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@jamesbfg.bsky.social
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"He should just fuck off to Mars. Back to you in the studio..."
Dying to defend a multicultural economic zone is very literally the definition of the American revolution. The Colonial army -- which included freed slaves, native people, and people from every European country -- was likely the most diverse army ever assembled up to that point
February 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
"He should just fuck off to Mars. Back to you in the studio..."
I’m always struck as how articulate, thoughtful and on-the-nose the “average” person on the street is - particularly at highlighting what they desperately want from our politicians.
Our reporter Cameron has been speaking to people in Gorton and Denton about the by-election. Many of them didn't want their faces on camera. But all of them had something to say about politics and how it affects them.
February 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I’m always struck as how articulate, thoughtful and on-the-nose the “average” person on the street is - particularly at highlighting what they desperately want from our politicians.
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Love this from Russell Tovey.
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
Russell Tovey joins the Green Party after being 'let down' by Labour government (EXCLUSIVE)
Russell Tovey spoke highly of Green Party leader Zack Polanski at the 2026 Attitude 101 charity lunch, admitting the UK deserves better.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Love this from Russell Tovey.
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
Brexit continues to be the greatest act of masochistic self-sabotage the country has ever inflicted on itself.
Unforgivable. Unimaginably stupid. Grotesque in its wilful ignorance.
And people are still planning to put one of its ringleaders into No 10.
Unforgivable. Unimaginably stupid. Grotesque in its wilful ignorance.
And people are still planning to put one of its ringleaders into No 10.
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Brexit continues to be the greatest act of masochistic self-sabotage the country has ever inflicted on itself.
Unforgivable. Unimaginably stupid. Grotesque in its wilful ignorance.
And people are still planning to put one of its ringleaders into No 10.
Unforgivable. Unimaginably stupid. Grotesque in its wilful ignorance.
And people are still planning to put one of its ringleaders into No 10.
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So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’
UK must move away from US and towards a 'more European NATO', Keir Starmer to say at defence summit
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’
“By capitalism we mean something very odd and very specific: an economic system that boils down to a dictatorship run by the tiny minority who control capital – the big banks, the major corporations and the 1% who own the majority of investible assets.“
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
“By capitalism we mean something very odd and very specific: an economic system that boils down to a dictatorship run by the tiny minority who control capital – the big banks, the major corporations and the 1% who own the majority of investible assets.“
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Because it's an unregulated hellhole full of nazis, far-right, transphobes, racists and bots with a child porn tool, a toxic recommender algorithm and fake verification process designed for abuse?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
X: Why are so many organisations leaving?
Many organisation have recently announced that they will no longer be posting on their X accounts.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Because it's an unregulated hellhole full of nazis, far-right, transphobes, racists and bots with a child porn tool, a toxic recommender algorithm and fake verification process designed for abuse?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite"
"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"
"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite"
"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"
"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"
Ellie’s on fire at the moment. Great to see her getting so much airtime.
Ellie Chowns, "Keir Starmer is absolutely a lame duck"
"He's on the edge of the precipice.. Labour MPs decided to pull back, not quite push him over the edge"
"But it's only a matter of time"
"He's on the edge of the precipice.. Labour MPs decided to pull back, not quite push him over the edge"
"But it's only a matter of time"
February 12, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Ellie’s on fire at the moment. Great to see her getting so much airtime.
Hope is a light in the darkness.
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Hope is a light in the darkness.
I don’t disagree with this, but…
Johnson had no morality, nor pretended to. Farage revels in his lack of morality or decency. Pigs in muck.
Starmer stood on his high moral character and values. Then he showed he lacked them. That’s a much longer way to fall, and causes a deeper betrayal.
Johnson had no morality, nor pretended to. Farage revels in his lack of morality or decency. Pigs in muck.
Starmer stood on his high moral character and values. Then he showed he lacked them. That’s a much longer way to fall, and causes a deeper betrayal.
February 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I don’t disagree with this, but…
Johnson had no morality, nor pretended to. Farage revels in his lack of morality or decency. Pigs in muck.
Starmer stood on his high moral character and values. Then he showed he lacked them. That’s a much longer way to fall, and causes a deeper betrayal.
Johnson had no morality, nor pretended to. Farage revels in his lack of morality or decency. Pigs in muck.
Starmer stood on his high moral character and values. Then he showed he lacked them. That’s a much longer way to fall, and causes a deeper betrayal.
When was the last time you felt genuinely proud of a political leader because they led by example and role-modelled the change they wanted to see?
I’ll wait…
I’ll wait…
Liverpool to Gorton & Denton and back to London in the same day!
