Paul Silvester
@paulsilvester.bsky.social
All things about justice, SEN and Aston Villa.
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In Memory of Jamal Khashoggi 🙏🕊️ 2018 #Khashoggi
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In Memory of Jamal Khashoggi 🙏🕊️ 2018 #Khashoggi
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Story of the first Muslim VC who saved the British at Ypres www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-38...
Story of the first Muslim VC who saved the British at Ypres
Khudadad Khan's story is one of awesome bravery under the most appalling conditions. It also highlights the immense contribution and sacrifice so many Muslim soldiers made for the Allied effort.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Story of the first Muslim VC who saved the British at Ypres www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-38...
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The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of genocide.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of genocide.
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The BBC used to pretend to guard the moral high ground. Now they promote the Onanites of Reform on all their platforms..
48 years ago today
"Orgasm Addict" is the debut single by the British punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1977.
The song was controversial due to its sexual content and was banned by the BBC
#punk #punks #punkrock #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"Orgasm Addict" is the debut single by the British punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1977.
The song was controversial due to its sexual content and was banned by the BBC
#punk #punks #punkrock #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The BBC used to pretend to guard the moral high ground. Now they promote the Onanites of Reform on all their platforms..
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
This is crucial. The media dramatises events. There is so little analysis of the very real, usually male, domestic violence and coercion which is left out as it's too difficult to blame some minority for DV
I think we need to also remember that most violence happens in the home.
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is crucial. The media dramatises events. There is so little analysis of the very real, usually male, domestic violence and coercion which is left out as it's too difficult to blame some minority for DV
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After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes.
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King Harold exiled his brother.
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
King Harold exiled his brother.
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Germany receives the most asylum seekers in Europe, with over 1/3 of all applications in 2023 & a 1/4 in 2024.The next highest are Spain, France, & Italy, which together with Germany receive the majority of applications.The UK has fifth largest applications but intake is 17th per head of population.
Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...
Migrants come to Britain because they think we're Europe's most generous country
TODAY’S small boat numbers are shameful, and the British people deserve better. They contain a lesson: we must go further and faster to secure our borders. Under the last Conservative Government, t…
www.thesun.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Germany receives the most asylum seekers in Europe, with over 1/3 of all applications in 2023 & a 1/4 in 2024.The next highest are Spain, France, & Italy, which together with Germany receive the majority of applications.The UK has fifth largest applications but intake is 17th per head of population.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social I admire your views on this. I was born off the Wellington Road and HGS. My parents lived there for more than 50 years. We walked to Villa Park, saw two riots. My Muslim neighbours came to my Dad's funeral. The willingness to burn it down on lies and ignorance is evil.
October 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@davidallengreen.bsky.social I admire your views on this. I was born off the Wellington Road and HGS. My parents lived there for more than 50 years. We walked to Villa Park, saw two riots. My Muslim neighbours came to my Dad's funeral. The willingness to burn it down on lies and ignorance is evil.
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Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
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Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.
New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
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 1:26 PM
Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.
New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
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Dangerous and wrong: How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded- schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-e...
How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded
The approach and the incentives that flow from it are ruinous. Here's what we should do instead
schoolsweek.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Dangerous and wrong: How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded- schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-e...
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The @nationalstar.bsky.social & @togethertrust.bsky.social research highlights barriers young #disabled people face transitioning to adulthood. Help support their movement and make a positive impact by signing up to receive the report today here: bit.ly/4j797LN #Ad #SENDSky #EduSky
April 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The @nationalstar.bsky.social & @togethertrust.bsky.social research highlights barriers young #disabled people face transitioning to adulthood. Help support their movement and make a positive impact by signing up to receive the report today here: bit.ly/4j797LN #Ad #SENDSky #EduSky
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"She points to the decimation of youth services – in England, there was a £1.1bn cut in funding between 2010 and 2021. The internet has filled this void. 'The boys I speak to are usually 14 to 19 and some have never had a conversation about consent before'." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere
When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought back
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"She points to the decimation of youth services – in England, there was a £1.1bn cut in funding between 2010 and 2021. The internet has filled this void. 'The boys I speak to are usually 14 to 19 and some have never had a conversation about consent before'." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Pope Francis, voice for the poor who transformed the Catholic Church, dies at 88
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/e...
Pope Francis, voice for the poor who transformed the Catholic Church, dies at 88 | CNN
Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died at 88, the Vatican has announced.
www.cnn.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Pope Francis, voice for the poor who transformed the Catholic Church, dies at 88
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/e...
A befitting final act.
"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."
Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A befitting final act.