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Ignore the headlines. Those kids who are said to be brain-dead, tik-tok-ed out of consciousness, apathetic, etc etc, are the exact opposite. They're smart, imaginative, they're asking the questions their elders do everything to avoid, with the right words, without fear. They are the voice of hope.
Thomas Legrand@thomas-legrand.bsky.social · 20h agoLe mouvement lycéen et ses drapeaux bleu-blanc-rouge, un cauchemar pour la droite identitaire www.liberation.fr/politique/le...
The right-wing idea is that somehow people cannot thrive amidst difference/diversity and cities demonstrate that they do and that lots of us find it enriching and rewarding to live among people who are not clones marching in lockstep. They treat diversity as a threat....
I mean he has downplayed the seriousness. The process that considers the findings has considered them and has been entirely independent. They are guilty of what the Premier League asserted they were guilty of. The football investment process has been linked by politicians such as Andy Burnham.
BBC Sport {bot}@bbcsport.xmirror.bot · 2d ago🗣️ "I haven't downplayed the seriousness of the findings." Andy Burnham has addressed concerns that he devalued the verdict against Man City after the club were found guilty of Premier League financial rule breaches.
I remember when ISIS live stresmed an execution and we were all horrified.
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
They're polling eight points lower than their general election result, which was itself the worst in their entire history, their leader couldn't explain the big defense policy they opened conference with, none of their big new tax cuts are funded, and yet it's still covered as a triumph
Just constantly pushing at the edges of more and more far right politics. It isn't weird to me. It is what they have been doing for decades. The only thing that has changed is how far right they have managed to get and therefore what that does to the next push.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoThere is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others
It was the usual pro-war propaganda and roaring abuse for the hippies until it became clear it was a disastrous fuckup, not even deterred by murdering all those school kids.
Gee, maybe we should’ve tried to discourage Middle East wars of aggression
Since it began lobbying for the UAE, FGS has entertained Rachel Reeves, then chancellor, the PM's chief business adviser and Antonia Romeo, now the UK's top civil servant. All logged as hospitality - no minutes and no record of what was discussed.
🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...
Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy
democracyforsale.substack.com
As ever, love all this. Top quality Britaining.
Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 2d agoMemories of Mandelson & Palantir come to mind The head of a lobbying firm, Roland Rudd, paid by the UAE to promote its interests in Westminster, is also advising the UK government on how Britain can use sport and culture to project influence overseas democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...
If you understand that “Fuck you, shut up, shut your dirty hippy mouth you piece of shit” is the actual primary motivation, and that secondary things like “Britain does what America tells us to, no questions asked” are simply not up for debate at all, ever, then that explains it succinctly.
I get responses with weird theories for why this happens but, for real: relentless massacre and destruction is not a factor because it is only incidental to the core point Rafa and others have always been making, and that key, non-negotiable point is: Fuck you, we are in charge, shut up, fuck off.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d agoI note that all of this analysis has been *completely unaffected and unchanged* by Israel embarking on a programme of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon that the white people world has non-negotiably supported. That simply is not a factor, at all.
Perhaps the British political commentariat are simply so incredibly correct, that they do not need to update their views in light of the most horrific events? Anything is possible! But it seems doubtful, given their comically awful track record.
When will the bad takes from people who intermittently discover NI's governance arrangements stop?? The Public Processions Act was enacted months before the GFA, to address this issue as a preliminary. The GFA wasn't meant to tackle this. Also NI Bill of Rights was never enacted as the GFA intended:
'tony blair worried greens are ruining things for palestinians' is an onion headline
By the most generous interpretation, this shows a public official who has lost sight of in whose interests they are supposed to exercise their authority.
Nick McGeehan@ncgeehan.bsky.social · 3d ago"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).
There’s no adaptation for a world in which Israel is now committing World War II-level crimes against humanity. It’s just the exact same shit but louder, even angrier and more insistent. Because it simply doesn’t matter what is happening in reality, it is irrelevant to the broader point: Fuck you.
I note that all of this analysis has been *completely unaffected and unchanged* by Israel embarking on a programme of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon that the white people world has non-negotiably supported. That simply is not a factor, at all.
Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Tickets are now on sale for my tour. These performances will be like my Edinburgh show but bigger, better, and with an interval for ice cream. Tickets here - www.TheUmbrellaManShow.com
For a political class that talks so much about national and regional pride the British elite is really shit at the ABCs of nation-building
And when it comes to Northern Ireland anyone interested in the UK Union in its current form might want to consider what happens if cuts by London and Belfast to NI's cultural and academic life leads to a lasting reorientation of its intellectual and artistic elites towards Dublin.
No idea what this image shooting tax payers with arrows is supposed to represent.
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
It seems unlikely that a BBC editor who e.g. made a film that “accidentally” accused Tory staff of screaming “Hitler was right” at colleagues and later quietly clarified this wasn’t correct, in an election year, would ever work in current affairs again.
Mark Hebden@unionlib.bsky.social · 5d agoHaha. The new BBC head of news is the person who was editor of Newsnight during the Jeremy Corbyn years. The rightward shift continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Maybe I'm being lazy, but I'd say people who keep being found cosied up to people with far-right views might not mind those views too much www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament
theguardian.com
Magic Money Tree@magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3mo ago*Taps the signs*
