It’s important that you read this article. There is no reason this man is being held. It’s the quota. And it’s a human rights violation.

#cofe great study day on Thomas Merton yesterday at @cor-mirfield.bsky.social with Dr Paul M Pearson from the @mertoncenter.bsky.social @bellarmineu.bsky.social Gave me much to think about in this ‘interesting era’ at personal, church and society level.

THIS!

“Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities," said Stephen Miller. In fact, his ancestors immigrated to the US in the early 1900s, fleeing antisemitic pogroms in Belarus. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This sort of thing can permanently blind or kill with a shot like this. She was clearly shot directly in the face, and then he saunters away. This police officer needs jail time. And needs to pay restitution for the rest of his miserable life. “Less lethal” munitions are not non-lethal.

The President has declared the Ryder Cup void ....Thankyou for your attention to this matter... #rydercup

Reform supporters.

Shocking epidemic of misinformation and propaganda which is so destructive to our country.

Quick question. Was the digital ID thing in Labour manifesto? Anyone? #IDcards #Labour

Another little reminder: asylum seekers in the U.K. already have ID cards.

This thread. For goodness sake can *someome* at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social make them see sense and stop the dogwhistle policy making. #labour #idcards

Racism on the Elizabeth Line. Sophia Choudry says she can feel a regression in social norms this summer after the progress across generations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

More like make them feart he’ll deport them if they don’t win) #rydercup

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

“Sharia courts” are not legally binding in the UK. They only carry weight if both disputed parties *choose* to follow their judgement. It’s like a friend informally mediating a dispute. This needs to be stated in such debates because this inflammatory rhetoric needs to be brought back to reality.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Amazing!

They hypocrisy of Katie Hopkins writ large. Her ugly spirit will be her downfall.

'By our commitment to social justice, our country can reaffirm that we will never lose sight of our moral compass.' - bang on from Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#cofe please support this if you are a delegate

@chrleft.bsky.social you might like to tag #CofE feed in some posts

'Jesus calls us to love both our neighbours and our enemies and to welcome the stranger. Any co-opting or corrupting of the Christian faith to exclude others is unacceptable.' - Grateful for the courage & voices of all those who signed this.

#CofE why not follow / join @chrleft.bsky.social and check out this event

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@channel4news.bsky.social whoever that smirking woman from Washington was being interviewed by Matt Frei she really needs to give her head a wobble and understand that it’s NOT ok for Trump to behave as he does! Lives and more are being destroyed by him. It’s not funny love.

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I truly have never heard such utterly unadulterated shit #Trump. He needs locking up. #maga

This is essentially the end, at least for now, of the US government as a credible source of health information. That’s bad in any circumstances, but…if we get hit with another pandemic in the near future, god help us all.

He is getting worse. You think it isn’t possible but …. then find it is.

The idiot who told us to drink bleach and stick fluorescent lights up our ass has opinions on Tylenol

Free editing! This month I’m offering to edit the first 1000 words of your book for free. I’ll check it over and make sure it packs a punch. Take a look at my website sarahhealeyeditor.com or DM me. #writingcommunity #writing

@bbc-politics.bsky.social load of bs from jamescleverlymp.bsky.social - WHO cut ESOL classes or the funding that enabled councils to provide them? As for ‘too generous’ welfare benefits -I’d love to see how he managed on it especially is disabled. He’s a total dogwhistle fantasist. Challenge him!

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

@channel4news.bsky.social pls use this! www.facebook.com/share/p/19oc...

@itvnews.bsky.social please read and do something with this! www.facebook.com/share/p/19oc...

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social take a look and share please www.facebook.com/share/p/19oc...

Interesting, informative programme on BBC2 last night -Living Next Door to Putin. Not in-depth but learnt quite a lot from it. #ukraine #russia #baltic

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

“The government cannot escape the cloud of Keir Starmer’s words in those early days, when he said that Israel has the “right” to cut off power and water from Gaza. Nor the ignominy of refusing to back a ceasefire in November 2023”

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

I didn't say "fuck off" but I like to think I am modelling the behaviour @jamesomalley.co.uk rightly calls for here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NArb...

“One is hard pressed to find an authoritarian government that did not take advantage of either a terrorist attack or a political assassination – an episode of political violence – to further crack down on civil liberties. This is mainstream authoritarian stuff.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.