Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Funny cos it’s true #Israel

Winter is coming … so here’s some flowers to brighten up your darker days aidanjmcquade.com/2025/10/18/w...

Winter is coming … so here’s some flowers to brighten up your darker days aidanjmcquade.com/2025/10/18/w...

There are two sorts of people who want to tamper with the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR 1. Those who don't understand the causes of WW2; 2. Those whose side lost in WW2

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

The Undiscovered Country

The UN should counter-sue him for breaking the escalator: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a lovely review 😻 “By refusing to flinch from grotesque realities, the Secret Barrister has produced a novel several cuts above much contemporary English crime fiction, and one that, like the best of literature, illuminates the human condition while laying bare the failings of our world.”

I loved as a kid telling other kids that the bands they’d just learnt about, I’d known for ages! Later I learnt that vital for building successful movements is to not lambast late-comers but rather welcome newcomers. The goal is the winning many, not the longest-involved few.

The UK government’s shenanigans around Palestine Action undermines fundamental principles of rule of law aidanjmcquade.com/2025/09/07/a...

Protest being beaten down by Starmer...

The inept pigheaded government forced a single vote on 3 separate organisations. They blocked the option of 3 separate votes. Some MPs (eg SNP) abstained on the vote (on all 3) as a result.

The UK government’s shenanigans around Palestine Action undermines fundamental principles of rule of law aidanjmcquade.com/2025/09/07/a...

Arbitrary Power and the Rule of Law: The UK’s Criminalisation of Protest aidanjmcquade.com/2025/09/07/a...

Keeping the conscience of a nation, Parliament Square, London, 6 Sept 2025 aidanjmcquade.com/2025/09/06/p...

I’m a scientist & historian, & over a decade ago I warned about the far right & their ‘free speech’ rhetoric - that it was an excuse for punching down & ‘saying the unsayable’, but that only they would be allowed such ‘freedom’. The two UK far right parties [Tory & Reform] are openly doing it now:

Says a government who arrested hundreds of pensioners for holding sign opposing genocide. We are being run by fucking morons. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My short video review of Wendy Erskine’s first novel, The Benefactors www.instagram.com/reel/DOD5aXf...

Aggravated sycophancy has its rewards: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are two sorts of people who want to tamper with the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR 1. Those who don't understand the causes of WW2; 2. Those whose side lost in WW2

A flicker of gulls: images obtained at great personal risk while eating chips in Folkestone aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/24/a...

From Siege to Safety: A Sudanese Family's Journey aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/28/f...

From Siege to Safety: A Sudanese Family's Journey aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/28/f...

New #historicalmystery coming out tomorrow!

Israel says there’s loads of food in #Gaza

A flicker of gulls: images obtained at great personal risk while eating chips in Folkestone aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/24/a...

C’est Paris! Putting the “la” in “Ooh la”… aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/19/c...

C’est Paris! Putting the “la” in “Ooh la”… aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/19/c...

International law was a nice idea while it lasted. It may re-emerge after the next world war. If we make it that far.

@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social among the bestsellers #ImNotJealousAtAll

More shots of whales you say? Why of course! aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/11/w...

More shots of whales you say? Why of course! aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/11/w...

The Committee to Protect Journalists say Israel has killed at least 186 journalists in the Gaza conflict. Israel denies deliberately targeting journalists. Israel also denies deliberately targeting children but has managed to kill or wound 50,000 of them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Water… aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/10/w...

Bees… just because aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/06/b...

The UK and Israel: a study in sophistry aidanjmcquade.com/2025/08/06/t...

When tempering their blades, samurai swordsmiths would heat the metal until it was the colour of the August moon.

When tempering their blades, samurai swordsmiths would heat the metal until it was the colour of the August moon.

On this day in 1916 Roger Casement was executed #otd aidanjmcquade.com/2016/08/02/r...

On this day in 1916 Roger Casement was executed #otd aidanjmcquade.com/2016/08/02/r...

The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, by Robin Lane Fox shows that in 2,000 years humanity is little changed: aidanjmcquade.com/2025/07/28/t...

The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, by Robin Lane Fox shows that in 2,000 years humanity is little changed: aidanjmcquade.com/2025/07/28/t...

The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, by Robin Lane Fox #BookReview aidanjmcquade.com/2025/07/28/t...

From Ben Jennings

From Ben Jennings

Israel kills three in Gaza Catholic church sheltering elderly, children https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/israel-kills-three-in-gaza-catholic-church-sheltering-elderly-children #auspol

#poverty is #policy