Sam
@faroqabilly.bsky.social
Sworn enemy of lesser-evilism.
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Vichy Labour may lack principles and political skill but you have to respect their comic timing
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Vichy Labour may lack principles and political skill but you have to respect their comic timing
Reposted by Sam
Someone needs to tell Shabana Mahmood that the strategy of putting a minority Home Secretary in to sanitise the racism only works if you don't call this much attention to it.
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Someone needs to tell Shabana Mahmood that the strategy of putting a minority Home Secretary in to sanitise the racism only works if you don't call this much attention to it.
Reminded of the famous Thatcher quip re. her proudest achievement being Tony Blair and New Labour. Farage could say the same about Starmer and Vichy Labour despite his party having never been in government (or indeed having had more than 5 MPs)
To be clear: Labour are not protecting Britain from our future posh fash rulers. They are actively rehabilitating the politics that will bring them to power and they’re creating the tools that the fancy National Front will sharpen and use, and Reform and other fascists cannot believe their luck.
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reminded of the famous Thatcher quip re. her proudest achievement being Tony Blair and New Labour. Farage could say the same about Starmer and Vichy Labour despite his party having never been in government (or indeed having had more than 5 MPs)
This is totally of a piece with Lisa Nandy branding independent MPs as “sectarian” for supporting the WMP ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv away fans. The idea that other “UK communities” might view Palestinians as fully human is incomprehensible to these freaks. Even their impact assessments are Islamophobic
The main findings were that the ban "would likely be viewed positively by the majority of UK communities", but there would be "widespread criticism from the British Muslim community" and specific interest groups
The government appears to have been blindsided by Defend Our Juries protests
The government appears to have been blindsided by Defend Our Juries protests
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is totally of a piece with Lisa Nandy branding independent MPs as “sectarian” for supporting the WMP ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv away fans. The idea that other “UK communities” might view Palestinians as fully human is incomprehensible to these freaks. Even their impact assessments are Islamophobic
Cool. In a just world everyone who claimed chanting “Death to the IDF” was antisemitism would be sued into penury as well
Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays 'substantial damages' to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Cool. In a just world everyone who claimed chanting “Death to the IDF” was antisemitism would be sued into penury as well
I guess he turned the volume up
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I guess he turned the volume up
By the end of this year the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize will likely have invaded Venezuela with the rabid encouragement of the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
You know the ending of this story, right?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
By the end of this year the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize will likely have invaded Venezuela with the rabid encouragement of the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
The C in C-PTSD stands for “condiment"
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The C in C-PTSD stands for “condiment"
Very funny IMO that by stripping him of his titles and demoting him to “Andrew MOUNTBATTEN Windsor” the Royals are helpfully reminding everyone that noncing runs in the Family
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor [formerly known as Prince] after this formal process concludes
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Very funny IMO that by stripping him of his titles and demoting him to “Andrew MOUNTBATTEN Windsor” the Royals are helpfully reminding everyone that noncing runs in the Family
This is what Vance says to himself every night just before he eats another packet of salt and vinegar Taytos with his eyes (h/t @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social)
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is what Vance says to himself every night just before he eats another packet of salt and vinegar Taytos with his eyes (h/t @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social)
HIS OWN FOUNDATION literally funded research published last year projecting that climate change would drive over 120 million additional cases of malaria in Africa by 2050
www.bcg.com/publications...
www.bcg.com/publications...
![To better understand how climate change will affect the burden of malaria in Africa, Boston Consulting Group and the Malaria Atlas Project, with funding from the Gates Foundation, developed a climate model to predict changes in extreme weather events and to estimate their impact on malaria deaths through 2049. (See the exhibit.) Our modeling leverages multiple scenarios and numerical models, as well as leading insurance industry data on flood risk. The climate modeling results point toward substantially larger, more frequent, and more severe floods, along with an increase in the severity of cyclones.
In Africa, Extreme Weather Is Projected to Drive 554,000 Additional
Malaria Deaths by 2050
[chart plotting "Malaria deaths resulting from climate change (thousands)” and "Malaria cases resulting from climate change
(millions)” between 2030-2049]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zawinjfrvjdx5cgrvo4aqsre/bafkreig3xkdupqwmqukzxsgcwqtflaqxddhhr4zz37s7h5z5pbm7yzi75q@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
HIS OWN FOUNDATION literally funded research published last year projecting that climate change would drive over 120 million additional cases of malaria in Africa by 2050
www.bcg.com/publications...
www.bcg.com/publications...
ethical consumption under late capitalism
make eat the rich literal again
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ethical consumption under late capitalism
The most telling thing about this was how she immediately followed up “this concept with a contested/ambiguous/capacious definition is obviously and unequivocally bad” with “haha I’m not reading the replies"
Tbh if left ‘populism’ is what is needed to be right populism, I’m find with that, better than being some centrist who stands for nothing and hates on good things
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The most telling thing about this was how she immediately followed up “this concept with a contested/ambiguous/capacious definition is obviously and unequivocally bad” with “haha I’m not reading the replies"
“On Sunday/President diarrheas on the country/He was fuckin horses by Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday…"
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“On Sunday/President diarrheas on the country/He was fuckin horses by Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday…"
Been thinking about this and wondering if the strategy is to be so cartoonishly aggressive and maximalist in their philosemitism that even when it all blows up in their faces they’ve still succeeded in shifting the terrain away from calls for a wider boycott to a battle over this specific game
The way I have made sense of the government’s handling of Maccabi Tel Aviv is demonstrating an expectation that the ceasefire should settle any questions about Israel’s character and conduct over the past two years, and a desire to now aggressively re-assert their place among ‘decent’ nations.
