Nelu Balaj
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A 'humble' Church of Scotland minister ... views of my own
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out: Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences
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Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2025/nov/25/british-politics-us-rightwing-christianity-nigel-farage-tommy-robinson-adf?CMP=share_btn_url
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Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump Dutch writer says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Dutch writer says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/25/rutger-bregman-accuses-bbc-of-censoring-his-reith-lecture-on-trump?CMP=share_btn_url
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Kate from Kharkiv
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The post is from Alexander Dugin in telegram, the Kremlin's chief ideologue, a self-proclaimed "intellectual," a prominent russian nazi, and a happy father. The post was written today.
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They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
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They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Wars cannot be stopped by major powers through heads of state, - Merz The war in Ukraine can only be stopped if the conditions are acceptable to Ukraine and Europe, he said.
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
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❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The full text of the EU plan to end the war in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph
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Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-free-press-not-a-free-pass-it-s-time-for-fair-regulation?share=8490afbb-1f46-498a-a499-87ce93e24533&source=bluesky&time=1763132218&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky
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Greg Johnson
15 days ago
Martin Luther, a
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Mike Galsworthy
16 days ago
Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation.
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Land is power – Scotland’s people have none
Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation
https://bylines.scot/politics/land-is-power-scotlands-people-have-none/
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Reece Dinsdale
23 days ago
Apologies for being late to this news, but it seems we have found ourselves a Muslim gentleman that no one can find a reason to hate on. Doesn’t that feel grand!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack
The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxr4qn6d66o
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Owen Jones
24 days ago
The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
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I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/teenage-radicalised-manosphere-young-men-masculinity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Cultural Capital
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Cultural Capital | James Marriott | Substack
A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts. Click to read Cultural Capital, by James Marriott, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
https://jmarriott.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web
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Young Republicans share their true nature: love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?fbclid=Iwb21leANcGT9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqjvZJLV3RLGnUE09tQ4qAGL4fHU_CWORfpDgBnA_LrVOEH8mP-00IyrrZno_aem_iuc5_9p0tzOyQZuFRcWOOQ
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Empathy
about 2 months ago
James Talarico calling out fake Christians
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What a future in store for us then!
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
FARAGE: “.. I’d love to sit here with you in two years’ time and we both say: ‘Wow. That WORKED.’” 🤡
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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼
2 months ago
Next Farage will claim African migrants are stealing and eating babies, now he’s dialled the BS lies up to 12.. Anyway let’s not forget he’s alleged to have avoided stamp duty on his Clacton house.. ooops I mean the house his French bird brought on his behalf.. but he’s not Angela Rayner so.. 🤷🏼♂️
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Royal Parks responds to Farage's claim that swans are being eaten by eastern Europeans in the UK
The Reform leader had accused migrants living in the UK of taking both carp and swans - a protected species - from ponds in Britain's Royal Parks and killing them.
https://news.sky.com/story/royal-parks-responds-to-farages-claim-that-swans-are-being-eaten-by-eastern-europeans-in-the-uk-13437205
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Liberal Vs MAGA
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Looking forward to my first show this year
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Mike Galsworthy
4 months ago
"As the table shows, the answer is, mostly to the richest. The people in the top decile receive 40% of all the pension relief, a third of the relief on the sale of domestic properties, and half of the ISA relief."
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Guess who the tax system is really supporting
In this second article on wealth accumulation, we explain who our tax system really supports
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/economics/guess-who-the-tax-system-is-really-supporting
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Adam Schwarz
4 months ago
1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.
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For a while now, I have been impressed by James Talarico, his clarity, his faith his commitment to service and was wondering if he is going to be one of the next prominent American leaders
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Joe Rogan anoints a new progressive star – can James Talarico triumph in Texas?
The state house member seemed like an unlikely aspirant for the US Senate battle, but an appearance on Rogan sparked the question: can he turn Texas blue?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/23/james-talarico-texas-joe-rogan?CMP=share_btn_url
4 months ago
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
5 months ago
For a disturbing comparison, here's what cramming 34 men into a cage would have looked like on one of those barbaric slave ships that racist MAGAs still dream about. Is this what they're trying to recreate in their Alligator Auschwitz?
#MAGAmerica
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Melanie D’Arrigo
5 months ago
This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators. This is today's Republican Party.
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Led By Donkeys
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Led By Donkeys
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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by
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And now this ... That's what happens when a toddler is put in charge...
