western capitalism; the game’s own greed and failures of authority geni.us/StatesOfPlay

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Lindsey Hilsum, "Did you see Israeli soldiers killing people who might have been civilians?" #C4News Former Israeli reserve Officer Yotam Vilk, "People who were unarmed were shot.. Because their lives didn't matter that much" "It's a war crime, unethical, against modern humanitarian law"

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“Despite all of these arrivals there are still 131,000 vacancies in care. The sector say there is no way they can fill these jobs with British workers” The care sector is already on its knees and the government knows it

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2025: Paul Brand from ITV News explains how immigration shot up after we took back control of our borders with Brexit 2019: Boris Johnson says that immigration numbers will come down because Brexit allows us to lower migration

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Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier. Sold almost $2m worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency. archive.ph/BTca8

nytimes.comMajor Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian SupplierThe aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

bit.lyOscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists sayActivists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.