Liam Robbens

Pete Hegseth says the December 3rd firing squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan will be public, for anyone who wants to watch. It is impossible to overstate the barbarity of these people. There is no way back. humanevents.com/2026/10/08/e...

Timms appointed a Tory from a right wing "think tank" to his review As well as targetting the Personal Independence Payment for disabled people, they're also going after Children's Disabilty Living Allowance which helps with the extra costs of caring for seriously ill and disabled children #Labour

Ministers’ decision to slash accessible housing targets was ‘unprincipled’, but Timms says they were right #AccessibleHousing @inclusionlondon.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-de...

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

The NHS fucked up and has obstructed my trans healthcare for longer than Brazilian MP Erika Hilton has gender transitioned. She gets to live her life and even be an MP. I can't even step on NHS premises without being abused by staff let alone get any trans healthcare.

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

Ringo Starr on Jeffrey Archer: "He strikes me as a nice enough fella, but he's the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it." WIKIPEDIA

“Do Labour really believe they can draw a line under the support they gave to an outspokenly genocidal regime for years without addressing their role? ...this party has stood with Israel as it reduced Gaza to dust... That cannot be swept away.” #Labour #Burnham #WarCrimes

Jeffrey Archer dead - letter from the English Collective of Prostitutes following his conviction for perjury and a few months after Monica Coughlan's death

And the nazi bar that is Substack.

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We shouldn't tax wealth properly because magic beans will fund everything.

Clearly the Tories feel their 10% polling in Scotland is too high

"We have to be there because that's where you can change people's minds" People;

It’s always at this time of night that I realise how the combination of understanding my neurodivergent brain, and being bullied out of Monkey Cage, (connected) has deeply affected me and also made me see the impossibility of working with people without values or ethics - it’s not always easy

Is exhuming the Watergate issue supposed to be a vote winner?

Oh FFS. Second time I’ve been Team Rees-Mogg in a month. Gah.

The Tale of Squirrel Nutjob. Amazing photo by @kevinlohman.bsky.social If you like this (if... hah!) then more contenders for the Comedy Wildlife Awards here: www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

From the Home Secretary whose own policies have helped bolster human trafficking and who ended the family reunification route which actually helped women and children avoid these irregular routes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

According to the government, racists are less likely to join Nazi organisations because Labour banned Palestine Action. And people call Braverman a nutcase. #Labour #racism inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The GOP behaving like Rosie Duffield on X after her third glass.

[No shade on Kate personally] Labour's unforgivable (and continuing) conduct over Gaza led to me leaving the party after decades. But if it were not for that, then the creeping capture of the party by the anti-trans hate lobby over the last few years would have made me leave anyway #Labour #Burnham

Coming soon! An exhibition about the Romans in Scotland is opening in Edinburgh this autumn, 'Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire', running from 14 November 2026 to 18 April 2027 at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street. www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Note the last paragraph. Being a member on equal terms with every other EU nation is regarded as a "worse deal" and as "punishment". We need to get over ourselves. #Cake #rejoin #Brexit

Until the widespread delusion that it's remotely possible we might rejoin on 2016 terms — or any other version of cake — is expunged from political discourse in the UK, we will not be taken seriously as an accession country. #rejoin #Brexit

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

The reality vs the boosterism and hype. They're alao going after the already paltry disability Personal Independence Payment.

I was never a particular fan of either Nick Robinson or Andrew Marr but they are absolute titans of political analysis compared to the drivel produced by Kuenssberg and Mason.

This thread is insane:

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“Looking at the legal, medical, media & political landscape I can’t see a safe, secure & dignified future for my daughter in the UK At every point when the Labour Govt could have made something better they have turned around and given her another kick. It is sickening to see how far we have fallen”

The meaning of "Difficult choices" is — as it was under Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer — crapping on the most vulnerable to avoid modest tax increases for the well off and shunt billions to the arms companies. Unsurprisingly the government want to defer that until after the next GE

All the smarties taste the same and are meh except the orange ones which taste miles better. I buy a tube, empty it, keep the orange ones for myself and give the rest away. It's my greatest wasteful extravagance. #Smarties

In 1066 it would have taken William the Conqueror's army about 2 hours to march the 6.3 miles from Hastings to Battle, but today I managed to cover the same distance in almost half that time thanks to Southeastern trains.

The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like

Clutching my pearls extra hard at the shocking news that "The conference hosted stalls for groups such as Rewinding Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Greens and Trans Young Greens." 😮

Germany's ambo doesn't say what is shown here. She actually says: “in Germany you will always find a partner for setting the ambition as high as we can” Macron says: "you cannot pick and choose among the union’s freedoms, nor can you decide to take only what suits you while rejecting the rest"

The world's largest data centre is being proposed for Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway. The proposals could use more energy than over two million homes in just one year! Join the campaign to stop these dangerous plans: greens.scot/ChapelcrossD...

“people who are known to support the asylum seekers have been threatened with acid attacks, petrol bombs and rape... several local businesses have been threatened by far-right agitators, along with a church... One man was punched in the throat after he held up a “Love Thy Neighbour” sign.”

Love that he announced this yesterday on International Day of Older Persons. They just love reminding older ppl that they don't matter. Fwiw, from my policy experience in the age sector I am convinced that the pension triple lock is a highly successful policy that should be emulated not scrapped.

Anyone who bought into the idea that we're changing course in this country after the big speech should read this. #Burnham

Burnham has called for proportional representation. SV is absolutely not a proportional representation system. It is not clear if Burnham knows this but it is pretty certain that those appointed to an electoral reform commission charged with considering a move to PR will know this.

Got it in one, mate