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Road in North West England. Not dangerous. (he)
Former soldier and engineer, @carlbenfield.bsky.social joins @zackpolanski.bsky.social "We need an immediate COBRA-level response. We need climate change reinstated at the top of our defence and security agenda. And we need the bold leadership of Zack Polanski for our nation. Thank you."
This morning I was joined by a firefighter, a medic, a former soldier and Chris Packham to call on the government to act now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Zack Polanski demands fossil fuel giants pay for firefighting helicopters
The Green Party leader says the companies are ‘profiting from fuelling these infernos’
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If you don’t like it, well, anyone is free to pay Tufton Street lobbying firms or the Tony Blair Institute to represent their interests, stoke up a series of national media panics and then force through whatever crazy measures they want. And what could be more democratic than that?
💬 "We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War." @zackpolanski.bsky.social outlines the danger we all face from the #ClimateCrisis and calls on Andy Burnham to act: 🟢 Keep People Safe 🟢 Tackle Wildfires 🟢 Prevent Droughts & Protect Food System Watch ⤵️
Absolutely worth an hour of your time. Polanski showing real leadership here. Particularly impressed with the range of other speakers, including Carl Benfield and Chris Packham. #ClimateEmergency #BoldPolitics #GreenParty #UKPolitics youtube.com/live/bsTXZ2V...
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat
📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why
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meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 12h agoAbsolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today
-Punched his pregnant girlfriend. -Said he would rape the kids if he was a schoolteacher. -Said chiild sex abuse porn should be legal. Allison Pearson in the Telegraph...
Incredible how sensitive the far-right are these days, furious that people won't kiss the ring of their fallen king Rod Liddle, the wife beating child porn advocate with no talent whatsoever. Maybe they should produce better, less obnoxious people if they want them to be remembered fondly.
Logistics warehouses are the new high-value strategic targets. Russia using its ballistic missiles on them. 20 or so last night, after a few months in which they've used 2 or 3 per night. The consumer goods supply chain is now both sides' target.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 13h agoRussia destroyed a Nova Poshta sorting center in Kyiv with a cluster-warhead ballistic missile, killing 3 people there. Warehouses belonging to Epicentr, Fozzy, Silpo, Novus and Rozetka were also hit. The death toll in Kyiv and the region rose to 17. #Ukraine
Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
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Fair play to Goldacre for this partial roll-back.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
I remember one time when some journo cunt died (who had literally killed his fucking wife) and all the other journo cunts on twitter started eulogising him like he was a great and lovely man, even when it was pointed out he had killed his wife. Now to check the reaction to Rod Liddle dying
This is hilarious. Respect due to the Sydneysiders involved. Also, it's interesting, revealing, and a bit scary how the preacher switches instantly from 'I love everyone' to anger. Not that this fazes the carriage.
Twitter Exile@twitter-exile.bsky.social · yesterday#PhillipBlair, an American anti-abortion preacher from #TorchOfChrist Ministries, boarded a packed Syd train at Martin Place & began lecturing passengers about sin, #jesus & unborn children. Commuters, led by #MalcolmFrawley (known as Book Man), repeatedly told him to shut up. #NoReligion #AUSPOL
A triumph of the obituarist's art, sensitively considering the subject as an individual but also, crucially, bringing up their unique contribution by considering the relevant context.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A happy, healthy country where people look out for each other out of shared interest in having a decent society has no need for an elite class of horrible spiteful shitheads working constantly to make everyone frightened, angry and resentful.
this rob liddle incident encapsulated british "free speech" pretty well www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Durham head steps back after calling students ‘pathetic’ at Rod Liddle event
South College principal Tim Luckhurst will not attend external events while investigation into dinner takes place
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In the olden days we used to hand total unaccountable political power to people because their ancestors were successful warlords, as opposed to our sensible, modern system where we hand total unaccountable political power to people whose parents were racist landords or racist emerald mine magnates.
This is brilliant. If there's any justice, it will appear as a question in undergrad philosophy exams for years to come. NB there might not be any justice.
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is absolutely an illegal scam preying on heritage tourism. But I will say I… can’t help but admire this incredibly capacious hustle on some level—although I do think he needs to make reparations. www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.
I see the “protect women” crowd are busy eulogising a man who at age 45 assaulted his 23 year old girlfriend when she was 20 weeks pregnant
