Terry Watkins
@gerrygow.bsky.social
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Seeing Jews as an abstraction, not as actual people, is a key part of the antisemitic mindset.
Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2h agoI have read Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s blogpost from April entitled “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite -and How I Escaped It”. It’s a fascinating account of being consumed by hateful, extremist ideology. You know what’s not in there? An apology. To Luciana Berger or the wider Jewish community
Eichmann - he got the job done in Budapest. Could he be the guy to oversee the kids playground and be on the village fete steering group?
Mark O’Neill 🐻@radiobeartime.com · 10h agoWaiting for Badenoch's formal taxonomy of acceptable levels of fascism for each level of local government. County Council seems to equate to jailed former NAZI Party member. Parish councils should be ... interesting
This should be an ur-text for believers in the Keminaissance. And not in a good way.
Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 11h agoSerious mental gymnastics this morning from Kemi Badenoch of former neo-Nazi-turned-Tory-candidate Joshua Bonehill-Paine ... www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Liddle is a reminder that there is a certain part of the politico media world where the worst thing you can ever be is boring. Not unkind.
James Handscombe@jameshandscombe.bsky.social · 10h agoNever be so kind you forget to be clever, never be so clever you forget to be kind.
Beggars belief that the Tories don't appear to have put in a call to Luciana Berger before this inadequate was confirmed and Badenoch defended him. It's indecent but it's also incompetent.
American progressives: don't limit working class kids' horizons. British progressives: working class kids should learn plumbing as soon as possible.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterdayIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
For those who find it difficult to keep up with just who is involved in the war so far, The Daily Mirror provides a handy information box, which also highlights Britain's current stance.
It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterdayThe most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Who was his external examiner?
Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterdayCalls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Reads better in the original German: Die Juden sind unser Unglück.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · yesterdayA party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.
It's quite the achievement to be the largest country in the world and yet to lack actual strategic depth. Hats off, wouldn't you say @darthputinkgb.bsky.social?
Stanimir Dobrev@delfoo.bsky.social · yesterdayThe head of the Kazakh Ministry of Trade said that the country has not received any new requests from Wildberries for the placement of warehouses.
A mark of basic decency and solidarity would have been for the Tories to write to Luciana Berger asking her if she felt this pitiful arsehole had truly recanted. Maybe they have. Doesn't sound like it though.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
And, I dunno, the Bataan Death March maybe.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Japan has been very good to us with the exception of Pearl Harbor"
Not close enough to the Vladimir I was hoping it had exploded close to.
Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 2d agoA drone flew 580 km, and a Russian mega-warehouse vanished into smoke Ukraine set fire to one of Wildberries' biggest hubs near Vladimir, the latest hit in a two-week campaign against Russia's Amazon clone. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/03/a...
So the Reform plan is for Royal Marines to dump channel crossers back on French territory. Without French consent, if necessary. Presumably this would be a crime under French law. So we'd end up with Singapore-esque scenes of British forces being marched off to jail.
The only way progressives can kid themselves that this isn't destructive of social mobility and social justice is to pretend in the "parity of esteem" fairy. And if you believe that roofing will ever have parity of esteem with, say, being a barrister then you're daft.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy do so many progressives want this? I just don't get it.
Farage obviously can't and won't do what Lowe is suggesting and reunite. But he's too weak to say that. Hence this "yeah but no" drivel from him. He's flailing. x.com/i/status/208...
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Right wing Twitter has basically become a form of soap opera fandom for fascists. Did you hear who had a nasty falling out? Did you hear who is secretly gay? Did you hear who threatened to kill who? Be sure to tune in tomorrow!
I would simply not ask a middling restaurant critic to write about issues such as this.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d agoThis piece was published Sat afternoon. It could win awards for incoherence. Its big point is the EU Commission had no interest in stopping these people going into Europe By the time it was published it was clear none had done so www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Gulf states appear to have decided that Iran is now the dominant power in rhe region
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d agoTrump cancels new strikes on Iran after Middle East allies’ request ft.trib.al/hZURI9Z
Rupert Lowe: I'll do a deal with Farage if he agrees to get rid of the Muslims, the Jews and - it seems from the guff about "demographic balance" - Jude Bellingham.
Stephen Miller looks terrible, what happened
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump having a normal one today
When members of Arab royal families who rule their kingdoms with a combination of absolute power and a torture-prone secret police accuse you of poor governance you may be headed into time added on for stoppages.
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 4d agoPrince Ali of Jordan, former reforming FIFA presidential candidate, is using the moment to call for the end of secret ballots at FIFA presidential elections, saying it will make people accountable for their choices and protect against “coercion behind closed doors as has happened in the past.”
Is this bad for Infantino? Because it sounds *really* bad.
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 4d agoConcacaf: This recent unilateral and egregious act of poor governance and leadership follows a pattern of missteps and similar behaviour. A comprehensive reckoning with this presidency is imperative. www.concacaf.com/competitions...
Told you. If you ever see Jolyon turning up to lend a hand, break out the white flags.
Terry Watkins@gerrygow.bsky.social · last wk.Arday officially doomed as Jolyon joins the fray.
An amazing story. It's entirely possible that the President of the United States will blame domestic political rivals in an attempt to cover up a foreign state's assault on his own country.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother direct result of Trump’s illegal, unnecessary war. Iran will have no qualms about bringing the war to America.
Spin "Farage" through X to create a river sample via the Latest feed. Hostile comments from both the left and right make up maybe 95% of the sample. Feels definitely like something has changed, especially from one-time fans who can no longer be arsed to defend him.
It's bollocks to suggest the Tories have always been weak in Manchester and the region around it. These are figures for City council elections alone.
There's some similarity here with opinion about Angela Rayner. People saying similar things - plain-speaking etc. There's a definite market for particular political styles. But that type of support is probably quite limited.
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 4d agoBoth practically and psychologically coming 5th in GM a bad result for the Conservatives. In manchester focus groups heard from a series of voters who liked Badenoch but thought party had blown it in office, simply unwilling to look at the Tories yet after Partygate/mini budget/migration failures.
The problem is that they are led by *an actual activist*.
Paul Evans@pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Tories problem here is that they are getting exactly what they want. To pull out of this spiral, they’d have to do something that an activist-led party is incapable of doing.