The number of people on here who don’t think his death matters…it matters. It matters a great deal.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please remember you are likely to see even anti-war and anti-intervention Iranians celebrate Khamenei’s death (if confirmed) as he has been a source of death, tyranny, destruction, and has held Iran back.

If you hate history’s greatest anti-Nazi because he helped the Jews to have a safe homeland, what might you be? 🤔 🤔 🤔

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 5mo ago

🚨 NEW: The statue of Winston Churchill has been defaced with the words “Zionist War Criminal” x.com/politlcsuk/s...

“The misplaced criticism arises partly from a failure to understand the realities of coprolalia. It arises, too, from the ways in which we now think about racism and diversity.” My Sunday @theobserveruk.bsky.social column online early on Thursday: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was ...

The BBC Tourette syndrome furore shows that the stigma exposed by the I Swear film is ongoing

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Holocaust Remembrance Day on Bluesky

💔Kupyansk This is what war looks like not in words, but in reality. 📹2 battalion

I think the base assumption tippexing out the ethnicity of an offender was driven by honourable intentions is part of the problem here. We shouldn’t assume those who sought to conceal facts were well intentioned.

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · last yr.

"All of this is a gift to the racists." Baroness Casey on how the failure to gather data and to tell survivors’ stories honestly has allowed the far-right to hijack the issue of grooming gangs. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

I’d explain how this is Holocaust trivialisation but I’d be wasting my breath. It’s too popular for anyone to care.

It is a well-known fact that Russia transferred its air defense systems to Iran (probably with specialists) "to protect nuclear facilities". Today, Israel announced the destruction of dozens of radar stations and ballistic missile launchers in the western part of Iran.

Among the targets Israel is destroying are nuclear technologies given to Iran by Russia in return for the vast supply of drones Putin uses to murder Ukrainian civilians. Hopefully the drone factories are next to be flattened.

Dear god, the replies & QTs. A constant stream of it. No push back either. Just allowed to stand without comment <<walks back out again>>

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · last yr.

This sounds like aggressive “re-programming”… …and surely breaks international law as to what captors are allowed to do with their hostages.

Incidentally, if you want to know why the government doesn't have any money and services are starting to fall apart, you may enjoy this graph, from this article ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxla...

James Ball@jamesrball.com · last yr.

The thing I despair of is that it is absolutely commonplace on the left and centre-left to think exactly this. That governments are just sitting there, deciding “no, I won’t do this politically popular tax that will raise tens of billions” for malign reasons. It’s toxic.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "Russia is at an enormous pace reconstituting itself.They are producing ammunition at a level which has not been seen in recent decades.They produce four times as much ammunition as the whole of NATO is producing as we speak.Their whole economy is on a war footing"

This whole incident is repellent. Portnoy was too generous in his reaction but that’s what’s too often expected of victims of antisemitism. They have to imagine their persecutors are capable of change in a way we don’t treat other racists. And the antisemites never change. They always do it again.

The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · last yr.

Student who filmed Barstool 'f*** the Jews' sign claims he was acting as a ‘citizen journalist’ www.thejc.com/news/usa/mo-...

Awful lot of people on here seem to think Labour’s great error is not pointing out what a failure Brexit has been but Brexit not delivering doesn’t mean those who voted for it don’t still care about the issues that motivated their vote & Labour aren’t exactly delivering on anything.

What strikes me about Kneecap is how much of a product of Corbynism they are. Without Corbyn & McDonnell’s political moment they would never have gained global attention.

Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · last yr.

Video emerged of a Nov 2023 gig appearing to show a Kneecap member saying “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.” Earlier last week, footage from another gig seemed to show a band member shouting “up Hamas, up Hizbullah” at a UK performance. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

'For women, sex-based rights and spaces are vital, not just in relation to equal pay or workplace discrimination but also when it comes to rape centres, to sport, to prisons, to intimate hospital care.' observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

‘MPs are outsourcing their morals’

Thinking through the relationship between sex, gender and rights doesn’t require supreme court guidance

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I do so love being lectured about who is & isn’t ‘vulnerable’ by men absolutely determined to cast women & girls as oppressors when we’re the victims of over 1m police reported violent incidents/yr, which will obviously be tip of the iceberg given overwhelming majority of violence goes unreported.

But he’s not a misogynist, you understand. Just amazing.

I can’t quite comprehend how staggeringly unaware of your own misogyny you’d have to be to suggest a campaign of ‘civil disobedience’ which comprised solely of men invading the single sex spaces of women to try to provoke them to reaction.

Amongst these women were plenty of lawyers with decades of relevant legal experience who calmly & politely explained the law as it stands but were disdained & those who did so never once questioned themselves. Now they are having huge tantrums having discovered the icky middle aged women were right.

Cathy Devine@womensportfeminism.bsky.social · last yr.

'Men have been thwarted; told no by a bunch of largely middle-aged women, the kind they deem past it, irrelevant, good only for domestic duties. The kind that are supposed to be invisible, that remind them of their nay saying mothers. And they are apoplectic.' 💯

This. The constant pressure to *prove* there’s a problem is cruelty itself.

Fred Thursday’s dialogue in Endeavour is under appreciated: “It’s him, I know it is, I can feel it in my corns”

European leaders must state that Ukraine should win the war, and they must also state what that means: 1. Russia pushed out of Ukraine 2. Russia paying reparations to Ukraine 3. All deported Ukrainians, POWs, brought back to Ukraine 4. All Russian war criminals handed over to justice etc.

My husband is in St Anton being forced to do Jäger bombs & I’m at home with the dogs eating scampi & chips with a glass of nice Limoux & TOTP #WinningHere

Bell just looks like an opportunist now because he’d absolutely would have been amongst the first to revile any Tory who was suggesting these changes. Very much a case of ‘Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others’

Hannah Fearn@hannahfearn.bsky.social · last yr.

After his performance with @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, Torsten Bell has gone from being one of my most admired figures in politics to among the most reviled. What the hell was the point of all those years with the Resolution Foundation if he’s going to throw low income families under the bus now?

Today @moreincommonuk.bsky.social releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.

Carmine has begun the day by ingesting a coffee bean then having to de-ingest expensively it at the vets. Fortunately he’s now back home & everyone’s heart rates can return to normal.

Jeremy Corbyn must decide. Does he back the UK standing with Ukraine against Russian aggression, or does he align with Trump's isolationist appeasement of Putin? There is no sitting on the fence.

These horrendous pro Trump quislings taking up Putin’s absurd NATO expansion excuse for his publicly stated imperialist ambitions are just shameful but the British ones are the worst of the worst. You don’t even have the excuse of justifying a vote to yourselves, you traitors.