Brendan has been doing phenomenal work uncovering the French Nazis that visited Belfast and hung out with paramilitaries and local far-right. The Home Secretary proscribes the IRGC - but doesn’t even call a COBRA meeting for what’s been happening in N. Ireland over the last 5 weeks. So more ..[1/2]

DUP leader Gavin Robinson gave an interview earlier today to Ryan Bridge (co-founder of Raise the Colours), who earlier this year was arrested for causing religiously and racially aggravated harassment. Other co-founders are currently on charges of making indecent photos of children and murder.

Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

A real challenge in Northern Irish politics is the extent to which loyalist paramilitaries seem to have reconstituted themselves as a sort of far right militia that can be mobilised against migrant communities.

Another thing I think we need to do more of, is get inside and critique the work of people like Dan Niedle. He spends a lot of time moaning about the work that others do, particularly those who campaign for wealth taxation. If you don't want to play nice, don't expect others to play nice back.

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

Reform UK's candidate for Makerfield, Rober Kenyon, has "mothballed" his Facebook account in the past few days and deleted all of his friends. This because of his friends was Gary Raikes, leader of the New British Union, the self-styled successor organisation to Moseley's British Union of Fascists.

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Harriet Harman apparently mixing up DMs with tweets this morning (now deleted).

Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform

anyone heard from paul mason recently?

Via @owenjones.bsky.social A Red Cross staff member speaks out about @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

This is quite the story.

While a thousand of us packed in, listening to @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak today, in #Hastings, a group of about 6 or 7 Nazis from the #Reform party heckled from the outside, & chucked Nazi salutes. This part of the country took an absolute hammering fighting their sort. Reform are Nazis.

NEW | On an odd choice… WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

Credit where credit is due. Worth noting that the local press ignored this and the Standard only picked it up very late. insidecroydon.com/2026/04/21/f...

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

There does seem to have been a surprisingly large number of verging-on inexplicable mistakes by senior civil servants since Keir Starmer became prime minister. Odd.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

I BEEN NICE!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

This ought to be terminal for both Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons. Sinister and unacceptable.

We believe US military or intelligence personnel are operating at 24 sites in Britain at least -- more than successive governments have told parliament. Help us find more information because the government is refusing to. See next post... Pls repost thread www.declassifieduk.org/the-24-site-...

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.

#BBCBreakfast reporting on the latest attempts by the Labour govt to water down the Hillsborough Law. They really are despicable.

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

UK has been running intelligence/targetting flights for Israel over Gaza using their Cyprus base for 20 months. Apparently, they recently contracted this out to a private "contractor" to avoid criticism. Sadly, these idiots forgot to turn off their transponders on July 28th.

In the New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin, ideological lodestar of Trump, Stephen Miller and the ascendant American technofascist right, we learn that he's been spending time with Blue Labour peer Maurice Glasman, who Starmer's current right-wing genuflections are aimed to please. So that's nice.

listening to: chill mix with Japanese grandpa at a stationery shop

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"

essentially, the criticisms are being taken seriously, and they will probably sink the bill before it even gets to the lords, where it would have to go through the same process

it's a private member's bill, so it can't be carried over into the new session (prob June) if it hasn't finished progress in both houses. there is mountain of amendments - about 500 so far - which are all being debated at length, basically blocking it from moving on from committee

Une vingtaine de nervis d’extrême droite ont attaqué une soirée cinéma antifasciste hier à Paris. 1 personne blessée au couteau, 2 hospitalisées. Le parquet ouvre une enquête pour "tentative d’homicide volontaire". Par @mmace.bsky.social @pierreplottu.bsky.social www.liberation.fr/politique/ta...

#Paris - Des fascistes attaquent une soirée cinématographique de la Young Struggle, armés de bâtons et de couteaux. Ils blessent une personne. Des heures se sont écoulées et, pour le moment, aucun militant d'extrême droite n'a été interpellé. Voici la vidéo de leur fuite.

Johann Chapoutot. Historien spécialiste du nazisme. Punto e basta