"I am sick and tired of watching people with decent, compassionate values constantly be told to accommodate the views of people who lack decency or compassion...."

Agent Orange does not care if 50,000 Americans die who otherwise would not have done so. All he cares about his himself, accruing power and wealth, and having obsequious minions to order about.

One again, free movement hasn't ended and European bands can tour without issues. Because of the single market. Why would you unilaterally advantage the UK in an area where it has an enormous comparative advantage and harm our bands, while the UK refuses to contribute and refuses the same rules?

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

Such an embarrassment. The fact she'll never have any power makes it barely worth noticing her, but whenever you do she's doing something abysmal or moronic. She richly deserves the anonymity to come.

That’s odd. I thought Agent Orange said Sadiq Khan is a terrible mayor. How come Mr Khan can achieve so much and be elected three times if he is such a terrible mayor?

That’s odd. I thought Agent Orange said Sadiq Khan is a terrible mayor. How come Mr Khan can achieve so much and be elected three times if he is such a terrible mayor.

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.” 3/3

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws." 2/3

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Four people have been injured in an attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. A major incident, being investigated as terrorism, with suspect/perpetrator reportedly shot at the scene. Updates www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

I won’t. So there.

Tories caving in to the far-right again, just like with EU referendum and Brexit. Scum.

Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be a reckless and indefensible move, undermining the UK’s green economy and damaging our global credibility at a time of escalating climate risks. @shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇

Yes. And then Starmer et al, equally get the hell out of X. There’s no justification for a democratic government to still be there.

Ed Miliband was one of the first senior politicians to challenge Rupert Murdoch, so it's no surprise that he's been the most outspoken member of the Cabinet on Elon Musk.

Remembered this today, made me smile. Thank you, Jane Goodall. Your heart was bigger inside than outside.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

What a great idea!!!!! Greta Thunberg awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Done so much to raise awareness of climate breakdown, environmental injustice and genocide.

Jane Goodall‘s heart was bigger inside than outside.

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Pledging to scrap the Climate Change Act 2008. This would be such a bad move by the Conservative party, if this is true, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be. Tony Juniper’s credentials are impeccable. Accelerating their journey to irrelevance, that is what the Conservatives are doing.

"Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most." BBC News - Pope Leo condemns climate change critics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jane Goodall was a great world server. We were blessed to have her working so passionately for the natural world. Peace be with you, Jane, and thank you. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

THIS THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

Please read and share this astonishingly powerful article by George Monbiot about ecocide in Gaza. Evil poured on evil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

(3/3) With decades of Western policy consensus callously swept aside, European nations must now do everything within their power to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and repel Russia’s aggression.

(2/3) The UK government is doing its best to live up to this commitment, but the US is effectively siding with Russia in undermining it. Instead of seeing its sovereignty preserved, Ukraine is being pressured to accept a lopsided peace agreement without real guarantees.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

For those interested, I've put together a Starter Pack which includes MLAs (elected Members of Legislative Assembly in NI), journalists, academics & commentators who post often about related matters, from all sides of the debate. Please reply if you want to be included or to add another account.

NI is already half way out the door and while 50+1 is enough, it'll be wiser to wait until polls are closer to 60%+ before the border poll is called. NI leaving the UK to re-join Ireland, because of brexit, brings an end to the UK Union! I don't remember that on the side of the big red bus! 7/7

The process to decide on Reunification in Ireland is outlined in the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement 1998. in brief: when polls indicate a positive vote is likely, the Secretary of State for NI calls a Border Poll which, like in 1998, involves the whole Island of Ireland. 6/7

Dublin spotted the direction of traffic, post brexit, quite quickly and all major infrastructure projects like rail, road, energy, health etc. are "Shared Island" in scope now. As are the new UK/Ireland summits on same: bsky.app/profile/gyle... 5/7

meanwhile, 2025 Midterms in NI look like this: Reunification/Pro EU: 54% Unionist/Pro brexit: 41% Independents: 5% SF 26% (Reunification) DUP 17% (Unionist) TUV 13% (Unionist) AP 12% (Unaligned) SDLP 11% (Reunification) UUP 11% (Unionist) Greens 3% (Reunification) Aontu 2% (Reunification) 4/7

Brexit is the key catalyst for this and voters in britain elected pro brexit parties in 2017, 2019 and in 2024. And Starmer seems to be sticking to his famous "Not in my lifetime" speech about re-joining EU, SM or CU. Now talk of ECHR exit has increased the likelihood of NI leaving the UK. 3/7

For years, polls in NI would ask "Do you want a United Ireland?" and would always get a zero-sum response based along Green/Orange lines. Brexit changed that. the question now is: "Do you want to remain in the EU with Ireland?" and the answer is very different. 2/7

A while back, I posted a jokey list of "favourite brexit benefits" (through an Irish lens) on the other place. #2 was "Brexit changed the conversation in Northern Ireland" about reunification. That is now no longer a joke. It's very very real. quick 🧵

Due to cut backs as housing managers we were told not to focus on support just income and therefore spend our time threatening single mothers with eviction - which made some suicidal I left in the end as my anger and emotions about it all were consuming me. My colleagues indifference made it worse

Horrible. It's all so cruel and stupid and dysfunctional. V similar to the situation with social care. false economies all round.

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

One of the reasons why I don’t think there will be fair elections again is that everyone in the administration is acting like there won’t be. *So many* are going to jail if they’re ousted and I honestly can’t see them letting that happen.

The man behind the US’ summary execution of civilians off the coast of Venezuela is Stephen Miller.

I think Tony Blair, war criminal, and Agent Orange, convicted felon who tried to overturn the 2020 election, heading a “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s administration and reconstruction, is a bloody terrible idea. Repost if you agree, please.

The Deputy Prime Minister branded Reform’s Indefinite leave to remain plan as “racist”