Every time Nazis try to use Tolkien to justify white supremacy, I like to float this 1941 letter in which Tolkien called Hitler a "ruddy little ignoramus" and accused him of "ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed" the spirit of the cultures upon which he based his works.

Buy from us because we need to fund our genocide! An advertisement on YouTube. Let them run all the way through... Make a pot of tea, go to the loo, check your phone. That way, they'll have to pay YT for the ad. #EndTheGenocideInGaza

Go on! Have a chuckle before bedtime! 👻 www.youtube.com/shorts/JdlTC...

Of course they did, and as someone who's been in front of many juries as an attorney I'll tell you why: jurors hate government overreach more than anything, and this case was such a blindingly obvious instance of serious government overreach that everyone associated with it should probably be fired.

Keir Starmer has just told COP30 in the Amazon: "The Amazon rainforest helps to regulate the climate for every person on earth" So why has the UK Govt refused to invest in Brazil's fund to save tropical rainforests? & why no mention of Britain's temperate rainforests? www.gov.uk/government/s...

It is possible that I have never seen a picture that better sums up a presidency.

It’s just basic clout chasing. They want to preserve their progressive credentials by supporting it where they don’t have to be answerable to their rich paymasters. If a UK politician suggested free buses, these people would be apoplectic in defence someone’s right to profit.

It's grotesque

This week, I will mostly be eating... cauliflower! Asda have sent me a proper beast of a Brassica lol. 😍

This what Starmer supported. He wanted to endanger British people. He needs to be removed for genocide and treason.

A major protest has been held outside the offices of Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar Games in Edinburgh, after more than 30 staff were allegedly sacked for trade union activity.

I don't think I'm ever going to get through all the great videos of Mamdani's victory today. 🤣🥳 Hope for the WORLD! 💚🗺️💚

Protests and demonstrations are not a new phenomenon and were a common part of Victorian and earlier life. Bonfire night, because of its origins was often a focal point for protest with Guy Fawkes seen as a rebel with right on his side. Such was the case in Wakefield 1/2

Fluorescent Cerianthus anemone sway in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity

Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

Elon’s estranged daughter has re-entered the chat

LATEST: A SNP MP has said he will seek legal advice after he was branded a 'rape enabler' by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence bot

It's out: The epic of the Labour party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. An endless tragicomic cycle in which right and left try to murder each other, succeed, fall apart, are murdered in turn, and then begin anew.

Just a reminder that if you say you are Anglo-Saxon then you are saying your ancestors arrived here on small boats

Learning to draw is incredibly difficult but it's also pretty satisfying to see improvement. Melinoë last night vs a couple months ago...

It's happening

For British viewers, this is happening at 17:00 GMT. 😃👍

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them. Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive. open.substack.com/pub/european...

📌 H O P E • I S • B A C K ✊🏾✊🏻 LOVE won over hate 💯 🇺🇲🐥 🤭🤣 Canks lost BIGLY 🐥

I have now read a few dozen different takes from Republicans on last night’s election results and none of them have concluded that Trump is responsible for it in any way. Lots of lots of other takes and theories, but none of them include accountability for their infallible hero.

Das werde ich ab jetzt tagtäglich posten! 🍊🤡

Happy Guru Nanak Gurpurab to all Sikhs celebrating today 💚

Finally, it looks like Financial Education will be taught in every school! Hurrah!

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

He ditched the Green New Deal the moment he took power; invented 'grey belt' to build over green; slashed regs & fast-tracked Heathrow's 3rd runway: Keir Starmer is rattled, caught in a pincer movement between Left & Right with no one to blame but 'centrism' itself. He's coming for Zack. Personally.

Glad to say that the Scottish Government has agreed to work with me to end the absurd loophole allowing shooting estates owned by billionaires and tax avoiders to get a 100% tax break as 'small businesses' Thanks to @protectthewild.bsky.social, @revivecoalition.bsky.social and other campaigners 💚

Is anyone surprised? For years the BBC’s coverage of the EU has been too negative. Between 2001 and 2016, the BBC’s coverage of the EU veered between disinterest and EU-bashing. Reports about the EU were so negative that Brussels came off worse than Putin. #Brexit www.politico.eu/blogs/on-med...

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Donald Trump has threatened New York City if it elects Zohran Mamdani. Imagine a leader did somewhere in Asia, Africa or Latin America. Would we regard that country as a democracy?

In many of our town centres, there are plenty of empty buildings (especially above shops) which could be used for affordable housing. This would help many shops to recruit staff, boost footfall in our town centres, and give people and families an affordable place to live.

Time to change the rules. www.youtube.com/shorts/AZ5RS...

(🚨) NEW at PROOF: It is 8PM the night before Election Day, and *this* is the breaking news the whole world should be talking about.

People ask why I moved up here, and when I say well England is a bin fire they laugh. After the ice is broken I start telling them I consider myself a refugee fleeing the war on the poor & give them some of these examples. Scots don't realise how much they'd lose without SNP mitigating Westminster

I'm not laughing... I'm not laughing... 🤣🤣🤣

I'm home all day, yet still frustrated that a package hasn't arrived yet! Why can't I just chill and get on with my day, instead of sitting on a knife edge, waiting for the doorbell to ring?

She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.

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Love it

This is an excellent idea!!!