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Socialist, republican (not Republican), European, internationalist, feminist, anti-fascist 🇬🇱 Right-wing trolls get instablocked Don't send me DMs, I haven't got that bit switched on
Because this is in t'North, it isn't really getting the attention it deserves. share.google/8LZk3pfvvUy9...
Part of M67 traffic closed after 'human remains' found
Officers are at the scene
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Farage and Badenoch behind none of the above when it comes to people’s preferred Prime Minister
Such a pity Freddie Starr is no longer with us.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
This looks Incredibly bad for Badenoch. Rather than sack him as a candidate, which she should have done, she tries to get Jewish groups to meet him, then he has the sense to step down himself, and now she gives him a plush job. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted of harassing Jewish MP, says Badenoch has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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Yet another example of 'just because you can doesn't mean that you should'. That should be the core regulatory principle applied to capitalism.
Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · 2d agoThere is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
Better late than never. Badenoch needs to get with the programme, and it would help if she sacked her neo-nazi candidate too. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?
Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero
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Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
🧵The 'natural birth' mantra isn't the only dangerous dogma within the health and social care sector. I came across another recently when a member of my family was hospitalised after two Parkinson's related falls - 'home is best'. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Women must not feel pressure to have ‘ideal birth’, says Yvette Cooper
Exclusive: New health secretary promises root-and-branch reform after damning maternity scandals
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I realise that most of the superhero films I like are ones that don't take superheroism seriously - like Batman Returns, Superman III, etc. Basically, I don't like superhero films.
Hello Bluesky, this is an example of actual art, not the simplistic, banal, sentimental, straightforwardly representative, probably AI-generated trash that's usually posted. There's a unique style here, a voice of the artist, as well as technical skill.
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 2d agoBefore the Storm, painting by George Callaghan, Irish artist.
I remember seeing these at an exhibition in the Berlin Film Museum a number of years ago. I was so excited!
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d agoRay Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
He's just jealous that he's not making ALL the money out of this war. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’
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SCENE: A man runs panicking from a murder scene. He knows he is the murderer's next victim. He runs to a phone box to call the police and leave the clue that will catch his killer. He flings open the door -
Rod Liddle wasn't 'brave', he was an establishment journalist who betrayed his journalistic talents and left-wing roots to court attention with offensive, bigoted, right-wing clickbait.
The explosion of 'Asylum Seekers coincided with... Brexit. It wasn't a coincidence, Nigel CAUSED it. Are some people still this unenlightened and bereft of Critical Thinking?
Here we have the right-wing 'free speech' conundrum in a nutshell: offence is fine as long as it's us that's doing the offending. If anyone's offending us, then they must be imprisoned immediately.
'Reform UK spokesperson said: “Kemi claims to support the fight against antisemitism yet selects a convicted antisemite Nazi as a candidate. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.”' We have reached a whole new, meta-level of hypocrisy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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
The justice system is just one of a veritable display cabinet of poison chalices that the Tories left behind for Labour. Someone on the Tory side should have left a Post-It saying, 'We broke the country'. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
PM to tighten early release rules but men jailed over PC Harper’s death can be freed
Rapists, child abusers and groomers will not leave prison early but some of those serving sexual or violent offences will now leave after half their sentence
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The fuss over this is ridiculous. Firstly, this is down to years of neglect of the justice system by the Tories, secondly you can't design the entire justice system around the wishes of individual victims. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
PM to tighten early release rules but men jailed over PC Harper’s death can be freed
Rapists, child abusers and groomers will not leave prison early but some of those serving sexual or violent offences will now leave after half their sentence
theguardian.com
That's 20% of the Reform parliamentary party under investigation at the moment (I'm counting Farage in because his investigation is only suspended pending his re-election). Hardly sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says on its website
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Only someone who had been in a coma for the last 30 years would be surprised by this. Whether they're aware of it or not, I suspect Farage's activities have been indirectly funded by Putin all along. Everything he's ever done has served Russian interests. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says on its website
theguardian.com
At the core of neoliberalism is the desire to free the rich from democracy
Evonomics.com@evonomics.bsky.social · 3d agoAuthor @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...
Is it a war day or a peace day? I've lost count.
When Lowe talks about joining with Reform to "... destroy the looming leftwing alliance that will finish off what hope remains for this country", like most right wingers he's accusing his opponents of doing what he and his foreign backers are planning to do. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rupert Lowe urges Nigel Farage to work with Restore Britain
Lowe says the two should put ‘personalities and our past disagreements aside for good of the country’
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Everything for sale, apply within. BBC News - Peak District's rebrand deal brings in cash - but also criticism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peak District's rebrand deal brings in cash - but also criticism
After the Peak District signed a brand deal with Skoda, could other national parks follow suit?
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