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Artist, former Green party member, electoral reform supporter, old git. Boycott Israel now! Remember, it worked on apartheid South Africa. Check every label. You probably don't buy their espionage software or blood diamonds, but you do buy fruit and veg.

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So tell me, Donald, where the words Chemistry, Algebra, Zero, Cipher, Azimuth and Zenith originated? Oh, and why not keep the word Nadir for yourself? It fits you so well.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Reform punch way above their weight in terms of potential breaches of Parliamentary standards. Of the six current investigations, one is of the Leader of Reform, Farage; two of his deputy Tice; and one of an MP elected as Reform and now independent. The other two are Tory and DUP

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The battle lines have been drawn up for a while: it's the global populace against the fascists and their oligarch enablers. And there's more of us - lots more of us - than there is of them. All we have to do is play by their absence of rules.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

As I keep saying: the international fascist movement

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It will work for me and for anyone who uses as little gas as possible. For me, over a year, the standing fee is the greatest part of my bill

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Burnham proposes plan to cut standing charges from gas bills The prime minister provided little detail, and there are questions over shifting the fees onto unit costs.

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It's arguably the biggest tell that Trump doesn't think there's any way left for him to rig the November mid-terms that he's outsourcing the blame already. Doesn't mean he's not going to try every trick in the book, of course. www.straitstimes.com/world/united...

straitstimes.comTrump faults aides as Republican midterm prospects dimHe also is questioning campaign spending, faulting redistricting and second-guessing candidate choices. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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It has been said many times before, but Trump is a Russian asset. He has no interest in global democracy: he worships tyrannies and autocracies. If we let him, he will be one of Orwell's 'boots stamping on a human face forever' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comTrump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold amid deepening row with UkrainePresident signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect
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The reason that Trump and his mobsters hate and fear James Talarico so much is that he is driven by principle. That makes him as alien and unintelligible to him as a mobile phone would be to a slug crawling on it

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This is not the way to do it. I left the Greens after seven years because of this inane motion: but the pragmatics of council cooperation, especially when reining in Reform majorities, should not founder in order to force recantations. It's Witch Trial nonsense www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comLabour councils told to end agreements with Greens who do not condemn ‘Zionism is racism’ policyParty chair calls on Labour groups to end local deals if Green councillors do not reject motion attacked as ‘antisemitic’
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Trump and Vance distancing themselves from this outrage says everything you need to know that it hasn't played as the MAGA admin imagined it would

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📰 One America News Network Trump and Vance deny involvement in FBI raid on Rep. Omar’s home as Democrats blame WH ⟶ One America News Network | headline in context

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I think we're all pleased that the tiger is not going to be euthanised for being a tiger. But of the guy who died - and it's still a tragedy - I'm going to ask the (possibly vicarious) question I suspect lots of us are wondering about: mental illness or substance abuse? news.sky.com/share/13598842

news.sky.comMan killed by tiger at UK wildlife park picturedThe victim of the tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park has been identified as William Chapman. Police said he was visiting the park alone.
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Oh dear. Trump's latest Barbie clone seems to have been, um, 'exaggerating' her qualifications. Normally, Trump wouldn't give a damn about her honesty; but taken in combination with her dismal first press showing, she's toast

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mediaite.comTrump’s New Press Sec Says She’s a Lawyer, But There’s ‘No Evidence’ She Ever Passed the Bar Exam: ReportNew White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has identified herself as a "lawyer," but she does not appear as a member of any state bar and her claims of working as a lawyer in China do not seem to ...
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Whether he's praising men's looks, using personal insults against women or telling MAGA crowds they're stupid, the root cause is the same: disinhibition. I've seen it to varying degrees in every relative who suffered dementia. www.alternet.org/trump-husted/

alternet.orgTrump continues bizarre habit of praising other men's looksPresident Donald Trump praised the physical appearance of Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH), raising attention about his previously well-established recent habit of making overtly aesthetic comments about the me...
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social 's attempt to steady the Green boat after the 'Zionism is racism' motion has a dash of Mea Culpa to it, but not enough. It was a failure of leadership that it reached conference in that form; and he avoided the vote with a feeble excuse www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comYes, it’s been a tough week for the Greens: but don’t lose sight of how we’re transforming British politics | Zack PolanskiWe must now have unity and a discussion about party democracy. And let me be clear: as leader, I will never tolerate antisemitism, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party of England and Wales
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Republicrat Gavin Newsom's place is in a museum. He'll never lead a Democrat party that's finally growing some balls/ovaries, because despite all his macho posturing, he doesn't have any himself. Yesterday's man calmatters.org/politics/202...

calmatters.orgGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxesGov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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It's a bleak choice for Trump: failing to come to the aid of a nation that has paid him protection money and expects a ROI; or expanding on a second front, a war that domestic voters know he's already losing - and which would bring the US much closer to a land war www.npr.org/2026/10/10/n...

npr.orgTrump weighs joining the fight against Houthis after Riyadh airport attackThe surge in attacks, including against other Saudi airports, military facilities and oil infrastructure, has come in the week since a Saudi-led coalition launched a major military offensive against t...
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Anybody who supports or employs Futura Energy Group in any way is directly and deliberately attacking unpaid volunteers who risk their lives rescuing people from deadly danger at sea. Who is the bad guy here? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comRecruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activistsTom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Even more galling to Trump that Navi Pillay was a staunch anti-apartheid activist, that she declared the Israeli government's genocide in Palestine, and that she gave a better, funnier acceptance speech in two minutes than the Tango tinpot can manage in an hour www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

theguardian.comUS imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize – as it happenedThe ⁠ICC’s deputy prosecutor condemned the sanctions and said they would not halt the tribunal’s work
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This is xenophobia, pure and simple. I have lived in Lawkholme, Keighley for 20years; an area that the Daily Mail, the Express and Katie Hopkins have all called a 'whites no go' area. That's just bollocks, written by people who are scared of difference www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comTory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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I've been in the Green party for six years now, but I will be cancelling my membership. 'Zionism is racism' is as simplistic and cruel a nonsense as is the modern definition of Zionism. The unconscionable support for nuclear fissile power and its 'bill it forward' legacy to our children is no better

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Crikey, Enola Holmes is a bad film. I bailed at 40 mins. It's not the fault of Millie Bobby Brown: her performance is a bit arch, but that's exactly how she's written. But the plotting, the script - even the set dressing - anticipate the vacuity of AI content generation. There's just no there, there

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Why is Trump suddenly pulling bombers back to the US and aircraft carriers out of the Strait? Because he's aware of the devastating electoral consequences to his administration of an attack on US assets in the run-up to the mid-terms www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comUS bombers pulled from RAF Fairford base after suspected terror plotAircraft leave Gloucestershire base to return to US following arrest of dual British-Iranian national in central London
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You don't get many of these as a dilettante antique dealer. I bought this as a Victorian monocular. Got it home and realised that the walls were too thick. Eased it open to reveal a silver draw tube and a signature identifying it as a mid-18th C gentleman's telescope. A good day.