George Fletcher
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
How else is racism delivered than in "a hurtful or insulting way”?
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
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"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures."
What's the point of being in Labour?
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What's the point of being in Labour?
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Zack Polanski: "This is extreme, this is inhumane and it is a government of cowards."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-gove...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-gove...
'A Government Of Cowards': Zack Polanski Blasts Labour As Asylum Backlash Grows
The Green Party leader joined Labour MPs in condemning Shabana Mahmood's plans.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures."
What's the point of being in Labour?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
What's the point of being in Labour?
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Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
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Very proud of my Green colleagues today. @mothinali.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social calling out the far-right rhetoric being regurgitated By this Labour government
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fury-r...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fury-r...
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Very proud of my Green colleagues today. @mothinali.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social calling out the far-right rhetoric being regurgitated By this Labour government
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fury-r...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fury-r...
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If you feel like you voted for Labour and got Reform, time to join @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you feel like you voted for Labour and got Reform, time to join @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
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it absolutely does represent Labour values, because it's Labour doing it. Why are you still in a party enacting fascism?
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
it absolutely does represent Labour values, because it's Labour doing it. Why are you still in a party enacting fascism?
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The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
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At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
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Difficult to see how a PM Streeting could rebuild Labour's voter coalition when he/his allies hold many of those voters in such visceral contempt. "Trots" is not just a juvenile pejorative. It's a really extreme, bizarre way to describe broad swathes of people to the left of the centre.
So Wes Streeting allies want him to become Prime Minister - for the Labour Government to tank even faster.
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Difficult to see how a PM Streeting could rebuild Labour's voter coalition when he/his allies hold many of those voters in such visceral contempt. "Trots" is not just a juvenile pejorative. It's a really extreme, bizarre way to describe broad swathes of people to the left of the centre.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Casablanca (1942)
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Casablanca (1942)
so excited to be back with this exceptional group of people for a barbican christmas
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
so excited to be back with this exceptional group of people for a barbican christmas
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Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
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A great dispatch from NYC in @vittles.bsky.social today about the role of small food businesses in Zohran Mamdani's campaigns – here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...
How did Zohran Mamdani win over New York’s small restaurants?
A dispatch from NYC by Apoorva Tadepalli.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A great dispatch from NYC in @vittles.bsky.social today about the role of small food businesses in Zohran Mamdani's campaigns – here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...
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i actually think a better punishment than stripping someone of their titles is jail
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
i actually think a better punishment than stripping someone of their titles is jail
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Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
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what the fuck are you talking about, she made a whole community of friends online and was stabbed to death by two of her classmates
Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
what the fuck are you talking about, she made a whole community of friends online and was stabbed to death by two of her classmates
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Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month
The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month.
It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
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Membership at record levels.
Polling at record levels.
Winning elections at record levels.
What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk
metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...
Polling at record levels.
Winning elections at record levels.
What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk
metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...
Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time - I was blown away by the response
The response has been quite overwhelming.
metro.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Membership at record levels.
Polling at record levels.
Winning elections at record levels.
What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk
metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...
Polling at record levels.
Winning elections at record levels.
What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk
metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...
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Extremely rare to see Labour doing good things, but this is a very good idea to pass into law; credit where credit's due
Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.
This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.
My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.
This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.
My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Extremely rare to see Labour doing good things, but this is a very good idea to pass into law; credit where credit's due
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)