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So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

GAZA FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS REPORT BEING R*PED & TORTURED IN ISRAELI DETENTION🇵🇸😢

"Israel just executed Ahmed Hariri in South Lebanon. "He was a paramedic. And a journalist. "Israel deliberately assassinated him in a double tap strike while he was rescuing the wounded. "They drop bombs on civilians. They wait. Then they drop bombs on the rescuers." — Sarah

@lucindalaw.bsky.social This is excellent:

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful? ​Let’s look at facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

LAUGHABLE front page from The Express… A newspaper that backs Reform whose leader and MPs voted against laws on: Stalking Harassment Drink spiking Upskirting …and sharing intimate images without consent. A pathetic excuse of a newspaper.

The glee with which the transphobic lobby is celebrating this says everything. Nasty, spiteful, and hateful. Shame on anyone bullying this most bullied of communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I regret that leaving Monkey Cage was necessary, but I will never regret leaving people who considered siding with hatred was more important than siding with our many non binary and trans listeners - each day I see the further empowerment of hate , the more I realise there was no other option

I find the level, speed, and depth of radicalisation frightening. This isn't about safety or fairness. Her core assertion is that someone else ticking a box somehow dilutes her womanhood. How is this different to what bigots were saying a few years ago on marriage to exclude people like her and me?

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No shame. No accountability. Irish civilians detained after being seized in international waters are now being used as political props by Israel’s far-right Government. What we’re witnessing is performative cruelty - propaganda in advance of potential elections in Israel.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

LGBT+ Americans are fleeing pro-Trump states Homophobic repression is an attack on democracy & human rights Iran demands Pride flags are banned at the World Cup The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out READ & SUBSCRIBE for FREE https://mailchi.mp/petertatchellfoundation/ptfweekly400-13382839

Superb piece from Afua Hirsch on the right's quest to cancel Misan Harriman for the crime of speaking whilst Black.

why would anyone ever pay taxes again if they're immune from audits?

BBC's second top story at 6 o'clock was the Chancellor getting heckled by some shouty twat. Not even news. Let alone top news. Into the actual item, mentioned almost in passing, the fact gov't has frozen fuel duty. It is impossible to deny the bias. You have to REALLY not want to see it.

Ain’t he sweet?

He doesn't have the primary to worry about now. He has nothing left to lose. If he actually wants accountability, let Massie walk onto that House floor and start reading every Epstein predator name into the record, one by one, while the cameras roll...

Mel Stride “Labour have left our economy weak and exposed to the impacts of the Iran war” How dare he criticise the govt over this! His party’s Brexit robbed the country of £120bn a year & his party’s removal of subsidies for solar panels, insulation, electric cars etc has left us far more exposed.

THIS !! Needs as wide an audience as we can give it ! Do your stuff friends !

"You can't tax rich people." Well then there's no harm in trying is there?

Easily, the most corrupt president in history:

Some thoughts on the Far-Right content i've seen e-jac'd over my feed in the last 24H (after Tommy's "Fashtonbury" march)... 🧵 1) There is a noticeable trend of content creators dismissing the term "Far-Right", by sharing images of grandmothers/kids...

Deform UK Ltd are sending out [spam] emails saying "funds are running low". Where’s all that money from foreign billionaires gone? If they can't manage their own finances, surely they can’t be trusted with ours.

New: Essex 'flag man' and Epping hotel protest organiser pleads guilty to assaulting a woman. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Statement from the Office of the Bretwalda. Immigration has been a net benefit to the United Kingdom. It always was.

If you, like me, love opera this programme is a “must listen”.

Utterly disgusting racism on full display. Let's hear Starmer and other politicians condemn this in the same tones as they did the retweet by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I predict that Burnham will lose in Makerfield and that the citizens of Manchester, pissed off at being treated like a pawn in one man’s ego trip, will kick Labour out at the next mayoral election.

Now paywall free: Me on the way right-wing papers present Farage’s relationship with the public like Beatlemania with a ballot box thenewworld.substack.com/p/right-wing...

Poor Manchester that their Mayor whom they elected is so eager and happy to ditch them. Let’s hope Reform doesn’t replace him. 🙄

A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today

This is quite brilliant!

Nigel Farage is a GRIFTER - pass it on.

Does that include the £5mn?

Robert Jenrick's wife was warned that his campaign had accepted an unlawful donation of almost £40,000 from a convicted American fraudster, according to the Times. Police are investigating allegations that Jenrick's campaign illegally funneled the money to his campaign via a UK-based company

Did the person at the BBC point out that Jo Cox and David Amess had been attacked a bit more significantly more than him?

Nigel Farage says the £5m gift he got from a crypto billionaire was a ‘reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years’ On May 5, Mr Farage told the BBC the money was ‘the only way I can protect myself for the rest of my life’ as he was the ‘most attacked, physically, politician of modern times’

Farage on his £5 million “gift” from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne: 14 May 2026: “Frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years.” 9 May 2026: “There was nothing political in its nature at all.”

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Ministers should get their own back and camp outside Sky TV and shout "Are you still broadcasting shite, Sam?" as Sam Coates enters the building.

Dear UK, please take note 🙏

Can we get a petition to sack the higher-ups at the BBC? The 'confusion' and 'chaos' is basically a media narrative and one that seems to be entirely created by the UK press. Farage & Johnson today were accused of taking bribes - where is Chris Mason on this? #Newsnight

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

If there is one essential quality for any Labour PM - actually any global leader - in the current environment, it is courage. Both leadership challengers are currently hiding behind a battalion of unknowns, sent out to inflict hourly papercuts on their own PM. This seems to me to disqualify them.