Sue Lukes
suelukes.bsky.social
Sue Lukes
@suelukes.bsky.social
Expert on local services esp housing, migration, migrant communities, community safety, human rights. First UK councillor migrant champion. she/her pronouns. Post in Spanish and English 💜💙🤍💜💙🤍
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Right, I mean, so many follow-ups, like 'Keir, buddy, have you seen your OWN X feed lately?'
It’s all very reasonable in the article. It’s just that he’s going to be absolutely furious when he sees the vile stuff the Home Office keep posting to the socials. Any minute now.
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Retrospective changes to rights, the advancing of what is - still! - an extreme position on who is and isn't British have become so normal that leftwing people on here will fall over themselves to go 'what on earth could he be talking about when he says the next election is different?'
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Rabbi Ruttenberg as ever gives us the moral clarity and truth telling we need. Thank you
Human lives have value, and it’s urgent that we do everything that we can to preserve them

even if they don’t contribute to capitalism.

I would say: I can’t believe we’ve forgotten this basic concept, but I wonder if we, as a society, broadly understood– that is to say power – ever understood it.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Human lives have value, and it’s urgent that we do everything that we can to preserve them

even if they don’t contribute to capitalism.

I would say: I can’t believe we’ve forgotten this basic concept, but I wonder if we, as a society, broadly understood– that is to say power – ever understood it.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Just out: our report of Suresh Grover's testimony to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. A lifelong anti-racist campaigner, he's helped many family justice campaigns inc Stephen Lawrence & Ricky Reel's. It got him targeted by #spycops for decades
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/12/07/u...
UCPI Daily Report, 19 Nov 2025: Suresh Grover evidence
The Undercover Policing Inquiry questions Suresh Grover, anti-racist campaigner & co-ordinator of family justice campaigns
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Monday's meeting of Starmer, Macron and Merz could turn out to be even more important because of the US national security strategy. They need to decide whether to say in public what they are thinking in private: that the threat is no longer just Putin, it's also Trump
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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There is now ample evidence to investigate Farage and Reform as Russian assets aimed at subverting British democracy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I haven't stopped thinking about this essay since I read it.
To choose life, not just for ourselves but for everyone and a bountiful one for all.
The work of bringing a more whole world into being is us, friends.

If there's anything else that might happen, great, but in the meantime: we have our marching orders to fight for love, care, justice, compassion, life.

Not complicated.
Our Side Of The Deal
the tl;dr of covenant, and everything since Creation: Choose Life
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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And yet he has chosen, like Starmer, Merz and others, to be silent in public on the anti-European agenda of the Trump administration. He believes that Trump is best flattered and manipulated, rather than opposed. For how long?

ENDS
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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President Macron cannot stand again in 2027 but his entire legacy and worldview will have been destroyed. He has long warned that Europe must become a strategic power in its own right or risk becoming a vassal of Russia, China AND the United States. 12/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The next big electoral crunch in the EU will be the presidential election in France in April-May 2027. If the Far Right, already in poll position, conquers France, it will be a dagger to the belly of the European Union. 11/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The first European election in which the new Trump doctrine might make a difference will be in Hungary in April. But if Trump helps the pro-Kremlin Viktor Orban to be re-elected, he will be merely preserving a troublesome status quo 10/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The official Trump security strategy – largely ignorant, self-contradictory and in places mis-spelled – is a crude threat to all European democracies, including the UK. It is an especially immediate threat to France and Emmanuel Macron. 9/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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No time soon, it appears. According to Der Spiegel, President Macron warned at a previous, informal European summit that Donald Trump might “betray” Zelensky and Ukraine and try to impose a Putin-leaning quick fix in the peace talks. The Elysée immediately denied he had used that word. 8/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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What do Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, who claim in public to be “friends” with Trump, think about that? More importantly, when will they decide that it is the right time to speak out? 7/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The NSS says – hypocritically - that the US will no longer interfere to promote democracy and human rights in the Middle east, Asia and Latin America but it will interfere in the democratic process of its European allies to promote Trump-compatible governments. 6/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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There is a difference between the ill-informed intervention of a recently-elected Veep and the officially codified and published US security strategy which to European ears reads like a cross between a Fox News rant and a Pravda editorial. 4/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The US is now officially committed (alongside Moscow) to interfering in European electoral politics to promote nationalist and anti-EU parties of the Far Right, from Reform in the UK to Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National in France to the xenophobic AFD in Germany. 5/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Not the first time #nigelfarage has said things that aren't true and had to be rebuked by the police for doing so: dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic... #stopfarage He really does seem to think that #Trump style tactics will do the trick for him in the UK.
Nigel Farage accused of false claims on sex attacks at Reform rally in Falkirk
Cops said the Reform chief's claims of 'three serious sexual assaults in Falkirk in the last week' - used to criticise asylum seekers - were inaccurate.
dailyrecord.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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People should note that Voloshyn tried to disguise Gill’s bribes as ‘media payments’

Do we know how much Farage received for his regular appearance on RT/Russia Today around the time of Brexit?
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You still have time to donate and double your donation or more with gift aid. Gift aid! get the government to pay for something you want: to bring joy to detention centres and asylum hotels. Do it now! The Big Give ends tomorrow midday
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The denial rather undermines the earlier acknowledgement & apology
www.thejc.com/news/board-u...
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Sweden used to apologise for being a holocaust denier, as the Jewish Chronicle set out, but he now just lies about it
www.thejc.com/news/board-u...
Board of Deputies urges Katie Hopkins to apologise over photo with former Holocaust denier
Board of Deputies urges Katie Hopkins to apologise over photo with former Holocaust denier
www.thejc.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Elon Musk shares far right advocate and former holocaust denier Peter Sweden to explain that remigration isn't far right
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM