◻️ #Gaza Yvette Cooper " declined to conclude that Israel was committing genocide in the territory.." Yvette Cooper suggests international community on brink of Gaza peace deal Guardian, 27 Sept 2025 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... ⚪ So, is YC LFI and received dinero from the lobby ?

◻️ #MauriceGlassman #BlueLabour "....a deeply conservative socialism" emphasizing family, faith, work, and community." bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b... ⚪ Is Glassman a bit of wanker? Discuss. 25 marks available. ⚪ James Orr's ideas on family, faith, n all bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...

◻️ #Gaza "A landless people and a people-less land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. ~ George Monbiot

◻️ Solicitor: "If he had done this with an octopus...." #Swans (short for They Eat Swan's) Neknominate man fined for swallowing goldfish on film www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl... ⚪ 😼 No Q. the Lowestoft defendant's solicitor's remarks and judgement would make a v. fine routine for a sharp stand-up

◻️ #AaronBanks If Banks has gone for the serious, almost Priministerial look, presumably we are meant to take his remarks seriously. ⚪ This is the man who boasted his targeted ads on Facebook brought in 80k votes for Brexit. Cheap car insurance anyone?

◻️ #IDcards "It’s surprising how many libertarians harbour deeply authoritarian instincts, just so long as it’s the other side’s freedoms being curtailed." The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them Gaby Hinsliff www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

◻️ #AndyBurnam www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ⚪ 😼 If Andy Burnham is the answer, what was the question?

◻️ Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... ⚪ Blair tainted by joining the US in invading Iraq during which 100,000 died. ⚪ In any case, would Blair the greate mover and shaker wat to be in charge of millions of tons or rubble?

◻️ There are already a handful of Project 2025 trackers. It might be interesting to collate these with the new tracker. www.hercampus.com/culture/proj... ⚪ Trump has already made a point of saying he didn't even know what Project 2025 was.

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◻️ Paradoxically, it appears Meloni has refused to recognise a State of Palestine.

◻️ #GoodLuckAmerica 😼 He has however fully accepted having Hitler Youth chapters in schools would be a step too far.

◻️ What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one. — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o... ⚪ Quite long so you've got like reading.

They've lost the 9yos

◻️ #misinformation www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight... ⚪ 5-part series - Introduction

◻️ www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... sciencebasedmedicine.org/great-barrin...

◻️ @richbeard.bsky.social Just finished Proust, speeded up by listening to Neville Jason's magisterial recording. The idea had been to start on c. of his death while I myself was dying. Done it and still kicking! Been scanning family pics for that long too. At pics, stopping to write memories.

◻️ "If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ~ James Marriott

◻️ #post_literate_society "As books die.... Our discourse is collapsing into panic, hatred and tribal warfare." The dawn of the post-literate society --And the end of civilisation James Marriott, Cultural Capital, Substack. 19 Sept, 2025 jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

◻️ #Palestine "...this recognition has been ignoble in action and flawed in rationale. As far as the British government is concerned, belatedness and timidity have been defining features of its response to the situation in Gaza over the past two years." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

◻️ #Berlin #PalestinianProtests Berlin police at Palestinian protests are violent not because anti-Semitism is being exhibited by demonstrators or because the government is anxious to defend the memory of the Holocaust but because German exports arms to Israel. www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ge...

◻️ #literacy "If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

◻️ "Israel today seems to be a world away from the inclusive, pluralistic, open and democratic principles on which it was founded in 1948." Peter Prinsley, MP www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ⚪ So this quote is the start point. Is it true. Could it ever have been true?

◻️ #CDC Seeing Kulldorf in the news again - appointment to CDC panel - reminded me of the Great Barrington Declaration he signed that even the Brownstone Institute instigating it, quietly dropped. Here, David Gorski writes at length about the astroturfing. sciencebasedmedicine.org/great-barrin...

◻️ Tony Blair gets Trump’s green light for Gaza post-war plan www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... ⚪ Having flattened the place, there should be a great deal of money to be made removing the rubble and carefully disposing of the concrete dust. It is estimated this might take 10 years

◻️ "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time" Was that Bob Dylan?

◻️ "It was the past that cost Keir Starmer both Angela Rayner and Lord Mandelson, key figures in two major areas of his policy. Their faults were not monstrous, their atonement sincere.." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ⚪ 😼 Has Mandy atoned yet? Oh, darling we've only just left the house...

◻️ #ConorGearty podcast ~ 1 hr 3 Sept 2025 Conor Anthony Gearty KC (Hon), FBA (4 November 1957 – 11 September 2025) was an Irish legal scholar who was the Professor of Human Rights Law in the law school of the London School of Economics. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/1473/...

◻️ #ChristianNationism Nationalist but not very Christian. No shortage of articles (and books) Here a summary, that does not deal with the Protestant/Catholic thang. medium.com/@lovefoods_5... Vance recently converted to Catholicism. And met up with Orr and co on Cotswold trip.

◻️ #Trump Letter from America Heather Cox-Richardson, 18 Sept 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-... ⚪ No idea whether this is also a podcast, but Heather is to go to, no question

◻️ "£150bn in new US investment is something of a saving grace. Of the £150bn, £90bn was a commitment from the private equity firm Blackstone to invest in the UK over the next decade...Stephen Schwarzman, had pride of place next to Keir Starmer." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

◻️ #Religion in the US of A "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s former pastor : “Is the Bible in favor of these ICE raids?… The answer is yes.” A Battle for the Bible in Trump's America Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch, 9 Sept, 2025 www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/10/a...

◻️ #Trump #Windsor_Speech "precious opportunity to safeguard and to restore the wonders and beauty of nature for the generations who follow us". ⚪ ⬇️

◻️ #universities #financialisation How financialisation is corroding education in the UK --The government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern Guy Standing, OpenDemocracy, 16 Sept 2025 www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-e...

◻️ #lies "the person who masters the attention economy masters the truth." Propaganda 2025: How Lies Became the New Currency of Truth Jeff Schechtman, Who What Why, 09/12/25 ⚪Q & A Renée DiResta, author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality. whowhatwhy.org/podcast/prop...

◻️ The idea seems to be journalists looking for a story scroll through social media apps till something pops up. This is old hat and a waste of valuable time which could be spent on the veg patch or in the pub. A chatbot will give a neatly headlined compilation of the top stories in a few secs.

◻️ #Gaza Despite Global Condemnation, Aid Still Flows to Israel: The List of Shame – Countries Continuing Exports Despite Lip Service Quds News Network, 15 Sept 225 qudsnen.co/despite-glob... ⚪ And of what Israel sells back..

◻️ #protest " As vicars and retirees face arrest for holding signs, we must ask: what kind of nation criminalises conscience?" The Red Vicar revisited: flags, faith, and the fight for England’s soul Yasmin van der Poel, East Anglian Bylines, 12 Sept 2025 eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/the...

◻️ I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. --Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death Indrajit Samarajiva, September 26th, 2020 indi.ca/i-lived-thro... ⚪ Written in 2020

◻️ 😼 And kiss goodbye to Samsung products.

◻️ #Kirk #Robinson “it’s very clear to us & to investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.” Utah Governor, Spenser Cox www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ⚪ Not a #Goyper then.

◻️ Hitler was rejected for art school

◻️ #Israel #militarized_agrarianism "Farms like this—and the agriculture industry more broadly—are primary drivers of Israel’s colonialist project." Shots in Zion --Miles away from a genocide, an “alcohol empire” booms Luke Carneal, The Baffler, 10 Sept 2025 thebaffler.com/latest/shots...

◻️ #NHS #WesStrreeting Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ Health secretary says Labour will not meet union’s pay demands but both sides can ‘win the peace’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

◻️ #Unite_the_Kingdom Scale of Tommy Robinson protest shows free speech is 'alive and well' in the UK, minister says. Peter Kyle in his own words quoted by Guardian:

◻️ #UnitetheKingdom #Battle_of_Cable_Street Home Secretary in Baldwin's National Government refused to ban the BUF on the grounds of permitting free speech. What did the govt. say when Mosely's Fascists were hammered by the Left? ⚪ NB Mosley had in Labour set out a plan to get men back to work

◻️ “People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country’s values” _ Kier Starmer ⚪ Except if you peacefully support Palestine Action, which we've proscribed a terrorist organisation. We're going bring the full force of the law again you lot.

A statement to the Guardian is a start, I suppose, but this does feel like maybe this is a "ffs show your face on TV" sort of a moment

◻️ #Disinformation “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ~ George Orwell, 1984 How to Fight Disinformation — Part I: Firehosing Brooke Binkowski, Truth or Fiction TruthOrFiction.com www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight...

◻️ #CharlieKirk #TylerRobison Loving family photos show other side of Charlie Kirk murder suspect: ‘Tyler? No, this can't be done --No criminal past, trouble-free college years and growing up in a loving family. www.ad.nl/buitenland/l... ⚪German, so translate page