Maldives sounds nice

Thanks Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, Facebook, X, GB News, BBCr4 Today, #Reform, #Tories, #Labour, & all the elitist rightwing shits in these organisations, for encouraging this hateful violence, & so putting all people of colour living in the UK at risk Special mention for Justin Webb🤮🤮🤮

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 9h ago

A manhunt continues after a refugee was stabbed in an attack that has been described as 'racially motivated' 🚨

Strong disagree on the basis that they are totally comfortable with many forms of racism, just not this one, for whatever reason. In no way are they interested in enforcing anti-racist norms. And supporting them or holding them up as cheerleaders on this risks legitimising their racisms of choice.

I agree with this. Call me cynical, but to me they're all just petty racists, choosing which particular variant of racism fits best with their career prospects.

Do you still not understand, you cannot chase amd win over the voters. No matter what you give them, they will always want more. That is why we are where we are, why we have a Labour Government that sits way to the right on many issues and why racism is now fine by 95% of the media.

A 1991 bar weighed 62.5g; today's is 40g. But the real jump is price: that bar cost about 25p in 1992, roughly 70p in today's money, while the current one runs £1.20 at Tesco. By weight, Mars Bars now cost nearly three times what they did.

1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike

Victoria Gordon, operator of a cleaning service, found a 35-year-old Mars Bar while plowing through a hoarder's house in Scunthorpe, England. Shocked by its enormity, she posed it with a…

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Sangita Myska argues that the real cancel culture culture is around Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0v...

THE ISRAEL INTERVIEW MEDIA WANT TO BAN: Sangita Myska Doesn’t Hold Back

YouTube video by Double Down News

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A very good connection made here by Zack: climate crisis and rip off Britain.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Economist personal hit pieces are surely just embarrassing for them. What is it about wealth taxes, rent controls and water nationalisation that they're so keen to stop progress? It's time to tackle the climate crisis & end Rip Off Britain.

If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.

It’s because the Tories got walloped in the locals, Restore beat them at the mayoral election and Farage isn’t trusted. It’s all hands to the pump now to reinflate two party rule.

With regard to bloggers etc breaking stories: There is no shortage of trans people producing content which proves the trans panic is a scam yet the media who are part of the scam very deliberately ignore this while lifting up a racist blogger? Really? Nobody can tell me this isn't a choice.

Is there a notable difference between a racist blogger and the mainstream press? I put it to you that a Nazi blogger cannot force this shit on the public in the usual all channels blame-hate-coalesce model that e.g. the Times can.

I think Britain would’ve been better off if that story had been restricted to a Nazi blogger and not touched by the press, who have repeatedly demonstrated they cannot be trusted with any issues about race, equality, inclusion, academia and university campuses without going Mein Kampf about it.

This article rather misses the points that: 1) it's not Farage preventing is from attempting to rejoin the EU, but the Labour Government, and they are not fielding a candidate. 2) The whole point of Binface's campaign is too highlight the wasteful absurdity of Farage's pathetic tactics.

The same script is used by western governments, to destroy countries in the global south, who refuse to operate under the sphere of western influence. Want to solve the refugee crisis? Stop western interference in Africa & Middle East. Stop overthrowing leaders developing their own countries.

Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?

I don’t know how much more obvious it could be that the cancel culture freak out was almost entirely racists, arse-grabbers, terf cranks, supporters of smashing the Palestinians and sundry other bigots being enraged at members of the public calling them bad but accurate names.

Thursday: Win By-election Friday: Resume being an MP Monday: Standards Watchdog Investigation resumes. Christmas: Jailed for Fraud/Espionage/Treason? We only want what’s best for Him. ebay.io/m/VQRSzB

The frightening logic of Blue Labour: Glasman, Rutherford, McSweeney, Mahmood,Cowley, Collier all praise the 'Danish' model and end up in bed with Meloni. European values from the French revolution onwards are liberty,equality and solidarity. 'Faith,flag and family' is a Mussolini slogan.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · yesterday

There has been a converted attempt here (including by the current Home Sec) to promote the "Danish model" of anti-immigrant policy as being somehow consistent with social democratic/progressive values. So we should welcome this mask-off moment from the Danish PM.

Private equity backed European education group eyes takeovers of UK universities. Govts created crisis. Froze fees, limits on foreign students. 40% of unis in financial distress. What will PE cut - staff, wages, research, subjects? Takeover will be funded by student loans. archive.ph/lPWC1

European education group eyes takeovers of UK universities

Britain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief

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There has been a converted attempt here (including by the current Home Sec) to promote the "Danish model" of anti-immigrant policy as being somehow consistent with social democratic/progressive values. So we should welcome this mask-off moment from the Danish PM.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · yesterday

Mette Frederiksen and Giorgia Meloni issued a statement on Instagram declaring a partnership aimed at “protecting Europe’s Christian cultural heritage” by expelling more migrants, building “return hubs in third countries,” and finding “innovative solutions outside Europe.” Full post below🧵 1/2

In case you missed it ... The first recorded black community in England lived in Burgh by Sands in Cumbria 1,800 years ago. They were African soldiers in the Roman army, and many of them stayed on after their service. They married local women and raised families there in what later became England.

🧵 Andy Burnham is now PM. He has the power to do something no govt has managed in 13 years: finish the job on Leveson. It's time to hold him to his word. #C4News

I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · yesterday

There is no doubt that the right wing press is responsible for a large proportion of the lies about immigration. Implementing Leveson's recommendations in full would have helped tackle that misinformation @mrjamesob.bsky.social 🧵 @lbc.co.uk

Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and now RFK is on TV telling everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.

I thought it was wrong, nay, illegal, to comment on ongoing police investigations, even for the purposes of deflecting attention away from your financial shenanigans and trying to defeat a man wearing a bin in an unnecessary by election? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage says incident at home 'directly linked' to Widdecombe murder

Counter-terrorism police have reopened an inquiry into an incident at the Reform UK's leader's house.

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Yup - he's a massive cunt. It's real crime in broad daylight. Ketamine Musk isn't as clever as "some people" claim either - you'd have to go some to fail with his kind of money. Not like he's self-made - just used and abused clever people... 😂Maybe he is thinking about a chain of vape shops...

Elon Musk Geeked Out

ALT: Elon Musk Geeked Out

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China launches global tax hunt going back decades. UK needs to do the same. Last year HMRC failed to collect £59bn of taxes, that is £500bn since 2010. Poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of their income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%. archive.ph/6hIvy

China launches global tax hunt going back decades

Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows

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Yes. There’s a lot to hate about it. Including rightwing media (eg the Times) publishing the results like some kind of ‘you see, we told you people were worried about immigration’ gotcha-moment, rather than admitting that they have been part of the relentless effort to make sure people were worried.

Google not publishing neg reviews of a Racist bookshop.

The Telegraph has a 'disgusting' (someone who read it) hit piece on me by zombie racist, Charles Moore, apropos the Arday affair. This is the result in part of Cambridge Comms placating people like Moore who used to attack former VC Toope for EDI. They wheedled Moore into having dinner with VC.