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The Glass is Empty @theglassisempty.bsky.social · Nov 15
It’s ironic that a nation which for decades sanctimoniously trumpeted the superiority of it’s democratic ideals around the world, while simultaneously undermining and overthrowing democratically elected governments, now faces an existential threat to those “ideals”.
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tparsi.bsky.social
NATO chief Mark Rutte takes scaremongering to a new level, saying Europe must be prepared for a war "on the scale our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."

This comes as a former Biden official admits that the Ukraine war could've been prevented had NATO membership been taken off the table.
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
Seizing an oil tanker is a perfect symbol of what the US is actually after in its war of aggression against Venezuela.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.
December 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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larichierouge.bsky.social
Wait but I thought this was a resounding victory for the racist nurse. Did the scum yookay press lie to me 🤔
libbybrooks.bsky.social Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 1d
Sandie Peggie’s lawyer confirms she will be appealing the “highly problematic” tribunal decision - Peggie herself says “I won’t be giving up the fight anytime soon”
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
Byline Times O @bylinetimes.bsky.s... • 2m "What is emerging about Nigel Farage is not a single stupid comment or heated moment. Former classmates are describing a pattern of behaviour. Not just a bully, but a racist bully of the ugliest kind, directing hatred at black and Jewish pupils as a kind of sport."
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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philbc3.bsky.social
I'm sorry to say they won't do this because beggar-thy-neighbour class politics trumps economic growth every time.
jack-bailey.co.uk Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 2d
It's all so bizarre because ... we just don't have to live like this? Rather than pick Denmark to emulate, they could pick Spain. It has encouraged some immigration and is booming compared to the rest of Europe 🤷‍♂️
colinyeo.bsky.social Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 3d
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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maxp94.bsky.social
There’s no such thing as peaceful coexistence with these people and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant, stupid or on their side.
christyceeck.bsky.social My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 3d
Now we understand what Vance was doing a few weeks ago.

"JD Vance made a series of posts...saying [Canada's] living standards are “stagnating” because of all the “foreign-born” people living here.

...Vance says Canada’s elected leaders have created “immigration insanityby leaning into diversity.”
JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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avdeggar.bsky.social
Former human rights lawyer urges leaders to curb human rights law and pander to the far right to stop the far right, explains *exactly* why we are where we are.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
Between that truly ridiculous Hyde piece on the Greens and the Starmer and Frederiksen given space to go full reactionary, the Guardian is really outdoing itself today

And if you scroll down you even get the "Make Britain Great Again" ad

Sorry but my money goes to media that fights the far right
Guardian main headlines
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Freedom of the Press is irrelevant if fascist billionaires control all of our media.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
Who needs the far right when you have the centre left media and politics as a bulwark to do its bidding?

Spare us the "Listening to legitimate concerns".

These concerns are racist, not legitimate, and they are fueled in a top down manner (and still minoritarian)

This is on you
Headline We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here’s how Keir Starmer and Mette Frederiksen This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win Keir Starmer is the British prime minister. Mette Frederiksen is prime minister of Denmark
December 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more
SPECTATOR Nigel Jones The teenage Farage story misses the point All schoolboys were once obsessed with Hitler In short, Hitler and Himmler lived permanently rent-free in all our heads. In one of my schools a boy was caned by his housemaster after a copy of Mein Kampf was found in his locker. The teacher wielding the cane had spent the war debriefing prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps, so was slightly parti pris, and the fact that the guilty culprit had found Hitler's autobiography in the school library did not save him from six of the best. So even if the teenage Farage made the sort of remarks attributed to him - and he has denied doing so - he would be entirely typical of his class and generation.
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This is why I say the British press is so much more poisonous than e.g. Fox News. Fox might be wackier and more insulting, but alternatives are available. In Britain, this is everything: all channels, all day, every day of the year. Unrelenting.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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iggyforshaw.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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lamentablyawake.bsky.social
Again, it is entirely accurate to say Zionists control the West.

