Xander King
@xanderking.bsky.social
Just another person escaping the X binfire. You’ll soon figure out where I am on the political spectrum, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.
Compare the Times Higher's relentless pursuit of Jason Arday with the silence over Reform's disgraced former head of policy-the enthusiastic cheerleader of ex-Hungarian PM Viktor Orban & Cambridge University professor of Divinity James Orr. Could a THE commercial partnership with Hungary explain it?
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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Don’t knock the holocaust, it provided well-paid jobs for mass-murdering psychopaths.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoDon’t knock Palantir – it provides highly skilled, well-paid British jobs | Letter
I suppose it’s an improvement that Burnham is dog-whistling left rather than right as the previous incumbent did, but it’s still an awful long way from what’s required.
Ed Sheeran assumed his supporting acts would rather take the money than stick to their principles. That says a lot about Ed Sheeran.
Exactly this. Ed Sheeran is worth about as much as Dolly Parton was. One of the few artists in the world with the money to take on the likes of Kraft, who has a track record of shutting down any criticism of Israel. Gutless little swine. Hope he enjoys his blood money.
Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻@sazeracla.bsky.social · last mo.Ed Sheeran is worth $400 million. Ed Sheeran has fuck-you money. Ed Sheeran did not say fuck you to the stadium owners and demand they fulfill his contract. Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward.
Is one of #EdSheeran ‘s Bad Habits being a gutless wanker?
More wit in this one remark than in 1.5 Trump presidencies.
Darran Marshall@dmarshall.bsky.social · last mo."It turns out that he isn’t as orange as he looks." SDLP leader Claire Hanna reacts to Trump's comments on Irish unity. "I'm not sure if anybody has checked on the DUP. I suspect they're burning those Trump flags as we speak."
We’ll start with the small words - now sound it out: d - o - g. Now what does that spell!
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · last mo.I guess we weren’t just imagining it being frosty so.
MSF is probably the most amazing and courageous charity on earth. Their people literally sacrifice their own lives to save those of others trapped in war zones. There is no greater proof of the evil of UK Lawyers for Israel than this.
Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · last mo.A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
1/ While everyone, me included, is having a laugh at the fraudsters being caught in a fraud, lets talk about poll faking. The machine that just got caught working for Reform is the same one that has been manufacturing public opinion about trans people for a decade. 🧵
Here’s the thing - the people with power have it because they wanted it. They wanted it in order to be able to use it. If they’re then prevented from using it then there is going to be a fight, and Burnham has so far shown that he is categorically not up for that fight in all its necessary nastiness
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So @zackpolanski.bsky.social - if we’re here to replace Labour, there seems to be an opening…
Hi @thetimes.com - this is outright theft. Full apology, retraction and compensation to Ms Rees please.
Rachel Rees@rachel-rees.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
Promising signs of self awareness amongst some branches of the CLP:
It’s really quaint how people still cling to this idea that Labour is in any way a democratic party. It hasn’t been for at least three decades.
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2mo agoNot enough discussion about this imo, a question of party democracy as much as it’s a question of transphobia.
I think that @twilliamsthe.bsky.social should be forced to resign for being criminally bad at his job, despite being white.
Stephanie Lamy@stephlamy.bsky.social · 2mo agoLol. In a THE article on Arday, a deceased black scholar, entitled "many things can be possible at the same time", apparently @twilliamsthe.bsky.social doesn't think that the white ✌️concerned academic✌️ who "apologetically" contacts him could have an agenda.
Two mutuals follow this guy, who is spending this afternoon doing ableist slurs. Perhaps reconsider.
Abigail Lemonparty@tee-argh.bsky.social · 2mo agoNarrator: "it doesn't and the retard still doesn't get it"
I wonder why the BBC would call these “savings” rather than cuts?
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother day another attempt by Reform to attack already vulnerable individuals. Not only will this see people who absolutely need support stripped of it and left to suffer, it will kill off small businesses. It harms everyone, all in the name of promoting ableism. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Spent weeks being told what a sh*t I am for not mourning the deaths of Widdecombe and Liddle by the same outlets that have literally hounded father of two Jason Arday to suicide.