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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are.”

Victoria Derbyshire asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

No lies detected.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly, I don’t care what’s deemed “British” or “un-British” (who defines this?). What matters is being decently *human*. Inciting hate against others because of where they were born, their nationality, skin colour (all arbitrary), or religious beliefs is inhuman. Let’s call that out, per se.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 1d

Well said, Bishop of Birmingham. 👏

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Regardless of how private or thoughtfully you say racist things, they still remain racist and it’s right to be called out on them.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 2d

And Labour is hot on their heels. Despicable.

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Joseph Evans @josephevans.bsky.social · 2d

The politics of migration have shifted so far to the extreme right, the Conservatives and Reform now have a more hardline policy on deporting legal British residents than... the British National Party did in 2005

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 3d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 2d

Being racist is the job…

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 2d

Robot pets in the news again for dementia care. Sigh. Always about tech solutions (of dubious ethics, IMO), rather than acknowledging - & accepting - that dementia care really needs a huge injection of investment in actual, human beings.

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

The right-wing press targeted Lineker because he had the balls to speak out. Now it’s Gary Neville’s turn.
We need to be talking about flags and angry middle-aged white men. Well done Gary.
👏👏

Gary Neville hits out after removing union flag from Manchester development site

The former Manchester United captain says the flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men’

www.independent.co.uk

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 3d

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 3d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

Dealing with dangers like this is why it’s completely clear that police need far harsher powers to deal with protest.

Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 5d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 4d

These are the regular & repeated ‘demonstrations’ that should be shut down 😡

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 4d

Essex Police admit the protests at the Bell Hotel in Epping have already cost £1.7m – money that must come from local budgets.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

The £1.7m bill: Essex Police under pressure from Epping asylum protests

As protests outside the Bell Hotel drag on, Essex Police face spiralling costs while residents grapple with division

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

Lancet editorial asks ‘why do racism& discrimination matter to science &medicine?’ and gives reasons. But do we even need to justify? They matter because we’re humans. Needing to justify is kind of part of the problem of silence. Resisting them is everybody’s lane.
www.the-lancet.com/journals/lan...

The far-right and health: an evolving political crisis

Across Europe and North America, racism, xenophobia, and far-right nationalism have become normalised in public and political discourse, leading many people to feel anxiety and fear of violence, discr...

www.thelancet.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #RebootGB #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social · 4d

It took working class men & women decades to get the vote. Suffragettes were subjected to the full power of the state. We do not have a govt that listens to citizens. Millions took to the streets to protest Brexit & the Iraq war - we were right & today we are right about arming Israel in a genocide.

Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 4d

They call it “repeated protests.”
As if persistence were a crime.

Every movement that’s ever changed this country: civil rights, suffrage, peace, equality, was repeated until someone listened.

Restricting protest because it happens too often is to say
“You may speak truth to power, but only once.”

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