Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

not true

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza.

www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

I can't recommend highly enough that you read this coolly mocking letter from the judge about Trump's lawyers' 85-page-long (!) windup to their laughably flimsy lawsuit against the NYT. "Abundant, florid and enervating detail"! The whole letter is this good. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump FCC Chair Who Demanded Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Once Slammed Censoring ‘Late-Night Comedians’

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest:
zeteo.com/p/trump-fcc-...

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!

ICYMI: The Black British Book Festival is returning for its fifth year in October 2025, and has gone from strength to strength since its inception 👇 #BookSky

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

On the same day in the Telegraph:

‘An extraordinary piece of writing and of historical research... lively, relevant, telling us so much about the world from which we are emerging, and what seems to be fracturing around us’
Rory Stewart, The Times

‘A rich and incisive new history of British Euroscepticism’ Economist

‘This really is superb. Well done @TomMcTague Recommended to Eurosceptics and Europhiles alike!’
Aaron Bastani, Novara Media

‘An excellent entrée into a complex and highly emotive subject’
Vernon Bogdanor, Daily Telegraph

Happy publication day @tommctague.bsky.social!

With a raft of rave reviews, BETWEEN THE WAVES has just been Baillie Gifford Prize-longlisted:

‘Even the most passionate Remainer — or Leaver — should enjoy it enormously... lucid, thoughtful & richly provocative’
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

“Lucid, thoughtful & richly provocative… [McTague] tells his story with such dry and fair-minded intelligence that even the most passionate Remainer or Leaver should enjoy it enormously.”

Delighted with @dcsandbrook’s review of my book, Between the Waves

www.thetimes.com/article/fa75...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Just horrific and enraging www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...