I mean seriously is any politician going to speak up about this!? @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social hey lads any chance of acknowledging this? Seeing as though all the rest of the political parties have already acquiesced to far right mobs.
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Worrying how much form this Labour Govt now has for going soft on violence & threats from Far Right thugs & white supremacist groups causing mayhem on our streets. They continually play down the threat these fascists pose to this country whilst carting off pensioners and climate activists to jail.
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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This sums up the hypocrisy of the British media and how through the looking glass we are... Phillips - a man with a long history of writing anti-Muslim screeds & far right sympathising in the Times, prodding the chest of a Jewish man, trying to lecturing him about anti-semitism.
Trevor Phillips, who has a history of Islamophobia & is hosting Melanie Phillips on his program this morning, asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if Falkners comments blaming Muslims are accurate Zack is spot on, Falkners comments were inflammatory. Why didn't Heidi Alexander condemn them too?
The comparison is also fked up as the manosphere freaks seek to manipulate & subjugate women, whereas the "angry young women" are protecting themselves from these men by simply ignoring them.
Sorry but it is genuinely creepy that this (engaged,36yearold) guy spends his time getting angry that Gen Z women are "intolerant" for not wanting to date someone who supports a sexually abusive, racist misogynist who is destroying the fucking world and making it more expensive to live as we speak
Inviting serious economic, logistical and political pain upon yourself all because you could not say "No" when the fascist manchild demanded to use your airspace, military bases & logistic hubs to prosecute his stupid fkin war in Iran and crash the world economy and inflict rampant inflation. Bravo.
Europe has only six weeks’ supply of jet fuel left due to Iran war, says energy chief
Never ceases to amaze me what desperate slop journalists try to elevate to a scandal for politicians on the Left compared to RW politicians. Farage with a rap sheet x10 worse than this just glides through political life without scrutiny & Badenoch's skeletons warranted about 5 mins discussion.
When I asked Zack Polanski about his brief if memorable career as a breast size-enhancing hypnotherapist, he told me that it was never about actual breast size, just body image. This was not the case, and this new BBC article - and audio clip – makes that plainer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm astonished a party leading the polls has a campaign manager for a huge by-election spouting holocaust denialism, indulging in overt anti-semitism & freely using the N-word on X... and there is utter silence from the British media, not a single article or comment anywhere .. wtf is going on!?
Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @iandunt.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social @sophyridge.bsky.social Is there a particular reason this is being roundly ignored..? Very strange..
How anyone thinks a Trump-led NATO keeps EUR safe is baffling, he's currently trying to sell out UKR to Putin, rewarding dictator & has no problem undermining EUR security. A sovereign, EUR defence alliance should be the ultimate goal, you can't rely on a fascist who loves dictators to protect us.
Whilst @vicderbyshire.bsky.social is one of the better interviewers out there. I still find there's such a disparity with how mainstream presenters treat pro-green energy/net zero advocates & the anti net-zero/fossil fuelists. Ed M challenged on every claim, the Tory barely pulled up on any of hers.
Invertebrate centrism in a nutshell. Spends half the article complaining about the Green leader not believing violent Israeli thugs chanting about rape & death to Arabs should be welcome, then lies about them having no form for hooliganism. No one would have blinked if it was a non-Israeli club.
Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one | Barney Ronay
The populist Right (and Far Right) simply have absolutely nothing to offer but fear and endless culture wars to divide us. Their politics exist only to serve theor billionaire class masters and their ever expanding accumulation of our wealth and assets.
Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening. But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again. join.greenparty.org.uk
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It's startling that Adil is the only British broadcaster/journalist willing to call out far right extremism and pose the questions the Govt & Media are far too spineless to ask. It's left to him to ask why this Govt refuses to condemn racist, fascist mobs or why they won't protect people from them.
A standing ovation for someone found guilty of tweeting about burning migrants alive. She was sentenced to 31 months for inciting racial hatred. The judge said “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.” Who’s calling this out?
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Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
What I've been saying. You can't rely on US "security guarantees" expecting Trump to protect UKR, esp. when he was out there y'day blaming them for this war! If Putin attacks & breaks his shitty deal, Trump sure as shit won't bring US military might down on RUS, he'll blame EUR/UKR before Putin.
