David F.
@dfarb.bsky.social
Semi-retired technical writer, lives with metastatic prostate cancer, etc. "Incorrigibly woke", Green Party activist and parliamentary candidate. Trans ally. Posts are usually on politics but may be nonsense. Wülferhamptonian. He/him.
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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
I really thought I'd need to wait until Reform was actually in power - a day I hope never comes - before I'd feel physically sick every time the government made a policy announcement. But no, no need to wait.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social comprehensively demolishes today's budget, as it so richly deserves
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Why Rachel Reeves just failed the British public
Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social comprehensively demolishes today's budget, as it so richly deserves
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
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I urge you to read this super thread
But, most exciting of all, it’s 110 years since General Sir Eyre Coote faced a charge of improper and indecent conduct after paying schoolboys to allow him to flog them, and then getting them to flog him. And he might have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for that pesky nurse...
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I urge you to read this super thread
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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We say tax the super rich.
The super rich with those who protect them say I'm dangerous.
If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires - take on power & wealth: join.greenparty.org.uk
(Ps what are Channel 4 doing with this image!?)
The super rich with those who protect them say I'm dangerous.
If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires - take on power & wealth: join.greenparty.org.uk
(Ps what are Channel 4 doing with this image!?)
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We say tax the super rich.
The super rich with those who protect them say I'm dangerous.
If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires - take on power & wealth: join.greenparty.org.uk
(Ps what are Channel 4 doing with this image!?)
The super rich with those who protect them say I'm dangerous.
If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires - take on power & wealth: join.greenparty.org.uk
(Ps what are Channel 4 doing with this image!?)
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Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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this is abhorrent
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
this is abhorrent
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Well, there are a lot of people who could (by refusing to sell/supply weapons, ammunition, technology etc to Israel; immediately pulling the plug, including negating any licences granted for same, looking at you, UK, US etc etc) but I'm betting no one will.
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Well, there are a lot of people who could (by refusing to sell/supply weapons, ammunition, technology etc to Israel; immediately pulling the plug, including negating any licences granted for same, looking at you, UK, US etc etc) but I'm betting no one will.
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Who is going to stop this ?
Israel announced on Sunday evening that it had killed Haytham Tabtabai, thought to be Hezbollah's chief of staff, in a strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of refusing to implement the ceasefire agreement.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Y0ge
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of refusing to implement the ceasefire agreement.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Y0ge
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Who is going to stop this ?
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I don’t have an answer to your very astute question Ash. Ceasefire is a completely meaningless term when applied to Israel. Even if one accepts the argument that they were targeting a known terrorist, they have destroyed the homes and lives of entirely innocent civilians to do so.
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I don’t have an answer to your very astute question Ash. Ceasefire is a completely meaningless term when applied to Israel. Even if one accepts the argument that they were targeting a known terrorist, they have destroyed the homes and lives of entirely innocent civilians to do so.
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Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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This post from Peter Jukes sums up the importance, level and scale of everything.
Gill is the first significant locking up for collusion with Russia of many who have for years assisted the Kremlin and Putin infiltrate and severely damage not just UK politics, but media, finance, public society…
Gill is the first significant locking up for collusion with Russia of many who have for years assisted the Kremlin and Putin infiltrate and severely damage not just UK politics, but media, finance, public society…
The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that has infiltrated European politi...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This post from Peter Jukes sums up the importance, level and scale of everything.
Gill is the first significant locking up for collusion with Russia of many who have for years assisted the Kremlin and Putin infiltrate and severely damage not just UK politics, but media, finance, public society…
Gill is the first significant locking up for collusion with Russia of many who have for years assisted the Kremlin and Putin infiltrate and severely damage not just UK politics, but media, finance, public society…
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
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Rachel Johnson defending her brother on @lbc.co.uk currently just blamed the "statest establishment" for the failures.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Rachel Johnson defending her brother on @lbc.co.uk currently just blamed the "statest establishment" for the failures.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
"He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best."
Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.
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UK PM Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into Reform’s Russia links after the party's ex-Wales leader was jailed, Sky News reports.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
UK PM Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into Reform’s Russia links after the party's ex-Wales leader was jailed, Sky News reports.
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Since I was elected leader of the Green Party, 100,000 new people have joined.
In just over two months:
170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.
This is only the beginning.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
In just over two months:
170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.
This is only the beginning.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Since I was elected leader of the Green Party, 100,000 new people have joined.
In just over two months:
170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.
This is only the beginning.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
In just over two months:
170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.
This is only the beginning.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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We really for need to talk about Brexit: Jonathan Freedland, excellent as ever on the reasons why!
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We really for need to talk about Brexit: Jonathan Freedland, excellent as ever on the reasons why!
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come and join us, you'll find lots of your friends already have!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Come and join us, you'll find lots of your friends already have!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
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Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
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…That's why I'm keeping pressure on the government to give MPs a say on the new Equalities and Human Rights Commission guidance for businesses and organisations on single-sex spaces - to make sure trans people aren't locked out of public life.
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
…That's why I'm keeping pressure on the government to give MPs a say on the new Equalities and Human Rights Commission guidance for businesses and organisations on single-sex spaces - to make sure trans people aren't locked out of public life.