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Renaud Camus coined the ‘Great Replacement’ lie. Keep that fascist out!
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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
June 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
That would screw Starmer’s “growth agenda”. The price of his supine attitude to fascist Israel
An Iran oil shock would put global growth on a slippery slope | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/ff3d90ac-ba4c-4203-b170-68ab0731686c
https://www.ft.com/content/ff3d90ac-ba4c-4203-b170-68ab0731686c
An Iran oil shock would put global growth on a slippery slope | Opinion
Disruption to tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz would pose a much bigger risk to oil supply
www.ft.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That would screw Starmer’s “growth agenda”. The price of his supine attitude to fascist Israel
And Starmer still trusts Trump 🙄
Pentagon launches review to decide if US should scrap Aukus
https://www.ft.com/content/4a9355d9-4aff-49ec-bf7e-ea21de97917b
https://www.ft.com/content/4a9355d9-4aff-49ec-bf7e-ea21de97917b
Pentagon launches review to decide if US should scrap Aukus
Ending nuclear submarine deal would be blow to security alliance with Australia and UK
www.ft.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And Starmer still trusts Trump 🙄
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This has nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with building up Britain’s deadly nuclear weapons programme. The government must reverse this disastrous direction.
cnduk.org/governments-...
cnduk.org/governments-...
Government’s nuclear power roll out is about building up its weapons programme - CND
The government’s announcement to pour billions of pounds into Sizewell C and roll out untested small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear plants is about building up its nuclear weapons programme rather than...
cnduk.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This has nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with building up Britain’s deadly nuclear weapons programme. The government must reverse this disastrous direction.
cnduk.org/governments-...
cnduk.org/governments-...
There’s no way that Reform will hold together nor remain credible with voters by the time of the 2026 Senedd elections 🏴
June 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
There’s no way that Reform will hold together nor remain credible with voters by the time of the 2026 Senedd elections 🏴
From the first few chapters this seems quite good 🇺🇸
May 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From the first few chapters this seems quite good 🇺🇸
This accounts for the swing from @welsh-labour.bsky.social to @plaidcymru.bsky.social and confirms the correctness of the Party’s strategy. That is, largely ignore @reformuk.bsky.social voters - especially social media - and promote progressive policies to ex-Labour ones
Analysis of electoral trends confirms that swing voters increasingly switch WITHIN 2 blocks (of right/nationalist & of left/liberal) not between them.
=> Labour risks losing voters to LibDems/Greens/nats much more than to the Tories/Reform.
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
=> Labour risks losing voters to LibDems/Greens/nats much more than to the Tories/Reform.
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
May 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This accounts for the swing from @welsh-labour.bsky.social to @plaidcymru.bsky.social and confirms the correctness of the Party’s strategy. That is, largely ignore @reformuk.bsky.social voters - especially social media - and promote progressive policies to ex-Labour ones
Plaid Cymru MPs rock solid on this issue 🏴
🚨42 MPs have demanded that David Lammy come clean about evidence UK arms exports to Israel have continued despite Labour's suspensions.
"The public deserves to know the full scale of the UK's complicity in crimes against humanity", they write.
"The public deserves to know the full scale of the UK's complicity in crimes against humanity", they write.
May 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Plaid Cymru MPs rock solid on this issue 🏴
Q. Do you know how we know Israeli is deliberately lying about Gaza? A. They refuse to allow free media access to the occupied territory. QED 🇵🇸
May 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Q. Do you know how we know Israeli is deliberately lying about Gaza? A. They refuse to allow free media access to the occupied territory. QED 🇵🇸
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The Senedd election is a year away. Labour is running behind Plaid Cymru and Reform in this poll, with Labour on 18% (half of their 40%/36% in 2021). A 13% Conservative vote is half of their 26% in 2021, with Plaid +10 points to top the poll on 30%
New @ITVWales poll puts Labour in THIRD in Wales, behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK.
If Labour don’t win next year’s Welsh elections, it’ll be first time they’ve not won an election there since 1922.
