Pete Cookson
@pete-cookson.bsky.social
'People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' - R.V.
Cameron Kasky:
"I just noticed that the term “alt-right” basically disappeared because that’s just all of them now."
"I just noticed that the term “alt-right” basically disappeared because that’s just all of them now."
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Cameron Kasky:
"I just noticed that the term “alt-right” basically disappeared because that’s just all of them now."
"I just noticed that the term “alt-right” basically disappeared because that’s just all of them now."
“We live in a crime-ridden, socialist, Islamist dystopia. If they made Yes Minister today, she said, Humphrey Appleby would be “a radicalised trans activist”.
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The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
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December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“We live in a crime-ridden, socialist, Islamist dystopia. If they made Yes Minister today, she said, Humphrey Appleby would be “a radicalised trans activist”.
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'Trans women will be barred from the main part of Labour’s women’s conference next year, the party has said, with entrance to the main conference hall and voting rights denied.'
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Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
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December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
'Trans women will be barred from the main part of Labour’s women’s conference next year, the party has said, with entrance to the main conference hall and voting rights denied.'
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I've just learned that Tory anti-immigration hardliner Robert Jenrick has an immigrant wife. But it's OK, she's white.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I've just learned that Tory anti-immigration hardliner Robert Jenrick has an immigrant wife. But it's OK, she's white.
'Three Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) survivors have told of physical and lasting psychological pain they experienced as teens at the time. One, Jeremy Gavins, 72, said shocks were so severe he lost consciousness and woke up in hospital three days later.'
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LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy
More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
'Three Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) survivors have told of physical and lasting psychological pain they experienced as teens at the time. One, Jeremy Gavins, 72, said shocks were so severe he lost consciousness and woke up in hospital three days later.'
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These are just three of the thousands of so-called 'eye idols' that were discovered at a temple in Tell Brak in Syria. Dating to around 3600 BCE, they are probably votive offerings. They are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #FindsFriday
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
These are just three of the thousands of so-called 'eye idols' that were discovered at a temple in Tell Brak in Syria. Dating to around 3600 BCE, they are probably votive offerings. They are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #FindsFriday
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Don’t just abolish Prince Andrew’s titles, abolish the monarchy.
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don’t just abolish Prince Andrew’s titles, abolish the monarchy.
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Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
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David Lammy plans to retain juries only in cases of “public interest” — crimes with a sentence of over three years —meaning manslaughter, murder or rape. All other cases would be heard by a single judge.
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No to removal of juries!
Justice secretary David Lammy has been subject to widespread criticism after the press got hold of his plans to remove trial by jury in almost all cases. Juries would remain in cases of serious…
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December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
David Lammy plans to retain juries only in cases of “public interest” — crimes with a sentence of over three years —meaning manslaughter, murder or rape. All other cases would be heard by a single judge.
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Some of my favourite etymologies are that of lord (hlāford) and lady (hlǣfdige).
It's a great word fact that English 'lord' comes from a compound meaning 'bread guard', which fused into one word: Old English hlāford.
There's evidence from Norway that the concept was an old one, as the Tune runestone (c. 400 AD) mentions the role of "witadahalaiban" – 'the one watching bread'.
There's evidence from Norway that the concept was an old one, as the Tune runestone (c. 400 AD) mentions the role of "witadahalaiban" – 'the one watching bread'.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Some of my favourite etymologies are that of lord (hlāford) and lady (hlǣfdige).
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The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
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Mahmood’s asylum plans are horrific. Once again Labour is pleading with a stereotype ageing white male “socially-conservative” voter, not by honest argument but by appeasement.
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Stop Mahmood’s closed-doors policy!
Nigel Farage said Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood “sounds like a Reform supporter”, but said Reform would be more resolute. Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, scrabbling to outdo Farage…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Mahmood’s asylum plans are horrific. Once again Labour is pleading with a stereotype ageing white male “socially-conservative” voter, not by honest argument but by appeasement.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
'A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.'
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Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
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December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
'A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Butterflies are nature’s canary in the coalmine, and the release of this year’s biodiversity indicators in England signals a crisis in the wider environment. 🧵
📉 New UK Biodiversity Indicators released today paint a stark picture: long- and short-term declines across most species
Only 2 species indicators are improving long-term. None are improving short-term.
Specialist species like turtle doves, corn buntings & marsh tits are struggling most.
Only 2 species indicators are improving long-term. None are improving short-term.
Specialist species like turtle doves, corn buntings & marsh tits are struggling most.
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Butterflies are nature’s canary in the coalmine, and the release of this year’s biodiversity indicators in England signals a crisis in the wider environment. 🧵
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Sophy Ridge, "The biggest ever donation to a single political party, to Reform UK"
"£9,000,000"
Anyone care to guess what the donor expects in return?
"£9,000,000"
Anyone care to guess what the donor expects in return?
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Sophy Ridge, "The biggest ever donation to a single political party, to Reform UK"
"£9,000,000"
Anyone care to guess what the donor expects in return?
"£9,000,000"
Anyone care to guess what the donor expects in return?
A deal to make the NHS pay £3 billion more for drugs to placate Donald Trump could cost over 15,000 lives as the NHS has to ration other care, a top expert has warned.
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UK drug deal to placate Donald Trump ‘will cost 15,000 British lives’
Centre for Health Economics says paying drug companies funds which currently go on things like NHS staff and hospital beds could lead to 15,971 additional deaths
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December 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A deal to make the NHS pay £3 billion more for drugs to placate Donald Trump could cost over 15,000 lives as the NHS has to ration other care, a top expert has warned.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
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December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
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Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
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‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
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December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
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“Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”
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Russia ‘ready’ for war if Europe starts it, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peace
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December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”
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Ever get the feeling you're being ripped off?
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ever get the feeling you're being ripped off?
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Really scary new data on A&Es
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
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“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Numbers leaving A&E without treatment triples in six years
Soaring demand has led to ‘shocking’ rise in untreated patients leaving NHS emergency departments in England, data shows
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December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Really scary new data on A&Es
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...