Hate crimes against muslims and jews to March 2025 Don't remember any outrage associated with the huge spike in hate crime targeted at muslims following the Southport attack

The reason I’m in favour of immigration and against the current policies isn’t because demographics mean that we need it for our economy - though that helps. No, the reason I’m in favour of it is basic human decency. These are human beings, not statistics.

Two years ago the local election results showed the best ever result for the Greens and just two councillors for Reform. The Greens were ignored in the media and Reform were pushed. Reform is not a grass roots movement, it is fascism imposted from above by the billionaire owned media class.

'We want more people on bikes to die' is a pretty callous manifesto pitch.

And quite amusing to see the Conservatives channeling an @theguardian.com scoop

"Nobody in Germany’s strategic community thinks it is a coincidence that Trump’s announcements came after he had another “productive” 90-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin."

As Ardnacrusha gets spun by everyone from tech boosters to nuclear advocates, let's be clear. Ardnacrusha was built by the ESB, the first public, national energy utility in the world, *because* the private sector did not consider such projects to be profitable. www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Good day and welcome to the latest update on the War on Cars from the North East of England. You'll notice that neither of those houses were wearing hi vis or helmets...

👀 Big podcast special tomorrow. With the brilliant housing campaigner @kwajo.bsky.social talking the state of our housing crisis and the solutions. Follow on @boldpolitics.bsky.social

Who in public life is ever going to hold Facebook accountable for what it is doing to British politics? For what we saw it do in places like Myanmar? It is a totally amoral company.

Cork, what a county. Its September 1934 and the Derry Journal reports that at a cinema dance in Buttevant, Co. Cork, all the women there refused to dance with the fascist Blueshirts. A Blueshirt announced that they had paid their way in and if no girls would dance with them.. [1/2]

The Government has renewed its call on the European Commission to set up a pharmaceutical taskforce in light of ongoing threats by the Trump administration to impose fresh tariffs on the sector.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Michael Gove take note

As a general point “I don’t work for you!” is an extremely liberating sentence every woman should practise and use.

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

😧 Hungarian public opinion is consumed by last night’s interview with this oligarch, who broke down in tears multiple times. We watched in disbelief as one of the richest men in the country, collapsing on live TV, tried to defend the indefensible… 3/1

There’s a game on the Apple Store/Arcade called “Mini Motorways” and I swear town planners should play it. The aim of the game is to build roads connecting houses to workplaces, but you never win because the more roads you build, the more cars there are and the worse traffic gets until gridlock.

Multiply that by the ‘children’s hospital’ factor and you might be talking 2088.

The Taoiseach wants consideration of nuclear. I made a programme that did that. Long story short: an Irish nuclear power plant wouldn’t generate any electricity until 2066 at the very earliest. Link at end of thread.

I know this site. It’s fascinating. A great team is digging it and analysing the finds. I look forward to seeing what they find. Hopefully written up in a less sensational and more factually accurate way.

Don’t make me start liking Reeves.

Record levels of slavery in UK, 6th wealthiest in the world. Yet the gov wastes time on attempted character assassinations rather than gripping real problems. That’s why we need to vote Green this Thursday. Restore hope. Reject hate. ✊💚

And no, nice policies like Renters’ Rights don’t balance out being told your friends and family aren’t welcome here and should be deported.

This is 100% applicable to Ireland.

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

The Times are attempting to migrate their entire stable of journalists en masse to Bluesky.

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

It seems that #SPD, Greens and the Left in Germany have collectively left X today.

Reform claim to have suspended one of their key activists and election agents over antisemitic posts, but he was campaigning only yesterday, and made no secret of it. Some suspension. Don't worry, though, I'm sure the mainstream/legacy media will be all over it... www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

The second Conservative candidate whose far-right posts I exposed has now been suspended. The party failed to respond when Byline Times first reported their posts last month

Labour made my friends and family unwelcome in the UK. It suggested my wife's cohort had caused 'incalculable' damage to the UK. It wants people like her not to be allowed into the UK. Can you imagine what that feels like? Try harder.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Why don't cyclists use the cycle paths? PS, don't forget to vote on Thusday.

Two people have been ⁠killed and two severely injured after a car ran into a crowd in the centre of the eastern German city of Leipzig, ⁠local broadcaster MDR reported, citing police.

#Croydon's #Conservative Mayor Jason Perry has tweeted out a video celebrating this decision to remove wand-protected cycle lanes in the borough, ahead of his candidacy to be re-elected on 7 May. If you or your loved ones are KSI'd on a bicycle in Croydon, remember who is in part liable.

Zia Yusuf: Vote Reform and we'll put all the migrant prisons in Green-voting towns. Reform UK is LITERALLY weaponising immigration to divide the British people and score votes.

Reform UK are fast descending into fascism. We should heed the warning signs. My latest article 👇 open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

It is beyond absurd that the same man who is the main author of a project (Brexit) which a clear majority of Britons consider a failure, stands a realistic change of becoming Prime Minister. This makes no sense.

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

Mainstream media have spent days calling @zackpolanski.bsky.social an antisemite; why are they silent on Reform's failure to suspend an actual antisemite? By @willem-moore.bsky.social

French police are forcibly separating asylum seeking families as they try to board small boats. On Saturday, this resulted in a 3-year-old crossing the Channel alone, his mother left behind. Full thread and story below: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Archaeologists have used innovative techniques to reveal the secrets of a Neolithic artificial island in a Scottish loch, discovering a large timber platform hidden beneath it.