How anyone thinks a Trump-led NATO keeps EUR safe is baffling, he's currently trying to sell out UKR to Putin, rewarding dictator & has no problem undermining EUR security. A sovereign, EUR defence alliance should be the ultimate goal, you can't rely on a fascist who loves dictators to protect us.

Some good news this morning. Wales does not need more Austerity delivered by a Thatcherite-loving, English nationalist bigot. Labour also deservedly put on their arse. Big momentum now going forward into the Senedd elections for PC, let's make it happen. Dewch ymlaen, Cymru!

Whilst @vicderbyshire.bsky.social is one of the better interviewers out there. I still find there's such a disparity with how mainstream presenters treat pro-green energy/net zero advocates & the anti net-zero/fossil fuelists. Ed M challenged on every claim, the Tory barely pulled up on any of hers.

Invertebrate centrism in a nutshell. Spends half the article complaining about the Green leader not believing violent Israeli thugs chanting about rape & death to Arabs should be welcome, then lies about them having no form for hooliganism. No one would have blinked if it was a non-Israeli club.

The populist Right (and Far Right) simply have absolutely nothing to offer but fear and endless culture wars to divide us. Their politics exist only to serve theor billionaire class masters and their ever expanding accumulation of our wealth and assets.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

It's startling that Adil is the only British broadcaster/journalist willing to call out far right extremism and pose the questions the Govt & Media are far too spineless to ask. It's left to him to ask why this Govt refuses to condemn racist, fascist mobs or why they won't protect people from them.

Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

What I've been saying. You can't rely on US "security guarantees" expecting Trump to protect UKR, esp. when he was out there y'day blaming them for this war! If Putin attacks & breaks his shitty deal, Trump sure as shit won't bring US military might down on RUS, he'll blame EUR/UKR before Putin.

Amazing how in a week we've gone from "I'm gonna seriously punish Russia if they don't stop!" to "hey let's meet up Putin & attempt to divide up Ukraine again as a reward". Almost like this was the plan all along. Utterly idiotic & self-defeating from a geopolitics POV for the US.

At this point of her self-humiliation she's probably a few months away from saying she doesn't identify as black anymore either. Might as well just come out & say "please vote for me white supremacists and racists who despise my ethnicity"

There is a growing violent movement which senior politicians and media organisations are now not only seeking to justify, but actively encouraging. Why it's time for politicians to instead start standing up to the wholly illegitimate concerns of the far right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...

Famously working class white men on the Left like myself don't actually exist, everyone on the Left is actually posh & privileged living in the London bubble. These tropes were lazy in 2016 when every RW outlet/pundit was punting it to exhaustion but sorry those latter points are pure bullshit.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

We have so many talentless, pieces of shit in Govt right now, genocidal freaks that are clutching their pearls over the most inane bollocks going. They should be going after BBC bosses but they're far too cowardly & afraid of upsetting the establishment by sacking these Tories in charge.

Ian Dunt pointing out here that no person could possibly have won an election w/ 34% vote share but McCummings. With his purging of all dissenting voices being good politics, as clearly all were nasty antisemites. Nor apparently is there any middle ground between Stalinism & BlackRock Blue Labour.

Don’t give up. That’s the trick. Even when the news is all bad, even when it feels rigged and empty. Hopelessness is a product too,don’t buy it. Keep going. That’s the rebellion.

Blue Labour makes as much sense as Green Reform or Socialist Conservatives. A load of deluded weirdos who enjoy sniffing their own farts, that have little substance behind the rhetoric nor any serious answers to our many problems.

Beginning to feel like every time they take the guardrails off and Musk decides to personally intervene and micro-manage how things run, his companies start going to shit.

Farage trying to claim that workplace "DEI" training funding somehow costs double the entire London Met Police annual budget. Or the entire budgets of the Met, G. Manchester, W. Midland, W & S. Yorkshire & Merseyside police forces combined. I'm sure the BBC & Sky will be rigorously call this out..

"Shooting kids in the head, bombing refugee camps and starving babies is bad" "You're Hamas"

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

So the establishment hounded Lineker out for speaking out on the genocide. Gotta have impartiality at the BBC you see, couldn't have say, the editor of the Spectator, who attends far right conferences w/ Orban & Douglas Murray ranting on Twitter about the EU hosting a BBC politics show now.

