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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 1d

It is, obviously, very very good

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The Celebrity Traitors review – this star-packed bonanza is all you’ll be able to care about

It’s everything you want from the gameshow, but with loads of famous faces. And at one point, it feels like you’re witnessing like the last pure moment in history. Beautiful

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

But what could Antifa have been opposing in Weimar Ger…. Oh. Oh!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 3d

I hate the phrase “unbritish” -Starmer is a horror show who can’t distinguish between Israel and Jews

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

By embracing Brexit for party advantage, the Conservative and Unionist party both destroyed itself and, in time, dismantled the union.

A political morality tale, a fable of hard folly.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3d

If Robert Jenrik had been politically active 50 odd years ago he'd be complaining that immigrants moving into white areas are affecting property prices.
In short, he's a racist.

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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 3d

🎶He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out who'll stop Tory Ice
Robbie Jenrick's coming to town 🎶

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 3d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 5d

Passing laws to create new, draconian restrictions on the right to protest - not for the national good but because the government can't admit its proscription of Palestine Action was a mistake and has failed - seems to me a genuine political scandal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

www.bbc.com

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 5d

This is insane, and it won’t be used to crack down one bit on far right demos which are the most chilling thing happening now www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 6d

That’s a real shame, didn’t deserve to lose #lufc

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 6d

Deserved #lufc

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 6d

Urgh just the kind of goal you concede when you give them an inch. Unfortunate. #lufc

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 7d

Love to their families. May their memory be a blessing www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester synagogue attack: police name two victims killed

Police say families of Adrian Daulby, 53, and 66-year-old Melvin Cravitz have been informed

www.theguardian.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 7d

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in.

If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 8d

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."

We checked the data. That wasn't true.

openmeasures.io/american-eag...

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 9d

Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

If you are someone who gets angry at others for not using the exact word you want them to, at the volume you demand, today is a good day to take stock. Today is a good day to talk to those around you, from all communities that events will make feel vulnerable, and let them know you support them. 3/

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 7d

Our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.

We are heartbroken to emerge from Yom Kippur into news of the attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester. No one should face violence for attending synagogue services and our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.
For many in our community, this news may only just be reaching you after a day spent in prayer, reflection, and fasting. To be confronted with such awfulness in this moment is particularly painful: please know that you are not alone.

In moments like this, it is vital that our communities - Jewish and non-Jewish alike hold one another close. Our safety and liberation depend on solidarity between all those who are marginalised and targeted, and we must not allow those who seek to divide us to succeed. Every person deserves to live, gather, and worship in safety and dignity. We condemn this act of violence unequivocally, and restate our commitment to building a world where this kind of horror is no longer possible.

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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 8d

I do not want to hear from politicians or commentators. I do not want to hear any rationalising or equivocating about who or what or why.

It has all led to this place. It will not stop until everyone above stops feeding the hate.
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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 8d

Totally x

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 8d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 8d

It’s so upsetting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

Keir Starmer will fly home early from Europe to chair a Cobra meeting, while Greater Manchester mayor tells people to avoid the area

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 16d

High fences and security guards outside synagogues have long been normalised. But seeing uniformed police and temporary concrete crash barriers — and thinking, “Yeah, that’s probably sensible” — feels like a bleak turn.

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 8d

Horrific www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, tells people to avoid the area after a ‘serious incident’ in Crumpsall

www.theguardian.com

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 10d

There's a fundamental problem with the question here. If someone comes here and works in hospitality or for the council or on a production line, or raises children, then they are still 'contributing'. We need to beware creating hierarchies of 'worthiness' that feed the narrative they are pushing.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 10d

Exactly

Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 10d

Israeli spokesman on The World At One just referred to Judea and Samaria and refused to acknowledge that the West Bank was even a thing. You cant trust these people.

Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10d

Mustafa Barghouti hits the nail on the head: "This plan is totally biased to the Israeli side. They call it a peace plan, but there is nothing that would guarantee peace, because it doesn’t talk about ending the occupation. "

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