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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 14h

Dear me. Poignancy and urgency levels here. Worse still, the political inertia being led by a Govt from a Party with a boast-worthy history of anti-racism and anti-fascism.

David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14h

Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14h

Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 16h

‘No Palestinian presence at Israeli/Palestinian peace summit’ - formal recognition of the Palestinian state, latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday

Meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and include leaders of the UK, Italy, Spain and France

www.theguardian.com

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 17h

Govt representatives and journalists citing flawed comparisons between PIRA/loyalist paramilitaries decommissioning their weapons under the Good Friday Agreement and (only) Hamas decommissioning theirs. Lazy, lazy comms and lazy, lazy journalism.

Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 19h

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Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 20h

It’s impossible to not like this bloke or anything he gets involved with. Been a fan for as long as can remember. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

Best known as Hawkeye in M*A*S*H in the 70s, the 89-year-old actor has topped the Netflix charts with a revamp of his 1981 film The Four Seasons. He talks about Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen – and w...

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 20h

This is one example of how anti-racism and anti-fascism has to be delivered at community level because the current Govt is ill-equipped to do so. In many cases, itself endorsing or sympathetic to xenophobic and racist rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump's #Gaza peace plan...

Assessed by former UK ambassador Alex Hall.

With @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: Trump's Gaza Peace Plan with Alex Hall Hall

Former UK ambassador Alex Hall Hall assesses the prospects for Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan.Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices....

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Settlements for the unimaginably rich. Taken straight out of your wages if you’re poor.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Political memories don’t go back as far austerity. Very reason Brexit, Covid & Ukraine war had the impact they did is because the Tories stripped away every last piece of social and civic resilience UK had. Then Lab failed miserably to deal with the ensuing poverties as the emergencies they are.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn is one of Labour's most prolific donors. He invests in BlackRock, social care, gambling and private equity; his wife is a top exec at Facebook/Meta for 12 yrs; and he was at the centre of one of Labour’s worst lobbying scandals.
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/l...

Lord Mendelsohn connects Labour to the gambling industry, BlackRock, Intel, Meta, Rupert Murdoch, a free market think tank and a major lobbying scandal

Labour peer Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn has investments in BlackRock, social care, gambling and private equity; his wife has been a top executive at Facebook/Meta for twelve years; he’s a patron…

labourrightwatch.wordpress.com

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

With the headlines focussing on a glimmer of cautious hope these last couple of days, this extremely sinister and quite depressing story was doing the rounds yesterday.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

👍✅ this song ended a couple of years of beauties in this Gaye period that gave us songs like Can I Get a Witness and Hitch Hike. Great floor-fillers.

Period.us is for sale at Atom!

Period.us is a bold and powerful domain name that exudes confidence and modernity. With only 6 letters, this one-word domain is short, memorable, and perfect for a startup looking to make a statement....

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Good. It’s about time the Govt got a grip of the problem of swathes of 11 and 12 year-olds going in your local corner shop to ask for a paper round.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

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Care worker says visa rule changes are 'tearing' families apart

The government is proposing a 10-year wait for migrant workers who want to apply for settled status.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

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Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 2d

Homophobic Christian evangelical group ‘King’s Army’ marches through London’s Old Compton Street www.scenemag.co.uk/christian-ev...

Homophobic Christian evangelical group ‘King’s Army’ marches through London’s Old Compton Street

A 'Christian evangelical group' calling itself the 'King’s Army' has marched through Old Compton Street - the historic heart of London’s LGBTQ+ community - chanting religious slogans and accusing the ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 2d

One of my fave tracks from the John Lodge era. youtu.be/ExqvK56GiS0

Ride My See-Saw

YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 2d

Known best for his views and yet no view this time. Good work. Watch your footing back down, Kevin. ✊

Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 2d

Labour aren’t picking enough fights because appeasing vast corporate vested interests and bringing about a fair, inclusive society are at odds with one another. It’s obvious over the past 14 months they’ve done the former at the expense of the latter. Reform & Greens reap the benefits of that.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

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Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 2d

MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 2d

100% spot on.

The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 2d

Our gutter-rags gazing at Trump as a peacemaker. The bloke who self-admittedly violated women, sends gangs of armed thugs out to disappear black and brown people without trial and ramped up a genocide to the point of mass starvation for the last 10 months. Ofc they are.

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