Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide" What happened to freedom of protest? We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.

Something to cheer up this shortest day.

The latest in WTFery from the USA. What a sorry crowd of dismal incompetents.

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@majesticwine.bsky.social I won't be buying from you again unless you stop advertising on GB News. Why encourage it in its mission to divide the country? That is all.

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

The author of the national security strategy that committed the US to aiding the far right in Europe is a race-obsessed hysteric and paranoid fantasist Piece from me (Free to read but please subscribe) comment.press/anton1212

I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

In the least surprising news ever, Rupert Murdoch, a man whose moral probity is so great that Dennis Potter named his terminal tumour after him, has been feeding cash to the IEA. A guest post by Sam Bright on @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social's substack: open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Time to promote the best Christmas song this side of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (which is, obviously and objectively, the best.) I give you Dylan's Must be Santa. It and its video are magnificently bonkers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE... You can thank me later.

War on Christmas update:

The BBC made a stupid and careless edit or two in a documentary - Trump threatened to sue. The first of Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's BBC Reith lectures was edited to remove a remark that Trump was the most “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” Read the article; he is.

Oh crap - not here too?

Okay, here we go. Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients. NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer. You know what to do 👇✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This young man has it exactly right.

The prospect of Comcast buying ITV doesn't thrill me. I've signed this Change org petition against it (for all the good it'll do); it's the only thing I can think of to try to stop it. If you agree, please add your signature. www.change.org/p/prevent-am...

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11 November 1904 | Dutch Jew, Marcus Koster, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942. --- Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right… Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...

Another Henry Morris post, another hit.

Our petition has 100,000 signatures #RedwingsAngels! ❤️ #KeepHorsesInMind But it doesn't stop here. Please do keep signing and sharing as widely as you can. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738192

🔴 Blackout in Kharkiv. We are plunged in total darkness again.

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

What a shock. I've been calling Trump's style "Middle Eastern Dictator Chic" for ages.

This is disturbing. No matter what safeguards might be built into this system, all it takes is an authoritarian government and the safeguards can be rolled back. We’re in danger of falling into Chinese-style state surveillance.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

🚨The IPP scandal is one of the most cruel, monumental and shocking injustices of the past half century. If you are not yet familiar with it watch this jaw dropping update. PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice. youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...

It’s not early if Christmas is an important selling time for you because people are already buying. You have to get on it! Please support independent makers and artists on social media. Don’t just like, repost! We appreciate it x

Fcuk me. The right’s descent into utter derangement continues unchecked.

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Just listened to the latest (always excellent) Life Scientific Halfway through @jimalkhalili.bsky.social days “So we’ve just explained superposition.” I thought quantum mechanics was complicated, but now I understand it. The programme truly embodies Reithian values.

Another triumph for Mr Henry Morris. Like him or hate him, he’s blown the lid off the Marmite tariff negotiations.

13 October 1910 | A Pole, Tadeusz Rumel, was born in Lublin. An engineer. In #Auschwitz from 18 April 1942. No. 31276 He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

13 October 1915 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Batavier, was born in Aarlanderveen. A tailor. In #Auschwitz from 17 November 1943. No. 163452 He perished in the camp on 31 January 1944. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Reform UK Kent Councillor and Cabinet member Chris Hespe would rather save Adolf Hitler from a burning building than a trans person. There’s more.

Louis CK is an avaricious arse. Apparently only two topics in Riyadh are taboo: “Their religion and their government.” Well, that’s OK then. It makes all the oppression easy to ignore. The rest of the comedians who are playing there are also arses. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians. Ta.

I am alarmed and upset by this emerging news of attacks at a synagogue on Yom Kippur. The rise in religious hate crimes in this country is totally unacceptable - there is no excuse for antisemitism and no excuse for violence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

When America sneezes the world catches a cold. I know it's not the first book removal, but it's depressing just the same.

Piece by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social at brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/how-the-bo... "... in the right-wing press is that the corporation must always be in the wrong." Remember the Mail's confusion when the Blair government was fighting the BBC over the dodgy dossier; who do we hate most?

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy

1 October 1901 | A Czech Jew, Antonín Fantl, was born in Beroun. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He did not survive.

‘Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for end to ‘fundamentally wrong’ indefinite jail terms in Britain’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.