Very much enjoyed being a guest at @quietriotpod.bsky.social - Always interesting, often funny. Makes life a bit more bearable in spite of all the doom and gloom around. 👇

"Stop the marches" involves a call to curb lawful speech, motivated by preventing antisemitism (for some), and/or motivated by defending Israel from attack (that some say is antisemitic) The IHRA definition is an attempt to remove lawful speech from civic spaces because it is racist (antisemitic)

It is not antisemitic to challenge Israeli policy, until and unless the argument doing so is antisemitic. (Stop the War is OK. Wipe Israel from the map is not OK). It is not anti-Muslim to challenge the policy of Muslim majority States, like Saudi Arabia, unless the argument is sweeping prejudice

Supporting violence, antisemitism and targeting Jews need deep red lines It is wrong to hold British Jews responsible for Netanyahu By same token, must separate challenges to Israeli military policy or political support for Palestinian state from solidarity with Jews against hatred here

My heartbreak and horror at the killing and starvation of Gazans does not negate my total support and solidarity with my fellow jewish citizens across the UK against terror. The conflation on display by some politicians and media outlets over the last 24 hours is sickening.

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sorry, but taking tariffs off fish imported from Greenland is not going to make any material impact on prices. And promising such simply sets the government up for failure. Like so much of UK trade policy, a long outdated playbook. www.gov.uk/government/n...

In trying to elicit sympathy, The Teleform may have landed Farage in trouble instead. I don't see this declared as a donation anywhere in his register of interests...

Kemi Badenoch, a year ago: "People throwing out numbers and saying we’ll leave the ECHR are giving easy answers. That’s how we got in this mess in the first place"

Frustrating to hear the Chief Rabbi speak about "the unjustified demonisation of Israel". It's entirely justified to demonise people intent on genocide. It always was.

It is scary how many in the West are quickly adopting a Trumpian approach. This labelling of anything you disagree with as un-whatever-country is a clear step in the very wrong direction.

Stopped listening and unsubbed many moons ago. Ditto R4 Today when I got fed up of all the shouty nonsense. Even the lovely Emma Barnett & Amol Rajan haven’t been enough to keep me listening. Big 👏 for Quiet Riot.

I’m about to join you.

For the same reasons as Peter, just unfollowed the BBC’s Newscast, now following @quietriotpod.bsky.social and listening to their podcast right now. Thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve also switched. @queitriotpod.bsky.social suits me perfectly. A sensible explanation and interpretation of the key talking points

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

After listening to my preferred news source today, @quietriotpod.bsky.social , I have unsubscribed from the BBC's Newscast. I stopped listening to Newscast because of its constant pro-Farage and pro-Israel bias.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Sometimes the behaviour of this government is so stupid I feel like I've been punched in the guts: WHY ARE WE CHARGING AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ANY VISA FEE AT ALL TO COME HERE TO WORK, just poach every single one of those people asap & bank the results ffs

Charlie Kirk to Zelensky saying thank you for 🇺🇸 support. Utterly shameful. Of course he should not be murdered. But he writes off the genocidal murder of Ukraine🇺🇦 by 🇷🇺 “We don’t support you Show some respect next time You are an ungrateful petulant child WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR 1 MILLION DEAD”

The justice system backlog is delaying justice. With more than 300,000 cases waiting to be heard in the magistrates' court, we cannot afford for hundreds of people to be arrested for protesting peacefully.

@jamesobrien.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Trump's statements about acetominophen (paracetamol in the UK) are false. They link to Project 2025 misogyny. They're also about "flooding the zone with shit" - so much false information that people stop understanding that truth exists. And disablist fascism.

Educational courses in prisons have been shown, repeatedly, over the years to reduce recidivism and increase individual's chances of finding employment and building lives after leaving prison. Cutting those courses is fundamentally counterproductive. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The number of posts in which people state that [a particular, named individual] shot Kirk demonstrate clearly the differences between US and UK "sub-juice" laws.

Malhotra's latest (?and craziest) idea is that I should be arrested for describing him as an anti-vaxxer! Here's a wonderful article on this: open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

When Boris Johnson overrode security service advice in order to give Evgeny Lebedev a peerage, Keir Starmer (rightly) demanded a full investigation. Now we learn Starmer did exactly the same thing with Peter Mandelson. news.sky.com/story/no-10-...

I'm on Channel 4 News' podcast talking about Mandelson, Epstein, and what a grievous avoidable error this entire scandal has been www.channel4.com/news/mandels...

👀 "Political parties need to stop setting their political strategy by the most intractable of the Reform curious voters." My key takeaways from Decoding Populism, Best for Britain’s newest study👇 Full Research: www.bestforbritain.org/decoding-pop...

Lack of ambition from Labour leadership is just stunning … @europeanmovement.co.uk

Well I foolishly promised it two months ago, so I had to write it... Behold my analysis of UK immigration policy and my attempt at coming up with some principles that could command public support. It's long (7,000) words because, well, this is complex stuff. So here's a thread... 1/n

I'm always pleased to see that my breakfast fruit comes from Ukraine. Just as I'm pleased to use Palestinian olive oil, and with my Palestinian fireplace tiles.

A mob walked along one of the main streets of Faversham, the small town in Kent where I live. They were chanting “Sieg Heil”, hanging St George’s flags from lamp posts, and crudely daubing roundabouts and zebra crossings with red crosses. The mob had been emboldened by Reform l

Starmer knew of Mandelson's close links with Epstein and still chose to place him at the heart of his project. Hubris, ineptitude or was the mass sexual exploitation of young women just not that important? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Oh dear If “due process” was gone through by Starmer’s team and he STILL appointed Mandelson…. bsky.app/profile/mile...

Do we want to place bets on how long Starmer’s “complete confidence” in Mandelson turns into Mandelson resigning “so he is not a distraction to this important job” … And returns to his political lobbying company (now with a Washington DC office), Global Counsel And continues to make shedloads of 💰

Herzog is President of a state committing genocide, that has also carried out illegal attacks on other sovereign nations. We should not be welcoming him, but arresting and investigating him for war crimes. It's beyond time to hold Israeli politicians to account.

This article is utterly horrific, as the quote here indicates, and I’m glad it brings up the urgent and necessary question of investigating war crimes.

Is PM Starmer using Brexit deregulation and 'Henry VIII' powers to dodge parliamentary scrutiny and force through a US trade deal that will be bad for the health of our nation? It looks that way, and we're campaigning to stop it. @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social ep2 available now!

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

❌ "𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀" Reform UK’s Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns says working people have too many rights and she doesn’t like unions. The feeling’s mutual 👉 join.unison.org.uk

Why is UK not doing this already? Along with cessation of all military support and arms sales (incl associated software and support for equipment they already have)?

Our community is dubious of Shabana Mahmood’s visa suspension plan – and accused Labour of pandering to Reform and ‘making threats like an empire’

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Development Cooperation of Belgium #NATO

“The UK government must unequivocally condemn these strikes and urgently suspend all military cooperation with, and arms sales to, Israel." @elliechowns.bsky.social reacts to Israel's bombing of Qatar and ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Christ, what happened to you people? bsky.app/profile/meid...

"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza." @zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.

I’m old enough to remember being shouted down for even suggesting that Brexit might be connected to racism, but it was. Always. Right in its heart. My view is that our denial of this is why it festered, and why we are where we are today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She literally calls asylum seekers "our enemies". Wtf is going on? #ShabanaMahmood #PoliticsLive bsky.app/profile/edwi...