Iain Houston
@tone-edge.bsky.social
Saxophonist, Airedale-lover, lapsed programmer
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Renee had the tears streaming down my face. What a wonderful human being. And thank you for being there at LBC for her to call.
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Renee had the tears streaming down my face. What a wonderful human being. And thank you for being there at LBC for her to call.
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Why do evangelical Christians support Israel? 🤔
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why do evangelical Christians support Israel? 🤔
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I was delighted to meet with Alistair Griffiths, the Director of Science and Collections at the RHS. With all five RHS gardens now 100% peat-free it’s clear the industry can adapt. My Horticultural Peat (Prohibition of Sale) Bill will ensure we protect peatlands & drive lasting environmental change.
July 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I was delighted to meet with Alistair Griffiths, the Director of Science and Collections at the RHS. With all five RHS gardens now 100% peat-free it’s clear the industry can adapt. My Horticultural Peat (Prohibition of Sale) Bill will ensure we protect peatlands & drive lasting environmental change.
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79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
July 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
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Horrific scenes in #Gaza, with hundreds killed just for seeking aid; people are #starving and forcibly displaced; and senior Israeli officials use dehumanising language, proposing to concentrate Gazans into a mass detention camp.
This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide.
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This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide.
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Genocide in Gaza
YouTube video by Tan Dhesi MP
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July 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Horrific scenes in #Gaza, with hundreds killed just for seeking aid; people are #starving and forcibly displaced; and senior Israeli officials use dehumanising language, proposing to concentrate Gazans into a mass detention camp.
This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide.
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This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide.
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Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues
At the Great North Museum until 29 July; an ambitious exhibition to examine the implications of our colonial past
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/cont...
At the Great North Museum until 29 July; an ambitious exhibition to examine the implications of our colonial past
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/cont...
Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues
At the Great North Museum until 29 July; an ambitious exhibition to examine the implications of our colonial past. From Europe to Africa to South America, artists explore complex and interwoven themes...
northeastbylines.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues
At the Great North Museum until 29 July; an ambitious exhibition to examine the implications of our colonial past
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/cont...
At the Great North Museum until 29 July; an ambitious exhibition to examine the implications of our colonial past
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/cont...
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My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
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More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials
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More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials
Israel controls all supplies entering Gaza and has denied it is responsible for food shortages.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials
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news.sky.com/story/more-t...
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Very good to hear.
Incidentally, I am astounded that BBC News cut away from the most important quarterly bit of PM scrutiny 10m before it ended. Especially after showing the Farage inane gulag announcement live and in full.
Don't remember them ever doing that when Johnson - or any PM - was on. 🤨
Incidentally, I am astounded that BBC News cut away from the most important quarterly bit of PM scrutiny 10m before it ended. Especially after showing the Farage inane gulag announcement live and in full.
Don't remember them ever doing that when Johnson - or any PM - was on. 🤨
PM tells @emilythornberry.bsky.social at Liaison C'tee that the EU Summit is yearly "not just to monitor progress but to go further" each year. Hints that medicines and artists' touring visas are very much on the menu of "common sense changes... that have very little to do with the vote in 2016".~AA
July 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Very good to hear.
Incidentally, I am astounded that BBC News cut away from the most important quarterly bit of PM scrutiny 10m before it ended. Especially after showing the Farage inane gulag announcement live and in full.
Don't remember them ever doing that when Johnson - or any PM - was on. 🤨
Incidentally, I am astounded that BBC News cut away from the most important quarterly bit of PM scrutiny 10m before it ended. Especially after showing the Farage inane gulag announcement live and in full.
Don't remember them ever doing that when Johnson - or any PM - was on. 🤨
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Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne.
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne.
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
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I've wanted to say something on Gaza for days, but nothing seems adequate. Still, I must.
