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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 21d

“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”

We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.

Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds

During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...

euobserver.com

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · 17d

Dogs off-lead on shared use cycle/foot paths: discuss.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Oct 9

Into the annoying period when I need to put events in for next year but my diary company haven't released their 2026 diaries yet.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Oct 2

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 25

This is also true for LGBTIQ+ people - I've had so many more friends report instances of harassment both verbal and physical in the last year.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Sep 25

Friends have explained that street harassment today is significantly worse than it was just after the riots a year ago, taking clear action to condemn does set a tone and direction!

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 24

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 24

In other news, we are now making school cake.

Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 24

The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.

Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 24

The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.

Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 23

Does anyone have recommendations for good second hand book websites that aren't owned by Amazon?

Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 23

I've gone for the opposite vibe, and dressed up very nice for my Zoom meeting where no one is going to see my outfit.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 22

I do not like being in a version of the UK where I am actively considering whether it is safe to have the rainbow/queer stickers I have on my laptop while travelling.

Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 22

Do cross country design their trains as Faraday cages so you have to sell your data to their WiFi service?

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Sep 22

I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Sep 22

'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters'

you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · Sep 22

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 22

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · Sep 22

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 19

I made friends with the bookseller in Blackwell's over this - imagining the number of people who had bought it based on the cover vibes and got something of a surprise.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 18

My favourite thing about cooking in other people's kitchens is that everyone answers the question "if I were a vegetable peeler where would I live" in a different way

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 17

This is great!

I'm still not over the European cover of Someone You Can Build A Nest In - which possibly wins my prize for "least suitable to the subject matter, though pretty".

Book cover the title "Someone You can Build A Nest In" in decorative script over a forest scene with a distant couple in front of a fantasy town.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 16

Am I good at distinguishing these two occasions? No.

But I'm excited for cake.

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sometimes you need to push through on your PhD.

Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · Sep 16

Q for the reporter: did you feel any desire or obligation to point out that all of this *is* racism? Or are you just here to observe the racism and amplify it without commenting on the fact that it is, indeed, factually racist as hell?

Press neutrality is an oxymoron. Time to show some principles.

Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · Sep 16

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 16

All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · Sep 15

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 16

BBC managed to report on the UN finding of genocide in Gaza as their frontpage article this morning - yet you'll note that no Palestinian is allowed to speak in the article, while Israel's refutation is prominantly cited.

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

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 15

Becoming that person: going for a run in my Ice Hockey Varsity T-shirt from 2013.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · Sep 15

"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."

No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.

Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · Sep 15

My letter to Lord Reed.

This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow.

If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form:

supremecourt.uk/_next/static...

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