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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 11h

£20.26 seems pricey for a calendar

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 19h

I’m just gonna watch II an VI over and over again

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Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 21h

The challenge not to reply to anyone you hear say "I'm confused" with "So's the TARDIS, ha ha", is very real and criminally underappreciated.

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 2d

What’s this?

dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 3d

And there's the guy who wants to legalise incest.

dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 3d

I've never really understood why we make such a fuss over polls anyway. Have they ever been accurate?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across 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.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 5d

"It's beyond you to comprehend that God is infinitely in love with you in the frailties of your ways." —James Finley, "Turning to the Mystics" buff.ly/mjJDHCu

Even when we feel weak, God’s love meets us in our frailty. How does this truth resonate for you?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

The people running Reform and the pure essence of entitlement that's been mildly inconvienced by a welfare state and not enough forelock tugging.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 5d

Tories caught lying? Who’dathunkit

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 5d

Between them Tice, Farage, Jenrick and Badenoch really are competing for some kind of trophy, huh.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Robin @its-robin.bsky.social · 5d

It’s still wild to me I was raised singing “Jesus loves the little children / all the children in the world / red yellow black and white / they are precious in His sight” and my right wing family wonder how I became a social justice Christian against the empire.

Because I actually believed it?

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 5d

This is hilarious

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 7d

Yaxley rallies

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 7d

Small state Tories, back again

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7d

Otherwise the plan would be this. All UK citizens, all legal permanent residents, all legal visa holders & all tourists would need to provide facial ID to the government.

And the facial recognition system would need a zero % false positive rate. And then you simply flag anyone not in the system 3/n

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7d

Otherwise the plan would be this. All UK citizens, all legal permanent residents, all legal visa holders & all tourists would need to provide facial ID to the government.

And the facial recognition system would need a zero % false positive rate. And then you simply flag anyone not in the system 3/n

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 8d

The next general election is going to be unbearably awful isn’t it

Just parties lining up to outdo each other in awfulness

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 7d

In sheer desperation to outFarage Farage, the Tories continue their lurch towards fascism by embracing fascism wholeheartedly

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 7d

Another important thread

Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 7d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

dr stephen lane @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 7d

This thread is incredibly important

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 8d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice