I find this pretty unforgivable at this point.

Oh I too feel concern that families were terrified out of their homes by thugs and racists. I feel rage that were egged on to do it. Is our concern legitimate enough to throw a wheely bin at a copper? Is our rage more or less valid? Just asking before I burn down a racist's house, angrily.

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

I have a real concern that people are being given a pass to be racist by politicians who link riots to immigration. Because I have that concern can that be deemed a legitimate concern?

@countarthurstrong.bsky.social one for you

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?

Every day, a migrant saves someone's life in an operation, teaches a child, cleans a building, is a good neighbour or parent. That never leads the news. No gangs rush down streets thanking people who *might* be migrants. But as soon as an atrocity happens, all "migrants" are held responsible. 1/3

Labour’s days of being unserious are certainly coming to a middle:

@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"

Yep, as I've written before, have to understand that the boats are a consequence of our success in stopping the lorries and they are the result of us choosing to take essentially no-one voluntarily.

Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.

So-called “patriot” celebrating the thug government of a hostile dictatorship that has attacked our country and murdered Brits on British streets, and the “civilised society” that slaughters Ukrainians.

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

“And now we go over to the Kristallnacht protests”

This is a disgusting excuse for journalism

@skynewsrss.bsky.social THEY'RE RIOTS NOT PROTESTS

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Sky News caption currently reads: "protesters set vehicles and bins on fire" Well, they're not protesters then, are they? Rioters.

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

Comparing the coverage of this with the race riots in NI a few months back is pretty instructive on how the BBC engages with both NI *and* race atm

America holds all the cards in the negotiations with Iran in the same sense that the UK held all the cards in the Brexit negotiations with The EU

It's OK everyone - no need to feel pure cold rage at this one. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Imagine having a megaphone that large and pretending you’re silenced.

Every single iteration of the Twitter right getting het up about something produces the most stupid, logic free takes. At least the stuff about the woke £5 notes was hilarious and had no body count. This stuff is just achingly brain dead and depressing and has a corpse attached.

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And each time he targets police to wrongfoot them before the riots. 2024: "just asking questions" abt police hiding Southport truth. 2025: lied abt police bussing counterprotesters to Epping. 2026: police is "anti-white". It's plain as day. Using terror for political ends. There's a name for that!

“This is not about a criminal definition of incitement, but the ordinary meaning of the word. On that basis, there is no doubt. For a third summer, Reform UK is actively trying to foment unrest, as a means of getting to early election, because they hit a ceiling of support and the only way is down.”

Another morning where @skynewsrss.bsky.social is following the news agenda set by the right wing print media and Nigel Farage

Southport murders. Farage ignores victims' parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Henry Nowak murder. Farage ignores victim's parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Murders by white people. Silence. If that's not a pattern of racially motivated incitement to riot, I don't know what is.

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

The British right’s new consensus is that when policing produces a poor outcome for black Britons, well, them’s the breaks, but when it produces one for white Britons it is “two-tierism”.

And to be fair to the police, as the judge observed, suspects do often just straightforwardly lie, whereas murderers do not call the police on themselves other than to confess.

Note perfect from Starmer. Exactly the right response.

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don’t is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is” Keir Starmer responds to Nigel Farage at #PMQs

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

How come left wing protests are riots but right wing protests are protests

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4... "Police say 11 officers hurt at Riot" - corrected that for you BBC News

Farage knew exactly what he was doing yesterday. June hit and the far-right needed an excuse to restart another summer of riots and violence that is becoming regular for the UK. Another grieving family manipulated. Absolutely disgusting.

With a buzz cut????

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

David Van Day eyes his moment and checks he's got the surviving members of Dollar and Bucks Fizz on speed dial

In February, Trump purchased over $1 million in Dell stock. Just weeks ago, Trump told everyone to “go out and buy a Dell.” Its stock price is up over 60% since then. Now, Dell has been awarded a $9.7 BILLION Pentagon contract. See the problem here?

I thought Seal had a brilliant go at 'Who Wants to Live Forever', absolutely NOT an easy song.

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

I once sat down in a Chinese restaurant with my date, who was Chinese, and a waitress saw us from across the room and wordlessly sprinted over to shove a knife and fork in front of me. Some scars never heal. 😢

Andy Burnham is not a serious person.

Never change, Guardian