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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Based on personal experience, our network, and my wife's experience in her job, I query the "almost"
Almost every family is failed on special needs, says ombudsman
✍️ Jon Ungoed-Thomas
https://bit.ly/4qOSoRF
✍️ Jon Ungoed-Thomas
https://bit.ly/4qOSoRF
Almost every family is failed on special needs, says ombudsman | The Observer
national
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Based on personal experience, our network, and my wife's experience in her job, I query the "almost"
Thanks for your help
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thanks for your help
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I mean, I wouldn’t call it doxxing. The gentleman identified himself and explained his own actions. What she did was arguably worse; she set the dogs on him.
Sometimes I think about how a private citizen was doxxed by the BBC's Political Editor, and remain staggered that it actually happened and she faced no consequences
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I mean, I wouldn’t call it doxxing. The gentleman identified himself and explained his own actions. What she did was arguably worse; she set the dogs on him.
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This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
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Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
He's not doing much with this post to refute my theory about the reasons for his quite extraordinary lifelong commitment to Israel
When your politics are awesomely popular with an enthused and passionately supportive public, and you personally are beloved by all
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He's not doing much with this post to refute my theory about the reasons for his quite extraordinary lifelong commitment to Israel
Starmer is now complicit in two genocides. The unluckiest human rights lawyer in history
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian.
Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Starmer is now complicit in two genocides. The unluckiest human rights lawyer in history
Even supposing this wretched and highly dubious strategy works - then what? Serving up more of the same slop of racism and austerity to a country that hates them? What's the actual plan, apart from winning elections by any means necessary?
Support for McSweeney/Starmer’s “Macron” strategy of forcing Lib Dems and Greens to choose between Farage and Starmer as PM www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Even supposing this wretched and highly dubious strategy works - then what? Serving up more of the same slop of racism and austerity to a country that hates them? What's the actual plan, apart from winning elections by any means necessary?
Saying it could be "legally justifiable" to bomb a refugee camp didn't seem to do his career any harm
🚨 NEW: David Lammy refused to answer questions in the Commons over the accidental migrant release, despite being asked by the Speaker, because he thought it would be “career suicide”
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Saying it could be "legally justifiable" to bomb a refugee camp didn't seem to do his career any harm
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:
Trying to win the approval of the Daily Mail by being massively racist seems to be going well
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Trying to win the approval of the Daily Mail by being massively racist seems to be going well
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Chris "cannot conceive of industrial-scale tree planting" Mason here
How big are these coach and horses that they can be seen from space?
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Chris "cannot conceive of industrial-scale tree planting" Mason here
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Surprised that BBC R4 is using the tag radical left to describe Mamdani. Sarah Smith used it yesterday in a voicer at 8am, the newsreader did today in the same bulletin. Surely echoes Trump’s language.
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Surprised that BBC R4 is using the tag radical left to describe Mamdani. Sarah Smith used it yesterday in a voicer at 8am, the newsreader did today in the same bulletin. Surely echoes Trump’s language.
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Times of Israel front page
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Times of Israel front page
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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It's very weird how confused centrist political commentators are about Starmer's unpopularity. The risks in being a Labour politician whose primary orientation is towards winning over conservative votes should be obvious, shouldn't they?
Campbell and Stewart here, and there’s plenty to be said but the bottom line is: this is the base level of support for “very nasty, very reactionary right wing politics delivered by the red team”. And this isn’t even people who like it, it’s people who are prepared to tolerate it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's very weird how confused centrist political commentators are about Starmer's unpopularity. The risks in being a Labour politician whose primary orientation is towards winning over conservative votes should be obvious, shouldn't they?
“The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists, but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party. They will rue the day when they threw open their doors to all these people”.
Peter Mandelson, 7 May 2024
Peter Mandelson, 7 May 2024
Labour hits their lowest ever poll rating with YouGov, level with the Conservatives on 17%. Greens at their highest ever.
Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens now all essentially within margin of error of each other
Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens now all essentially within margin of error of each other
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
“The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists, but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party. They will rue the day when they threw open their doors to all these people”.
Peter Mandelson, 7 May 2024
Peter Mandelson, 7 May 2024