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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 13h

Hamer jumped ship for Sheffield United. That worked well. For him and for United 🙄

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is such a valuable conversation between @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @aaronjbastani.bsky.social

Thanks for all you do, guys.

Please watch.

Our Addiction To Growth Will Lead To Civilisational COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Jason Hickel

YouTube video by Novara Media

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 16h

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"Britain has a new Blairite Labour government"
Thoughts on political education, colonialism, nationalism, fascism, nightmare neoliberalism, unaffordable housing, Blair, Starmer, feminism, liberation, exploitation, technofeudalism, etc.
@aaronjbastani.bsky.social

Was The 20th Century A Catastrophe, Or A Miracle? | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 16h

Mark was mentioned but only in passing. A pity. That long 8.30 interview with Lamps, Doug King and various Coventry folk was very well done. Very unexpected. #r4today
"The club turned down 'significant offers' for key players in the summer transfer window"
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FOOTBALL – Coventry City chairman Doug King reveals club turned down ‘significant offers’ for key players in summer transfer window

DOUG King has revealed Coventry City turned down significant offers for some of the clubs key players during the summer transfer window.

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 20h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"A new *movement* capable of changing the country"?
"Anger at inequality, Starmer’s move to the right and profound climate anxieties."
Yes but the Green Party won't do this alone. Progressive and anti-fascist parties must be respectful and collaborative.

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay

Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

www.theguardian.com

Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch says people are "getting to know her" #r4today
Truly they are. They find her repulsive. The Tory party is polling 16%.

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch on BBC #r4today sounds like someone who's down in a hole and determined to dig even lower. She speaks only to the 16% who still support the Tory party plus those who have defected to Farage and Reform. She knows she's on the last lap of her leadership and well on the way out.

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick says "communities must integrate"? #r4today
He's upset about multicultural and multiethnic areas where people have never and will never vote Tory. For some strange reason those communities hate far right Tories, racists and xenophobes.
Badenoch fully supports Jenrick.

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is now in his element. Without power or real responsibility he can spout the far right rubbish that festers within him. No need for restraint or subtlety since he and his party are speaking only to the numpties who still pay attention to Badenoch's busted Tories. 16% in the polls. #r4today

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder that Robert Jenrick isn’t interested in judges being unbiased or apolitical: on the contrary, like the far right media, he wants to intimidate or control judges into making decisions which reflect *his* political biases

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

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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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 1d

The far right, & I include today's Tories in that group, look at what Trump has done in the US with envy, but also see it as a blueprint.

They tried to copy his assault on cultural institutions, & they will attack the independence of the justice system if they ever have power again.

#r4today

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Honest Bob Jenrick promises political selection of judges, and replacement of the sentencing council with ministerial decisions (which could be extremely complicated or cruelly, counter-productively simple).

#r4today

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 4d

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"Israel has destroyed 80% of the buildings, 86% of the farmland, 90% of the cattle, 89% of water & sanitation infrastructure, 100% of desalination plants, and it has made Gaza more or less unliveable. Israel has killed so many civilians that the world lost count."
Vile & evil.

Normal Island News on X: "Panic in Israel as Hamas agrees to release all of the hostages" / X

Panic in Israel as Hamas agrees to release all of the hostages

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 3d

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"Netanyahu insists he is committing genocide on behalf of all Jews. That sort of talk definitely does not stir up antisemitism."

Normal Island News on X: "UK home secretary decides that protesting against genocide is insensitive towards Jews" / X

UK home secretary decides that protesting against genocide is insensitive towards Jews

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

"Bleak reality of opposition sets in for Conservatives"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Their party is close to extinction. It's certainly irrelevant. Why would anyone turn up for this conference whilst Badenoch & Jenrick are its leading lights?

Bleak reality of opposition sets in for Conservatives

The Conservative Party, so often and for so long the dominating force in British politics, is a shrivelled version of its usual self.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform :
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po...

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

observer.co.uk

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

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"When the mainstream right loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the far right, it hands them the steering wheel. They’re taking civil society down with them."
Kamikemi won't take the UK down. She'll miss the target.

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

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"Some polls have the Conservatives in fourth place in terms of seats . . . Cameron thought politics was about managing capitalism rather than redistributing its proceeds. From Cameron onwards, there has been a slide from complacency to panic to burnout."
Busted.

The Guardian view on the Tory conference: history’s revenge on Conservatism | Editorial

Editorial: Speeches from the conference floor reveal a party out of ideas. Its leadership team is mistaking slogans for policy and nostalgia for purpose

www.theguardian.com

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

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"The contemporary Conservative party has not died, it has only mutated to its next form. Let’s not forget the attention-seekers who acquired state power: Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman and, of course, Kemi Badenoch."

Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in power, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"The stench of decay is overpowering . . . Humiliation heaped on humiliation . . . it was both intellectually dishonest and completely irrelevant."
The state of this most hard right Conservative party in living memory. Drowning not waving.

Humiliation upon humiliation for the Melster in front of half-full Tory crowd | John Crace

At conference where the stench of decay is overpowering, the shadow chancellor’s speech was an act of desperation

www.theguardian.com

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget. The Tories are Reform and Reform are the Tories. A pact is inevitable.

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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 2d

"Bleak reality of opposition sets in for Conservatives"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Their party is close to extinction. It's certainly irrelevant. Why would anyone turn up for this conference whilst Badenoch & Jenrick are its leading lights?

Bleak reality of opposition sets in for Conservatives

The Conservative Party, so often and for so long the dominating force in British politics, is a shrivelled version of its usual self.

www.bbc.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.