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As Catholicism is popping up in my feed I'd like to recommend anyone considering it a book called The Case of the Pope - Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC. Read that and tell me you still want to join that particular club.
Every time I think there's no way Farage could win a general election I remember that's exactly what I thought about Trump. Twice. It really scares me, I don't know about you.
Hard to watch. Fwiw, the majority of perps here are men but the hair-puller is an old woman, hard to see what her assault defence is going to be. Farage’s response is genuinely terrifying.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h agoContent warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
Yeah, it’s probably time to stop subscribing to The Rest is Entertainment. And probably time to tell them why.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 17h agoCompare and contrast these two answers from Marina Hyde’s Q+A in The Guardian today.
Just seen this print in the window of a shop in the middle of Vienna, Austria.
Nothing Farage is saying today about cancelling the UK's democracy should surprise anyone. He's been making it clear what he'd do for years. It's why absolutely nothing is more important than stopping the right winning the next general election.
Watching BBC News. Doesn't make me think Farage will face any issues. Wonder how C4 News will compare
Neil Davies Illustration@neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d agoThe doom-laden part of my mind thinks Farage will get away with all of this, because if Reform collapse and how the Tories look like clowns these days, who would BBC News support without him?
The doom-laden part of my mind thinks Farage will get away with all of this, because if Reform collapse and how the Tories look like clowns these days, who would BBC News support without him?
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
Given the timely news about James Orr facilitating illegal American donations to Reform UK, here’s a reminder that his place at Cambridge is funded by Peter Thiel, and is connected to eugenics magazines and “hereditarian revolutionists” like Nathan Cofnas, to turn out students into a media network.
Skeptics with a K@skepticswithak.org · 3d agoSkeptics with a K: Episode #480 Marsh looks at the links between billionaire activists and academia, where claims of academic freedom provide cover for a political agenda. Meanwhile, Mike is visited by an angel. www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/ske...
There you go. Absolutely gobsmacking. But mostly just incredibly embarrassing. bsky.app/profile/adam...
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
This is extraordinary - these people operate in a different world. Clearly this should end Reform, but will the authorities do anything? I still wonder
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d agoStop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
Genuinely gobsmacked at how bad that was. When Sigourney Weaver handed Mando a card with a "picture" of a target that no one knew the appearance of, I just laughed so hard. Later when Mando showed it to someone else, I knew we were is world-class terrible territory.
Neil Davies Illustration@neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm watching the Mandalorian movie
For once I agree with Elon: Austin will soon be uninhabitable. Poorly designed death boxes all over. The result is foreseeable if you know Elon's nightmarish track record. It's more than that I'd never get into a CyberCab; I wouldn't feel safe in a city where they're prevalent.
Maybe someone should put the details of the story on a small boat
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery major party leader has put out a statement that they are reporting Reform UK to the police. The BBC's politics feed: JEEZUS MARY AND THE WEE DONKEY, surely the fact they have been reported to the police at the very least is very reasonably reportable!
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
Can this be the end of him now? Please?
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d agoNigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Debating whether to get Hayley Williams tickets. I'd love to see her live but the thought of being in a room with thousands of girls (and some guys of course) yelling her lyrics sounds... suboptimal
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
Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting funding defence by cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable? Just saying.
