bron99.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when Gordon Brown was forced to apologise to a woman for calling her a bigot.

The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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That last edit is also when I first noticed just how much this recording had cost Our Liz. It's like a ten-year time lapse from that coiffed perky opener to the "I NEED A NAP NOW" final thought. She looks like she was - to use an equestrian expression - ridden hard and put away wet. 4/
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The chief horror is the rewriting of the human rights gains we've made since WWII to frame only 'contributing' migrants (whether asylum seekers or not) as worthy of life & safety.

But I'm also here to call BS on the 'Britain welcomes high-skilled migrants' thing. I do not feel welcome here.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just been to a screening of Sunset Boulevard at BFI Southbank. Such a treat - and the audience clapped at the end 🥰
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Did you or anyone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?

Looking for folks to interview for some book research

Thanks!

#BlackSky
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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This was last month.
Two disgraceful, former Tory PMs, Johnson & Truss, with Farage, partying together.
Three greedy people. Deluded, selfish, right wing liars and racists - who broke Britain's economy, but they're still laughing all the way to the bank

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...
Inside private members' club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now'
The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Seriously #BBCnews the headline news for today is the football draw for next year?
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Since we're talking about childhood racists, let me share something.

My first direct experience of racism was in South London, age 5. Do not be shocked. In terms of age, it's about average for Black folks.

I arrived at school and nobody was talking to me. I was one of two Black boys in our class.
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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If Russia is banned because it contradicted Eurovision’s mission of peace and cultural unity…

Then why isn’t Israel?
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.

UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.

The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Nigel Farage was RIGHT about there being a "uni-party", but apparently it includes Reform UK!

Promising Reform's donors an electoral pact with the Tories is just more proof:
The Reform Party is JUST MORE OF THE SAME!!
Reform UK will work with Tories at next election: Farage tells Donors
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Remember this, when you criticise doctors for asking for decent pay.
NHS to pay 25% more for US drugs

That's an extra £3 billion a year

Why?

Because Brexit, taking us outside the EU, makes the UK weaker than if we were inside the the EU
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Day 1 of my #AdventCalendar
[sound up]
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This is fucking DELICIOUS 😂 #JonathanGullis open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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…I am done with the wide afternoons of before, the long
stare, the tightly closed door.
And I am done, too, for the most part,
with the daydream of after. I am after for now. I am turning up the heater
to see if that will make the baby sleep another fifteen minutes
so I can finish this poem…
Yes
I am done not wearing underwear because it’s so Victorian. I am done telling men I don’t wear underwear because it’s so Victorian. I am done thinking of the past as if it had survived, though sometime...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Nothing says you’re old like exhibition notes explaining what HMV is/was
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Q: You said that second strike was in accordance with the law of armed conflict, but the Navy's own manual says that firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime

LEAVITT: I would reiterate that the strike was conducted in accordance with the law of armed conflict
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM