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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 51m

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 19d

If he does nothing else, I hope Zack manages to shift the Overton window so that the press can't dismiss perfectly legitimate demands as crackpot dreams.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20d

Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills.

The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 18h

Welsh UKIP leader while Farage was national leader - but NF claims he never knew him?

Just not credible. #FarageLies.

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 21h

Nathan Gill was a UKIP & later Brexit Party, MEP 2014 - 2020. He was leader of UKIP Wales 2014 - 2016 while Mr Farage was the national leader. Gill waa leader of Reform UK Wales between March and May 2021. Last week he pleaded guilty to 8 counts of bribery between 6 Dec 2018 and July 2019.

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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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18h

Seems uniquely Starmer to me.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18h

I have the perfect amount of people blocked on instagram. Mostly poets 😏

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 19h

'Recent appointments include Axel Heitmueller, a former senior associate at the Tony Blair Institute, while Harvey Redgrave, another TBI alumnus, has been put in day-to-day charge of the team.'

Starmer pushing out last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

You could simply record a video in less time than it takes to get this bullshit set up to a satisfactory level, without all of the potential risks involved in this utter, utter nonsense.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 21h

Nathan Gill was a UKIP & later Brexit Party, MEP 2014 - 2020. He was leader of UKIP Wales 2014 - 2016 while Mr Farage was the national leader. Gill waa leader of Reform UK Wales between March and May 2021. Last week he pleaded guilty to 8 counts of bribery between 6 Dec 2018 and July 2019.

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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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22h

"Zia, do you ever think it's the number one problem because you spend a lot of time spreading misinformation and fear?"

— Zack Polanski

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22h

More on the PSNI from @netpol.org

www.instagram.com/p/DPlx2xbDL9...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 1d

Last night, Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf were called fascists on prime-time BBC. Call me sentimental, but I think the UK is a slightly better place today.

The Overton window shifted in our favour for once.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Hate crimes are up for the first time in three years? Complete mystery about how we got here.

Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 1d

I find this very interesting, especially after interviewing an Irish MP last year who was unaware that PSNI had been sharing sensitive information with paramilitary groups.

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

Officers in the PSNI’s (Police Service of Northern Ireland) most sensitive department have described their senior management as more dangerous than those trying to kill them. m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

PSNI mirroring Blue Lights: Officers fear their own bosses more than dissidents amid ‘deep, corrosive disillusionment’

Officers in the PSNI’s most sensitive department have described their senior management as more dangerous than those trying to kill them.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 1d

Probably a little bit too much tbh 🤭

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 1d

I love being right

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

It's hard graft, but someone has to do it
samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/zack-polan...

Zack Polanski Sees All

It's hard graft but someone has to do it

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

'And lo and behold three days later Polanski was on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions. I expect that BBC Question Time will be calling on him soon too.'

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

'In answer to Jones’ question I decided that no, Polanski would not be made persona non-grata by the UK media, because he consistently and I think objectively makes good TV. Plus he seems to say yes to every invite.' 3/5

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

..especially with both parties having the same number of seats. Probably not since Farage got so much airtime even before he had any seats."

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

'Owen Jones, (not that one) posed an intriguing question recently. He said,

“Wonder if the UK media will give Zack Polanski as much airtime as Nigel Farage, (Farage has been on BBC Question Time, 39 times) 1/5

Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 2d

The first time I’ve been looking forward to watch Question Time in quite a while!

Go on @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

#bbcqt

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

Even my regular go-to law whisperer @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social hasn't managed to explain or demystify the Chinese spy thing for me. He's written about it 2 days in a row, and it's no more clearer why they were charged last year or why the charges were dropped
open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

China: the plot thickens

Prosecutor's response raises more questions than it answers

open.substack.com

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

I felt like this was quite big news, but have not seen anyone talking about it. Or actually even any articles being shared about it. Weird. Has the Me too movement totally moved on? Aren't their funded organisations who work on this area of law and women's rights?

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11d

Victims of crime in England and Wales will have greater protection from tomorrow. In specified circumstances, they will no longer be bound by non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality clauses that they have signed.

— @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social

rozenberg.substack.com/p/gags-to-be...

Gags to be banned

Victims of crime will be allowed to disclose information

rozenberg.substack.com

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

'An academic who interviewed 60 officers in the Operational Support Department – which includes the armed support unit, close protection, riot police and explosives branch – found that almost 90% of them were scathing about how the police supports its own frontline officers.'

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2d

Officers in the PSNI’s (Police Service of Northern Ireland) most sensitive department have described their senior management as more dangerous than those trying to kill them. m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

PSNI mirroring Blue Lights: Officers fear their own bosses more than dissidents amid ‘deep, corrosive disillusionment’

Officers in the PSNI’s most sensitive department have described their senior management as more dangerous than those trying to kill them.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 3d

Everything has already been said. Sometimes you don't have to repeat it.

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