Scary to watch the Global Sumud Flotilla being intercepted by Israeli forces - we know how brutally the Israeli military has treated those on previous flotillas. The world is watching - the Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social must urgently step up to ensure safety of UK citizens on board

Genuinely if you can’t tell the difference between a Tesco loyalty card and a mandatory digital ID being brought in explicitly to harden the border regime then maybe you shouldn’t be a journalist?

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

If successive Israeli governments always intended to impose their own final settlement on the Palestinians by violence, whether slowly or quickly, then what would we say successive British governments and media outlets have been doing for decades by insisting that the precise opposite was true?

Mahmood’s response is ‘completely disingenuous unless she is completely clueless about how the system is operating… the “intolerable” “last minute attempts to frustrate a removal” are a direct result of the system designed by the Home Office’ @sonial77.bsky.social freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

Privatisation has meant profit for the few whilst more & more people struggle with the cost of living. I'm proud to be part of a Party calling this out & holding billionaires to account. Wealth tax now, nationalise utilities, workers rights. That's what we stand for. join.greenparty.org.uk

Mainstream media have played a massive role over many years in scapegoating migrants & strengthening the misconception that immigration is a top domestic problem for the UK. Young people are less likely to believe this partly because they don’t follow MSM.

You mean people in power don't have to acquiesce? Next you're going to tell me that there is an alternative and we can actually decide our future.

Hey guys just asking for a friend, is this... Political violence?

Working class communities have a long history of anti racist solidarity. Billionaires poison everything. Sucking up wealth, hollowing out communities, spreading poverty, division and hatred. It’s time to tax the rich and repair our society. inews.co.uk/news/racism-...

A woman & two children have died this week in the Channel. Mike Tapp is the worst of us. He has no humanity, in no way reflects this country's decency. We deserve better political choices than the rebranded Tories at Reform, the red Tories at Labour & the broken, well, Tories.

“MPs get suspended by the party like I did for voting against putting children into poverty. “But calling the world’s most infamous paedophile and child trafficker ‘your best pal’ among other comments, that’s ok? It stinks to high heaven.” Well said @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social #r4today

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Tapping the sign

You‘ll be surprised to hear Mahmood’s touted ability to think the unthinkable turns out to mean “more reheated Tory vileness”

2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks 2020: Napier barracks opens 2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces. Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks: Today ...

look, it might not have worked with the public, but at least it was the wrong thing to do morally

Literally though, smugly, for years. Look at you now, bitches, down in the mud with us hogs! (Oh god, why does everywhere have to be terrible?) 😭😭😭

On the Green leadership election - it's striking that Polanski secured such a landslide *and* the membership rise (to vote for him) doesn't account for very much of it. Green membership is ~68,000 now - previously it's been around 65,000. A 16,000+ margin of victory shows where the Greens are at.

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Maybe nobody should be at the death and destruction show? Maybe we shouldn't be hosting this? Maybe it shouldn't exist?

If the same people who are telling you asking for the same services you had access to in 2005 is utterly deranged extremism are also telling you to go and raise kids around Uranus, you should probably assume they’re not on the level.

end times fascism

It is in fact wild that the actual experts on migration, i.e. service providers, caseworkers, advisors and migrants themselves, are the only people who Downing St is ignoring on migration. Everyone else has a Legitimate Concern, except those Legitimately Concerned.

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The UK remains absolutely determined to prove that "Children of Men" was a blueprint for government rather than a dire warning about our trajectory. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

if you see someone shoplifting food or baby formula or nappies, no you didn’t

Opera written by EFDSS Duty Manager, Edie Bailey! As the Crows Fly is a one-act opera that explores death and decomposition from the perspective of nature’s most ominous bird; the crow. Words by Edie who works at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Music by Ben Hoppe. www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/as_the_...

Yes. YES! Get out of my pocket 😭

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

Amazing how some journos are practically begging them to walk it back at least a bit, and then just refuse to do it

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Beyond also talking sense, I love to see someone finally talking over these people

I think these people genuinely still think they're good people while spouting vile xenophobic racist nonsense lies like this. Wild

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

She can say this because she's an Irish citizen living in Ireland. Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Radical inclusion 🥹♥️

Disgusting. This Govt defends the arms industry at all costs - distracting from the inequality destroying our democracy, shattering what little trust remains - while a genocide rages. Starmer. Lammy. Cooper. We are watching.

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Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

This is what they said before the Iraq invasion, and they were lying then too.

In 2014, Israel massacred more Palestinians in 50 days than the total amount of Israelis killed by Palestinians in the prior 30 years. This has never been about a "response" to October 7. Israel has been mass murdering Palestinians for 77 years

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

We’ve been here many times in multiple wars, austerity, you name it: they are always right even when they were obviously and disastrously wrong, and you are always wrong even if you predicted precisely what would happen. The iron rule is that they are *important* and you are not.