There’s lots of praise for stuff like this which I can’t compute. What makes it objectionable for Israel to compete this year that didn’t apply last year, other than that last year was *your* moment in the spotlight and this year isn’t? It’s very easy to do what’s right when nothing’s on the line.
Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
‘Clear conflict’ between Eurovision ideals of ‘inclusion and dignity for all’ and decision to let Israel compete, says 2024 winner
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
There’s lots of praise for stuff like this which I can’t compute. What makes it objectionable for Israel to compete this year that didn’t apply last year, other than that last year was *your* moment in the spotlight and this year isn’t? It’s very easy to do what’s right when nothing’s on the line.
14:40 Pat McFadden (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) at the Labour Party Conference (1/4):
Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
14:40 Pat McFadden (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) at the Labour Party Conference (1/4):
Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
i see openai hired the someone from the liberal democrats to run their bar chart division
The ChatGPT subreddit is spiraling because the newest model sucks and the graphs OpenAI used to tout said model are complete nonsense. A company with a $500 billion valuation!
August 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
i see openai hired the someone from the liberal democrats to run their bar chart division
I think part of the reason more people are speaking up about Gaza now is the long history of famine being depoliticised as a sort of natural/Malthusian disaster rather than a catastrophe resulting from the decisions of political actors. You can ask to feed the starving, but not why they are hungry.
July 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I think part of the reason more people are speaking up about Gaza now is the long history of famine being depoliticised as a sort of natural/Malthusian disaster rather than a catastrophe resulting from the decisions of political actors. You can ask to feed the starving, but not why they are hungry.
The Tories are like the evil stepmum the electorate live with who bans them from having friends and feeds them a diet of pure asparagus whilst the Labour Party is like the aunt they visit once a year who gives them fudge and slips them a £20 note which stops the child from going apeshit.
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Tories are like the evil stepmum the electorate live with who bans them from having friends and feeds them a diet of pure asparagus whilst the Labour Party is like the aunt they visit once a year who gives them fudge and slips them a £20 note which stops the child from going apeshit.
“heard you’re a trotskyite bruv”
July 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“heard you’re a trotskyite bruv”
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My brother. My mother. My aunt. All disabled. All gone. Not peacefully - but ground down by a system that said they weren’t worth saving.
I survived what killed them. Now, Labour are coming for me.
Read here: violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/o...
#Takingthepip #AusterityKills
I survived what killed them. Now, Labour are coming for me.
Read here: violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/o...
#Takingthepip #AusterityKills
Our Leaders Are Letting Us Die
My brother had his disability benefits cut in the early years of austerity. Six months later, he was dead. Just 30 years old. No support, no safety net, no lifeline. And he wasn’t the only one. My …
violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My brother. My mother. My aunt. All disabled. All gone. Not peacefully - but ground down by a system that said they weren’t worth saving.
I survived what killed them. Now, Labour are coming for me.
Read here: violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/o...
#Takingthepip #AusterityKills
I survived what killed them. Now, Labour are coming for me.
Read here: violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/o...
#Takingthepip #AusterityKills
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In Parliament today I spoke about the truth behind rising welfare costs - and why I cannot support the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which does not address these roots causes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...
Labour MP explains why welfare costs are really rising (and why he's voting against cuts)
YouTube video by Clive Lewis
www.youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In Parliament today I spoke about the truth behind rising welfare costs - and why I cannot support the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which does not address these roots causes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...
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Those who are sick and injured or Disabled today and in the future need our solidarity, and from Greens they will get it.
This rushed, shameful, cruel Bill must fall.
This rushed, shameful, cruel Bill must fall.
July 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Those who are sick and injured or Disabled today and in the future need our solidarity, and from Greens they will get it.
This rushed, shameful, cruel Bill must fall.
This rushed, shameful, cruel Bill must fall.
