Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

The reading shelf. #Shelfie #BookSky #Books

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want

• The best fiction book I read this year • The best book I read FROM this year • The best comic book I read this year • The best non-fiction book I read this year

Top 10 Books read this year. 3 fiction #BookVirtueSignalling #BookSky

The reading shelf #Shelfie #BookVirtueSignalling #BookSky

Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage. His first question was: “who funds him?” Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇

Did you get any books for Christmas? Thanks for asking #BookBragging #BookSky

It’s a new one to me too. Straight in the to be read pile. Looking forward to it.

I've just opened my surprise book from @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - no spoilers for my book buddy @stevenkeevil.bsky.social but it's a new to me author which is exciting!

Melissa really does know her thing. Take advantage of this great offer

The to be read shelf. #Shelfie #Books #BookSky

I only watched five films on #Mubi this year and I consider that a personal failing. #Filmsky

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This has arrived in the post and this years book buddie is @elsie2110.bsky.social! Hi 👋 I’ll be opening mine Christmas Eve. Let me know if that’s too soon for you and I won’t spoil it!

Our interview this week is with Philip Hesketh, Dean of Rochester, on what it costs to keep Rochester Cathedral running, how the church works in practice, and why “people are always searching for something."

This week’s reading shelfie. #Books #BooksSky #BookVirtueSignalling

Halfway through my @biggreenbooks.bsky.social advent calendar. And so far no misses! Books I haven’t read and am looking forward to. Ya man has good taste

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

...and just like that, we're now free of Substack.

The reading shelf #Books #Booksky #BookVirtueSignalling

New interview: Musician Pete Molinari went from recording his first album in Billy Childish’s house to performing globally and working with some of the biggest names in music. Now living in LA, he spoke to us about leaving Medway, recording with Childish, performing with Yoko Ono, and lots more.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Squee Tomorrow I get to open my first @biggreenbooks.bsky.social advent calendar Because he started it in the 2nd. Like a psycho.

Had the pleasure of sitting down with Lupen Crook in his studio and talking about his art and music. www.kentcurrent.news/p/ive-got-en...

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

My @biggreenbooks.bsky.social book adventure calendar has arrived! Exciting

sorry, I should have said "the BBC which self-identifies as not a bigoted organisation but deploys bigot rhetoric"

📮 We've launched something different: A pen pal scheme between Medway and a tiny village called Port Medway in Nova Scotia, Canada. Learn more about the project and how to get involved here 👇

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

🗳️ Wincheap (Canterbury) by-election result: 🟢 Peter Campbell (Green): 842 🔶 Guy Meurice (Lib Dem): 518 ➡️ Colin Spooner (Reform): 351 🌹 Jasmin Dallos-Foreman (Labour): 276 🌳 Elliott Curryer (Conservative): 166 Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat

An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

2000-now: Storyville, I May Destroy You, In Our Time, Springwatch, 6 Music, Happy Valley, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Gardener's World, A House Through Time, Fleabag, WILTY, Top Gear, Gone Fishing, This Country, CBBC, Dr Who, The Office, Sherlock, Wolf Hall, Glastonbury, Only Connect, The Traitors.

Listen to the interview with the Stephen Hendry of local journalism, @edjennings.bsky.social

Absolutely this. If you want to know why everything everywhere is falling apart right now, you could do worse (and laugh less often) than these three books. 14 years of malicious self-interest, intentional underinvestment and accidental ineptitude. Chickens come home to roost - but under Labour.

‘You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber’

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

Refusing to X won’t stop its owner from being both the loudest cheerleader for global fascism and a mass murderer but it’s the very least one can do and it shocks me how many people can’t manage it

The "mixed signal" here is that Mamdani won in New York and Sherrill and Spanberger won in New Jersey and Virginia. It baffles me that pundits look at that and think, "But what is the formula now?" rather than "In different constituencies, different candidates will do well."

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Hi @biggreenbooks.bsky.social did you see this? Did I miss out?

From Militant to TUSC and now Your Party, Chas Berry, who has long been at the forefront of leftist politics in Medway. We talk to him about his journey, leaving Labour, his hopes for the new party, and lots more.

Reluctant to give Question Time any time - save for this: