“The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil Knievel is for good men to do nothing.”

He invented those trainers with the wheels in the sole

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

Sick of "legitimate concerns". "I'm scared of black people" isn't a "legitimate," it's just racism. "LGBT people make me irrationally angry" isn't "legitimate," you just fear difference. It's not legitimate to wish you lived in a country with only people who are exactly like you.

DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Anyone saying today that "there's no room for antisemitism in the Green Party" should know that the party has a support group for alleged antisemites which is backed by deputy leader Mothin Ali. They absolutely reject the party's own antisemitism guidance and want to scrap it and have no guidance.

It is *incredibly* shabby that the Green Party cited "family and personal reasons" for their Makerfield candidate dropping out, given it was actually in relation to sharing antisemitic posts. Had a right-wing party done the same, they'd be getting called out loudly here for it. And rightly so.

Amazing how Allen key technology has developed. My current Allen key (left) and an original 80s Allen key, the size of a brick!

Two marches. Unite the Kingdom Nakba Day. Same hatred.

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Emmylou Harris at the Bristol Beacon What an icon, what a voice, what a band! ❤️🤠👍

"Distressed avians" Paging @secondmentions.bsky.social

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Launched in 1977, the MV Miranda Guinness was the last ship to be built in Bristol - and also one of the largest. She was the world’s first vessel built specifically for transporting beer and was capable of carrying the equivalent of 1.6 million pints.

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Whoever came up with the name “Ewok Powell” to describe Tommy Robinson should take the rest of the year off.

Well, that's certainly one way for the Green Party in one of the UK's largest cities to respond to a series of attacks against the Jewish community, of which Wednesday's stabbing attack was just the latest. Not even pretending it's about Israel now, are they?

I worry that the lesson some people on the left learned from Labour's antisemitism problem was not "Let's never do that again" but "It was all a lie, don't worry about it"

So apparently this is fine, but heaven forbid that someone bought Kier Starmer some new specs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long shot but we have received a very sweet birthday card, including some cash but no return address, to a "Jordan Bedding" who presumably lives/lived in Stroud, though not at our house. Please feel free to repost and let's cheer up a stranger.

Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety

Hey Ya is as old today as Stayin' Alive was when Hey Ya came out.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Contrary to what Polanski claims, Starmer didn't mention Israel at all (perhaps why he doesn't link to the actual piece, which you can read here - www.jewishnews.co.uk/starmer-slam...) Literally the only person conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism here is Polanski himself.

Happy 50th birthday to this incredible album, which helped to change everything. Hey! Ho! Let's Go ▶️ open.spotify.com/album/5uYDAw...

My advice to Labour is don't let Starmer resign as the press will chase out the next one too, and the next one. Just go fuck it. Maybe I could write that as my big airport inspirational Ted Talk book, "Fuck 'em, they hate you anyway, don't play by their rules, you can't win. Just go fuck it."

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

Shouldn't be so surprising that Trump is attacking Catholicism. He is an orange man, after all

I haven't seen this many abandoned Embassies since I used to empty the ashtrays in William Hill.

I know we've all seen it already. But I honestly think this is the defining moment of our time. Past generations couldn't have believed it would happen. Future generations won't believe it could have happened. But here we are, bang in the moment. Lucky, lucky us.

April Fool’s Day. A day where you shouldn’t trust anything you read or anything anyone says. So basically the same as every other day then.

Well, isn't that nice, the Green Party worked with a producer to make a heartwarming film about standing up against bigotr-aaaaaaand there it is

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

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I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

People complaining about Cadburys not labelling their chocolate eggs "Easter Eggs", should probably read up on Quaker teachings about times and seasons and reflect that possibly Cadburys are being truer to their founder's roots than they might think. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/times-a...

Nick Timothy and Mark Francois discuss their latest plans for community cohesion.

Once again for the hard of thinking: there‘s no compromising with the Nick Timothys of this world. You can’t satisfy them by fiddling about with immigration controls. They hate people who are different & don’t want them in this country. A single step towards them is legitimating that world view.

Allow me to regale / regael you with five of my favourite Irish words… 1. Ladybird = bóín Dé, or “God’s little cow” 2. Sea anemone = cíoch charraige, or “rock boob” 3. Bat = amadáinín, or “little fool” 4. Jellyfish = smugairle róin, or “seal snot” 5. Hedgehog = gráinneog, or “horrible little thing”

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.