Colin Maclure
@colinmaclure.bsky.social
Ex cameraman, atheist, European, Scottish seperatist and cat slave.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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After the Brexit referendum, the Tories felt compelled to lie in order to cover up the huge con trick they’d played on the electorate. They normalized dishonesty in government. And now Labour has decided to ape them. Don’t think politics has looked this grim in my lifetime.
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
After the Brexit referendum, the Tories felt compelled to lie in order to cover up the huge con trick they’d played on the electorate. They normalized dishonesty in government. And now Labour has decided to ape them. Don’t think politics has looked this grim in my lifetime.
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Very glad to see this from Tony.
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Very glad to see this from Tony.
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
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No.
This simply isn't true.
Immigration and asylum have not broken or divided this country.
That's Farage and his filthy scumbag mates you're thinking of.
And we're really fucking sick of seeing Labour play follow my leader and let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This simply isn't true.
Immigration and asylum have not broken or divided this country.
That's Farage and his filthy scumbag mates you're thinking of.
And we're really fucking sick of seeing Labour play follow my leader and let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
No.
This simply isn't true.
Immigration and asylum have not broken or divided this country.
That's Farage and his filthy scumbag mates you're thinking of.
And we're really fucking sick of seeing Labour play follow my leader and let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This simply isn't true.
Immigration and asylum have not broken or divided this country.
That's Farage and his filthy scumbag mates you're thinking of.
And we're really fucking sick of seeing Labour play follow my leader and let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This is essentially the same story told by the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is essentially the same story told by the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
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Danny Kruger claims migrant men represent a disproportionate threat to women.
FACT-CHECK:
Reform MPs are a bigger "Per Capita" threat to women and girls than ANY minority group.
#Bbcqt
FACT-CHECK:
Reform MPs are a bigger "Per Capita" threat to women and girls than ANY minority group.
#Bbcqt
Reform UK Danny Kruger: Migrants are a threat to women & girls
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Danny Kruger claims migrant men represent a disproportionate threat to women.
FACT-CHECK:
Reform MPs are a bigger "Per Capita" threat to women and girls than ANY minority group.
#Bbcqt
FACT-CHECK:
Reform MPs are a bigger "Per Capita" threat to women and girls than ANY minority group.
#Bbcqt
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I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
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She’s gonna run.
Everyone else heard it too? RIGHT????
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
She’s gonna run.
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TL;dr - never has it been a happier time to be a Green activist in England or a Plaid activist in Wales. The country is being run by people seemingly determined to deliver electoral breakthroughs for both (and cement SNP dominance further).
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
TL;dr - never has it been a happier time to be a Green activist in England or a Plaid activist in Wales. The country is being run by people seemingly determined to deliver electoral breakthroughs for both (and cement SNP dominance further).
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What's this? Oh, nothing really, just a Labour Home Secretary stirring up hate.
Business as usual for the modern Labour party. Let's hope they enjoy their final 44 months in power, because after that they're done forever.
Business as usual for the modern Labour party. Let's hope they enjoy their final 44 months in power, because after that they're done forever.
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What's this? Oh, nothing really, just a Labour Home Secretary stirring up hate.
Business as usual for the modern Labour party. Let's hope they enjoy their final 44 months in power, because after that they're done forever.
Business as usual for the modern Labour party. Let's hope they enjoy their final 44 months in power, because after that they're done forever.
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This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
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Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
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It's not 'illegal migration' that is tearing this country apart.
It's nasty, cruel, uncaring rhetoric, & policies like this that are doing all the damage.
Labour might just as well walk out of No. 10 & hands the keys over to Farage.
Reform must be rubbing their hands with glee.
It's nasty, cruel, uncaring rhetoric, & policies like this that are doing all the damage.
Labour might just as well walk out of No. 10 & hands the keys over to Farage.
Reform must be rubbing their hands with glee.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It's not 'illegal migration' that is tearing this country apart.
It's nasty, cruel, uncaring rhetoric, & policies like this that are doing all the damage.
Labour might just as well walk out of No. 10 & hands the keys over to Farage.
Reform must be rubbing their hands with glee.
It's nasty, cruel, uncaring rhetoric, & policies like this that are doing all the damage.
Labour might just as well walk out of No. 10 & hands the keys over to Farage.
Reform must be rubbing their hands with glee.
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New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.
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Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
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Still no media pursuing Farage's dodgy £800k house, nor any mention of his close mate Nathan Gill's collusion with a hostile foreign power, aka Russia, and bog all about Yusuf's latest wacko pronouncements. VERY strange, very VERY strange. One might conclude that media WANT ReFUKKK to gain power.
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Still no media pursuing Farage's dodgy £800k house, nor any mention of his close mate Nathan Gill's collusion with a hostile foreign power, aka Russia, and bog all about Yusuf's latest wacko pronouncements. VERY strange, very VERY strange. One might conclude that media WANT ReFUKKK to gain power.
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Lots to like in Chris Grey's latest but I loved this line.
"Radio Four’s Moral Maze [...] surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
"Radio Four’s Moral Maze [...] surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
Brexit & Brexitism
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lots to like in Chris Grey's latest but I loved this line.
"Radio Four’s Moral Maze [...] surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
"Radio Four’s Moral Maze [...] surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
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If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
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Not only is Labour actively endorsing Reform's narrative, and emboldening hate and division while doing so, it's losing supporters hand over fist to Greens and Lib Dems in doing so. Turns out that most people who support progressive policies don't support the disgusting policies of this government.
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Not only is Labour actively endorsing Reform's narrative, and emboldening hate and division while doing so, it's losing supporters hand over fist to Greens and Lib Dems in doing so. Turns out that most people who support progressive policies don't support the disgusting policies of this government.
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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300 organisations have written to the UK Government warning they will 'not comply' with newly proposed rules for asylum seekers
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
300 organisations have written to the UK Government warning they will 'not comply' with newly proposed rules for asylum seekers
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...