Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

"Come on, lads. You don't want an inquiry into that rubbish, do ya? Wouldn't you rather watch me sink this lovely northern pint, with a fookin' great head on it?"

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 13h ago

Nonce

The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.

Not a single Israel defender has ever been able to defend this. They just pretend it doesn't exist, even though it defies any of their supposed 'arguments'.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 13h ago

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

In case you still don't see how Israel's genocide in Occupied Palestine and the UAE's genocides in Sudan and Congo are connected. Elbit, the Israeli company in question, has 3,000 US employees and manufactures drones and night vision for the US military, and also owns US-based Universal Avionics.

“Protect users from discrimination and harassment” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting for a code that is explicitly designed to target, harass, and enable discrimination against trans people, who should be protected by the Equality Act 2010

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, regarding antisemitism in british politics. there is a place for it, and it’s in the country’s natural party of government and the broader right-wing coalition, which is radicalising at an alarming clip.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

When I say these people are bad, malicious, calculatedly vile swine who give themselves and each other licence to behave horrendously, and that they should be reviled and ostracised by the public, I am acting in the irreverent spirit of Britain’s irrepressible, iconoclastic free speech traditions.

I myself believe we should be excellent to each other but with rights come responsibilities, and these include quite harsh social and professional consequences for people in elite professions who spend their careers working to make Britain worse, nastier and more cruel, in their own interests.

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

No, this exactly the kind of “free speech” they have always believed in: special Freedom Plus for themselves, and PC Plod banging on your door to finger wag you for impertinence, while they phone your boss and try to get you fired.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 16h ago

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

He's been deradicalised by the British state and gave seminars about antisemitism in schools and colleges because he is now a fully acceptable Islamophobic Zionist blogs.timesofisrael.com/talking-to-b...

The Blogs: Talking to Britain’s leading political satirist

From the blog of Jonathan Baz at The Times of Israel

blogs.timesofisrael.com

Paul Cotterill@bickerrecord.bsky.social · 15h ago

Bluesky users are far too refined to go on this bloke's AI-generated website 'Crewkerne Gazette', and look at e.g. the AI-generated 'rap' video from February called 'Mass Deportations' ft. a AI-generated Kemi Badenoch.

sometimes the internet is a wonder, sometimes the internet is a mistake and sometimes the internet brings you "cheerleading 9/11" and has transcended the need for adjectives

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

Petition launches to make Nazi salutes criminal offence in UK

A PETITION has been launched to make the performance of Nazi salutes a criminal offence in the UK ...

thenational.scot

Yo, where are all my respectable bigots & impoverishers of the poor at so I can have a chummy intellectual chinwag in the marketplace of ideas about how to monster the vulnerable but politely?

The political and media establishment when a vicious, dimwitted, racist peodophile dies

Liddle was just one guy ultimately, but emblematic of a media culture that has - and continues to make - this country smaller, poorer and crueller for the rest of us. that's his legacy, a cog in an utterly grotesque machine

I see this and I think about all the long years of relentless filthy abuse these swine have thrown at good and well-meaning people, to make the country more comfortable and more compliant for thoroughly unpleasant and actively malicious people like themselves.

Rosie Duffield and co.

it's great when bad people die, it should happen more often

Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

Liberals complaining about the coarsening of the discourse when people fail to show due deference upon the death of a professional discourse coarsener.

"Others were afraid to confess that they have a carnal, irrepressible sexual attraction to children, or call for child pornography to be legalised. Not 'playful genius' Rod. Like a paedophile Neil Armstrong, he took one giant leap for noncekind every time he submitted his brave columns."

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Pay attention to who is keeping their mouth shut. They know, of course, that the sycophantic praise of Rod Liddle shows their whole industry up for what it is, but they also know better than to risk their jobs over it.

Explains a lot about why all the lads are out praising the racist wife beater for his irascible wit, doesn't it?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

All kinds of interesting learnings, today. The editor tried to get rid of him for being a nasty piece of work and Rupert Murdoch personally intervened to protect him.

This is, of course, the cycle, so particulars may differ. Maybe the weirdo drove a car straight into a pole and killed a woman walking by and then blamed the passenger, who he also killed, maybe it’s constant philandering, maybe he raped a woman and supported Golden Dawn (Taki)

Normal folks pulling up his columns detailing how he’d dissect pets, or all his old forum posts with slurs, or people that met him once saying how they are permanently scarred; his establishment friends are saying he was their greatest friend ever, supported their career, he was better than Orwell

The cycle: absolute creep with long history of abusing women, racism, transphobia, advocates pedophilia, kills dogs, supports fascist parties, can’t write, looks like a flasher, etc. dies, and everybody says good riddance, then all his close friends in the UK establishment call him a singular genius