16:18:03, Dr Marie Tidball (Lab, Penistone and Stocksbridge), who has a congenital disability, rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
16:18:03, Dr Marie Tidball (Lab, Penistone and Stocksbridge), who has a congenital disability, rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
16:12:17, Jeremy Corbyn (Ind, Islington North) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
16:12:17, Jeremy Corbyn (Ind, Islington North) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
15:55:28, Richard Burgon (Lab, Leeds East) rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
15:55:28, Richard Burgon (Lab, Leeds East) rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
15:43:09, Marsha De Cordova (Lab, Battersea), who is registered blind, rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
15:43:09, Marsha De Cordova (Lab, Battersea), who is registered blind, rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
15:21:36, Rebecca Long-Bailey (Lab, Salford) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
15:21:36, Rebecca Long-Bailey (Lab, Salford) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
The UK justice department has lost all veneer of being anything other than a rogue, lawless entity. They will overrule independent sentencing guidelines because enough far-right crybabies whine about it, but will damn throwing red paint over machines abetting genocide as terrorism.
Take care.
Take care.
June 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The UK justice department has lost all veneer of being anything other than a rogue, lawless entity. They will overrule independent sentencing guidelines because enough far-right crybabies whine about it, but will damn throwing red paint over machines abetting genocide as terrorism.
Take care.
Take care.
I feel like we’re getting to the ‘do something or get out the way’ stage of rising fascism and I have to get off my chest that as much as they individually seem like nice enough people, the current Green Party leadership are not meeting the moment whatsoever.
May 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I feel like we’re getting to the ‘do something or get out the way’ stage of rising fascism and I have to get off my chest that as much as they individually seem like nice enough people, the current Green Party leadership are not meeting the moment whatsoever.
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New Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote for them. And its a cracker!
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
New Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote for them. And its a cracker!
happy anniversary to those of us who celebrate
April 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
happy anniversary to those of us who celebrate
Poverty is the new draft. From one study in 2000, just before Iraq:
- 50% of all recruits have literacy/numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old
From a sample of 500 recruits:
- 69% were found to have come from a broken home
- 40% were joining the Army as a last resort
- 50% of all recruits have literacy/numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old
From a sample of 500 recruits:
- 69% were found to have come from a broken home
- 40% were joining the Army as a last resort
March 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Poverty is the new draft. From one study in 2000, just before Iraq:
- 50% of all recruits have literacy/numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old
From a sample of 500 recruits:
- 69% were found to have come from a broken home
- 40% were joining the Army as a last resort
- 50% of all recruits have literacy/numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old
From a sample of 500 recruits:
- 69% were found to have come from a broken home
- 40% were joining the Army as a last resort
i would like to officially apologise to the supporters of keir starmer in light of this new evidence which proves that his values truly are rooted in those of the labour party.
March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
i would like to officially apologise to the supporters of keir starmer in light of this new evidence which proves that his values truly are rooted in those of the labour party.
we know macron loved seeing a man still at work long past the pension age
Macron corrects Trump after he claims "Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back."
February 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
we know macron loved seeing a man still at work long past the pension age
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One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell died protesting the Genocide in Gaza.
Take a moment to remember Aaron's sacrifice.
Art by @krime.bsky.social
Take a moment to remember Aaron's sacrifice.
Art by @krime.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell died protesting the Genocide in Gaza.
Take a moment to remember Aaron's sacrifice.
Art by @krime.bsky.social
Take a moment to remember Aaron's sacrifice.
Art by @krime.bsky.social
National defence is not determined many guns you buy - you're not going to be able to defend yourself if the health service is so underfunded you can't treat the wounded, if your manufacturing workforce are living in poverty, if all the public utilities are in the hands of foreign billionaires etc.
‼️ BREAKING: Labour set to cut "unprotected" public spending by up to 11% to fund defence spending.
"We have to spend more on defense, that’s the reality of the situation" said Starmer.
Those facing cuts include DWP and Local Government.
(Source: Bloomberg)
"We have to spend more on defense, that’s the reality of the situation" said Starmer.
Those facing cuts include DWP and Local Government.
(Source: Bloomberg)
February 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
National defence is not determined many guns you buy - you're not going to be able to defend yourself if the health service is so underfunded you can't treat the wounded, if your manufacturing workforce are living in poverty, if all the public utilities are in the hands of foreign billionaires etc.