The police seem inexperienced with how to arrest a dangerous terrorist in a wheelchair. Well done Yvette Cooper. Slow hand clap. 👏

“The war will be over when russian soldiers either leave or we drive them out.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 5 January 2023

Happy birthday Alan Ladd.

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

Tennis is now easier to pick up than ever. “But its real advantage over other sports is what happens when you keep on playing,” Alexandra Moe writes.

Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?

On my back home now 😌

It's the bank holiday weekend, so it's unsurprising to see the circus clowns in town

Referring to yourself in the third person is weird. Saying you are always right is dishonest. Wearing a ball cap in the Oval Office is tacky. Using your left hand to cover up medical issues on your right hand is concerning. And has he stopped being able to tie a tie?

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

“and let me leave you with this thought - the ECHR has also protected British people from abuses of power by its own government..”

I was a childminder for 4 yrs Sorry parents/carers but I knew some terrible childminders Being a childminder doesn't imbue you with a sense of civility & respectability No job does And that's before you even get round to the overt racist social media 'oopsie' posts Lucy Connolly can get fukced

The good thing about flag-shagging 'patriots' is that they are so monumentally thick that they film themselves committing racially aggravated criminal damage and post it on the internet, making it nice and easy for the police to find them.

New name

Some pictures from my time in Chartres

I agree. If they want to see a good tapestry, go see the one in the D-Day Museum in Southsea. Let’s keep an 1000 year old tapestry safe in its home.

1) I'm a fan of Israel and Israelis, not Bibi. 2) Electeds have shit to do. The people who should be out there registering up voters are LOCAL ACTIVISTS. 3) If you want (and if you live in Southern California) I can tell you exactly where to go to get THOUSANDS of Voter Reg forms.

Coffee time in Chatres

Corporate whitewashing can’t cover up Yorkshire Water’s failure Yorkshire Water courts councillors with PR invites while facing backlash over sewage spills, leaks, hosepipe bans and million-pound payouts By Cllr Minesh Parekh @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Off on one of my trips, let’s see where I end up tomorrow

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years - as Brexit support slumps A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Only 29% would back Brexit now

Especially in Scotland.

Because Israel needs to think this through. If Israel does not complete its genocide and is actually stopped… there is a colossal case of reparations. Who pays? Will the West pay for Israel *again*? The populations of US, UK & Germany might not like that idea — we might have reparations of our own

Trump is here Vance is coming as well , headlines in English papers to wave at their base and tell them the UK is “overrun” & fuels Farage’s agenda win win for the right wing. Tories have been using hotels for years but suddenly riots . So many rats to smell

The great thing about Scottish insults to Trump is you don't even have to understand them to enjoy them.

This is ridiculous. Water chiefs’ pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over pollution www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Private care homes are designed to hoover up any money that normal people have made during their lives. The only people that can swerve this, are the super rich. Smell the con yet?

Same when I go to Portugal, could spend hours marvelling at the choice and abundance of fresh produce.

Went shopping to the local supermarket here in France yesterday. It sure does make you feel like the poor third country relative. The choice and quality available is amazing but makes me angry at what we get offered in the UK. What a stupid, ignorant choice Brexit was.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? #ShakespeareSunday

"If East Anglia Bylines can find the evidence that the protests in Epping and Diss are merely organised right wing thuggery, how is it the rest of the media haven’t done so?"

Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s Critical National Infrastructure (energy, water, transport, health, comms, etc)… …so there is now a strong case for renationalising.

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

NEW: 21 photos from Liverpool’s Hong Kong friendly, ft. Diogo Jota mosaic #lfc

Page One in Scotland.

Fantastic. The disclosure is going to be amazing.

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

The RefUK party, funded by the fossil fuel industry and in denial of basic climate science, is informing energy firms that “it will terminate renewable energy contracts”. It can’t. A contract is a legally enforceable entity. Even a govt can’t simply ignore contractual obligations. Utter nonsense.

Brexit: Our “diplomatic triumphs, be they in the "reset" with the EU or the trade deal with Trump, largely consist in the removal of obstacles that didn't even exist before” Good analysis on the bugger’s muddle that is Brexit and its perma-idiotic aftermath. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sadly true…!!!!!!!!!!

Reform war on net zero plans will cost one million jobs, Labour say www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Goodnight #bluesky fam! 😊

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Presidents don’t own the country. It doesn’t belong to them. It’s ours. Never forget this basic fact. It’s ours. Never normalize dictatorial power grabs. They’re NOT normal.