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"For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into "an old people's home for fading nations...I do not much like the look of some of the prospective wardens".(Jenkins) This always makes me cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
“Google Earth shows the physical destruction with extraordinary clarity… what happens next matters.” Angelina Jolie shares new Google Earth images of the genocide in Gaza, calling for humanitarian aid to be allowed in (by Israel): www.instagram.com/p/DeDDwwRknH...
Reform’s world leading vetting excels again A Reform councillor stepped away from his cabinet role, over concerns re his alleged arrest Police carried out warrants at properties in Grimsby and Waltham, seizing suspected unlicensed prescription drugs and class A drugs. #ReformCrimsInc
Reform UK cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council says Reform UK's James Sawkins remains a councillor.
bbc.co.uk
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
@tmogriffons.bsky.social Any of your cronies keen on flying boats? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Pecksniff watches Andy Burnham tackle the subjects Labour wouldn’t touch, meanwhile... * The Greens wrestle with placard politics * Richard Tice enjoys some lavish hospitality and * Another Reform councillor decamps. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Pecksniff: Burnham’s message is ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
It’s a badge of honour for @bylinetimes.bsky.social to be banned from Reform and Conservative conferences - like being banned by Russia or China, it says more about them, than the journalists. Also, so ironic that the parties which waffle on about freedom of speech are the most scared of it.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d agoIn addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social
Jason Perry and Chris Philp: insidecroydon.com/2023/09/19/p... #Croydon #ULEZ #Terrorist
Tory minister is member of online group that salutes vandals
EXCLUSIVE: A secret Facebook group where members celebrate criminal vandalism carried out against ULEZ cameras is being run by the Tory Mayor of Croydon. By STEVEN DOWNES The Tory Government’…
insidecroydon.com
If you have Lithuanian ancestry, you can check the database for your own family members. (In Lithuanian language, but I'm happy to help) www.lietuviaisibire.lt
Lietuvos gyventojų tremtys ir kalinimas sovietų sąjungoje
lietuviaisibire.lt
🚨🚨European leaders must stop calling #Russian attacks “hybrid,” according to Estonia's FM. They are “terror attacks” and “sabotage attacks,” says Margus Tsahkna and part of a systematic Russian effort against Europe that amounts to “some kind of war." www.politico.eu/article/esto...
It’s war, not hybrid attacks, says Estonian foreign minister
Margus Tsahkna says Europe must present a united front against Moscow.
politico.eu
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
BBC re-running their headlines from 3 years ago when Sunak released 10,000 prisoners early over 6 months....oh wait, no, that went off without a media fuss. Labour are releasing up to 5,000 early over a year - due to Tory failure to build prison capacity. They only built 36 net new places a year.
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
democracyforsale.substack.com
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
bylinetimes.com
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
Whenever you see Royals wearing jewels & crown don't forget their obscene wealth stems in large part from "monopoly slave trading companies set up by the Stuart monarchy during the 17th Century" "New BBC Series Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
“MAGA and the other Far Right parties around the world are a Victim Movement. All the problems I’m experiencing in my life are caused by someone else, definitely not me. People who aren’t White. Trans people. Gay people. And women.”
The Man Problem
The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug
chadbourn.substack.com
Solidarity with fellow academics in Nottingham going on strike. The real problem, as so often with universities, lies with the management.
Barghouti: "Its the moment of the death of the 2 state solution, because the intl community allowed Israel to be impunitive.. & failed to apply intl law.. did not impose sanctions on Israel.. western govts are not only allowing Israel to commit crimes, they supported the crimes"
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
What is particularly vile is that you can see that Farage is revelling in the notion that there may have been a terrorist attack. That's what he wants it to be. Any moral, decent person would be glad to find out it isn't - not Farage.
