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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2h

I feel I need to personally apologise to other life forms in the universe who may eventually witness this light years from now.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 11h

Omar M. Yaghi, born in 1965 to Palestinian refugee parents in Amman, Jordan, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 11h

Keir Starmer is really determined to lose the next general election isn't he?

Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 14h

“From 10th October 2025,the eligibility criteria for a free bus pass will be tied more closely to the State Pension age rather than the general age of 60…As the pension age gradually increases, this change will automatically delay when you can apply for a bus pass.”

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UK Bus Pass Rules 2025: Major Changes from 10th October That Could End Your Free Travel - stcnorthgolf.com

UK Bus Pass Rules 2025: Major Changes from 10th October That Could End Your Free Travel UK Bus Pass Rules 2025

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 16h

Tbf though she was only parroting her master's voice

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 16h

Before Johnson goes on a long winded rant about how great it is that armed troops are on the streets of the national capital - doing what exactly? - a simple "no" would have sufficed to that egregious question from one of the MAGA propaganda claque.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 20h

Behold these evil Antifa street terrorists! Thank goodness the people of Portland have the National Guard to protect them from these violent criminals.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 23h

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

King Henry VI Part 2
Act 4, Scene 7

by William Shakespeare

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 23h

Utter insanity

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23h

In London yesterday a man was arrested for holding up a magazine called 'The New World', which is freely available to buy in our shops.
The UK government is sliding away from the concept of free speech at an alarming speed.

#freedomofspeech #palestine

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 23h

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch's cuts to arts degrees would also almost certainly bankrupt her alma matres Birkbeck & Sussex along with most of the HE sector as Humanities & Social Science students massively cross subsidise STEM departments. Economically illiterate doesn't begin to describe this folly.

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch wants to decide what your child is allowed to study at university & where. This is far more draconian than even the Trump higher education 'compact' but interfering in the academic curriculum to purge 'woke degrees' is a far right priority

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenoc...

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 1d

The future of the UK if Farage and Badenoch get their way.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 1d

It's very early to say yet, but there may be hope that politicians who have supported Israel in its genocidal actions could see their day in court. Keir Starmer can't arrest enough peaceful protesters to prevent justice forever. #Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

www.aljazeera.com

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

See in particular SRA Code of Conduct 1.5

You treat colleagues fairly and with respect. You do not bully or harass them or discriminate unfairly against them.

By any reasonable reading Jenrick's attacks on a fellow lawyer & colleague i.e. the Attorney General constitutes a breach of paragraph 1.5

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick just compared the Attorney-General to a 'mafia lawyer' & suggested that he 'chose' his former clients bec he identified with their causes. All these remarks are potentially actionable and as a solicitor Jenrick is clearly bringing the legal profession into disrepute. The SRA must act!

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

The population of Newark-on-Trent is 95% White British. Is Jenrick seriously saying he wants to see more Black and Asian faces in his constituency in order to reflect the 18% national average and to encourage his White constituents to integrate? Of course not. He is both a liar and a racist.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

And we have even less protection here. Trump can't fire judges who have constitutional protection. A government here could pass a law allowing them to do so with a majority of one in the Commons.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

Oops!

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

The term Neuordnung is an abbreviation of die Neuordnung Europas ("the New Order of Europe") used by the Nazi establishment to broadly refer to a planned "reorganization" of the geopolitical landscape.

- Sometimes Wikipedia has its uses

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d

The West Mids mayor is right that Jenrick is an unrepentant racist & he needs to be thrown out of the Conservative Party. He would never have said 'there are parts of Newark where you never see a black face'. Instead of defending him Badenoch should disown him.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Badenoch defends Jenrick over comments that he ‘did not see another white face’ in Birmingham – UK politics live

Conservative leader suggests remarks in Guardian report could have been taken out of context and he was ‘making an observation’

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2d

A very sober & chilling analysis from Robert Reich who is certainly no scaremonger. The United States - the keystone of 'the Western democratic order' - is on the brink of the abyss and a small group of fascist white supremacists led by Trump are about to cancel it

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Trump's Plan

To invoke the Insurrection Act

open.substack.com

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2d

It is not an exaggeration to say that Jenrick is worse than the Nazis

In a report on May 30, 1943, the SD declared, “The people want an independent judge. The administration of justice and the state would lose all legitimacy if the people believed judges had to decide in a particular way.”

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2d

The cringe goes up to 11

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 2d

Or, as Badenoch would spell it, Sweet Carolien. #ukpolitics

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2d

Behold the future Badenoch/Jenrick have in store for all of us in the UK if they are ever allowed to form a government. If the British police can cart off RAF veterans and elderly vicars for holding up cardboard signs they are certainly capable of being militarised like these goons.

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