If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

I.e. we won't get Trump 1, we will skip straight to Trump 2.

This is obviously really bad, but what’s worse is that it isn’t headline news, and everyone concerned will still have a job tomorrow

Europe is going to build camp where they will concentrate undesirables before getting rid of them. I wonder if there's a term for that? This is no different than the MAGA plan for White supremacy. The EU can pretend it's better all it wants. It is not.

ive just moved to a flat with a ceiling fan! life changing. just in time for the andalucian summer

Israel threatened to bomb Beirut’s Dahieh moments ago

two of my current obsessions have collided with mamdani and the cast of deli boys promoting policies supporting nyc small businesses on reels.

compare and contrast with andy burnham and the labour party.

i didn't vote labour last time, as i lived in a safe labour seat and wanted to protest vote. however, i did still mistakenly believe labour would be the lesser evil. jokes on me.

really interested to see how strong vote the far right labour to stop the far right reform in Makerfield vote is. if instagram is anything to go by, looks like there are a lot of dopes falling for it, on a national level at least.

ok, tomorrow is 39/40° and it really is a bit too hot. esp without aircon or a ceiling fan. really looking forward to this friday with the super cool temperature of 33° 🫠

my family in Iran are finally able to call us normally, and are beginning to access instagram. even though we knew they were ok, this milestone has been such a relief.

see I’m fairly convinced that, with the odd exception, the press can browbeat the public into strongly disliking any politician of their choosing, but what they definitely can’t do is bully the public into actually liking someone

A lot of Americans don't really like it or they sidestep it altogether but in actually existing Israel if you are for a state of all its citizens you are near uniformly considered anti Zionist, or more charitably what people call "non-Zionist".

One, the legitimizing of the *anti* 'globalize the intifada' campaign is just racist. It's pure racist fearmongering during an anti Muslim, anti Arab, anti Palestinian genocide.... and citing Zohran's extremely pressured response... to escape that accusation isn't helping.

So I have friends at LC, and have written at LC ...and really like LC. This piece is ok, but it's got a lot of praise on Bsky, which is already very partial to Zionist propaganda. I have two major issues with it which I'll mention below.

If I’m understanding this all, the future Labour PM, advised by a former head of Labour Together, is tacking right while pitching to be the new broom that solves all the problems created by the current Labour PM, who tacked right advised by a different former head of Labour Together. Is that correct

living in andalucia right now, and while the temperature is much hotter than london, it is also much more comfortable.

The Liberal Currents piece on Israel does an excellent job of speaking against a particular kind of center left / left liberal exceptionalism that exists in favor of Israel, which is why it is actually important to create the space for that kind of dialogue and criticism within the liberal framework

An Iranian couple, musicians and art teachers, raised loans and donations to build a music school. It employed 22 teachers. More than 250 music learners received private instruction on the craft of Persian music and its different instruments. Half the students were children aged 4 or 5.

Iraq has had a great deal of rain this winter. Neighboring countries have opened some dams. As a result, life has returned to the area between the two rivers. The Euphrates, now free of flooding, is once again thriving, and its ecosystem is reviving. Image: Iraqi news agency.

i actually think this is quite likely

I think this applies to most labour mps, but especially tony blair.

“It is a simple, factual claim, that since 1948, a defining feature of the Israeli state has been its rule over a large subject population, distinguished from the Jewish majority ethnically and religiously, and governed by military law outside the constraints of civil protection.”

it is tempting to think that greens would be better off with a leader that doesnt have the hypnosis story attached, but much like corbynism without corbyn aka starmer, the alternatives are unlikely to be any good.

on the topic of byline times, if i manage to find my own flat this week, i'll be splurging on an annual subscription while in Spain 🤞🏼

with right wing policies no one wants.

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my kingdom for a mamdani

For @coolzonemedia.bsky.social I shared a little sliver of my family's Nakba story, and how I found out more about an Israeli family member. open.spotify.com/episode/1hdS...

of the pair, bush and blair, tony is the true sociopath. funny that.

just a total weirdo

the catholic church doing what the british monarchy never will.

he's convinced me. banning social media for kids is a bad policy.

deli boys is such a great show. edge of slapstick and super funny.

Nothing at all fishy going on here over the weekend, I assume

700 people killed including 20 medics *since the ceasefire* news.sky.com/video/why-th...

Weird how many of the 7% anti-Green vote are on Bluesky

Trade Unions should put their money where their mouth is and sue the British Government over the unworkable EHRC guidance. Guidance that will be devastating for the workers' they represent and especially the small businesses who employ them. Force Labour to legislate to fix it.

“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,”

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

Just a reminder, Peter Thiel is an anagram for ‘the reptile’. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

just passed a1 spanish. i cannot overstate how happy this has made me.

i think makerfield will teach us a lot about whats coming in the ge. is there a low too low for reform voters? will labours long term coercion, us or reform, work? etc. etc.

I saw the movie "Palestine 36" last night. It is striking how so many repressive tactics from the 1930s are still in use today. And it was devastating to sit with the thought that 4 generations of my family have known nothing but this oppression.

labour: we will bomb your country, deny you asylum or send you back after you live here for 19 years. i would like to hear a peep about the sociopathic levels islamaphobia in the labour party.

Change?

exhibit 3894 that votes should be earned not owed.

also the temperance league was motivated by women trying to curb domestic abuse with the tools they had. but telling how deeply entrenched patriarchy is in politics uk 2026.