How sad & goes to show how corporations & donors will react to discrimination & political rhetoric, leaving vulnerable groups even less represented Annual event aimed at giving LGBTQ+ students networking opportunities set to end after 21 years in years in London after drop in corporate sponsorship

Better with EU!

I prefer it when ‘Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.

What I heard of Rubio's speech was nauseating.... Christian culture...western this...no mention of Native Americans....divisive....closed....climate denying.... No one should have applauded. Journalists need to stop trying to normalise www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

The alt right hate women. To them we should be nothing but subservient, man pleasing, breeding machines. @stellacreasy.bsky.social

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

No thought of the students, the staff, the cleaners, maintenance workers, the wider community jobs that a large university brings, inc doctors, nurses & services. Or money spent in local businesses, bars, restaurants. Reform asked this debating society for a Q&A session, I think as a set up

To be clear they approached the debating society. Who does thar? I'll tell you - people who are deliberately engineering controversy in the hope that it will get talked about on talk radio stations and GB News

Wow. Yousuf response might as well of been a copy & paste job from a Trump social media rant We need to do everything we can to keep Reform out of power I’m serious. Let this lot in and you can kiss goodbye to NHS, education, any relationship with EU & give welcome to ICE type gestapo

Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.

These are the strongest comments yet from the EU on the topic, and it's great to hear that they are open to us rejoining the Customs Union. We hope that the Government takes action soon to repair our trade ties with Europe.

VERY telling and DEEPLY suspicious that none of the mainstream media/press are saying a dickie bird about this. Logical conclusion can only be that they're complicit in some way, benefiting in some way and have had promises made to them. What other possible reason can there be?

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Another great investigative piece from @bylinetimes.bsky.social Tommy Robinson was hired as a “goodwill ambassador” for an unregistered charity fronting a secretive Russian propaganda network that worked directly for Putin’s administration, & has ties to a sanctioned Russian state-linked oil giant

Excellent 😂

The difference between the president and I is that I was raised to be a decent human being, and my faith teaches me to have compassion. He lacks both of those things.

The fact that Trump has given seats on his 'Board of Peace' to Netanyahu & Putin, both of whom have arrest warrants outstanding for crimes against humanity & war crimes, tells you everything you need to know. Also, proving his disdain for democracy, Trump will remain the Chair until he dies

Spotted on Facebook- just had to share

When parody is too close to reality 😀

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a "full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum." So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?

Putting it mildly

This meme is from 2016 yet it’s never been more apt. It should now be blatantly obvious, even to those who voted for it; Brexit only benefited those who wish to see us weakened and divided.

Reform UK are hiring! ‘Former MPs need not be concerned about any run-ins with parliamentary authority, such as breaches of the ministerial code, unpaid tax issues etc will be of value, rather than a hindrance, to your successful application’ @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @suewilson91.bsky.social

Sorry, but did Trump bring peace to the Middle East & cure cancer while I was sleeping? A really painful & embarrassing line of questions from Nick Ferrari on Trump’s “peace prize” this morning🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin, "If Russia wins the war against Ukraine then we would only see decades of this kind of behaviour ahead of us" "We should push Russia back to its own territory" "Ukraine should be whole again" "And we together have to make sure that this becomes reality"

A different world perspective One based on mutual cooperation, respect, and human rights.

The far right obsession with London is vital in their playbook. People who don’t live there are told constantly it’s a crime ridden hell hole with no go areas. It’s just not true on every measure - it’s a hugely successful and multicultural city, and that’s why they hate it.

Genius 😉

A malignant narcissist drunk on power. What could go wrong .. everything. This from US State Department

Nice!

🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity. Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”

The world according to Trump ...

Survey 20,000 people - 27 democracie 69% think democracy is weakening. 74% believe the current system serves “a rich & powerful elite”. 69%believe “strong leaders increasingly have more power than international institutions" The people know where the problems lie - the system needs to change

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:

The hysteria is palpable, and also rather amusing.

We are now thoroughly in the agonal gasps of 2025. Would anyone like to join me in asking this year to politely take its things and fuck straight off? 🐻

024: Keir Starmer, "I firmly believe that the British public want... to make Brexit work" 2025: Guardian, "UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork" End the madness #RejoinEU

Investment in UK unlikely to significantly and lastingly improve until we are back in the single market. Other G7 members are either in it (FR, DE, IT) have huge own market (US) and/or have geographical and resource advantages UK does not (Canada, Japan).

The psychopathic dictator is at it again.

Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;

Free speech is dead in Trump’s America. Like all authoritarian states, free speech doesn’t extend to criticism of their regime and leader. Educators, lawmakers, newspapers, critics, are all being threatened and silenced while history is being erased and rewritten - it’s all so familiar

Brexit betrayal!! Whether Brexiters truly believe their cries of betrayal, surely it’s time to challenge the rhetoric From former Tory ministers, a GB news presenter or an Express ‘journalist’, the sour grapes attitude smacks of irony @suewilson91.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Same far-right hacks now crying that Polish workers are going back, despite having pushed daily hatred towards them for decades. Piss off, Daily Mail.

My first ever Ask Me Anything: With some chat about wealth taxes, the Middle East, The Manic Street Preachers, fit blokes, drugs and beauty in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/ask-me-any...

Cover of Der Spiegel, Germany's renowned and influential magazine “Two villains, one goal”

FYI.

The fact that Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk attack the UK and the EU over the ‘erosion’ of freedom of speech, yet not Russia is so telling Plus - Here’s the latest World Press Freedom Index: 21 out of the top 30 were European.. The US ranked 57 and falling, with Russia at 162.

Rejoining the Customs Union would deliver clear advantages for the UK, and two thirds of 2024 Labour voters already support the move: it's time for Westminster to catch up.