Peter B 🍉🐉🌈

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“Slow, careful work. Bit by bit until the world’s made new.”

Franz Bischoff (American, 1864-1929) - Morning Mist, Monterey Coast n.d. oil on canvas  Irvine Museum, Irvin, CA, USA

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Just so. Scottish Labour is absolutely fucked because its purpose isn’t to represent the public or win anything. Much like the UK party, its actual purpose is expanding the status, clout and earning potential of a tiny number of repulsive swine.

RDCK98@comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d ago

There is no world in which you win from the position of -Unionist but pro-Indyref 2 -Corbynite on the economy -Rowlingite on LGBT+ rights Congratulations, you have managed to annoy *everyone* in Scotland

"The proposition that trans people constitute the urgent danger of our times is not a brave minority view fighting for a hearing. It is the settled opinion of the richest man on earth .. the policy of the PotUS .. the campaign material of every hard-right party." forlouth.medium.com/the-most-dan...

The Most Dangerous Room In Europe

It is not a public toilet. On women’s safety in the six-counties of Ulster, and where the money actually went.

forlouth.medium.com

[11] … influential individuals is never criticised by any UK institution, for instance [with the exception of junior doctors]. We even have a situation where the UK Supreme Court decided to make up its own science on the subject [without hearing from any scientists] & put it into action. It’s come …

Remember: Farage is and always has been an employee, recruited to front decades of horrible reactionary hate and fear campaigns, and to troll the Tories from the right. He absolutely was never intended to be *their boss*, with power over things like press regulation.

At a Pride event last night, I hear shrilling sounds and a voice behind me demand "who gave her a whistle?!" I turn and meet the gaze of a small girl with a pink plastic whistle. She gives me a conspiratorial grin and resumes blowing the whistle, reveling in this rare sanction to be a bit annoying.

Oh look, JK Rowling's chequebook-waving has emboldened the ADF, a Christofascist hate group that has been pouring millions into the UK to fund court cases and lobbying against abortion rights, equal marriage rights, Pride events etc., to go on the attack as well. Top standing up for women, Joanne!

Christian charities challenge Amnesty report labelling them ‘anti-rights’

A letter led by ADF International UK urges the Charity Commission to affirm that charities may engage in public debate without being labelled a threat to human rights

thecatholicherald.com

Sure, but also because particular protestors are correct, and they’re targeting governments over crimes and malfeasance where those governments *knew the protesters were right*, so they had to be stomped on and crushed.

George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why?
Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand.
This week's column.The globalisation of this attack on our fundamental rights is a key conservative aim. As capital operates everywhere, so should its ability to crush our objections.
The many vicious anti-protest laws in the UK are an outcome of sustained lobbying by junktanks, the media and other governments.
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The result in the UK is a country that now keeps hundreds of political prisoners, a country in which you can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the street.
Protest here is acceptable as long as it's useless. Let the people have their say, but only if we can't hear them.
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Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsk... • 1h In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a
"cumulative" impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.
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Burnham urgently needs to engage on this.
Retaining Mahmood as Home Secretary is a disastrous start. Let's hope he sees sense.
Nothing is safe from the billionaire assault on humanity. None of our rights, however ancient & familiar, are impregnable. Fight for them now or lose them, perhaps for ever.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com