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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Good article on this subject. Well done Gary Neville, too.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 5d

Lord Heseltine at UK and Europe: a Shared Future - reminding us that Britain’s strength lies in partnership, not isolation.

Cooperation, shared laws, and common purpose built post-war Europe. They can build our future too.

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 5d

OFCOM fails duty to UK.

“I don’t think the code or the regulator, or anybody, envisaged the leader of the political party with the highest poll rating having his own personal show on a news channel,” he said. “When you look at it like that, it’s extraordinary.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d

Find @alissaazar.bsky.social's work on her Ghost blog.

In this from 31 July, she explains how facial recognition, AI, and OSINT (open-source intelligence) tools used to ID Portland protesters are now sharper, faster, and fully integrated into federal policing.
www.wewillfreeus.org/how-surveill...

Surveillance Stack: What the Playbook Looks Like
This is the surveillance stack in action- the full playbook of repression. It starts with high-resolution, zoom-capable cameras mounted on buildings and vehicles, capturing everything in real-time. Then comes AI-powered pattern recognition: tattoos, clothing, body movement, even the color of your shoelaces can become identifiers. Facial recognition tools, often commercial systems like Clearview AI or PimEyes, are layered on top, linking footage to faces scraped from social media or online records. Once a potential match is made, agents cross-reference databases: Instagram posts, college yearbooks, DMV photos, and data broker files. Finally, they show up in the real world- staking out homes, taking long-lens photos, and building a case one breadcrumb at a time. It's not just surveillance, it's a system designed to criminalize dissent from every angle.

This is what the digital police state looks like in motion.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 6d

They’re liars—and bad at lying.

These photos of “war-ravaged Portland” are from other countries.

Not Portland.

If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be laughable.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 6d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 6d

Gary Neville is right that Britain once took pride in its mix of people, united by purpose not hate, but Brexit and those who profit from division have broken that spirit, and rebuilding it must begin with decency, solidarity and the will to stand together again.

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 7d

Honest Tories can speak the truth. Times is paywalled.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

www.thetimes.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 7d

Fun Fact - Kemi Badenoch (formerly Nigerian) wants to send migrants back where they came from was born Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Adegoke 1980 in Wimbledon. Coincidentally her mother travelled from Nigeria to UK for medical treatment and gave birth here…

So presumably she’d send herself to Nigeria 🤷🏼‍♂️

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch says she will send people "back to where they came from"

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 7d

It takes Gary Neville to do what our leaders in Government should be doing. Pretty shaming for the Labour leadership.
Neville blames
"“angry, middle-aged white men … who know exactly what they’re doing”.
and Boris Johnson for “fuelling” racism and hatred

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’

Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9d

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Trevor McCarthy @mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

www.nytimes.com/athletic/668... Pep Guardiola voices support for pro-Gazan demonstration in Barcelona: ‘We are witnessing a live genocide’

Pep Guardiola voices support for pro-Gazan demonstration in Barcelona: ‘We are witnessing a live genocide’

This is not the first time Guardiola has shared his views on the conflict as he said in June: "It's so painful what we see in Gaza."

www.nytimes.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, her insistence that she *never* makes gaffes makes every gaffe she makes much, much worse than it would otherwise have been…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit

In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

www.bbc.co.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9d

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police on.ft.com/42KdNBd

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police

Greater Manchester police say one of those shot by officers has died

on.ft.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 9d

The revolting action of a far right minister in a pariah government.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 11d

On @lbc.co.uk now - please tune in...

Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 11d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced?

David Lammy has clarified remarks that the Reform leader ‘flirted with Hitler Youth’. Here is the background to the row

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12d

Good examination of the most bizarre and embarrassing event in the US’ current Age of Bizarre and Embarrassing.

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

www.theatlantic.com

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PeteGulls @gullssinceaboy.bsky.social · 12d

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“Farage boats”, I love that.

Keir Starmer brands small boats 'Farage boats' in fresh attack on Reform

Keir Starmer has lashed out at Nigel Farage, branding small boats crossing the Channel as 'Brexit boats' and saying the Reform leader was wrong to say leaving the EU would not affect migration

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 12d

No surprise that some of Robinson's followers are found in the Met.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about Charing Cross station after sending evidence to police chiefs

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14d

Former director of the CIA John Brennan, "I’m not going to be intimidated by the likes of Donald Trump"

"Clearly there is a corruption and a perversion of the justice system right now within the executive branch"

"I think too many Americans do not appreciate the extent of damage being done"

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 14d

Oh good more grannies being bundled into the back of police vans, but now at the Labour Party Conference

Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm...

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Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 14d

Some of those concerned about civil liberties/state control are letting their worst fears drive their attitude on this topic. We already have "identity cards" in all but name, so the feared risks are already here. The fact that databases of these cards might be hacked is not grounds to avoid them.