Who would have guessed

When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.

Tough on Katie Lam's dad, who is the son of a German refugee.

Will he be deported too, I wonder?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And this from a woman whose family came to the UK to escape persecution!!!!

The most poorly named march they could find. Hate and division would be more accurate

You read something like this and you realise he’s not as lovely as some people are making.

The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech.

Well done, this is how you do it. 👏

Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out

youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...

Just below the thin veneer of racism and Islamophobia sits racism and Islamophobia.

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can.... I signed it, will you?

A climate change denier who just happens to lead the second biggest polluter in the world will take us over the brink if we haven’t already gone over the brink! The difference Trump will make? People will be obligated to make change rather than opting to.

I’m in favour of assisted dying but recognise people’s fears. From what I have read, it appears that robust safeguards are likely to be put in place to protect the most vulnerable and whilst some will never agree, I think it’s a decent attempt at a horribly difficult subject.

Just another quiet day in an otherwise quiet 2024!!!

I’m new to Blue Sky having left the cesspit that is X and feeling a bit downbeat about Threads. Would love to make contact with history lovers and fellow progressives. I’ll happily follow you back. Let’s start a conversation.