We've allowed the debate to forever be conducted on RW media/Farage's turf, where it's always a problem to crack down on, never an opportunity or necessity. A one-sided national conversation driven by fear, not facts. Ageing pop, low birthrates, shrinking workforce, tax burden increase.. silence.

There seems to be a persistent belief in politics that despite the decline in trad. blue collar "working class", they're still treated as far more worthy than people of the middle & professional classes, with the latter treated w/ contempt. Despite them making up a massive part of the electorate.

Very funny that Nvidia CEO bent the knee and then prostrated himself in front of Trump and still gets fucked over with a $5.5bn hit.

This man (& EUR leaders) can't face the brutal reality NATO is now essentially dead. Can anyone imagine if 🇷🇺 struck at Lithuania for eg. that the US would trigger art. 5 & put boots on the ground and fight? More likely Trump tweets "Terrible to see but RUS has been treated VERY badly by Lithuania!"

The people who told us it's a national scandal Starmer got handed some free spectacles & Reeves went to a free gig are seemingly fine with another politician's embezzlement of €millions of public funds.

It's quite jarring with wall to wall Bernie & AOC coverage last week, tweets galore and then this week as a massive nat. security fuck-up occurs, students are being kidnapped off the streets thrown into detention facilities & Trump ends rights for union bargaining.. we have complete radio silence.

Nothing as far as I can tell on students being kidnapped off the streets and thrown into detention centres either.

"Oh shit! We've completely fucked our trading relationship with our closest ally and they aren't backing down" See this is why you stand up to bullies, they hope to cow you into submission with their aggression but behind the bravado are insecure and afraid.

My God the levels of cringeworthy deference Starmer keeps giving to that fascist oaf who is openly of siding with Putin is embarrassing. Like a nerd constantly giving a bully his lunch money hoping he doesn't give you another wedgie.

People write to ask how they can help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles. snyder.substack.com/p/armored-am...

Reddit is also cracking down on anti-Musk dissent as well. I was banned for reply saying 'I hope his downfall is a painful one for being such an awful human'... "Sorry you've violated the rules for promoting violence and harm against an individual".. 😂 Insane. I'm not the only one either.

The Telegraph here, whose billionaire owner launched a full-on propaganda campaign to fight tooth & nail to drag us out of the EU & single market, talking up Ukraine (rightfully) getting an "economic boost" with "privileged access" to "lucrative" single market. All whilst our own economy stagnates.

The man who championed this economic vandalism hardest & who should be finished as a political entity due to it, is now fav. to become the next PM. With a Labour Govt frozen in fear, refusing to address it, too afraid to utter its name & a majority of the media continuing to protect its sanctity.

I'm afraid the BBC have been doing this sort of equivocation for years now, they are fundamentally broken from the top down. Their Brexit coverage was the beginning of the decline, entertained falsehoods and treated experts & unqualified halfwits with the same reverence.

Trump has just handed the clean energy revolution/green transition on a plate to China. So it'll now China out in front supplying green infrastructure and dominating a multiple-trillion dollar industry. Monumental act of self-harm.

Another excellent narrative episode from @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Surprised how little I actually knew of his expedition and you can forget how transformative Vasco de Gama's impact was for global trade & relations. Yet always seems to be the forgotten man behind Columbus, Magellan & Drake.

Can some Americans please try to understand that "Socialism" isn't when Billionaires/Corporations don't get to own and profit off something.

Kemi Badenoch is that person in the job interview who lists her weaknesses as "I care too much and work too hard".

When you come to power by triangulation, flip-flopping & fail to stand firm on key issues, then inevitably the facade starts to crumble when forced into making tough decisions. The lack of guiding principles & inauthenticity is glaring when you've no consistent or moral foundation to guide you.

Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism" should be essential reading for Putin appeasers/pseudo pacifists. Those seeking to excuse tyrants with appeasement or neutrality in the face of fascism equates to moral complicity with oppression. Pacifism without an active effort to resist evil is meaningless.

Guys like this going "iTs aN ecHo chaMber!"

"Echo chamber" takes - people forget these are social establishments. Thus we're entitled to choose who we socialise amongst, free from the local mouthbreather gurning in your face. Nor does the landlord get to INSIST this guy has the right to sit at your table harassing & shouting abuse at you.

It's nice not to be bombarded anymore with pornbots, spambots, low IQ trolls or having to endure the owner's gang of VIP far right goons constantly worm their way to the top of your feed whilst the insecure, billionaire man-child farts his every thought down your throat.