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Lefty Londoner in Lanarkshire. 🏴 😉 Scottish independence. 🏴 👍🏻 Up the Republic! 🇮🇪 ✊🏻
By FIFA's yardstick then, aren't the England team's three lions – from the coat of arms of English monarchs in centuries of wars for political supremacy – also 'political'? 🤔
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BladeoftheSun
about 21 hours ago
If those racist rioters in Belfast had been holding Palestinian Flags they would all be terrorists and every single one would be jailed for life. Two Tier justice indeed.
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Sinn Féin
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Ministers gaslighting public in desperate attempt to blame others for housing failures - Ó Broin "Government must accept responsibility for the housing crisis and introduce a radical reset of housing policy to tackle the deepening housing and homelessness crisis."
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Ministers gaslighting public in desperate attempt to blame others for housing failures - Eoin Ó Broin TD - Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Eoin Ó Broin TD, has accused Tánaiste Simon Harris and Minister for Housing James Browne of ‘gaslighting the public in a desperate attempt to blame others for housin...
https://www.sinnfein.ie/news/ministers-gaslighting-public-in-desperate-attempt-to-blame-others-for-housing-failures-eoin-o-broin-td/
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Russ Jones
about 24 hours ago
BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.
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Anti-Reform
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Upskirting, body shaming, groping, stalking, verbal abuse, domestic violence ... Just some sexist & misogynistic acts of Councillors who passed the stringent vetting of Reform UK which pretends to care about violence against women and girls "So what?"
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: You look at American performance in Iran, which was been thanks to the bravery of Americans and I would like to believe our tech, very few losses on our side, very precise, very controlled." (The US blew up an elementary school .. )
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Ron Filipkowski
2 days ago
That’s called a bribe.
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The Empty City
2 days ago
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the paramilitaries in the Berlin street below going from house to house carrying out a pogrom before our eyes.
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Sam Freedman
2 days ago
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Ian Dunt
2 days ago
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Declassified UK
3 days ago
Our chief reporter
@john-mcevoy.bsky.social
speaks to
@owenjones.bsky.social
about our campaigning journalism to investigate UK nationals who have served for the IDF, and the smears against us for so doing.
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This Israel Smear Is Absolutely Deranged
YouTube video by Owen Jones
https://youtu.be/yihQkqbcBAE
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
"The soccer will surely be exciting and the international rivalries intense, but Trump will hover over the event like a noxious cloud, turning things sour wherever his influence is felt. He may not manage to ruin it completely, but he’ll make it worse in every way he can." —
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A noxious orange cloud looms over the World Cup
If there's a way to spoil it, the FIFA Peace Prize winner will find it.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/world-cup-trump
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So what are FIFA and the referees’ representative bodies going to do about this – smile, grovel and give ICE a Peace Prize like Donald Trump? 🤷🏻♂️
#WorldCup
#USA
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Owen Jones
5 days ago
This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. A 7-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israel. If this were an Israeli baby or a Western baby, his face would be splashed across front pages. Western leaders would condemn the perpetrator's evil. Here? Silence.
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Joe Noonan
5 days ago
“UEFA acted on Russia, they haven’t acted on Israel. We fully appreciate it’s not right. Ultimately it’s not right.” - John O’Shea
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‘It’s not right’: John O’Shea makes strong statement on Ireland v Israel matches
Republic of Ireland assistant manager calls war in Gaza ‘harrowing’ as public pressure mounts to boycott fixtures
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/06/06/john-oshea-says-ireland-team-will-be-100-behind-seamus-coleman-on-israel-matches/
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Al Jazeera English
7 days ago
Israel strikes Lebanon despite ceasefire, while Hezbollah rejects deal as death toll tops 3,500.
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Iran war day 98: Tehran raises doubts on deal as Lebanon fighting continues
Israel strikes Lebanon despite ceasefire, while Hezbollah rejects deal as death toll tops 3,500.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/iran-war-day-98-tehran-raises-doubts-on-deal-as-lebanon-fighting-continues?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
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Mic Wright
8 days ago
“Cements” is an absolutely wild word choice here. It presents the situation as a competition win instead of corruption.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
8 days ago
After he was sacked! This is not just a vetting error. Nor that and an error of judgment. There's deep moral rot in Starmer's team.
