Andy P
@andyp2.bsky.social
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Card-carrying member of the tofu eating wokerati Retired 2nd-generation programmer; mum worked on LEO Pro PR, UBI, EU; Canadian-British atheist/humanist in London Triggered by hypocrisy I mostly repost satire and cats
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
💥A new More in Common poll puts Farage's approval rating at -32. That's down 10 points in just 2 weeks. (Andy Burnham's on +19.) It's all going wrong for Nigel.
They’re not messing about. If only US media had managed to be similarly united & determined in the face of Trump’s assaults on them…
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d agoThe full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good.
Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
BBC Breakfast report that on BBC Newsnight that Zack Polanski did not apologise for accepting a collab post on Instagram They don't mention the 4 times BBC Newsnight interrupted live TV to read out messages from Reform UK live on air
Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
A pensioner from Russia gave a home to an adult lynx rescued from a fur farm. [📹Anna Mironova] Original post
In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.
"Ed Davey has called for action to protect UK democracy after it emerged that Elon Musk's family foundation funded Tommy Robinson's trip to Russia, where he used his platform to co-ordinate protests across Britain and praised the country as a "civilised society"." via Truth Against Hate
Hungary's state TV has suspended news broadcasts as Prime Minister Péter Magyar begins overhauling Orbanised public media. The channel aired an apology for "many years" of misleading coverage.
A rescued swan 🦢 hugging the vet who saved its life, the sweetest thank you ever.💞
In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...
