As a criminal lawyer, it is wild to see so many obviously prosecutable offences committed by a single individual over a short period of time with such apparent impunity.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterday

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.

Fuck off you fat orange cunt

when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.

It doesn't matter if you're doing these attacks or just supporting those that do, YOU'RE the traitor. Sub human scum, attacking people who put their lives at risk to save others without asking who or why, just to save a life. 1 day I hope it's yours, and your fellow scum stop them saving you.

Nicola Kelly@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Didn’t realise Piddington had a meth issue

Mags@deadbloke.bsky.social · last wk.

Referendum for a dentist in Piddington

This man is the reason why Piddington had a referendum on leaving the UK because asylum seekers were going to be living nearby on a secure base with little or no actual contact with the village He's an utter walloper.

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · last wk.

Obviously there's a hardcore driving all this in Piddington who are full fash xenophobes Meet Tim McNally, Parish Councillor, their leader. I bet he votes Restore. He's like a League of Gentlemen character, only more disturbing because he's real + he's helping to drive our narrative far right.

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!

I saw Paul McCartney a couple of years ago and he talked about this and still sounded proud of his younger self. In the unlikely event that Ed Sheeran is still playing shows at 80, he won't have anything to be proud of.

Paul Blinkhorn@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · last wk.

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...

Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry

As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders

adambienkov.co.uk

They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

portsmouth.co.uk

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.

The Times. Explicitly and deliberately, as a matter of editorial policy, promoting violent racist thugs.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2w ago

Activists who brought Dover to a halt on Saturday refused to remove their balaclavas but were ‘very polite’, say fellow travellers

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

If someone acts on their 'concerns' by attacking people in their homes and by biting and throwing rocks at cops, no one should assess if those concerns are 'legitimate' or not. That violent behaviour waives any claim to 'legitimacy'. The phrase comes across as justifying violence, not condeming it.

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Legitimate concerns" is starting to feel very "you had people that were very fine people on both sides"

We got 1 point from the same three games last season. Both results and performances are encouraging. Let’s push on! #lufc

Would have taken a point all day long beforehand, so can’t be disappointed, but feels a bit like two dropped after the chances created #lufc

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I say again: hear the words of Lord Mansfield about the Gordon rioters…

The image versus The reality.

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

Will take that. They are a very good side. We were poor first half but much better after the break. Fair play to Farke, I’ve criticised in the past when he’s not reacted but he's clearly learning and made changes at HT and during the second half that got us back into the game #lufc

Brentford look good. Shows the level we need to be at if we are serious about pushing on. They’ll finish top 7 easily, we don’t look near that yet. #lufc

Thought Hull would beat Derby’s point total this year. Need to stand corrected, that’s going to be Coventry. They look absolutely awful!

It would be impossible to guess any of this from most media coverage.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4w ago

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.