Use Of Weapons
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Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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The killer in this case should never be allowed to drive again.
But why are the people who design our roads to keep producing this result never held to any account?
But why are the people who design our roads to keep producing this result never held to any account?
Driver jailed over Birmingham crash which killed woman and dog
Danielle Mitten is sentenced for causing the death of Lucy Atkins by dangerous driving.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The killer in this case should never be allowed to drive again.
But why are the people who design our roads to keep producing this result never held to any account?
But why are the people who design our roads to keep producing this result never held to any account?
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Landing on the HOPE not hate store this Thursday at 6pm 💛
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Landing on the HOPE not hate store this Thursday at 6pm 💛
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We can't let the future of the BBC be decided by its enemies and politicians swayed by billionaires. We have to protect its independence. Sign the petition today and make sure the public has its say on the future of our #BBC: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Our BBC: Give the public a real say
The BBC isn't perfect, but we must come together to make it better and stronger. We must use the upcoming Royal Charter review to protect our BBC for us, the British public.
For too long, the public h...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We can't let the future of the BBC be decided by its enemies and politicians swayed by billionaires. We have to protect its independence. Sign the petition today and make sure the public has its say on the future of our #BBC: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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We're only able to do this work - helping people stand up to Far right bullies - because tens of thousands of you have set up direct debits to support our work. But the cost of living crisis means our income is getting squeezed - and we could really use your support. goodlawproject.org/donate/
Support us | Good Law Project
We can only keep fighting thanks to individual donations. Our people-powered model keeps us fiercely independent, so we can hold power to account.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We're only able to do this work - helping people stand up to Far right bullies - because tens of thousands of you have set up direct debits to support our work. But the cost of living crisis means our income is getting squeezed - and we could really use your support. goodlawproject.org/donate/
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“It was not from the exact place so my racism was merely sparkling bigotry”
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
“It was not from the exact place so my racism was merely sparkling bigotry”
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(Though that isn't the maddest bit. The maddest bit is that houses built since 1991 are taxed on the basis of what they *would have been worth had they existed in 1991*, which produces odd results: when my in-laws moved from a three-bed house to a new retirement flat, their council tax went up!)
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
(Though that isn't the maddest bit. The maddest bit is that houses built since 1991 are taxed on the basis of what they *would have been worth had they existed in 1991*, which produces odd results: when my in-laws moved from a three-bed house to a new retirement flat, their council tax went up!)
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Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty? | CNN
Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
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Twenty years since I had to sit and listen to David Miliband pretending that postponing council tax revaluation was a brave political decision, rather than a cowardly mistake.
These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Twenty years since I had to sit and listen to David Miliband pretending that postponing council tax revaluation was a brave political decision, rather than a cowardly mistake.
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These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:
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Good lecture. In addition to the craven cowardice of the BBC in editing out a key line in his talk, I’m equally dismayed by the fact that the audience (with a couple of exceptions) was composed of the very elites he criticised including the co-founder of the (Paul GB News) Marshall Institute…
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Good lecture. In addition to the craven cowardice of the BBC in editing out a key line in his talk, I’m equally dismayed by the fact that the audience (with a couple of exceptions) was composed of the very elites he criticised including the co-founder of the (Paul GB News) Marshall Institute…
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I guess the dwindling band of Starmer-loyalists will soon be defecting to the Greens, and lecturing those remaining in the Labour fold about the dangers of splitting the anti-Reform vote?
Or they could just acknowledge that what's really splitting that vote is the behaviour of Starmer's government
Or they could just acknowledge that what's really splitting that vote is the behaviour of Starmer's government
📊 NEW | Reform lead by 6pts
‼️ Greens tied with Labour
➡️ REF – 26% (-2)
🔵 CON – 20% (+2)
🟢 GRN – 18% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-)
🟠 LD – 11% (-)
Via @LordAPolls, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs 20 Oct)
‼️ Greens tied with Labour
➡️ REF – 26% (-2)
🔵 CON – 20% (+2)
🟢 GRN – 18% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-)
🟠 LD – 11% (-)
Via @LordAPolls, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs 20 Oct)
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I guess the dwindling band of Starmer-loyalists will soon be defecting to the Greens, and lecturing those remaining in the Labour fold about the dangers of splitting the anti-Reform vote?
Or they could just acknowledge that what's really splitting that vote is the behaviour of Starmer's government
Or they could just acknowledge that what's really splitting that vote is the behaviour of Starmer's government
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Didn’t all us lot here on Bluesky suss this out about Twitter ages ago?
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Didn’t all us lot here on Bluesky suss this out about Twitter ages ago?
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“We urge you to act decisively to provide the investment, strategy and leadership that firefighters and the communities they protect urgently need to tackle the realities of climate change.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/uk-wildfires-more-areas-in-2025-than-since-records-began
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/uk-wildfires-more-areas-in-2025-than-since-records-began
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“We urge you to act decisively to provide the investment, strategy and leadership that firefighters and the communities they protect urgently need to tackle the realities of climate change.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/uk-wildfires-more-areas-in-2025-than-since-records-began
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/uk-wildfires-more-areas-in-2025-than-since-records-began
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There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
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Journalists and the media who do not consistently and directly challenge Farage on his and Reform’s links to Russia are colluding with him.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The next step will be the British government looking at the Tokugawa shogunate and going: "That's a nice immigration policy you have there"
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The next step will be the British government looking at the Tokugawa shogunate and going: "That's a nice immigration policy you have there"
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Impressive increase until you read that in a similar period, Paris cycling numbers increased by 240%.
Only 40% of people cycling in London feels safe when sharing with cars, but 76% feel safe on designated routes.
London needs to do a lot more and a lot quicker.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only 40% of people cycling in London feels safe when sharing with cars, but 76% feel safe on designated routes.
London needs to do a lot more and a lot quicker.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cycling journeys up by 43% in London, TfL report suggests
Cycling journeys have increased to more than 1.5 million daily this year, according to a new report.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Impressive increase until you read that in a similar period, Paris cycling numbers increased by 240%.
Only 40% of people cycling in London feels safe when sharing with cars, but 76% feel safe on designated routes.
London needs to do a lot more and a lot quicker.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only 40% of people cycling in London feels safe when sharing with cars, but 76% feel safe on designated routes.
London needs to do a lot more and a lot quicker.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM