On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
Martin
@martinremains.bsky.social
‘ Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.’
You know, children, there was a time, not so long ago, when serious journalists - even right wing propagandists cosplaying objectivity - would applaud an experienced, even-tempered Foreign Secretary, like Hague or Hammond, being a bit dry, rather than jumping on stuff as if they were Perez Hilton.
“If the British want to come back and if their Prime Minister is moving in that direction, that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans," Macron added at a news conference in Madrid. "Come back!” he added, standing alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
SallyinFrance@sallyinfrance.bsky.social · 2w agoFor all the naysayers whi insist ‘the EU would never have us back’ 😏 Sorry Le Monde offers no gift articles 😕 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
Once upon a time, not too long ago, the entire UK benefited hugely from easy access to and membership of the EU. Then liars lied, people believed what they wanted to believe, the lies, and we left the EU leaving much wealth behind. It’s a sad story because it’s a stupid story.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2w agoChris Byrant on Northern Ireland having the fastest growing economy in the UK, "And we're open to business like nowhere else on earth with unique dual access to enormous markets: the UK and the European Union - our potential is enormous"
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the Cock of Jesus standing up before! Christ, the royal Master- Bater, shoots against the foe; forward into battle, see, his spermsters go. Go on kids, I dare you. Sorry Christians. Making a point.
Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2w agoReform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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It is past time for the police to clamp down on these people. Arrest them. Prosecute them.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoLifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
I'd take the likes of Sarah Pochin seriously if they understood even the most basic things about WW2
Yvette Cooper has been appointed as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
I’m sorry, but what is ‘radical’ about the policies pursued by Miliband?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Good. It’s unfair and totally unethical
Reform UK would lose 85% of funding under proposed donation cap, analysis shows
Exclusive: Party would have raised £4.1m instead of £26.7m last year if £100k funding limit had been in place, Electoral Commission data suggests
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Yes, I pay myself rent in order to avoid tax, but it is coincidentally £1 less than the level at which I would have to declare it under Parliament's transparency rules.
🚨 Breaking news: 🚨 Trump and Infantino announced as joint winners of the inaugural annual FIFA Corruption Prize.
Exactly this. As for his £5mill “gift from his crypto mate, Farage would have to “work” (said wryly given his singular absence from HofC and his constituency) as an MP for nearly 55 years - long past the time he could reasonably be expected to live. So who REALLY is his master?
Buck Frexit@beany.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf someone offered you 3 times your salary to promote their product and you didn’t even need to give up your current job…..which work do you think you’d prioritise? Nigel Farage earns £93k as an MP and £270k promoting good bullion. (Oh and £18k a month from GB news vs £7.75 a month MP salary)
It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back
Alan Partridge in a pitch meeting, sweating:
Dan/iel Mudford@danmud.bsky.social · 3mo agoHmm, "Marr's Guitars" made me a bit prickly, but this? Murderous.
One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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