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Starmer’s chief secretary consoled Mandelson after dismissal as US ambassador, undisclosed texts show
Darren Jones’s messages include requests for advice on the reshuffle and remarks about former business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/04/starmer-darren-jones-peter-mandelson-us-ambassador-texts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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9 days ago
Release The Epstein Files NOW!😡
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James Ball
8 days ago
"Tommy Robinson’s mediocre rally just weeks ago showed his diminishing relevance. Nigel Farage has desperately been trying to move on from questions around a £5 million personal “gift” he received from a crypto billionaire. Both men have exploited a very real tragedy to manufacture an outrage."
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Our ‘pure cold rage’ should be at Farage and Robinson
The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-our-pure-cold-rage-should-be-at-farage-and-robinson/
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James O’Brien
8 days ago
They are all very deliberately ignoring the express wishes of Henry Nowak's family; the judge's sentencing report & the obvious, albeit brief, consequences of a crime being reported exclusively by a lying associate of the perpetrator. It may feel futile but this has to be repeated again & again.
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Mic Wright
9 days ago
I’ve had more than one person message me today trying to persuade me that Britain is riven with anti-white prejudice. It’s like arguing with a brick wall that’s unaccountably rather keen on Enoch Powell.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30)
9 days ago
The family wanted peace. Explicitly saying they blamed the killer, no one else - they didn't want division, racism, hate; But "Young Bob", Yaxley-Lennon, Laurence Fox, Danny Tommo and of course the odds-on next Prime Minister Nigel Farage... ...chose violence.
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James Ball
9 days ago
Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*.
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Our ‘pure cold rage’ should be at Farage and Robinson
The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-our-pure-cold-rage-should-be-at-farage-and-robinson/
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James O’Brien
10 days ago
Henry Nowak’s family asked us not to use his murder to ‘create further division, hatred or tension.’ Nigel Farage completely ignored them…
open.spotify.com/episode/1vWM...
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How Farage hijacked Henry Nowak's murder
James O'Brien Daily · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vWMi01wKjDSMe47a6ZsY9?si=wb_o2QyNTq2FGn7QTRkwBg
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MS NOW
9 days ago
BREAKING: Acting AG Blanche on Trump admin's $1.8B "anti-weaponization fund": "We are not moving forward with the fund. Period."
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱
10 days ago
Hi Nigel Farage, you’re awfully quiet about everything these days. Quiet in the Houses of Parliament, missing the last 77 votes. Quiet about the £5m. Quiet about the Clacton house. Quiet about your friend Donald Trump.
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Aaron Rupar
11 days ago
EAMON JAVERS Do you think the negotiations are over now? PRESIDENT TRUMP I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.
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Trump tells CNBC: 'I don't care' if Iran negotiations are over
President Trump spoke with CNBC's Eamon Javers about the latest with the Iran war in an interview Monday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/trump-iran-war-negotiations-oil-israel-interview.html
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Parody Nigel Farage
11 days ago
The press are all over Nicola Sturgeon, who was investigated and released without charge. So glad all I did was take £5 million to become an MP, £1m to throw an election, make a couple of dodgy house purchases and lie about Russia hacking my phone.
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ChayBristol
12 days ago
Exactly the last person who should be anywhere near the BBC, let alone director of news. Terrible decision.
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Scottish Independence Podcasts
12 days ago
Nicola described to LauraK the parking layout at her parents-in-law house: Motorhome was parked out of sight on space shared with neighbours. BBC Scotland edited that out just saying she says she didn’t notice the motorhome parked at her in-laws. Bastards. Illigitimi non carborundum, Nicola.
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Colin Dunn 🏴
12 days ago
Would that Westminster and the corporate media were as keen to look into the misappropriation of £billions of tax payers money during Covid as they now seem to be to investigate the embezzlement of private donations that has already been investigated for 4 years and at a cost 5x the sum embezzled. 🙄
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DCReport
16 days ago
Why Cuba? After decades of U.S. hostility toward Cuba; sanctions, embargoes, and threats of intervention, suffering remains without clear purpose. Is the current policy about democracy, justice… or political theater?
