Peter Underwood
@peterunderwood.bsky.social
Journalist for nearly 60 years in UK. Newspapers, TV, Radio, Crisis PR.
Socialist, atheist, republican. Now sharing the life stories of my generation on YouTube.
Socialist, atheist, republican. Now sharing the life stories of my generation on YouTube.
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This is the freedom you have in America, to be shot by 'Police' wearing masks, for no reason at all, and then to have your Government call you a terrorist and block any investigation into your Murder.
Truly one of the worst most unfree countries on the whole planet.
Truly one of the worst most unfree countries on the whole planet.
January 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This is the freedom you have in America, to be shot by 'Police' wearing masks, for no reason at all, and then to have your Government call you a terrorist and block any investigation into your Murder.
Truly one of the worst most unfree countries on the whole planet.
Truly one of the worst most unfree countries on the whole planet.
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AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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The commander of the unit that murdered Renee Good smiling moments after the shooting.
The Gestapo think they can do whatever they want.
The Gestapo think they can do whatever they want.
January 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The commander of the unit that murdered Renee Good smiling moments after the shooting.
The Gestapo think they can do whatever they want.
The Gestapo think they can do whatever they want.
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As millions struggle to afford daily life, Government departments are being told to redirect £1.8bn from essential services to fund state surveillance and control via Digital ID.
"A toolkit for authoritarians that must be stopped"
@sianberry.bsky.social on Labour's plans for Digital ID
"A toolkit for authoritarians that must be stopped"
@sianberry.bsky.social on Labour's plans for Digital ID
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As millions struggle to afford daily life, Government departments are being told to redirect £1.8bn from essential services to fund state surveillance and control via Digital ID.
"A toolkit for authoritarians that must be stopped"
@sianberry.bsky.social on Labour's plans for Digital ID
"A toolkit for authoritarians that must be stopped"
@sianberry.bsky.social on Labour's plans for Digital ID
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Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Minnesota woman fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows
Mayor says ICE claims that the incident was self-defense are not true and tells ICE to ‘get the fuck out of Minneapolis’
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
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The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death.
They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵
They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death.
They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵
They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵
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Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened."
REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar.
Grow a spine.
REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar.
Grow a spine.
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened."
REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar.
Grow a spine.
REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar.
Grow a spine.
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Corridor care means:
⚕️ Staff can't deliver proper care
🩺 No access to equipment
😔 No dignity for patients
A decade ago, this was unheard of. Now it's normalised.
This is NOT acceptable.
Tell Wes Streeting to act NOW 👉 bit.ly/end-corridor...
⚕️ Staff can't deliver proper care
🩺 No access to equipment
😔 No dignity for patients
A decade ago, this was unheard of. Now it's normalised.
This is NOT acceptable.
Tell Wes Streeting to act NOW 👉 bit.ly/end-corridor...
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Corridor care means:
⚕️ Staff can't deliver proper care
🩺 No access to equipment
😔 No dignity for patients
A decade ago, this was unheard of. Now it's normalised.
This is NOT acceptable.
Tell Wes Streeting to act NOW 👉 bit.ly/end-corridor...
⚕️ Staff can't deliver proper care
🩺 No access to equipment
😔 No dignity for patients
A decade ago, this was unheard of. Now it's normalised.
This is NOT acceptable.
Tell Wes Streeting to act NOW 👉 bit.ly/end-corridor...
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is what happens when old, white bigits elect racist scum
BBC News - Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe
Ian Cooper had already had his Reform UK membership revoked by the party.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is what happens when old, white bigits elect racist scum
BBC News - Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I can't help feeling the far-right who are unconcerned about racist, corrupt party leaders and their impact on people are probably psychopathic already. I am bothered that there so many of these automatoms, with their robotic loyalty to crooks, demagogues abd charlatans.
December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I can't help feeling the far-right who are unconcerned about racist, corrupt party leaders and their impact on people are probably psychopathic already. I am bothered that there so many of these automatoms, with their robotic loyalty to crooks, demagogues abd charlatans.
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The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
The evidence piles up to confirm what we all suspected - that Farage has long been a nasty little racist and antisemitic.
Sadly the #Faragefanboys don’t care. They'll claim he's being stitched up; when, in reality, he's meeting all their expectations.
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sadly the #Faragefanboys don’t care. They'll claim he's being stitched up; when, in reality, he's meeting all their expectations.
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The evidence piles up to confirm what we all suspected - that Farage has long been a nasty little racist and antisemitic.
Sadly the #Faragefanboys don’t care. They'll claim he's being stitched up; when, in reality, he's meeting all their expectations.
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sadly the #Faragefanboys don’t care. They'll claim he's being stitched up; when, in reality, he's meeting all their expectations.
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Free speech as long as you don't criticise the convicted criminal squatting in the White House?
The BBC has been nuetered
BBC News - Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The BBC has been nuetered
BBC News - Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Historian Rutger Bregman criticises BBC for removing Donald Trump line from Radio 4's Reith Lecture
Rutger Bregman says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a line about the US president was edited out.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Free speech as long as you don't criticise the convicted criminal squatting in the White House?
The BBC has been nuetered
BBC News - Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The BBC has been nuetered
BBC News - Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture
www.bbc.com/news/article...
An appalling lack of a sense of justice. This places the fate of ordinary, sometimes innocent, people in the hands of cynical professional lawyers. Would you trust a lawyer with your freedom?
BBC News - Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
An appalling lack of a sense of justice. This places the fate of ordinary, sometimes innocent, people in the hands of cynical professional lawyers. Would you trust a lawyer with your freedom?
BBC News - Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Weasel words from Farage won't change a very nasty reality
BBC News - Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Weasel words from Farage won't change a very nasty reality
BBC News - Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
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54% of Labour members say Keir Starmer should go before the general election, with more than half saying either Burnham or Rayner should replace him
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
54% of Labour members say Keir Starmer should go before the general election, with more than half saying either Burnham or Rayner should replace him
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Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, isn’t pulling punches: he accuses the Home Office of “lumping all asylum seekers together” and treating a diverse group as one problem to be fixed. Owen Sennitt reports
eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
New: Bishop warns asylum plans will fuel division
A senior Church of England bishop has criticised government asylum reforms, warning they will make integration significantly harder
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, isn’t pulling punches: he accuses the Home Office of “lumping all asylum seekers together” and treating a diverse group as one problem to be fixed. Owen Sennitt reports
eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...