Mike Ogden
@mikeo67.bsky.social
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Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
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
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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An excellent example of the environmental cost of billionaires.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump-supporting billionaire prevented from filling lake on UK estate during drought
Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman acted legally, but residents complained to Southern Water
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
An excellent example of the environmental cost of billionaires.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
September 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
Absolutely incomprehensible.
September 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Absolutely incomprehensible.
Anti-Islamic biker gang members hired to run security at controversial Gaza aid sites www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Anti-Islamic biker gang members hired to run security at controversial Gaza aid sites
More than 10 Infidels MC members deployed to sites run by US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Anti-Islamic biker gang members hired to run security at controversial Gaza aid sites www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
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September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
September 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
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To be clear what happened here.
Israel bombed a hospital.
They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.
Then they bombed it again.
This is known as the 'double tap'.
You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
Israel bombed a hospital.
They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.
Then they bombed it again.
This is known as the 'double tap'.
You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
August 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
To be clear what happened here.
Israel bombed a hospital.
They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.
Then they bombed it again.
This is known as the 'double tap'.
You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
Israel bombed a hospital.
They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.
Then they bombed it again.
This is known as the 'double tap'.
You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is fighting his imminent deportation to Uganda.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia fights imminent deportation to Uganda
Abrego's lawyers filed a new lawsuit seeking to stave off another deportation after he was taken back into custody on Monday.
www.politico.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is fighting his imminent deportation to Uganda.
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And like clockwork, there is David Lammy's handwringing tweet.
I bet they’re shitting themselves in Tel Aviv over Lammy’s latest “horrified” tweet.
He continues to arm Israel and refuses to improper sanctions.
Prison awaits.
I bet they’re shitting themselves in Tel Aviv over Lammy’s latest “horrified” tweet.
He continues to arm Israel and refuses to improper sanctions.
Prison awaits.
August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And like clockwork, there is David Lammy's handwringing tweet.
I bet they’re shitting themselves in Tel Aviv over Lammy’s latest “horrified” tweet.
He continues to arm Israel and refuses to improper sanctions.
Prison awaits.
I bet they’re shitting themselves in Tel Aviv over Lammy’s latest “horrified” tweet.
He continues to arm Israel and refuses to improper sanctions.
Prison awaits.
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The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia
The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.
www.wsj.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
How obscene. One man's ego. From the Guardian:
"Trump’s arrival in Scotland has required the biggest security operation since Elizabeth II died in 2022. More than 5,000 police and security personnel are involved in the four-day visit"
"Trump’s arrival in Scotland has required the biggest security operation since Elizabeth II died in 2022. More than 5,000 police and security personnel are involved in the four-day visit"
July 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
How obscene. One man's ego. From the Guardian:
"Trump’s arrival in Scotland has required the biggest security operation since Elizabeth II died in 2022. More than 5,000 police and security personnel are involved in the four-day visit"
"Trump’s arrival in Scotland has required the biggest security operation since Elizabeth II died in 2022. More than 5,000 police and security personnel are involved in the four-day visit"
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Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
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Two people worth listening to!
Hey @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and I are headed out on the road again. This time to Dayton, Ohio.
If Republicans refuse to hold public meetings to explain why they voted to throw 17 million people off their health care to give tax cuts to the rich, we will.
If Republicans refuse to hold public meetings to explain why they voted to throw 17 million people off their health care to give tax cuts to the rich, we will.
July 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Two people worth listening to!
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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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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
July 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
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This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
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And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll *since the Glastonbury performance* in to triple figures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli strike on Gaza seafront cafe kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say
The outdoor cafe was frequently used by journalists, activists and local residents.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll *since the Glastonbury performance* in to triple figures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you use your platform to support the IDF in its campaign of mass slaughter, you will suffer no consequences to your career.
You can support genocide, and no newspaper will demand your arrest.
But it’s those who support this historic crime who are the actual monsters
You can support genocide, and no newspaper will demand your arrest.
But it’s those who support this historic crime who are the actual monsters
June 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you use your platform to support the IDF in its campaign of mass slaughter, you will suffer no consequences to your career.
You can support genocide, and no newspaper will demand your arrest.
But it’s those who support this historic crime who are the actual monsters
You can support genocide, and no newspaper will demand your arrest.
But it’s those who support this historic crime who are the actual monsters
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Senate Republicans stepped up their attacks on solar and wind energy projects by quietly adding a provision to their megabill that would penalize future developments with a new tax.
‘Kill shot:’ GOP megabill targets solar, wind projects with new tax
www.politico.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Senate Republicans stepped up their attacks on solar and wind energy projects by quietly adding a provision to their megabill that would penalize future developments with a new tax.
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The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security"
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
www.themoscowtimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security"
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
I find it really annoying reading a review, wanting to buy, only to learn, at the end, it will only be released in 4 months' time!
"Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
"Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success
The British composer broke into Hollywood as Yorgos Lanthimos’s go-to guy on Poor Things and more. But his heart remains in Shropshire – the backdrop to his ambitious, grief-stricken latest record
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I find it really annoying reading a review, wanting to buy, only to learn, at the end, it will only be released in 4 months' time!
"Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
"Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.