“Weaponising Migration”: How Russia’s War in Syria Fed the Brexit Propaganda Loop Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant'. Leave EU campaign went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed and defend Russia open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

They say women gossip and backbite. Look at all the rich powerful men. Instead of “Get Hard” they should make a male version of “Mean Girls”. “Mean Men” or “Crazy Rich Mean Men” (no, most of them weren’t that crazy rich then). How about “Delusional Narcissistic Rich Mean Paedophiles”. True Crime.

While everyone is talking the fake plot against Keir Starmer and Number 10, this critical piece of news about Wes Streeting went under the radar: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9-8_3...

This is why mostly men vote for Trump. “Probable rapist” is ok with them.

Our biggest problem right now is that people are reading two different kinds of news. The BBC is STILL the place readers all over the globe go to check the news! TO SEE IF ITS REAL. Dissolving the BBC is the LAST THING WE SHOULD BE DOING. Don’t do Nigel Farage’s and Boris Johnson’s work FOR THEM.

I wonder what Daniel Hannan’s ancestral voices are prophesying.

2018. 7 year olds had to help look after toddlers, non-family members. They were obviously unable to change diapers or comfort screaming babies. Reading about that is burned into my mind. That & the news that incarcerated migrant women were sterilised without giving permission. @maddow.msnbc.com

Dear people angry with the BBC. There’s a reason people like this went after PBS & NPR and are now packing broadcast news companies. Don’t help them. As long as it belongs to us the BBC can be improved. Not once it’s been sold to venomous oligarchs.

Heartbreaking story

Brilliant suggestion from a contributor to @mrjamesob.bsky.social spot this morning - replay the panorama episode with the full clip of the orangutan’s speech. It makes the same point, doesn’t change the narrative presented and shows the accusation of inciting an insurrection was justified!

Frankenstein. It could have been great. A tantalising and unique sense of kitch which could have been woven language, but turned out patchy and possibly accidental? His lab scene reminded me of Micky in Phantasia.

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

In honour of the Prize announced by FIFA and Trump, I have awarded myself the Noble Peas Prize for always eating all my peas even though they aren’t my favourite vegetable.

We’re about to witness the world’s loneliest man become the first one in history to truly understand that money doesn’t buy you happiness or “coolness” despite really REALLY wishing it did. The only question is whether he’ll bring us down with him. Is he a cliche? Or isn’t he?

There aren’t enough steroids in the world to keep him standing for president at the next election.

The women of the Miss Universe pageant showing us what solidarity against dictatorship looks like.

The British mainstream media don’t tell people this, because it doesn’t fit their agenda.

While the danger of JIMS and their defence of sexual assault goes unnoticed by the British press, (especially their funders) here’s a commentary piece from Peter Hitchens from 2017 or 200,000 BC depending how long your arms are.

Andrew may not have the title anymore, but Camilla was once only supposed to hold the title of Queen Consort. If the world turns over into waiting nazi hands, he’ll be Prince again before the decade is out. Epstein will become a conspiracy theory & no one will care about underage girls anymore.

How many people who don’t read newspapers or watch the news daily actually know about Huntingdon? How will they hear about it? From a minority of enraged people who scour Twitter for evidence that they’re right about everything? There has to be a better way.

Absolute perfection. #Reform

The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

We live in an episode of Veep

Ok America. You’ve paid the price for letting him twice. I also have no words. But you have my heartfelt sympathies. ❤️‍🩹

Of course he did. Of course he did. When they have power they use it. Fairness. Justice. Legality. None of it matters to entitled people. Who’s more entitled than a prince? People who have to choose to be ethical as a point of honour because the system is built to make up for their failings.

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders." Can't call them fascists?

Did they recruit Reform people from some sort of database of abusers? I suppose that’s one way to control your people. *Thinks about Epstein Files*

This should be on billboards. MIKE JOHNSON WON’T FUND GOVT IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET HEALTHCARE.

Nigel Farage is going to attack abortion access in the UK on behalf of the ADF in America. Report by the New York Times: www.instagram.com/reel/DPyHYwY...

SOUNDS LIKE WORLD WAR TWO. DOESN’T IT? DOESN’T IT???

Who pressured Marie Claire UK to drop this article? Presumably, the concept was interesting enough to be commissioned, but controversial enough to be removed. So WHO in the UK establishment seeks to protect the MAGA beauty standard from being critiqued? www.instagram.com/reel/DPj3RZa...

Currently waiting for Evil new Topshop to digest the fact that “No, I don’t want to opt into your private ‘club’ that I can opt out of later after you’ve taken my data, you utter bastards.”

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you support monsters who kill innocent people of any kind you cannot do so in the name of other innocents being murdered.

Come on @jbpritzker.bsky.social - this needs to be front page. And on everybody’s lips.

The discovery that women in ICE detention were subjected to sterilisation without their consent, during the 1st DT administration, makes a salient point.

Memories of Boris Johnson’s Brexit

Memories

RIP George Smoot.

Memories

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This is what Instagram thinks we want. This is what Instagram thinks user control looks like. And no they won’t show us more content of the people we actually choose to follow EVEN THOUGH that m’s the function of following. We are products & they don’t care. www.instagram.com/reel/DO_T5qA...

They tore his children away from him. And there are still people trying to decide if this is AUTOCRACY. IF this is FASCISM. There’s been no IF for 9 months.

WhatsApp is holding your old videos hostage and the minute you give them save access to your phone they are accessing your photo reel for AI purposes. Meta is the devil.

Thank you to @iandunt.bsky.social for this analysis on UK/US relations: www.instagram.com/reel/DOyNd7U...

Memories: September 2021

This is very good. Very well pitched and sensibly placed.

I’ve literally JUST realised that Mook from White Lotus is that Labubu Ah-pe-te Ah-pe-te girl.

Doing the right thing often doesn’t get you a Hollywood ending. And as a woman & a minority who saw so many people not speak up for me the way I always spoke up for others, I just want say thank you to Miriam Margolyes for speaking up for those who have been sacrificed for political convenience.

What if we make statements about how much we love people’s work, stature, style, personality and beauty, and also tell our favourite stories about them BEFORE they die. So they can read them?