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Been thinking about this and wondering if the strategy is to be so cartoonishly aggressive and maximalist in their philosemitism that even when it all blows up in their faces they’ve still succeeded in shifting the terrain away from calls for a wider boycott to a battle over this specific game
The date is 6 November 2025. Elbit drones circle Villa Park, keeping watch for Palestine flags.
In the 90th minute, with the scores level, Ollie Watkins finds space to shoot in the Maccabi area but is torn to shreds by a Spike missile, thus preventing the most antisemitic goal in football history
In the 90th minute, with the scores level, Ollie Watkins finds space to shoot in the Maccabi area but is torn to shreds by a Spike missile, thus preventing the most antisemitic goal in football history
Absolutely incredible: the for-real stance of the British government here is that a) the right of notoriously violent foreign football hooligans to attend games in British cities is non-negotiable, and b) in particular, fuck the people who live in the area, who are scum
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The date is 6 November 2025. Elbit drones circle Villa Park, keeping watch for Palestine flags.
In the 90th minute, with the scores level, Ollie Watkins finds space to shoot in the Maccabi area but is torn to shreds by a Spike missile, thus preventing the most antisemitic goal in football history
In the 90th minute, with the scores level, Ollie Watkins finds space to shoot in the Maccabi area but is torn to shreds by a Spike missile, thus preventing the most antisemitic goal in football history
I guess if you can pretend a genocide isn’t happening for two years, you can pretend a riot didn't happen yesterday easily enough too
Phillipson: "Its unacceptable that if fans are unable to attend a match because they're Jewish that runs completely counter to everything we stand for"
Maccabi fans are banned because they're violent racist hooligans. Why are you conflating violent racist hooligans with Jews?
Maccabi fans are banned because they're violent racist hooligans. Why are you conflating violent racist hooligans with Jews?
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I guess if you can pretend a genocide isn’t happening for two years, you can pretend a riot didn't happen yesterday easily enough too
The Young Republicans Were Practicing Politics the Right Way
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
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October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Young Republicans Were Practicing Politics the Right Way
This seems a bit unfair (based on this speech from a few days ago at least)
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This seems a bit unfair (based on this speech from a few days ago at least)
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
I know Streeting and the rest of his accursed faction are obsessed with resurrecting the ghosts and ghouls of the long 1990s but I didn't have Simon Fucking Wessely on my bingo card
Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I know Streeting and the rest of his accursed faction are obsessed with resurrecting the ghosts and ghouls of the long 1990s but I didn't have Simon Fucking Wessely on my bingo card
Imagine the all-channels screaming and baying for blood if a parliamentarian of any party had described a Zionist Jew as one of Netanyahu's "useful idiots". For the likes of Houchen, Jews only count to the extent they can be instrumentalised, dead or alive
Tory peer Ben Houchen calls a Jewish man who's attended pro Palestinian marches every week for the last 2 years a "useful idiot" #bbclaurak
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Imagine the all-channels screaming and baying for blood if a parliamentarian of any party had described a Zionist Jew as one of Netanyahu's "useful idiots". For the likes of Houchen, Jews only count to the extent they can be instrumentalised, dead or alive
The inverse is also true - describing the far right as "populist" implies that forces in opposition to them are elitist, technocratic, out of touch, etc.
“When we use the term “populist”, we often create a semantic link between the word and “the people”. So when we allow the far right to be described as populist, we are incorrectly implying that they are tapping into what the people want or that they speak for the “silent majority””
This short piece co-authored with Alex Yates shows why the misuse of populism plays right in the hands of the far right
(Annoyingly, the app is not allowing me to tag colleagues, but follow them!)
theconversation.com/the-word-pop...
(Annoyingly, the app is not allowing me to tag colleagues, but follow them!)
theconversation.com/the-word-pop...
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The inverse is also true - describing the far right as "populist" implies that forces in opposition to them are elitist, technocratic, out of touch, etc.
It's never been clearer that Israel is basically the vanguard of the new fascist international but Starmer et al will no doubt keep the spy planes (and the F-35s) flying over Gaza
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's never been clearer that Israel is basically the vanguard of the new fascist international but Starmer et al will no doubt keep the spy planes (and the F-35s) flying over Gaza