Ron Reid
@ronreid.bsky.social
Still trying to figure it out.
Europhile.
ASD
Europhile.
ASD
Wind your neck in Jim, the immigrants you're complaining about make a net positive contribution to UK revenue. They do so by paying pay more tax than you do.
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Keir Starmer calls on Jim Ratcliffe to apologise after claiming UK ‘colonised by immigrants’
Ineos founder says prime minister needs to get the country ‘back on track’
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Wind your neck in Jim, the immigrants you're complaining about make a net positive contribution to UK revenue. They do so by paying pay more tax than you do.
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Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
www.counterpunch.org
Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
twp.ai
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
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#Ukraine racer defies IOC ban by wearing 'helmet of memory' as anger grows
✍️ Sean Ingle in Livigno
👉Luger shares 'remembrance is not a violation' message
👉Officials will allow racer to wear black armband instead
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
✍️ Sean Ingle in Livigno
👉Luger shares 'remembrance is not a violation' message
👉Officials will allow racer to wear black armband instead
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Ukraine racer defies IOC ban by wearing ‘helmet of memory’ as anger grows
A Ukrainian skeleton racer has accused the International Olympic Committee of ‘betrayal’ after it banned his racing helmet showing images of athletes and friends killed following Russia’s invasion
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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New paper warns of cascading tipping points that could lead Earth to a cycle of self-sustaining warming—a dangerous 'hothouse Earth' trajectory.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.
insideclimatenews.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:59 AM
New paper warns of cascading tipping points that could lead Earth to a cycle of self-sustaining warming—a dangerous 'hothouse Earth' trajectory.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
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So (for those who know the constituency well) Gorton and Denton: more Man City than United fans, or vice versa?
Good morning, Jim Ratcliffe. Two things: one, pay your taxes; two, kiss my ass: www.politico.eu/article/manc... #jimratcliffe #manchesterunited
Manchester United owner praises Farage during anti-migration diatribe
Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticized businessman Jim Ratcliffe’s claims that Britain has been “colonized by immigrants.”
www.politico.eu
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 AM
So (for those who know the constituency well) Gorton and Denton: more Man City than United fans, or vice versa?
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Contrived self-employment and National Insurance dodge.
Drivers at Amazon, Evri, eCourier and elsewhere are persuaded to be self-employed. They pay income tax and Class 4 NIC but lose out on worker rights - e.g. minimum wage.
Companies don't pay employers’ NIC.
Must end this dodge.
Drivers at Amazon, Evri, eCourier and elsewhere are persuaded to be self-employed. They pay income tax and Class 4 NIC but lose out on worker rights - e.g. minimum wage.
Companies don't pay employers’ NIC.
Must end this dodge.
National Insurance is a regressive tax that hits the less well-off hardest
Compared to income tax, national insurance contributions attract little sustained scrutiny even though they provide large amounts to the public purse.
leftfootforward.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Contrived self-employment and National Insurance dodge.
Drivers at Amazon, Evri, eCourier and elsewhere are persuaded to be self-employed. They pay income tax and Class 4 NIC but lose out on worker rights - e.g. minimum wage.
Companies don't pay employers’ NIC.
Must end this dodge.
Drivers at Amazon, Evri, eCourier and elsewhere are persuaded to be self-employed. They pay income tax and Class 4 NIC but lose out on worker rights - e.g. minimum wage.
Companies don't pay employers’ NIC.
Must end this dodge.
Senile thin skinned tangerine narcissist with the nuclear codes, can't think why.
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Donald Trump prompts global surge in people viewing US as a threat
Poll for Munich Security Conference shows sharp rise in Canadians and others perceiving peril from Washington
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Senile thin skinned tangerine narcissist with the nuclear codes, can't think why.
www.ft.com/content/268b...
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Who among us hasn’t parked thier friggin yacht next to Epstein’s island and then popped over for lunch.
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Trump Official Who Called Epstein 'Gross' Admits to Island Trip
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted before Congress that he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island, after Epstein had been convicted for sex crimes.
www.rollingstone.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Who among us hasn’t parked thier friggin yacht next to Epstein’s island and then popped over for lunch.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"The billionaire businessman told Sky News on Wednesday: “You can’t have an economy with 9mn people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in.”
On average, immigrants contribute more to UK revenue than native Brits. Ratcliff is a prejudiced prick.
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On average, immigrants contribute more to UK revenue than native Brits. Ratcliff is a prejudiced prick.
www.ft.com/content/8e28...
Starmer calls on Ratcliffe to apologise after claiming UK ‘colonised by immigrants’
Ineos founder also says prime minister needs to get the country ‘back on track’
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:51 AM
"The billionaire businessman told Sky News on Wednesday: “You can’t have an economy with 9mn people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in.”
On average, immigrants contribute more to UK revenue than native Brits. Ratcliff is a prejudiced prick.
www.ft.com/content/8e28...
On average, immigrants contribute more to UK revenue than native Brits. Ratcliff is a prejudiced prick.
www.ft.com/content/8e28...
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Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance.
But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.
Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.
Vote Green.
But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.
Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.
Vote Green.
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance.
But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.
Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.
Vote Green.
But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.
Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.
Vote Green.
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Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
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🚨Gorton and Denton by-election
Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election
Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support.
We are so much better than that.
DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM
youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support.
We are so much better than that.
DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM
youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election - JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election
Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Vale Jon Kudelka ❤️
Jon was a brilliant cartoonist who used his voice to speak truth about the climate crisis.
Our hearts are with Jon's family and loved ones.
Jon was a brilliant cartoonist who used his voice to speak truth about the climate crisis.
Our hearts are with Jon's family and loved ones.
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Vale Jon Kudelka ❤️
Jon was a brilliant cartoonist who used his voice to speak truth about the climate crisis.
Our hearts are with Jon's family and loved ones.
Jon was a brilliant cartoonist who used his voice to speak truth about the climate crisis.
Our hearts are with Jon's family and loved ones.
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BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
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“The more Trump dominates the global agenda, the better Europe looks and the harder it becomes for Farage to argue that his brand of politics would make Britain safer, richer or more secure”
Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever…
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...
Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever…
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...
February 9, 2026 at 7:19 AM
“The more Trump dominates the global agenda, the better Europe looks and the harder it becomes for Farage to argue that his brand of politics would make Britain safer, richer or more secure”
Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever…
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...
Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever…
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...
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We’re at a point where not being racist makes you “radical leftist scum?”
a woman in a blue and white dress is standing in front of a sign that says `` yeah ok '' .
ALT: a woman in a blue and white dress is standing in front of a sign that says `` yeah ok '' .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
We’re at a point where not being racist makes you “radical leftist scum?”
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The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.