Where's the outrage we saw when Angela Rayner, who paid the wrong amount of tax on a property for her disabled son, & followed poor advice? She had a single breach of code for an amount ~10% of what Farage has tried to tax dodge. When is he going to be made to resign due to media pressure?

Agreed......

Make this happen all over the UK, hope will beat hate.

At this stage, the Mail using an affectionate nickname in a headline on this story feels a bit like their infamous ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ front page. Plus ça change…

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Think mass protest & non-cooperation doesn’t matter? @jiggygero.bsky.social says: “When researchers looked at 35 cases of democratic backsliding from 1991-2021, only 7.5% were successful with no civil resistance movement while 51.7% were successful with a mass civil resistance movement.” Keep it up!

There it is. Farage and Reform would end our NHS. Millions of people could not afford to be ill under a Reform government.

The grim inevitability of Elon Musk & the bogus ‘free speech’ crusaders defending the ‘rights’ of child abusers & weapons grade misogyny… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

An absolute nightmare for the 'London has fallen' brigade

I think it's because by definition Boris Johnson loyalists have no principles beyond ambition + no interest in consistency beyond their own status.

1) Noem obstructed Congressional oversight & withheld Congressionally appropriated funds. 2) Noem compromised public safety, violated citizzen's due process, & directed unconstitutional actions. 3) Noem abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

It's far better to live in a city with a million immigrants than to live in a city with one member of ICE.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

Six years after George Floyd, we must stand against an ICE killing in Minneapolis | Austin Sarat

After viewing the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota- he then proceeds to lie about EVERYTHING in it, aside from the fact that it is, indeed, "a horrible thing to watch." #25thAmendmentNOW

The Trump regime’s internal security enforcers murdered an American citizen in broad daylight. The regime is illegally blocking the release of evidence of Trump’s extensive collaboration with Epstein. They’re agitating for war with France and Germany. It’s completely insane anyone supports them.

Channel 4 News close to examplary this evening. It pains me to point out that some people working for the broadcast partner of Bari Weiss's CBS News, the BBC, could learn a lot from Matt Frei & Anushka Asthana. But I also wonder how much 'balance' we give to obvious liars, however powerful they are.

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 👇

A first edition of Absolute Beginners may interest followers of @backlisted.bsky.social I am more a reader of books than a collector of 1st editions but this is the Hospice Charity bookshop where I volunteer.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

"Quiet, Piggy"

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy @kingresist.bsky.social @coko.bsky.social @cherylbluewave.bsky.social @dougieg633.bsky.social @idogcapital.bsky.social @whatifisaidit.bsky.social @green2uw.bsky.social @mitchinmich.bsky.social @realzappbrannigan.smokefleet.net @cheryl2877.bsky.social

The latest pathetic attempt by Reform UK supporters to distance themselves from Nathan Gill and #ReformRussianBribes is to say ‘Reform UK didn’t exist when he took the bribes’. UKIP > Independent > Brexit Party > Reform UK That’s the path Gill and Farage took TOGETHER.

Important not to overlook the fact that this bilge is amplified & disseminated by many prominent - and very real - racists who benefit financially, professionally & politically from the process.

If there is ever a halfway progressive government in the UK, it will be important to ensure that the consequences of how ministers and MPs behave in *this* government follow them afterwards. No cushy jobs in think tanks, universities, NGOs, cultural organisations for those who deny basic humanity.

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

‘Mass Blackout’ planned for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in protest of Trump administration

Imagine being so far-right that you think the Today programme is woke

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

Social media does not miss 🔥 To dodge suppression, folks are using “music festival” as code to tip off or report on ICE protests in Los Angeles.

New episode up now. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, with guests Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

The headline here should say: "Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded". (The increase is mentioned way down the article.) www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...

Flying through my holiday reading - all excellent. #unhelpfulbookreviewer

We need more human beings.

The sun rises over Gaios

it's Jimmy Cliff's birthday and he's 81 and many of his tunes are still sung by people for hope and comfort and the sheer passion he has put into his music for decades so put some respect on his name. give Jimmy Cliff his flowers by bumping his tremendous tunes today

Hello from Paxos :)

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Love after Love by Derek Walcott ❤️