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Is Allen
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UK charity worker generally trying to dial down anger and step up engagement while giving fascists the finger.
That’s not ‘fingering fascists’. No.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤

The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇

Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
July 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.

Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I see that the UK gov is now to demand that anyone wishing to come and live in the UK must learn to speak English. I presume that the Spanish government will now follow suit and require all those Brits who wish to live in Spain to learn Spanish - or Catalan, as the case may be. Seems only fair.
May 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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well done lads for publishing this on the hottest May 01 since records began
May 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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lazarus daniel craig: ladies and gentlemen... the holy weekend
April 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Found in Portland Maine
#booksky
#StephenKing
#Maine
April 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

On #TransDayOfVisibility — and every day — we celebrate trans people and reaffirm the fight for a world where they can live freely, without discrimination or hate.
March 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Fascinating - I’m genuinely very surprised by how low these percentages are.
The % thinking being white is very important to being British fell to 3% in 2020 having been 10% in 2006

The % in England thinking white important to being English fell to 10% in 2020, was 20% in 2012. Scale of this shift surprises some on the liberal-left & now vocally contested by online right
Fraser Nelson arguing that Rishi Sunak is English, while podcast host Konstantin Kisin responds incredulously.

[Kisin has previously described himself as a 'centrist', which is a bad joke.]

youtu.be/dhdnZEZl1pk?... (starts from 1:04:00)
February 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.
February 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
When an institution removes fundamental values you have to assume they believe the opposite
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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We used to boycott South Africa for apartheid.
February 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.
December 20, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Some excellent covers in here. Hadn’t heard The Breeders’ version of one of my favourite Beatles songs.

Keep scrolling till you get to The Beatles covers list - some absolute legends including Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood
slightly random but who wants to share a song cover they really enjoyed - here’s my choice

open.spotify.com/track/4blAmR...
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
The Breeders · Pod · Song · 1990
open.spotify.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:19 PM