W hatever I think of Cummings - A polite reply N ever goes amiss. K indness is key. E veryone deserves respect R egardless of their eyesight driving tests

Pokrovsk: Where Putin Shattered His Teeth cepa.org/article/pokr...

Misanthropy

People have long argued that Brexit - mainly engineered by Cummings and Farage/Bannon - was actually a racist project, and little to do with sovereignty I think the current configuration of Cummings/Farage/Bannon has proved them right.

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Ha. Some just said these tweet was a lot of words to say 'arsehole'. So I fixed that

"X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front "Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion" bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Book Four Opening: Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity After the darkness of Bannon and Cambridge Analytica, and the cupidity of Trump in Moscow, suddenly, a moment nobody had expected open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security" Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English. Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’. The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Nigel Farage, whose ancestors came over in small boats in the 1570s, doesn’t meet the ‘English test’ set by his parties mayoral candidate. Scenes.

‘The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not represent what we see, but makes us see. And I quickly learned the same is true of journalism: far from being a neutral arbiter of information, it has the same power to craft the ideas we think with, not just the ideas we think about’.

Another racism exclusive at @bylinetimes.bsky.social today Reform's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

“We’ve been sanctioned by Russia, barred by Badenoch, and blocked by Nigel Farage.“ (BylineTimes) 👏 3/3

“We exposed the Kremlin’s ‘Doppelgänger’ disinformation network, later seeing our work cited by United States federal agencies. We described the Israeli Government’s genocidal intent in Gaza way back in 2023, the first publication in the UK to do so.” 2/3

Given that they don’t/won’t, perhaps BylineTimes has found another way of achieving impact? Just seen this👇 “We documented Russia’s ‘human safari’ in Kherson, our reporting of potential war crimes later confirmed by a United Nations investigation.” 1/3

The BylineTimes is more powerful than it appears - politicians are reacting to its exposés, far-right parties try to shut out their reporters (a good sign), and I hear it’s gaining traction along the halls of Westminster. More & more people are sharing their articles 🙂

The racism is boiling over - what have we become? Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/c...

maybe this is a societal version of vomiting - BylineTimes is single-handedly flushing out the duds thank you, on behalf of all our future selves

What we have become Part 2 today: Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

The racism is boiling over - what have we become? Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/c...

I need this. Don't take this from me. I need a 2 part video series, where Sadiq Khan visits NYC, and he and Zohran Mamdani take the subway to Mets-Willets to watch a Mets game, and talk about hopeful things. Then in part 2, Zohran visits London. They take the Tube to watch Arsenal play Liverpool.

So far, no acknowledgement of Samir Zitouni's heroism from Ben Habib, Darren Grimes or Tommy Robinson... #c4news

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

Unidentified drones, likely Russian, were spotted again over Belgium’s Kleine Brogel Air Base... the 4th time in a week. It’s the same base that houses F-16s and reportedly stores U.S. nuclear weapons.

🔴Sadiq Khan Urges New Yorkers to Reject ‘The Politics of Fear’ and Vote for Zohran Mamdani EXCLUSIVE: Source close to the London Mayor accuses Mamdani’s political opponents of “weaponising” his Muslim faith in an “uncanny” repeat of Conservative attacks against Khan bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

So many disappointing parts to this story of heroism and bravery for those of a far right persuasion. Firstly the attacker wasn’t Muslim or a refugee and secondly the selflessness of the person doing his job who saved so many lives was a Muslim. How will they cope in this difficult time.

LNER employee Samir Zitouni, who was hospitalised after Saturday’s incident, hailed by police and transport secretary for ‘bravery beyond measure’ No doubt Farage and Goodwin will be all over this example of British virtue www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@bylinetimes.bsky.social this is a very insightful read.

🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

'Oh, I thought you must be British based on your [country of birth, parentage, family ties, literal citizenship documentation] - but now that you've done [X] social bad I see you must be some other type of human, because we'd never do that*. *citation needed

Via Clear the Lobby: "The Hillsborough Law finally arrives on Monday. "It creates new duties for public officials, ensuring they face criminal sanctions if they try to cover up the facts... "The Tories brought a bill in 2015, but it fell when the 2017 election was called" and never reintroduced.

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

Elon Musk should remember what happened to the proprietors of Der Stürmer and Radio Milles Collines when the xenophobic propaganda they stirred up spilled over into reality

As a private person, I would have quit X two years ago. As a journalist who needs to propagate the work of Byline Times, report on Musk, and who has many many journalistic contacts only in that inferno, I need to keep a professional presence

Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

I’m missing most of that, I’m happy to say, since I’ve only been on BlueSky. But in the mainstream media is now toxic, and we’re seeing the result of the worst racist lies in the arrival of thugs wearing English flags as capes, shouting abuse at anyone with brown skin in our streets.

I must admit I’m finding social media a struggle at the moment — filled as it is by toxic chancers deliberately targeting my fellow citizens (and friends) with hateful racist lies. The mental violence is sometimes overwhelming. But we must fight back

More generally, there's a wealth of evidence that UK compares relatively well to other OECD countries on labour market outcomes of migrants, and that those outcomes have been improving. As well as integration more broadly. Bizarre not to mention/refer to any of this.

This is unusually sloppy for @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - uncharacteristically, he doesn't cite *any* data to back up his claims about the outcomes of the UK system. But we have Home Office/HMRC data on this! Those on skilled work visas earn about 2x UK average.. www.ft.com/content/d70c...

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

Farage is ditching the manifesto platform he was elected on... Politico on Reform ripping up their economic policies: "Out the window are pricey pledges like increasing the personal allowance to £20,000, raising the higher-rate threshold and scrapping inheritance tax on estates worth less than £2m"

The richest man in the world is an ignorant, demented racist provocateur. Who would have thought

A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants. Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

This terrible event has unleashed a whole new degree of stupidity on the hell site. Yeah... let people arm themselves with knives. Great idea.