I cannot fathom a more perverse or wicked policy - and it's happened too many times not be policy - of starving people, then shooting them as they try to get food from an "aid" location, set up as a trap. 1/2
I cannot fathom a more perverse or wicked policy - and it's happened too many times not be policy - of starving people, then shooting them as they try to get food from an "aid" location, set up as a trap. 1/2
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I've wanted to say something on Gaza for days, but nothing seems adequate. Still, I must.
I cannot fathom a more perverse or wicked policy - and it's happened too many times not be policy - of starving people, then shooting them as they try to get food from an "aid" location, set up as a trap. 1/2
I cannot fathom a more perverse or wicked policy - and it's happened too many times not be policy - of starving people, then shooting them as they try to get food from an "aid" location, set up as a trap. 1/2
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These people need a mental health intervention, not a ministerial brief.
Meet the Reform UK councillor, just appointed to their top law and order team, who thinks trains are full of people in balaclavas, knives are hidden in every bush, and New York and Chicago are safer than London. ~AA
July 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These people need a mental health intervention, not a ministerial brief.
Very moving contribution to @mrjamesob.bsky.social Yes this topic should be in the front of our minds each day
July 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Very moving contribution to @mrjamesob.bsky.social Yes this topic should be in the front of our minds each day
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Ed Davey making the same point right here.
July 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Ed Davey making the same point right here.
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Glastonbury & Somerton is home to fantastic breweries like Fine Tuned Brewery in Somerton. Sustainability is vital, but the current EPR structure risks harming producers by making them responsible for packaging they don’t produce. Yesterday I pressed the Govt on EPR’s escalating costs for producers.
July 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Glastonbury & Somerton is home to fantastic breweries like Fine Tuned Brewery in Somerton. Sustainability is vital, but the current EPR structure risks harming producers by making them responsible for packaging they don’t produce. Yesterday I pressed the Govt on EPR’s escalating costs for producers.
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📮 Last night I presented my petition to Parliament calling for immediate Government action to reinstate critical Post Office services in Somerton and safeguard rural branches after closures in Charlton Mackrell, Charlton Adam, Butleigh and Baltonsborough.
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July 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📮 Last night I presented my petition to Parliament calling for immediate Government action to reinstate critical Post Office services in Somerton and safeguard rural branches after closures in Charlton Mackrell, Charlton Adam, Butleigh and Baltonsborough.
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Reform's Richard Tice has written to energy firms to inform them of the 'political risk' of Reform to renewables
Labour official: “Reform are now actively trying to discourage businesses from investing in clean energy in the UK...
"They are disgracefully... undermining the UK's national interest."
Labour official: “Reform are now actively trying to discourage businesses from investing in clean energy in the UK...
"They are disgracefully... undermining the UK's national interest."
July 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reform's Richard Tice has written to energy firms to inform them of the 'political risk' of Reform to renewables
Labour official: “Reform are now actively trying to discourage businesses from investing in clean energy in the UK...
"They are disgracefully... undermining the UK's national interest."
Labour official: “Reform are now actively trying to discourage businesses from investing in clean energy in the UK...
"They are disgracefully... undermining the UK's national interest."
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Maurene Comey, a Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was abruptly fired on Wednesday by the Trump administration, according to six people with knowledge of the matter.
Maurene Comey, Prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein, Is Fired
Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Maurene Comey, a Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was abruptly fired on Wednesday by the Trump administration, according to six people with knowledge of the matter.
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🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law.
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
UK Lawyers for Israel
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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July 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law.
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
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The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
July 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
Really enjoyed @quietriotpod.bsky.social Sunday School episode including the discussion about the Scottish Election results. In a very timely manner, it has given me courage to be firm with my friends now that it is necessary. I learned a lot from the QuietRiot discussion.
June 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Really enjoyed @quietriotpod.bsky.social Sunday School episode including the discussion about the Scottish Election results. In a very timely manner, it has given me courage to be firm with my friends now that it is necessary. I learned a lot from the QuietRiot discussion.
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Late but laudable.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."
May 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Late but laudable.
Big Tech Fight Back subscribe.bylinetimes.com/six/
May 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Big Tech Fight Back subscribe.bylinetimes.com/six/
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Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…
May 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…