I see Telegraph Columnist and GB News presenter has jumped on the "Yeah well, Andy Burnham supported Brand" bandwagon... ...while remaining completely silent about her own colleague's support 🙄 Quick🧵 on the context of that tweet! 1/19
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Ever-so convenient of the Daily Mail to neglect to mention that as soon as it became clear that the allegations against him were going to surface, RB reinvented himself as a right wing grifter/Trump fan. Because actually ‘the left’ - with our pesky ‘cancel culture’ - are less forgiving of SA.
Just to make this clear — it is not Russophobic to object to Kremlin influence operations in the UK, nor Islamophobic to object to Iranian interference, nor is it anti-Semitic to object to Israeli government meddling
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d agoCedars Oak, funding a UK APPG, list’s its ‘projects on UK–Israel relations, “anti-Israel bias at the UN”, BDS, Iran, 7 October and ‘Operation Swords of Iron’ (Israel’s term for the war in Gaza), “media bias” and “lawfare”’ bylinetimes.com/2026/11/05/t...
New from me: The argument for impeachments, plural. "If we don’t make it clear that this administration’s violence, racism, corruption, and crime are aberrant and intolerable, we’ll instead make clear that they’re neither. And we’ll make it easier for the next Trump, the next time around."
Make bad things bad again
Holding the Trump administration accountable isn’t about retribution. It’s the only way we survive.
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Why is the UK Government still boosting a social media platform which is devoted to spreading these lies about us?
Curious paradox that the very same people who say that our nation cannot possibly be responsible for the actions of our ancestors past... continue to bask in the reflective glory of wars that were fought long before any of us were born by people who are no longer here.
Hard to see Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa and Sade as ‘British only’ — and Lennon and McCartney sons of Irish immigrants GB News’ arid idea of Britpop would exclude George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Cliff Richard… The list is long. This diversity IS the heart of our vibrant culture
Whether it "goes wrong" or not, execution by the state is not consistent with a humane, morally sound society.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.Christa Pike says in her first public statement she's in constant pain since surviving a lethal injection.
Note to Badenoch… You plan to leave the ECHR which means renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement and the Brexit deal, as well as the improvements Labour has made to that deal. Not so much “reopening the Brexit debate” as blowing everything up and starting all over again. Now THAT is a terrible idea.
if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices
Calli Giovanini@calligiovanini.bsky.social · 2w agoThe online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.
There is a false nostalgia here. The Victorians weren't happy with the old system and tried without success to free us from the tedious calculations needed when using imperial measures and £sd. metricviews.uk/2025/07/15/p...
Prince Albert and the measurement muddle in the 1860s
165 years ago, in his opening address at the London meeting of the International Statistical Congress, held on 16 July 1860, Prince Albert drew attention to the measurement muddle prevalent at the …
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Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…
Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs – ranked!
Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs – ranked!
A decade after his final album, and his death, we rate the best of the Canadian singer-songwriter who brought a deep, spiritual wisdom to love and grief
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There’s a third option: Reject this insane religious fearmongering and live a free life without worrying about imaginary threats of eternal torture.
The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act
Our roads are usually pretty dull. Here Thames Water have gone out of their way to add a water feature on Garratt Lane Tooting. Missed a trick not adding a fountain but maybe later?
When the tech-bros and their allies attack "the establishment" or "the elite", what they mean is "any site of power - including the democratic state - that might restrict their own actions". The alternative is not "freedom"; it is power for themselves to make decisions otherwise made by the state.
Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.
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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.