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martinhebart.bsky.social
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it?
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December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sarasheridan.bsky.social
The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here:
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November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage
Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street
Post from Angus MacDonald MP: I’m deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it’s simply not an appropriate or secure location.
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 4
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
They ran a diagnostic, then shelved the file. “All systems nominal.” After that, clocks stuttered. Permissions floated. Birds started flying at night. The system split half watching and half forgetting.
May 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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tanjabueltmann.net
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
coinneach76.bsky.social
I don't feel a stranger to the many immigrants who enrich our country. They are our friends, neighbours, colleagues, partners. They teach our children, care for our loved ones, amongst a hundred other things.
The real strangers are Starmer/Farage/Badenoch, and all the rest, who stir up this hate.
tanjabueltmann.net Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · May 12
You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.

A "queue-jumper", they said.

Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.

A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.

I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
May 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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tristangrayford.scot
This should be in the email inbox of everyone in Scotland. They should know what kind of man Anas Sarwar is.

It's, somehow, real.

Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.
We can use our ties with Trump to make Scotland greater again
April 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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3/1/2025- The Meeting www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...
February 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
*New* campaign action on Marks & Spencer - any help getting the first few signatures going would be greatly appreciated! actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...

We're sharing this first on Bluesky as this is so much friendlier (and troll free, so far at least!) than any of the other platforms right now!
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February 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
coinneach76.bsky.social
Half the world looks on in horror - waiting to see what the next unhinged, cruel or bigoted Doge action will be; Musk does nazi salutes and behaves like a badly written Bond villain.
And Sarwar thinks: 'I'd like some of that'.
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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garius.bsky.social
An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger
REPORTER: Blobby blobby HEGSETH: Look, values are great, but you can't exactly fight off the left with values. REPORTER: Blobby blobby blobby! Blobby. Blobby! <sound of chair falling over> HEGSETH: I'm just saying, when it comes down to it, strength wins, not ideals. REPORTER: Blobby! Blobbly! Bthhhhhhh BLOBBY! <sound of lectern smashing> Blobby! BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY! HEGSETH: Well, military power still matters more than words. REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby! Blobby Blobby <indecipherable chaos> Blobby! HEGSETH: So you're saying values win wars? REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby blobby BLOBBY! <muted screaming. Sound of running> NATO Press Conference Exchange, Feb 13, 2025.
February 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
To be clear, this policy is repulsive, and that needs to be expressed again and again. But I really think it's worth stating that it's also tactically, strategically, politically suicidal. It's the most clear-cut bad idea in contemporary politics. It always fails. It's the dog that just won't hunt.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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stephenking.bsky.social
As best you can, ignore him.
January 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
put it this way, it's not a hand signal you'd do if you very much wanted people *not* to think you are a Nazi
January 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
coinneach76.bsky.social
Delighted to receive Karla's Choice as part of our family's vague tribute to Jólabókaflód and it's perfect before the first page. What a lovely tribute @harkaway.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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irvinewelsh.bsky.social
Such courage and integrity
December 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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lordshortcake.bsky.social
Each year, Noddy gets all the holly bouquets but the other bloke who wrote it rarely gets a look in. Until now.
A sublime version from Jim Lea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0Y...
Jim Lea “Merry Xmas Everybody” Acoustic version
YouTube video by Nyquest Limited
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December 15, 2024 at 1:02 PM