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Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

No, this exactly the kind of “free speech” they have always believed in: special Freedom Plus for themselves, and PC Plod banging on your door to finger wag you for impertinence, while they phone your boss and try to get you fired.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 16h ago

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

Propaganda masquerading as news. The Labour Together/Think Labour mob still plugging away at their hard right agenda, demonstrating they are absolutely impervious to learning and determined to maintain their ideological drive towards the cliff edge. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour members ‘have tougher view on welfare than you might think’, poll suggests

Survey finds party members see health, the economy, cost of living and climate crisis among biggest challenges

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meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 15h ago

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

A notable feature of the neo-fash is how they invert the paradox of intolerance. If Popper argued to cultivate & protect a tolerant society we have to be intolerant of intolerance, the neo-fash cry bullies argue we have to be intolerant of tolerance to cultivate & protect an intolerant society

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☁️ Yesterday evening, a giant hole suddenly opened in the clouds over Mount Hood, Oregon. Known as a Fallstreak Hole, this rare phenomenon forms when supercooled cloud droplets freeze into ice crystals, leaving behind a dramatic circular opening in the sky.

The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

We see that, unfortunately, Russia is regaining its positions in international sports organizations, while not stopping the war and the killings, - Zelenskyy.

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

Good morning from me and Babs. #birds

I'm sorry, but you can't expect the guardian political editor to do such arduous research as "banging the word 'climate' into the search function on Polanski's blue sky account" before going off.

They are radicalising people into extremism.

All these big platform commentators shaking their heads saying no one is talking about the climate crisis & The Green Party is literally right there...talking about the climate crisis

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d ago

Across the country, wildfires are raging. The Prime Minister needs to call a COBRA meeting and treat the climate crisis with the urgency this moment calls for.

Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

From the leaked Labour Report. Deputy leader Watson later orchestrated an extremely dubious BBC Panorama “expose” of his party, while Austin resigned and ran an opaquely funded “anti-extremism” campaign all over TV in the election, urging people to vote Tory. He was given a peerage by Boris Johnson.

There once was a man named Rod Liddle Upon whose works one wouldn't piddle He just popped his clogs And has gone to the dogs But I can't find my tiniest fiddle.

A happy, healthy country where people look out for each other out of shared interest in having a decent society has no need for an elite class of horrible spiteful shitheads working constantly to make everyone frightened, angry and resentful.

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Something very childlike that emerges with stuff like this: the delight in transgression for its own sake. The stifled giggles because he said something rude in front of teacher. He wasn't talented or funny, he just sat at the back of the class shouting 'BUMS!' and got away with it.

The Art of the Steal

If you freeze Pointless just as Alexander is about to say "goodbye", his facial expression is that of a man straining to let go an enormous fart. I've done this literally hundreds of times and find it endlessly amusing.

The British press then came down on the neighbour who had reported Johnson’s drunken 2 am plate-smashing row to the police like a ton of bricks

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · yesterday

Weird how so many members of the UK commentariat and tabloid sphere beat (Liddle), rape (Taki) and murder (Kay) women (and those are the ones we know about). Oh, remember when Boris Johnson allegedly physically abused Carrie Symonds? ‘Get off me!’ she screamed www.theguardian.com/politics/201...