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Rupert Cook

@rupertcook.bsky.social

Husband & father | Oram’s Arbour, Winchester | Lamb’s Conduit Street, London Partner Miltiadou Cook Mitzman | New build | Retrofit | Craft | Comfort | Certified Passive House Designer | Trustee University Design Forum Vegan | Self-builder | LGBTQI+ Ally

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martindvz.bsky.social@martindvz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Farage, Reform, the BBC and almost all UK newspapers ignore this, but always focus their anti minority hate agenda on other smaller non-white perpetrator cases. This one is massive, but is ignored by the UK propaganda machine.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations

Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

theguardian.com

Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My friends tab is just one long homage to Zack. He had everything thrown at him, as leader of the Green Party, by the UK media & by other parties. His use of social media in responding to the attacks, with authentic humour, is a lesson for all politicos.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EXCL: Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members. And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Zack on the phone on the train
Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 6mo ago

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*In fact the Nazis hated, persecuted & murdered Jews, trans & other Queer ppl & Roma, amongst others. Some of the false claims against Queer ppl are being recycled by today’s far right. Today’s target for fascism is trans ppl. If you hear a politician talk about trans ppl, replay what they said but

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Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just as an example of how media & politics lie & spread conspiracies against trans ppl it’s worth examining the rhetoric around puberty blockers. The Labour UK govt & NI Exec banned them for trans kids as they were allegedly unsafe [there is no scientific evidence for that claim]. Yet the main …

Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

… users of puberty blockers are non-trans kids experiencing early onset puberty. The medicine is not banned for them. It’s quite impressive that the UK govt, NI Exec & the media think that a drug can tell the difference between a trans & a non-trans kid. Why is it safe for non-trans kids but …