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BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year
October 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Congratulations to Chris Mason for being nominated for 'Political Journalist Of The Year' in the London Press Club Awards. He was nominated for his "fearless commitment to unbiased, objective reporting" by a Mr N Farage of Clacton.
September 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was.

@FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods.

theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...
How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims
Chaos at the CDC and the sharp move away from mRNA vaccines has public health experts alarmed.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Just gonna leave this here..
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Really good fightback by Maguire. ~AA
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"

Well said
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Current state of UK political discourse.
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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President Trump, "Putin has been very respectful of me and our country"

Journalist, "Putin attacked a US factory in Ukraine"
August 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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President Trump, "My people have promised me we are going into elections, and make sure they're not rigged"

"Wind power doesn't work.. Kills all the birds.. Made in China.. I have never seen a wind farm in China"

*China has 40% of the world's wind farm capacity*
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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As Labour's Yvette Cooper announces an investigation into historic child sexual abuse

Never forget that time Boris Johnson dismissed the need for such investigations, saying it was a waste of money, then lied about it
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Excoriating from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Government’s new Planning & Infrastructure Bill which “betrays an undemocratic impatience with the people, motivated by the blatant appeasement of corporate power…the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory”👇
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Kemi Badenoch blames more pot holes on electric cars

Apparently, increasing number of pot holes have nothing to do with the Conservatives cutting annual road maintenance from

£4.7 billion in 2010
to
£1.6 billion in 2024
April 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch.

Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
March 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Left: Commenting on Channel 4 News's explosive coverage of the shortage of nurses in the NHS, Jeremy Hunt says you can't just magic up more nurses

Right: Jeremy Hunt underfunded the NHS for the six years he was Health Minister, and was responsible for scrapping the nursing bursary
March 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Sorry everyone, turns out it's too hard to go to Mars. Instead we're bringing Mars to you. It's gonna be desolate and shitty here now
March 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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President Zelensky, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Zelensky Rejects Trump Administration Demand for Half of Ukraine’s Mineral Resources
President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye.
#Gaza
#Genocide
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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SW customers. Your water company CEO said at EFRA Committee that they never had enough money to maintain the system, but certified they had so they could walk off with millions in dividends. Send this letter campaigns.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk
The Sewage Campaign Network
We are the Sewage Campaign Network, a coalition of independent local groups dedicated to protecting waterways from sewage pollution. We stand for clean water, environmental advocacy, and accountabilit...
campaigns.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk
January 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I sometimes forget what an impressive place Skegness is.
January 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Laura Kuenssberg: “What’s your evidence in this case that his crimes were anything to do with a lack of integration?”

Kemi Badenoch: “That I believe is one of the elements. My evidence is my personal experience.”

So no evidence, then.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/badeno...
Kemi Badenoch Says No Further Evidence Needed To Support 'Integration' Theory About Southport Killer
"My evidence is my personal experience."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Oakeshott, who recently emigrated to Dubai with her children, explaining how "integrating" there was "not really challenging" as it is "90pc expats", beams in to complain about too many immigrants in London.

Could not make it up. ~AA
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Labour's rivers policy is unbelievable. 1. Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has decided our rivers are insufficiently polluted with chicken shit, so he’s loosening the rules. Never mind that it's the primary cause of rivercide in the Welsh border region. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
Labour’s agriculture plans will increase chicken waste in rivers, say campaigners
Steve Reed says planning rules ‘have got in the way’ of farmers and apologises for ‘shock’ of inheritance tax change
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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2025: When Kevin Maguire points out that the Conservatives delayed social care plans, Andrew Pierce says 'doesn't matter' and goes on to say Labour are all talk, 'hot air'

2019: That time Boris Johnson said the Conservatives had a plan for social care - six years later, nothing, zip, nada
January 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...
All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won't have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Ofwat is making us pay for decades of criminal behaviour by water companies.

Time to scrap both of them and give the public a real say over the future of our water.

Back my Water Bill here:
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-yo...
December 19, 2024 at 7:28 AM