Not because of some shadowy cabal controlling everything but because nearly everyone with power (most of whom aren't Jewish) full supports that genocidal ethnonationalism.
politicshome.bsky.social PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 4d
Progressive people "must be willing to say, unapologetically, I am a Zionist", Chancellor Rachel Reeves said at Labour Friends of Israel's annual dinner on Monday

“I am a Zionist not in spite of my belief in democracy or freedom and equality, but exactly because of those beliefs"
Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said progressive people should “unapologetically” be Zionists.
www.politicshome.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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goodlawproject.org
I can't help but remember that "it" is also the word used by the man who murdered poor Brianna Ghey in a transphobic attack.

These people don't have "reasonable concerns" - they are revolting bigots.
632. A wider aspect of evidence we considered concerned an attack on her position in cross examination to the effect that she was generally transphobic, which she denied both when giving evidence initially and on recall (which is addressed further below). Some of the messages she sent are indicative of views which could be described as trans-phobic. In one dated 10 January 2024 the claimant described the second respondent as “it”. In an earlier part of the same message there is reference to the second respondent having a shadow (being in our view a reference to the appearance of stubble on the face) and a “pathetic voice”. These are disparaging remarks in relation to the second respondent in our view, because of the second respondent being a trans woman. 633. In another the second respondent is described as a “weirdo”, which the claimant sought to explain as someone acting weirdly, but which we did not accept as being what she had intended by use of that word. These remarks we consider to be consistent with other evidence of her making comments the second respondent was liable to find offensive that went beyond the simple expression of a gender critical belief, but amounted to personal attacks on the second respondent.
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal.

This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.
631. The third aspect was her evidence given when recalled in relation to a message she had passed on to her group of friends which related to floods in Pakistan in the most highly offensive terms. She initially described the messages as “dark humour”. Her evidence later was that the message had been sent to provoke a reaction, in broad summary. We did not consider that latter evidence to be credible given the content of the message sent and her initial evidence about it. In our view it was an untruthful attempt to downplay what she had done, which she recognised as having included very offensive material. We consider that it was clear beyond serious argument that the author or authors of the original message considered the remarks humorous, and that the claimant had also considered them humorous which was why she had passed them on. That was supported in our view by her reference to dark humour
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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goodlawproject.org
This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
796. Thirdly, the claimant’s contention was in our view not consistent with the court’s comment that “we have concluded that a biological sex interpretation would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection under the EA 2010 from trans people (whether with or without a GRC).” 797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7. 798. Were the claimant’s contention to be correct that would have the effect of materially reducing the extent to which that protected characteristic could be relied on by trans persons, to their disadvantage. What was desired by the trans person when living their life may not be permitted in a large number of practical instances, and would not have been consistent with the view expressed by Lady Hale in Work and Pensions, and the line of authority in relation to human rights. Such a construction in our view would also not be consistent with the interpretation of the Equal Treatment Directive from the CJEU and its predecessor as referred to above, which remains as assimilated law, and would not be consistent with a purposive interpretation still required. The development of the law in relation to what is now the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is set out above. At the very least we would have expected these considerations to have been addressed speci…
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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goodlawproject.org
This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.
(i) The Supreme Court decision 789. The question that arises from that conclusion is whether the application of the Supreme Court decision must mean that, under the provisions over which this Tribunal has jurisdiction under the 2010 Act as to work, the second respondent as a biological male required to be excluded from the female changing room, such that the permission given by the first respondent to do so was necessarily unlawful under those provisions. We have concluded that the answer is in the negative.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Some robust criticism is made of the way in which Naomi Cunningham conducted herself. Query whether this is going to come before her professional regulator.
There were some rather unusual questions asked in cross examination, for example Ms Cunningham asked a question seeking to compare the second respondent to the torturer in the novel 1984, to which objection was taken and after the lunch adjournment but before a decision on that was made it was withdrawn. It ought not to have been asked, but does indicate the extent to which the second respondent’s position was challenged in cross examination.
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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goodlawproject.org
This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."

The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social
In fact, the NATO line didn't work on Corbyn, any more than the Euroscepticism line did, hence 2017. What worked was the all-channels focus on antisemitism & the suggestion post-Salisbury that he was a Russian asset. That strategy is now being deployed against Farage more than Polanski.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d
FWIW, the NATO line worked on Corbyn which is why I suspect that Starmer thinks that it will work on Polanski.
scarymrolmecman.bsky.social Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 5d
Ahh a low-salience issue and then a vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy. You can see the political geniuses behind the present disaster at work.
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM