This sums up the immigration debate neatly in a way you won't hear it spelled out in the British media. A media which seems to have given up on any commitment to educate many years ago.
This is Sir Richard Dearlove who ran MI6 when British intelligence was spinning a web of lies to get the UK into the murderous and illegal Iraq War. He also wanted the hardest possible Brexit. So he’s both blood soaked and an idiot. He is a danger to Britain’s interests.
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year. PO to pay £41m to Fujitsu. Fujitsu was instrumental in persecution of innocent postmasters. £1.2bn compensation paid from public purse. More to follow. Fujitsu haven't paid a penny, no one has been charged. Why is Fujitsu being rewarded?
Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year
It is paying £41m to the Japanese-owned company Fujitsu to use the Horizon system until March 2027.
bbc.co.uk
Obey the party, be a good and quiet subject, and the rich will allow you to work for them
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Genuine quote here from the British Prime Minister: "I always sit in front of the Union Jack. I’ve been doing it for years.” Does he mean when he's watching Eastenders, or having his tea? What kind of flag-shagging bollocks is this? Message to the outside world: Britain has lost its fucking mind
What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?
Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧@doctoryak.bsky.social · 12mo agoI guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.
The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth
Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate
adambienkov.co.uk
UK coup made us corporate slaves. Post Office scandal, no one charged for false convictions. Grenfell fire, 72 died, no one charged Water companies, 1,137 criminal convictions, still operating. Energy companies, £514bn operating profit. No curbs. Corporate lawlessness is the new norm
How we can fight back against the right-wing coup
For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed
leftfootforward.org
A woman wore a dress 16 years ago — when she was a teenager — so she’s not entitled to political principles that The Times dislikes.
Epstein worked for both Mossad and Russian intelligence, anyone telling you it has to be one or the other is asking you to stop looking at one or the other. It’s not just those two but they are the two currently holding unprecedented power over a sitting US president.
Unbelievable exchange this morning on Radio Scotland between presenter and economist @RichardJMurphy, with presenter interrupting & conducting an interview with barely concealed contempt. Really bad.
@simkern.bsky.social spoke to Mother Jones about their latest book, "Genocide Bad." "This is where being Jewish is relevant to me. I just feel like “genocide bad” was so drilled into me from a young age. It was the first historical political lesson that I was ever taught."
If you see AI videos of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask speaking and pretending to be Anonymous, those are fake and are being generated by MAGA. Be aware and know the signs. It's cringe, don't fall for it.
There aren't enough prison spaces in the world to house everyone if this broad an approach to policing is adopted more widely.
madoc cairns@madoc.bsky.social · last yr.Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people. It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
wired.com
"It’s a really good reminder that someone like Daniel Ek has never been interested in music": author Liz Pelly on Spotify, military tech, and the future of art. @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Spotify, the military industrial complex, and the future of art
Spotify has siphoned a decade's worth of profits from artists into the military tech industry. Is this the death of art?
crikey.com.au
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower. "What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations." theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Ridiculous BBC headline: "Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing". Nothing to do with corporate welfare, contracts for cronies, Govt paying higher energy bills, HMRC not collecting £500bn since 2010, Tory legacy. Just blame workers wanting decent pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing
Borrowing was £17.4bn last month, the second highest October figure since monthly records began in 1993.
bbc.co.uk
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