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🔴 The Rapid Support Forces have been accused of a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” after more than 30 children were killed in a drone strike on a nursery school.
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🔴 The Rapid Support Forces have been accused of a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” after more than 30 children were killed in a drone strike on a nursery school.
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
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Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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Whit?!
🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules
The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Whit?!
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era.
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
I think he was Danish
Bjorn Andresen, a Swedish actor who as a teenager played an ailing composer’s object of unrequited desire in the 1971 film “Death in Venice,” but who resented being objectified by the film’s director who called him “the most beautiful boy in the world,” has died at 70.
Bjorn Andresen, Reluctant ‘Most Beautiful Boy,’ Dies at 70
At 15, he played the muse to an ailing composer in Luchino Visconti’s film “Death in Venice.” He later said he’d felt sexualized by the director.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I think he was Danish
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The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...
www.cnn.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
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“He’s just Andrew..." | Virginia Giuffre’s family on Andrew losing “Prince” title
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
"No longer a Prince” | Virginia Giuffre’s family respond as King strips Andrew's title
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“He’s just Andrew..." | Virginia Giuffre’s family on Andrew losing “Prince” title
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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We needed to see what was before our eyes in 2016. This is why I wrote "Road to Unfreedom."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Did a $10M bribe break the soul of America? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, an inside look at who really went to “No Kings.”
www.inquirer.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We needed to see what was before our eyes in 2016. This is why I wrote "Road to Unfreedom."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Tump is totally unhinged. Aren’t you embarrassed, America ?
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tump is totally unhinged. Aren’t you embarrassed, America ?
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"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
snyder.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
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"In recent weeks, Reform leader Nigel Farage has learned for sure what he must have already assumed:
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
Starmer’s moral cowardice on refugees
The Labour leadership is tacitly accepting, and reflecting, Farage’s perverted notion of patriotism
bylines.scot
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"In recent weeks, Reform leader Nigel Farage has learned for sure what he must have already assumed:
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
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🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner
Hope not Hate's CEO Nick Lowles says Reform's rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
bylinetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
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This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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🔴Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests
Exclusive: Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests
Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...
bylinetimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🔴Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests
Exclusive: Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests
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There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
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🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage's Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
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Quick reminder that consuming Tylenol has a 0% chance of causing autism but consuming MAGA at all has a 100% chance of causing fascism.
September 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Quick reminder that consuming Tylenol has a 0% chance of causing autism but consuming MAGA at all has a 100% chance of causing fascism.
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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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My grandchildren feature (in a good way) in this latest post by @samfr.bsky.social on TikTok’s combination of distraction and political influence. I was totally ignorant of all of this and now have something else to be worried about. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/three-seco...
Three seconds
TikTok and the future of politics
samf.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My grandchildren feature (in a good way) in this latest post by @samfr.bsky.social on TikTok’s combination of distraction and political influence. I was totally ignorant of all of this and now have something else to be worried about. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/three-seco...
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RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisers met at the CDC and showed a desire to focus on side effects, change recommendations and abandon previous methods of examining scientific evidence.
What to Know About Vaccine Policy After RFK Jr. Panel’s Whirlwind Meeting
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisers met at the CDC and showed a desire to change vaccine recommendations.
on.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisers met at the CDC and showed a desire to focus on side effects, change recommendations and abandon previous methods of examining scientific evidence.
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