Don't be suckered in by Poilievre's campaign to launch a campaign over Canadian Christians suffering "persecution." He is running the same playbook as the AfD in Germany, Trump in the States and Farage in the UK. My latest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesH...

This is lovely. (Even though I say so myself!) youtu.be/h9vakkIZ__M?...

Probably closely followed by Elon Musk. X is a cesspool of antisemitism, which reaches millions of people. Much of the antisemitism is promoted by Musk himself. And yet it's somehow everything is all the fault of woke leftists?!?

And I also hear it from Israeli colleagues/friends- many of whom have been going every Saturday for over 2 years to demonstrate against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv - something we hardly hear about in the mainstream media

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has condemned this. Seems missing from the headlines though. I guess their press releases are only worth reporting when it's about left wing politicians.🤷‍♂️

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

It's like you said on another post Pilar, "hold my beer" politics. Is there something at the Home Office that make Home Secs desperate to be seen as tough and authoritarian?

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Pundits argue over why the racist Farage and his racist party are doing so well in the polls. Well, I give you 14 yrs of a Tory govt pushing a failed ideology & now a Tory lite govt promoting the same philosophy. I give you a media landscape that promotes Farage, & limits coverage of alternatives.

Precisely this. The attention is being drawn away from the suffering of Palestinians and is now fully on PA and arrests of peaceful protestor. Change the name, and focus on the immediate problem of genocide in Gaza.

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers. Clown ideology. 🤡

Another day of Reform UK silence on Nathan Gill. Nigel Farage Richard Tice Dr David Bull Paul Nuttall All served as MEPs alongside him, all members of UKIP and Reform UK. Did they know? The silence is deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

Nigel Farage Broke Britain.

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Thread ⬇️ Alan I am glad you said this. I do agree with this thread. The focus needs to stay on the families suffering enormously in Gaza. What’s in a name.

achieving its objective. There should be a refocus on the core issue to sidestep the apologist government's strategy.

one for our politicians to condemn. It's easy to say they oppose protests endorsing a proscribed organisation, but much more difficult to say they object to a protest demanding lives are saved. I have immense respect for those who are putting their freedom on the line but I don't see it as ever

barely a mention of what is actually happening in Palestine. People are getting arrested, jailed even and it's all about UK law, not murdered innocents, dead children, genocide. Making the protests exclusively about stopping the slaughter of innocents, the murder of children is a far, far harder

Perhaps an unpopular view but I don't actually support the "I support PA" protests. I do utterly condemn the legislation, the ridiculous police action and the government over reach they expose. But there is a real problem here. The protests have become the focus. The media report on them with

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

❗️The presidential residence in 🇬🇪Tbilisi now: mass protests have broken out in Georgia amid local elections.

The Daily Mail owner, the Grandfather of the current owner, posing with Adolf Hitler. The Daily Mail has always been Far Right trash.

Clutching at straws to hang on to their front page hatred for Angela Rayner. They think her family should take the bus perhaps …

They really don’t like a successful lefty woman do they?

The press can find Angela Rayner’s BMW and report on it, but can’t seem to locate Farage’s Russian connection.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.

"I spoke to hundreds of puppies and kittens who all hate you personally, Shabana Mahmood, why haven't you sorted this out, many years ago, before you were in power, by banning all protest, and also why are you restricting protest, you authoritarian monster?" Kuenssberg is just so exhaustingly shit.

How the hell can anyone look at the bin fire that is America and then want to ape it? Utter madness!

ht: @lindademocat

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dark times. If they’re saying this, it’s because they think enough people will agree.

Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

EXCLUSIVE: In correspondence seen by the Guardian, Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her removal from the Gaza aid flotilla, including insufficient food and water.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

The art of “Hold my beer” Politics

Greens & Lib Dems need to start working together.

Until someone, and Greens are probably doing the best at attempting this right now, breaks the cycle and says "hang on, maybe we could implement something positive and make the case for it instead" we are going to end up with policies based purely on what "flagpatriot1234" likes on social media.

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

A mosque in my city got attacked last night. Shits getting grim here 😫

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, will also look more widely at existing protest laws "to ensure that powers are sufficient and being consistently applied" - including whether there needs to be more powers to ban some protests outright.

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

Key progressive freedoms were won by the ‘cumulative impact’ of lobbying, and protest was a massive part of that to get the ear of politicians and public. This is a mistake. We will just be left with unbalanced unchallenged extremists spreading lies on digital platforms with no way to counter!

And when those new coercive powers are introduced, then what follows will prompt another round of more coercive powers for the state, and then another, and then another. The UK is trapped in an illiberal spiral.

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.