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And still people in Britain are ready to vote for the main architect of this stumble .... 🤦
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Igor Sushko
5 months ago
"Sergio Gor" claims to have been born in Malta but the Maltese government has no such birth record. People who knew him in Malta called him "the Russian boy."
theshiftnews.com/2025/06/18/t...
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Trump’s ‘Mr Malta’ may not be Maltese - The Shift News
A political storm has erupted in Washington DC, over the true nationality of Sergio Gor, one of the most powerful officials in the second Donald Trump
https://theshiftnews.com/2025/06/18/trumps-mr-malta-may-not-be-maltese/
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RIP my friend, it's been a privilege to know you. We will all miss you
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Eliot Higgins
6 months ago
We built 20th-century democracies on the assumption that truth could be verified, public discourse could be deliberated, and those in power could be held accountable. But the system those assumptions relied on, gatekeepers, shared facts, institutional trust, are in decline, and deservedly so.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst
Political cowardice, corruption and greed have eroded our social fabric. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/volodymyr-zelenskyy-pope-francis-public-life-powerful-people?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Jacob Öberg
7 months ago
🚨🚨For those who believe (and it seems the correct inference imho) that
#kremlin
was working behind the scenes to orchestrate
#brexit
(a nation-dividing political event), this story is further evidence substantiating this narrative. 🧵
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament
Bulgarians Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova attended an event in the Palace of Westminster, the BBC finds.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo
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Bylines Network
7 months ago
Romania escaped Ceaușescu, but not his shadow. 35 years on, corruption, fear and mistrust are still present in daily life. Here’s how one Romanian - too young to remember the revolution - views her country | Maria Szin
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Will Romania ever break away from its past?
It’s decades since the fall of Communism in Romania. But corruption persists and now outside forces are trying to influence elections
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/world/will-romania-ever-break-away-from-its-past/
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Garrett M. Graff
7 months ago
What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
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Luke Steuber
over 1 year ago
Global refugee populations from origin to asylum state in 2023. Fascinating and very well visualized.
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Bylines Scotland
7 months ago
The proportion of adults stepping forward for volunteering has slumped since 2010 | Trevor Russel
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Volunteering in crisis
The proportion of adults stepping forward for volunteering has slumped since 2010
https://bylines.scot/society/volunteering-in-crisis/
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Mike Galsworthy
7 months ago
"The Heritage Foundation was created in 1973 by Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner. Coors, of the Coors brewery dynasty known for its union-busting, anti-environmental and anti-equal rights stances, provided the finance."
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Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/right-wing-push-to-dismantle-the-eu-heritage-foundations-private-workshop/
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Colin Mearns
7 months ago
In December 2024 I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. A simple test saved my life. Some words about my experience with cancer are in
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
today. V happy to say I am now cancer free.
#bowelcancer
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NHS Scotland saved my life - here's why everyone needs to do the bowel test
Colin Mearns did a routine bowel test where doctors found a malignant tumour - the early catch saved his life
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/25101284.one-simple-test-nhs-scotland-saved-cancer/
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Aberdeen Gifford Lectures
8 months ago
Please help us spread the word about our upcoming Gifford Lectures series! Free to attend and open to all. Sign up here:
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Katie Cross
7 months ago
For Holy Saturday: “Women Arriving at the Tomb” by Chinese-American artist He Qi. I spoke about this image on smallVoice podcast a few years ago, and how it relates to Holy Saturday and trauma theology (around 32 mins in you fancy a listen!):
www.smallvoice.org.uk/a-thousand-w...
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The land of the free speech....
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Bylines Scotland
8 months ago
As this week we talk about Tech Bros and Oligarchy, this talk from
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
is a must to all of us to listen to! Powerful, emotional and crucial at this time in our lives!
#TechBros
#Oligarchy
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=qjcKALmvu3Ca8pzg&v=TZOoT8AbkNE&feature=youtu.be
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What, the police have gone for the Quakers know for their peaceful stand? ... Well brace yourself you'll be next, then ...
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.
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Just finished with twitter, deleted my account and my son told me he is proud of me! Wow... Humbled ...
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Eliot Higgins
8 months ago
The Signal chat leak should have triggered resignations, investigations, and hearings with real consequences. Instead, it triggered a shrug. Accountability isn’t eroding in the US, it's already gone. What remains is performance, denial, and power protecting itself.
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