Barbicanval
@barbicanval.bsky.social
Fibro fighter, mum of 2 adult girls, cat mum. I'm probably a member of the wokerati, lefty clan. Nurse for 20 odd yrs, then complete career change, was a csi for 10 yrs.
Labour party member.
Man City supporter.
Now disabled 😒
Cross stitcher
Labour party member.
Man City supporter.
Now disabled 😒
Cross stitcher
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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.
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.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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.
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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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? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
It's just revolting 😤
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads.
Race hate.
Race hate.
August 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's just revolting 😤
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“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
August 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
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August 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.
www.justsecurity.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
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In one year, Nigel Farage received the most amount of ‘gifts’ of any MP in Westminster, just short of £100,000.
Where’s the outrage from our media?
Where’s the outrage from our media?
July 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In one year, Nigel Farage received the most amount of ‘gifts’ of any MP in Westminster, just short of £100,000.
Where’s the outrage from our media?
Where’s the outrage from our media?
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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In case you missed it in The Other Place, Liz Truss has gone properly fucking nuts.
June 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In case you missed it in The Other Place, Liz Truss has gone properly fucking nuts.
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Israel’s former PM Ehud Olmert in Haaretz:
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: an indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians"
"Yes, we are committing war crimes"
Article source: www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: an indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians"
"Yes, we are committing war crimes"
Article source: www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...
May 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Israel’s former PM Ehud Olmert in Haaretz:
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: an indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians"
"Yes, we are committing war crimes"
Article source: www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: an indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians"
"Yes, we are committing war crimes"
Article source: www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...
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Here is the official Harvard University website!
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000
The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000
The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
May 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Here is the official Harvard University website!
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000
The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000
The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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On the govt publishing the nationalities of foreign criminals, Rob Jenrick says: "We will finally see the reality that mass migration is fuelling crime across our country. Frankly, the public deserved to know this long ago."
The Tories were in power for 14 years until last July
The Tories were in power for 14 years until last July
April 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
On the govt publishing the nationalities of foreign criminals, Rob Jenrick says: "We will finally see the reality that mass migration is fuelling crime across our country. Frankly, the public deserved to know this long ago."
The Tories were in power for 14 years until last July
The Tories were in power for 14 years until last July
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Just Trump casually reversing victim and aggressor here, suggesting it was Zelenskyy who started the war…
Have you spoken to Zelensky about his offer to purchase more Patriot missile batteries?
Trump: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you've got to know that you can to win the war. You don't start a war against somebody that's twenty times your size."
Trump: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you've got to know that you can to win the war. You don't start a war against somebody that's twenty times your size."
April 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Just Trump casually reversing victim and aggressor here, suggesting it was Zelenskyy who started the war…
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ReformUK too
April 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
ReformUK too
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Reform UK is trying to take us all for fools.
So on April Fools Day, we’re exposing all of Reform’s hypocrisy so far (1/who knows????) 🧵
So on April Fools Day, we’re exposing all of Reform’s hypocrisy so far (1/who knows????) 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Reform UK is trying to take us all for fools.
So on April Fools Day, we’re exposing all of Reform’s hypocrisy so far (1/who knows????) 🧵
So on April Fools Day, we’re exposing all of Reform’s hypocrisy so far (1/who knows????) 🧵
😂😂😂
March 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
😂😂😂
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There’s so much wrong with Britain, and some grave historical blemishes, but we do have strong antibodies against fascism.
March 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
There’s so much wrong with Britain, and some grave historical blemishes, but we do have strong antibodies against fascism.
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The last *seven days*?
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
March 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The last *seven days*?
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
There's so much talk of cutting disability benefits in the UK, which scares the life out of me, but why is there no talk of scrapping the triple lock?
As a person in my 60's, it would affect me fairly soon, but it seems grossly unfair to target 1 over the other!!
As a person in my 60's, it would affect me fairly soon, but it seems grossly unfair to target 1 over the other!!
March 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There's so much talk of cutting disability benefits in the UK, which scares the life out of me, but why is there no talk of scrapping the triple lock?
As a person in my 60's, it would affect me fairly soon, but it seems grossly unfair to target 1 over the other!!
As a person in my 60's, it would affect me fairly soon, but it seems grossly unfair to target 1 over the other!!
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As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
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Sorry but this cracked me up 😆😆
March 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sorry but this cracked me up 😆😆