Martin Barnes
@martinmb64.bsky.social
Former CEO/Director of: LawWorks, DrugScope, and the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). Past member of: the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), the Criminal Justice Council, and the Civil Justice Council.
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We may need a new word to encompass this potent cocktail of cowardice and stupidity.
Kemi Badenoch's spokesman refuses to say whether she believes Tommy Robinson should be in prison, saying "I'm not going to talk about Tommy Robinson"
January 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We may need a new word to encompass this potent cocktail of cowardice and stupidity.
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oversight board criticises Meta policy changes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huge problems with axing fact-checkers, Meta oversight board says
The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
oversight board criticises Meta policy changes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...
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Starmer says in Badenoch's 8 years as an MP - including as Children's Minister and Women & Equalities Minister - she hasn't once raised rape gangs or child sexual abuse in the House.
Badenoch pivots to talking about the Cass Review on treatment for trans children. #PMQs
youtu.be/aRA3sbZ8a3o
Badenoch pivots to talking about the Cass Review on treatment for trans children. #PMQs
youtu.be/aRA3sbZ8a3o
Starmer accuses Conservatives of years of inaction on child sexual abuse and rape gangs
YouTube video by Best for Britain
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January 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Starmer says in Badenoch's 8 years as an MP - including as Children's Minister and Women & Equalities Minister - she hasn't once raised rape gangs or child sexual abuse in the House.
Badenoch pivots to talking about the Cass Review on treatment for trans children. #PMQs
youtu.be/aRA3sbZ8a3o
Badenoch pivots to talking about the Cass Review on treatment for trans children. #PMQs
youtu.be/aRA3sbZ8a3o
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"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
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'Why is your party not condemning this vicious, dishonest attack upon a woman held up by victims as the politician who has helped them more than any other?'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sends a message to Tory members after Elon Musk called Jess Phillips 'a rape genocide apologist'.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sends a message to Tory members after Elon Musk called Jess Phillips 'a rape genocide apologist'.
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
'Why is your party not condemning this vicious, dishonest attack upon a woman held up by victims as the politician who has helped them more than any other?'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sends a message to Tory members after Elon Musk called Jess Phillips 'a rape genocide apologist'.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sends a message to Tory members after Elon Musk called Jess Phillips 'a rape genocide apologist'.
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How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide | Marina Hyde
How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide | Marina Hyde
The unedifying spectacle of would-be strongmen bickering over how to protect women and girls is just the beginning
Can it really be three weeks ago that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were posing adoringly at Mar-a-Lago, in front of that hilariously naff…
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide | Marina Hyde
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This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
January 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
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Robert Jenrick would machine-gun his own gran for personal gain
January 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Robert Jenrick would machine-gun his own gran for personal gain
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This is much better from Streeting, honestly a relief after the lukewarm rhetoric we saw earlier. www.lbc.co.uk/news/wes-str...
Wes Streeting slams Elon Musk's attack on Jess Phillips as an 'appalling smear' against a 'brilliant woman'
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has slammed Elon Musk’s attack on Labour MP Jess Phillips as "appalling" after the billionaire said she should “be in prison” over her response to grooming gangs in the ...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is much better from Streeting, honestly a relief after the lukewarm rhetoric we saw earlier. www.lbc.co.uk/news/wes-str...
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He should be sacked as a shadow minister and stripped of the Tory whip. I doubt he will be. By God I hope I'm wrong.
January 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
He should be sacked as a shadow minister and stripped of the Tory whip. I doubt he will be. By God I hope I'm wrong.
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💥NEW: HOPE not hate can reveal that the two masked far-right extremists threatening to bring war to Leeds this weekend are Aidan Heaps and Toby “TJ” Chapman.
Heaps has a worrying previous criminal conviction.
Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/19/w...
Heaps has a worrying previous criminal conviction.
Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/19/w...
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
💥NEW: HOPE not hate can reveal that the two masked far-right extremists threatening to bring war to Leeds this weekend are Aidan Heaps and Toby “TJ” Chapman.
Heaps has a worrying previous criminal conviction.
Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/19/w...
Heaps has a worrying previous criminal conviction.
Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/19/w...
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Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax.
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Wonderful from Victoria Derbyshire. Pins down Clarkson using his own words. Leaves him with nothing but 'you people'.
Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Wonderful from Victoria Derbyshire. Pins down Clarkson using his own words. Leaves him with nothing but 'you people'.
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“It’s not just farming, it’s civil liberties.
We’ve got people locked up for tweets and paedophiles walking the streets.”
@lewisgoodall.com talks to farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance tax plans outside Parliament.
We’ve got people locked up for tweets and paedophiles walking the streets.”
@lewisgoodall.com talks to farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance tax plans outside Parliament.
November 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
“It’s not just farming, it’s civil liberties.
We’ve got people locked up for tweets and paedophiles walking the streets.”
@lewisgoodall.com talks to farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance tax plans outside Parliament.
We’ve got people locked up for tweets and paedophiles walking the streets.”
@lewisgoodall.com talks to farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance tax plans outside Parliament.
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“What are you going to do about your farm?”
“I’m going to have to plan my succession differently.”
“Is that such a bad thing?”
“It is to me, personally.”
Jon and Lewis asked farmers protesting how Labour’s inheritance tax plan will affect them.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
“I’m going to have to plan my succession differently.”
“Is that such a bad thing?”
“It is to me, personally.”
Jon and Lewis asked farmers protesting how Labour’s inheritance tax plan will affect them.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
November 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
“What are you going to do about your farm?”
“I’m going to have to plan my succession differently.”
“Is that such a bad thing?”
“It is to me, personally.”
Jon and Lewis asked farmers protesting how Labour’s inheritance tax plan will affect them.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
“I’m going to have to plan my succession differently.”
“Is that such a bad thing?”
“It is to me, personally.”
Jon and Lewis asked farmers protesting how Labour’s inheritance tax plan will affect them.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
The first pic, Adam to Eve: "Nah, you have it - I've got a Greggs steak bake".
November 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The first pic, Adam to Eve: "Nah, you have it - I've got a Greggs steak bake".
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Allison Pearson is likely being investigated by police because she tweeted a picture of two people holding a flag of a Pakistani political party standing next to some GMP officers and described them as 'Jew haters'. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police
Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatory
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Allison Pearson is likely being investigated by police because she tweeted a picture of two people holding a flag of a Pakistani political party standing next to some GMP officers and described them as 'Jew haters'. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
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Oh come on, who here can honestly say that they've never...
Trump has picked Robert Kennedy jnr to be his health secretary saying:
"He's going to help make America healthy again."
Here's a far from exhaustive list of what RFK believes.
"He's going to help make America healthy again."
Here's a far from exhaustive list of what RFK believes.
November 15, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Oh come on, who here can honestly say that they've never...