Any US security guarantees to Ukraine would not be credible if Trump is president, sorry. Right idea in theory—Russia already broke multiple deals, already attacked aggressively twice, only US can really scare them—but even if Europe got US to agree, it won’t be credible, and therefore cannot work.
Amazing how in a week we've gone from "I'm gonna seriously punish Russia if they don't stop!" to "hey let's meet up Putin & attempt to divide up Ukraine again as a reward". Almost like this was the plan all along. Utterly idiotic & self-defeating from a geopolitics POV for the US.
For those who were hopeful that Trump “pivoted” on Ukraine, the meeting in Alaska will sell Ukraine down the river. Trump is scared to death of Putin. Taco
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There is a growing violent movement which senior politicians and media organisations are now not only seeking to justify, but actively encouraging. Why it's time for politicians to instead start standing up to the wholly illegitimate concerns of the far right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...
Famously working class white men on the Left like myself don't actually exist, everyone on the Left is actually posh & privileged living in the London bubble. These tropes were lazy in 2016 when every RW outlet/pundit was punting it to exhaustion but sorry those latter points are pure bullshit.
Not vibes, just the story of recent years, from dismissal of Brexit voters as “racist” to derision for “white van man”, from job ads for the “benefit class, criminal class and/or underclass” to portrayals of people on benefits as “lazy” and gaming the system.
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We have so many talentless, pieces of shit in Govt right now, genocidal freaks that are clutching their pearls over the most inane bollocks going. They should be going after BBC bosses but they're far too cowardly & afraid of upsetting the establishment by sacking these Tories in charge.
Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary
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Blue Labour makes as much sense as Green Reform or Socialist Conservatives. A load of deluded weirdos who enjoy sniffing their own farts, that have little substance behind the rhetoric nor any serious answers to our many problems.
Beginning to feel like every time they take the guardrails off and Musk decides to personally intervene and micro-manage how things run, his companies start going to shit.
One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here
Farage trying to claim that workplace "DEI" training funding somehow costs double the entire London Met Police annual budget. Or the entire budgets of the Met, G. Manchester, W. Midland, W & S. Yorkshire & Merseyside police forces combined. I'm sure the BBC & Sky will be rigorously call this out..
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage’s policies labelled ‘Trussonomics on steroids’ following major speech After Farage made several multi-billion pound pledges, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk said the address was further evidence Reform is not a “serious opposition” Full story 👇 www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
"Shooting kids in the head, bombing refugee camps and starving babies is bad" "You're Hamas"
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This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
“Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy the bureaucracy,” write Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. But as he winds down his service, “he has found himself isolated within the upper reaches of the Trump administration”: https://theatln.tc/ckySMUOS
We've allowed the debate to forever be conducted on RW media/Farage's turf, where it's always a problem to crack down on, never an opportunity or necessity. A one-sided national conversation driven by fear, not facts. Ageing pop, low birthrates, shrinking workforce, tax burden increase.. silence.
The government’s abject surrender in the immigration conversation will not necessarily lose them votes. But it won’t win any either because a) for good or for ill, the small boats are the really emotive issue & b) people who simply resent immigrants will always favour Farage. He’s one of their own.
There seems to be a persistent belief in politics that despite the decline in trad. blue collar "working class", they're still treated as far more worthy than people of the middle & professional classes, with the latter treated w/ contempt. Despite them making up a massive part of the electorate.
Tl;dr - one lesson of blue wall 2024 results is that if you keep telling voters you dislike them and will ignore them, sooner or later they will believe you. Labour seem determined to ignore that lesson.
Very funny that Nvidia CEO bent the knee and then prostrated himself in front of Trump and still gets fucked over with a $5.5bn hit.
This man (& EUR leaders) can't face the brutal reality NATO is now essentially dead. Can anyone imagine if 🇷🇺 struck at Lithuania for eg. that the US would trigger art. 5 & put boots on the ground and fight? More likely Trump tweets "Terrible to see but RUS has been treated VERY badly by Lithuania!"
The people who told us it's a national scandal Starmer got handed some free spectacles & Reeves went to a free gig are seemingly fine with another politician's embezzlement of €millions of public funds.
The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it
"Oh shit! We've completely fucked our trading relationship with our closest ally and they aren't backing down" See this is why you stand up to bullies, they hope to cow you into submission with their aggression but behind the bravado are insecure and afraid.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
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People write to ask how they can help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles. snyder.substack.com/p/armored-am...