The #EU isn’t a foreign power. It’s our community—our friends, our neighbours, our allies. 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 Trump is siding with dictators. Let’s side with democracy. Let’s come home. #RejoinEU #WeBelong #FBPE

"Lashmar’s book is a necessary, damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent.” Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar reviewed in The Observer: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

This is how to do political oratory

What the actual fuck.

I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink cruel & completely irresponsible proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they are already three times more likely to face hunger. This is how you can help action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...

After wrapping up its seventh straight losing week on Friday, Tesla’s slide continued, with the stock headed for its worst day since 2020.

Israeli police have arrested two Palestinian booksellers for selling books about Palestine in Jerusalem You know who else did this kind of thing?

This !!

Who is Charlotte Owen and why is she a Lord? We may find out as a Tribunal has ordered all the documentation relating to her being made a Lord to be released to them.

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Trump’s Return and the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn’t the Answer. bylinetimes.com/2024/12/02/t...

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

If you think it is against free speech to have professionals who are paid to check facts and allowed to prominently publish them, you are not for „free speech“ but for „unimpeded lies“. Fact checks ARE speech after all. Canceling them LIMITS free speech. #Meta #Musk #Zuckerberg

The Guardian: A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Sewage released at 41 beaches in Cornwall " Yep, you've read that right. Currently 41 beaches in Cornwall are carrying sewage pollution warnings. Now what bit of any of that rain at the weekend would qualify as "EXCEPTIONAL weather", or "EXCEPTIONAL circumstances"? Yep, that'll be none

More of the usual bad news from Higher Education: Bristol Old Vic is closing its undergraduate programme. Incredibly depressing. What is a society for, if not for art, light and shade, imagination, joy? oldvic.ac.uk/news/an-impo...

Viscount Rothermere and Richard Desmond are responsible for stoking division in the UK and must he held to account. Re-post if you agree.

Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

All kinds of everything kicking off in the world (Germany, Korea, Syria, even a tiny island, Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean) the top story for BBC News at 6pm was about some guy not attending a family Xmas gathering, followed by a CoE cleric caught up in another abuse scandal Who decides this crap?

Just walked out of Anora. Apparently, it's a rollicking bawdy feminist friendly comedy. Not caught on with the ladies though - Curzon full of youngish men, single and in gangs. Exploitative shite. ( move over Peter Bradshaw, new critic bounds into life...)

"Mr. Smith, please come in, have a seat. Our records show you’ve been with the State Department for 17 years, the past five in the Bureau of National Security and Nonproliferation. Now it has come to our attention through an anonymous tip to the America First Compliance Program..."

Let‘s hold a referendum on rejoining the European Union. 🇪🇺 Let‘s find out what people really want now they know what Brexit means! #FBPE #RejoinEU #Brexit petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I stand with my friend Sangita.

In April, two high-profile UK journalists were taken off air, potentially for questioning Israeli politicians in a manner that displeased them. Ann's article on this had more than 13k reads. Oddly, the full circumstances have yet to be made clear! ✍️The strange disappearance of Belle and Sangita 4/6

Just horrendous. Between them, Trump and Netanyahu seem determined to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the Earth. It was terrible under Biden. It'll be even worse now. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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