Now that he’s no longer a neo-Nazi, he’s just putting out content littered with homophobic and racial stereotypes. Maybe he’ll be advising young men on how to do that.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 10h ago

In a post on X he says he’ll instead be advising the Conservative Party on how young men become radicalised

Spend a few moments looking at the Crewkerne Gazette, which this ‘rehabilitated’ man is responsible for, and you’ll find it to be a sight which tries to get you to vote Tory by pushing AI slop full of racist, homophobic and dehumanising content www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peer urges Tories to block candidate jailed for antisemitic abuse against her

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.

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I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

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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There is nothing brave about writing stuff which is designed to offend people, still less people from minority groups. And the reason most people don’t do it isn’t because they’re not brave, it’s because they’re not bullies.

Lord Dubs was just six years old when he escaped Czechoslovakia following the Nazi invasion. He was one of 10,000 refugee children whose lives were saved by being taken in by Britain from 1938-39. Watch his remarkable life story: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Doing Origin Story reveals a few core narratives in history. One is: "This thing didn't really matter until right-wing journalists and activists twisted it into a moral panic that destroyed people's lives for no good reason and then moved on"

Delighted to hear Burnham use this tone about immigrants - it’s an eternity since we last heard it from a PM. Worth commentators reflecting that one reason for the SNP’s and Plaid’s continued success is that they never stopped speaking like this. The proof now will be in the Mahmood pudding.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last wk.

It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.

Ok, France was the first place he landed. They have to keep him. Those are the rules.

Once more, for those at the back, racism Is not a protected characteristic.

Just waiting for the Home Office release where Mahmood says ‘the British people have a long history of belong generous to those genuinely in need’.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

The UK was one of the first countries to sign the UN Refugee Convention. They made a promise that people fleeing war and persecution would be protected. To mark this anniversary, we asked Scots about their views on refugees. Here's what we found: https://ow.ly/EvMl50Zttq4

Home Office genuinely needs to be abolished and its responsibilities split up, with immigration and asylum under an independent authority. Even by its low standards, standards which are being supported by the reappointment of Mahmood by Burnham, this is sickening. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza

Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory

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This was a stupid thing for Polanski to post, but it's a bit hypocritical of the Reform party, which claims that calls for arson against asylum seekers in the midst of riots are 'free speech', to cry about it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post

The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.

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The loss of 300-year-old Caledonian pinewoods in the Cairngorms shows how vulnerable ancient ecosystems are to escalating wildfires. With ground-nesting species devastated, this highlights an urgent need for permanent aerial firefighting infrastructure. 🌲 #ClimateCrisis

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires

With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right

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When people call for the deportation on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, it's not mere coarsening of discourse, it is real-life fascists setting out what they'll do given half a chance and our real-life friends and family will do the real-life suffering if we don't start real-life fighting this.

At both the Telegraph and NS had to navigate the hurt feelings of some politicians about things that those publications had done, sometimes 20 years in the past. Now loads of politicians will merrily post away on a website whose owner regularly endorses the idea they, personally, should be killed.

The radicalised Elon Musk has gone so far as to now be promoting both the racist philosophy (only traitors oppose remigration) + violence (fight back or die: traitors before invaders) which saw Brevik massacre teenagers and students at a social democrats summer camp www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

Ynys Mon

We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.

Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · 2w ago

Fifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.

As a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...

LGBTQ+ authors see rise in cancellations of school visits after 'complaints from parents'

Authors of books featuring same-sex families, gay characters and other LGBTQ+ themes have told The Bookseller they have had school speaking events cancelled, or pupils withdrawn, amid complaints from ...

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Oh, come on BBC, how are you still talking this rubbish?

Want to smash your step count and raise money for charity? Then join us for the Dundee Mighty Stride on Sunday 16 August! Every step counts toward creating a safer and more welcoming Scotland for refugees. Sign up here: https://ow.ly/RJxw50Zlsfe

Nigel Farage: we should respond to this with cold hard indifference.

Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.social · 3w ago

What time does the rioting start? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'd add, having covered the Home Office a bit, that I've not seen anything in her immigration plans that couldn't have been drawn up by civil servants on autopilot. Her big idea as far as I can see has been "we should cut immigration, for real", but no attempt to think why or what immigration is for

I trust my instincts, and I know what Stephen Miller is.

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is very funny that Stephen Miller of all people is talking about how "deformed" his political enemies are, but let's be clear: this is both eugenics and a blueprint for state punishment of anyone who does not conform to Miller's idea of "normal" (eg: heterosexual marriage with kids)

Timely reminder that under the Trump regime the US is not simply a wildly unpredictable ally, it is - in at least aspects of its policy - a hostile state.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3w ago

I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.

An everyday story of a language centre established to build social cohesion being forced to close down in the face of daily intimidation. Read it and weep.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 3w ago

@nikwilliams.bsky.social seen this? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...