'Peacehaven mosque targeted by arson welcomes in the community' This is the real 'public opinion'. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2562492...

I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.” If they support them they will too.

There is something insidious about the fact that people who are barely a generation away from their immigrant relatives are so comfortable with pulling the ladder up behind them. What is Mahmood doing in the Labour Party anyway? She idolises thatcher and is right wing on most issues.

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

And hist like that Shabana Mahmood has fully morphed into Priti Patel.

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Let's appease people who hate us, says government that are in power because they were not Tories.

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

Sexual assault survivors are seeing politicians and TV personalities fall over themselves trying to obfuscate the horror of what Epstein did. Turn cartwheels to protect his powerful cronies. Imagine the message that sends to them. Now imagine why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward.

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books. Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich. Social vandalism.

The profit motive should have no place in any provision of care, healthcare or social care. When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation. Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...

Attacks on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis. In this special report by Oren Ziv, victims of shootings and beatings reveal their ordeals. projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...

Virgin is evil

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it. Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

The Rule of Law in England. Legal-aid is scarce. Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing. The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.

Zarah Sultana, "People recognise their lives are harder, their wages are stagnating, their bills increasing" #BBCQT "At the same time, the super rich in this country are laughing all the way to the bank" "The top 50 rich families in this country hold more wealth than 70% of the population"

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Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"

"Oh so surprising" said no woman ever.

Author Jamaica Kincaid is surprised that the Trump administration’s subversion of democratic norms has been “so brazen”. “But I don’t find it shocking,” she says. Read Franklin Nelson’s interview with Kincaid: www.prospectmagazine...

Beautiful!

Why are so many men absolute pigs? This isn’t a small minority.

“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back” ⁦‪Asawin Suebsaeng‬⁩ reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’ Read/share/subscribe:

The disturbing escalation of the assault on the BBC should be alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability and democracy. Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Is this another chapter of how rich people have bo soul? Horrendous

Facebook is far more influential with voters, but X is far more influential with media and political elites, so it sets the wider discourse. Why the UK government is on X, a platform run by a man who has repeatedly tried to incite civil war here is beyond me.

#Newsnight 1030pm @BBCTwo • President Trump v BBC • Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to formally ask Donald Trump to cut short her 20 yr jail sentence for helping Epstein abuse girls - we talk to Lisa Phillips, a survivor of Epstein

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

The BBC is in a mess... but not the mess you might think. Last year, @arusbridger.bsky.social detailed a more serious threat to its credibility: a right-wing cabal is waging war on it from within.

Time to introduce the concept of eco terrorism and punish it accordingly

Who had "biology is destiny, after all" on their feminist bingo card? The answer is "no one," because it's the complete antithesis of everything feminism stands for. And if that isn't obvious enough, just look at who's pushing it: every authoritarian fascist in the world, without exception.

Left: Lewis Gooddall challenges Lisa Nandy over her lies in parliament over Maccabi, she doubles down on her lies Right: The police advice confirming Lisa Nandy lied Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood and Lisa Nandy, all told the same lie, they conflated public safety with antisemitism

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

One thing to say: #AxeDrax No. Cutting down trees, grinding them up, shipping them across the Atlantic and then burning them is NOT "green". #ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#RemembranceSunday - why do I wear three poppies?

“calculated that the DHSC paid £9.35bn for PPE during those first four months before inspections began. The DHSC subsequently reported it had paid £3.3bn for PPE that was unusable in the NHS.” Where is our fucking money?!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New compensation scheme for Post Office victims is 'half-baked' Sir Alan Bates warns news.sky.com/story/new-co...

Cutting the insulation schemes that are one of the best ways to permanently reduce energy bills for low income families would be an eyewateringly daft & counterproductive way of seeking to reduce energy bills, as well as driving up emissions & leading to mass job cuts in the insulation sector 🙄

Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom especially to everyone who understands, now more than ever, that Jewish safety will not come from spreading Islamophobia and othering other communities.

Riot Women is just fantastic!

There seems to be an ongoing campaign to kill pall child murderers in this prison.. In any case prison authorities clearly do not have a grip.

“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:

Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders. Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK. How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance. The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity. Tax them.

These people were paid by Fox News to lie to their viewers convincingly. Now they are paid with OUR tax dollars to lie to us convincingly.

While agreeing in the round, I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while). m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