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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 53m

Gary Neville said hurty words to Farage and his Reformorons. Their meltdown is epic. Well done, Gary 👏👏
"The flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men."

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 23m

Gary Gibbon on Channel 4 News put it to good use the other day. #bsod #starwars

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h

smol airplane in front of moon!

goodnight.

no words of encouragement, im spent and have a long day tomorrow.

love your allies, be vengeful towards your enemies ❤️

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

What is happening in Gaza is Genocide summed up perfectly in 2 minutes while a stunned Piers Morgan sits in silence.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Handsworth-native Bishop Desmond Jaddoo on Robert Jenrick's comments, on Politics Live:

"… is he prepared to take us back to the era that the Windrush generation... no blacks, no Irish, no dogs? His comments were very divisive... disrespectful, and that disrespect must be addressed."

#politicslive

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Was Robert Jenrick radicalised by the other West Midlands slum where he “lives”?

Census 2021 shows the civil parish of Eye, Moreton and Ashton has 1 non-pure-white face, out of 166 residents.

📊 Compare with Handsworth: www.censusdata.uk/comparison?c...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Census data screenshot of Eye, Moreton and Ashton
White: 165
Mixed race: 1

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 2h

A Ministry of Poverty Prevention could be brought together using the Marmot principles that have worked so effectively in health outcomes.

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty

www.bigissue.com

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1h

@theousherwood.bsky.social was pretty sure they’re not coming back for a while, last night:

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Theo Usherwood not mincing his words on the Tory Party:

“No, I thinks it’s gone… gone, completely gone… I think the Tory party’s gone… I think it’s had it… I don’t see how… the Tories can come back in the next 10 to 15 years… they’re toast.”

with @jennykleeman.bsky.social on Sky News Press Preview

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13h

Oli Dugmore, "A word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government"

"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2h

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h

1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.

Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.

Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.

How civilised are we?

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

news.sky.com

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 4h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 9h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 11h

Theo Usherwood not mincing his words on the Tory Party:

“No, I thinks it’s gone… gone, completely gone… I think the Tory party’s gone… I think it’s had it… I don’t see how… the Tories can come back in the next 10 to 15 years… they’re toast.”

with @jennykleeman.bsky.social on Sky News Press Preview

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17h

Amid the constant anti-renewables sentiment so common across our media, this letter today is a blessed relief.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 22h

Was Robert Jenrick radicalised by the other West Midlands slum where he “lives”?

Census 2021 shows the civil parish of Eye, Moreton and Ashton has 1 non-pure-white face, out of 166 residents.

📊 Compare with Handsworth: www.censusdata.uk/comparison?c...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 13h

Manchildren

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