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Remind Me. Why Cuba?
As tensions with Cuba rise, many are questioning the rationale behind decades of U.S. hostility, embargoes, and political posturing.
https://www.dcreport.org/2026/05/26/why-cuba-questioning-us-policy/
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Shortbreadfairy©️
12 days ago
Move over Irony you're dead. Killed by Paul Hutchinson & The Daily Turncoat. Long live Hypocrisy📯 Pretty sure Streeting is going to call for people to stop the crazy unhinge media's obsession with another woman this morning because of her hubby or by noon, soonish, perhaps tomorrow, next week.....👀
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HOPE not hate
14 days ago
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Carol Vorderman brands Reform candidate 'little coward' in a letter delivered by HOPE not hate, to 6,000 women in Makerfield.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Vorderman brands Rob Kenyon a ‘coward’ as she writes to 6,000 women
EXCLUSIVE: Carol Vorderman has directly appealed to women voters in Makerfield to reject Reform UK’s Rob Kenyon, after a string of crude and sexist social media posts resurfaced.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/carol-vorderman-brands-reform-candidate-34028129
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🇺🇸 Resistance and the fightback against Trump/MAGA mentality can take many forms. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺
13 days ago
🇬🇧 Meanwhile, Her Toryness Baron Michelle Mone of Cornton Vale, and £205 MILLION 🇬🇧 🏴🇪🇺😎
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Colin Dunn 🏴
13 days ago
The 'ruin' that just two weeks ago resulted in them winning more seats at Holyrood than all unionist parties *combined*. Pulease.
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Philip O'Connor
13 days ago
Yet again - you can have "ongoing killings", or you can have a "ceasefire". You cannot have both. If people are being killed, there is no ceasefire. This is not hard.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
14 days ago
That *is* an answer.
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Neil Mackay
14 days ago
If Nicola Sturgeon does have questions to answer, then it is only as a politician and not as a wife No woman should be held responsible for the sins of her husband, just as no man should be held responsible for the sins of his wife My column in
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'Sturgeon has questions to answer - but only as a politician, not as a wife'
The mood is that the former First Minister ‘must have known’ about the crimes of her estranged husband - here, Neil Mackay argues that’s a…
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/26150981.sturgeon-questions-answer---politician-not-wife/
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Leah McElrath
14 days ago
A genocidal land-grab.
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Scottish Greens
16 days ago
Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here. There’s a clear pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament and that majority voted for a referendum. For politicians in London to deny that choice is a democratic outrage.
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Mic Wright
16 days ago
Tony Blair on the radio right now saying, “it’s not about traditional left and right politics”. Whenever anyone says that, they mean, it’s about right-wing politics.
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'What's happening with the Trump-aligned multimillionaire ego known as Tony Blair?' we wonder with
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
🤔 (Shouldn't take more than 3 minutes.)
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Peter Geoghegan
16 days ago
I do wonder if the audience for this is Trump and Blair’s US funders rather than the U.K. or labour
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and cut benefits
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Aaron Rupar
17 days ago
Trump posted the exact same (crazy) thing on Truth Social 8 days apart. The cognitive isn't cognitiving.
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George Monbiot
17 days ago
There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.
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Mike D London
18 days ago
Farage - 'I've been advised not to hold surgeries for security reasons' - He hadn't. Farage - 'There was an arson attack on my home' - It was an attempted burglary Farage - 'My phone was hacked by Russia' - No report made to the relevant authority. Could there be a pattern here...🤔
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Sarah Murphy
18 days ago
“It is understood the National Cyber Security Centre is not aware of a report from Farage related to the alleged hack.” That’ll be because it’s all utter bollox. “Just how stupid would you like us to be, Mr Farage?” “Oh *that* stupid. Let’s see what we can do…”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim
Reform UK leader claims ‘counter-espionage experts’ suggest state-sponsored hackers are behind disclosure of £5m gift
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/24/farage-mounting-pressure-prove-russian-hack-claim?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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