I'll be back again this weekend - everywhere we go, people are excited about the Green Party.
Lower bills, protect the NHS, rebuild our public services.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I'll be back again this weekend - everywhere we go, people are excited about the Green Party.
Lower bills, protect the NHS, rebuild our public services.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
When was the last time you felt genuinely proud of a political leader because they led by example and role-modelled the change they wanted to see?
I’ll wait…
I’ll wait…
I’m just leaving this here for no particular reason.
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I’m just leaving this here for no particular reason.
The kids are alright! The next election may hinge on their vote. But how do we engage a (quite understandably) politically apathetic group?
Young people are now the victims of a grossly unequal world, stuck in cyberspace because we stole their communities, and stuck in debt to pay to survive.
Young people are now the victims of a grossly unequal world, stuck in cyberspace because we stole their communities, and stuck in debt to pay to survive.
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 AM
The kids are alright! The next election may hinge on their vote. But how do we engage a (quite understandably) politically apathetic group?
Young people are now the victims of a grossly unequal world, stuck in cyberspace because we stole their communities, and stuck in debt to pay to survive.
Young people are now the victims of a grossly unequal world, stuck in cyberspace because we stole their communities, and stuck in debt to pay to survive.
Zack Polanski unveiled as the Attitude 101 ‘Trailblazer of the Year 2026’
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Zack Polanski unveiled as the Attitude 101 ‘Trailblazer of the Year 2026’
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
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Football referee assaulted at home one week after proposing to boyfriend at match https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/football-referee-assaulted-at-home-one-week-after-proposing-to-boyfriend-at-match/?utm_content=1770880800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Referee assaulted at home a week after proposal to boyfriend at match
German football referee Pascal Kaiser was assaulted at his home, just a week after proposing to his boyfriend on the pitch.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Football referee assaulted at home one week after proposing to boyfriend at match https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/football-referee-assaulted-at-home-one-week-after-proposing-to-boyfriend-at-match/?utm_content=1770880800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: "is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:givg3amslsq46o3f25ga5esh/bafkreig4odpf2rmnmzzaiw45dbmsiiltel6wiv4sv32o7ojwdz3vpuf34q@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 AM
A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)
For anyone who voted for Brexit, this is what you voted for.
The will of the rich and powerful: Brexit and the Epstein files
The will of the rich and powerful: Brexit and the Epstein files
The Epstein files reveal the role of Brexit in a global network which stands to gain from undermining democracy itself
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
For anyone who voted for Brexit, this is what you voted for.
These two videos tell you everything you need to know.
February 11, 2026 at 7:23 AM
These two videos tell you everything you need to know.
You are welcome to disagree but I personally want people with this level of empathy, compassion and kindness in charge our lives, welfare and country.
Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer.
youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...
Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer.
youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...
This is what politicians without vested interests look like
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
You are welcome to disagree but I personally want people with this level of empathy, compassion and kindness in charge our lives, welfare and country.
Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer.
youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...
Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer.
youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...
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Starmer and Blair are to the right of Macmillan's Tories.
Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.
Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.
February 10, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Starmer and Blair are to the right of Macmillan's Tories.
Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.
Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.
It’s surprising how many kiddie fiddlers there are in positions of power, eh 🤔
Former Number 10 comms chief Matthew Doyle – who was recently given a peerage by Keir Starmer – has the whip suspended over his ties to a padeophile.
No, not *that* paedophile. A different one.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
No, not *that* paedophile. A different one.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer's ex-comms chief suspended from Labour over links to sex offender
Matthew Doyle, who now sits in the House of Lords, has had the Labour whip withdrawn
inews.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
It’s surprising how many kiddie fiddlers there are in positions of power, eh 🤔
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The “Pride in Place” scheme, that Starmer was so keen to use as a smoke screen earlier this week, will actually amount to a £18.7m reduction in cash terms for Glasgow.
Is this the party of the people?
Is this the party of the people?
I have written alongside @patrickharvie.bsky.social to the Secretary of State for Scotland about changes they've made to Glasgow's funding.
They now risk the future of the Molendinar Centre - a vital space for Germiston & Blackhill that mustn't be left behind by new UK Gov funding policies. 💚
They now risk the future of the Molendinar Centre - a vital space for Germiston & Blackhill that mustn't be left behind by new UK Gov funding policies. 💚
February 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM
The “Pride in Place” scheme, that Starmer was so keen to use as a smoke screen earlier this week, will actually amount to a £18.7m reduction in cash terms for Glasgow.
Is this the party of the people?
Is this the party of the people?