🟢PLAID 30
🌐REFORM 25
🔴LABOUR 18
🔵CONSERVATIVES 13
🟡LIB DEMS 7
🟢GREEN 5
If Labour don’t win next year’s Welsh elections, it’ll be first time they’ve not won an election there since 1922.
🟢PLAID 30
🌐REFORM 25
🔴LABOUR 18
🔵CONSERVATIVES 13
🟡LIB DEMS 7
🟢GREEN 5
May 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Senedd election is a year away. Labour is running behind Plaid Cymru and Reform in this poll, with Labour on 18% (half of their 40%/36% in 2021). A 13% Conservative vote is half of their 26% in 2021, with Plaid +10 points to top the poll on 30%
Carney’s face when Trump rambles on with an endless stream of drivel is a sight to behold 😳
May 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Carney’s face when Trump rambles on with an endless stream of drivel is a sight to behold 😳
Seems ‘we’ are repeating the same major mistake with Reform made over UKIP when they got 12 MEPs in 2004 ( @MichaelLCrick 📕 “One Party After Another - The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage”, p.152):
May 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Seems ‘we’ are repeating the same major mistake with Reform made over UKIP when they got 12 MEPs in 2004 ( @MichaelLCrick 📕 “One Party After Another - The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage”, p.152):
A better version of what I say
Amazing too at a time of consolidating oligarchy to argue that an anti-elite stance is the threat to democracy
It takes a massive dose of denial to still pretend that the status quo is what will save us from fascism and authoritarianism
Epistemologies of ignorance etc
It takes a massive dose of denial to still pretend that the status quo is what will save us from fascism and authoritarianism
Epistemologies of ignorance etc
May 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A better version of what I say
Just learned from @Peston that Steve Bannon’s full quote giving advice to Trump was “Flood the zone with sh*t!”
We see that daily with @SkyNews and other UK media reporting him live.
But, frankly, why don’t progressive politicians also do that?
We see that daily with @SkyNews and other UK media reporting him live.
But, frankly, why don’t progressive politicians also do that?
May 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Just learned from @Peston that Steve Bannon’s full quote giving advice to Trump was “Flood the zone with sh*t!”
We see that daily with @SkyNews and other UK media reporting him live.
But, frankly, why don’t progressive politicians also do that?
We see that daily with @SkyNews and other UK media reporting him live.
But, frankly, why don’t progressive politicians also do that?
Where does all this extra money come from? “Defence spending to increase to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027.” 🤷
April 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Where does all this extra money come from? “Defence spending to increase to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027.” 🤷
Renaud Camus coined the ‘Great Replacement’ lie. Keep that fascist out!
April 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Renaud Camus coined the ‘Great Replacement’ lie. Keep that fascist out!
Is there a good academic study of Faragism? I label it as that because his party - now the third in a row - is merely a vehicle for him
April 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Is there a good academic study of Faragism? I label it as that because his party - now the third in a row - is merely a vehicle for him
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Tributes for Pope Francis are rightly drawing attention to his strong support for peace – from calls in his final speech for a ceasefire in Gaza, to his denunciation of nuclear weapons as immoral.
April 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tributes for Pope Francis are rightly drawing attention to his strong support for peace – from calls in his final speech for a ceasefire in Gaza, to his denunciation of nuclear weapons as immoral.
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This, but the Valleys and Brexit and Reform '26.
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
April 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This, but the Valleys and Brexit and Reform '26.
Pair of complete dissemblers @SkyNews ‘newspaper review’ tonight - Benjamin Butterworth and Esther Krakue - piling untruth upon untruth about Gaza. And no factual correction from Sky ‘journalist’ 😡
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Pair of complete dissemblers @SkyNews ‘newspaper review’ tonight - Benjamin Butterworth and Esther Krakue - piling untruth upon untruth about Gaza. And no factual correction from Sky ‘journalist’ 😡
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Last transmission from Earth: “Maggie Haberman reports that the launch code was a ‘mistake’, DOGE intern to blame.”
April 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Last transmission from Earth: “Maggie Haberman reports that the launch code was a ‘mistake’, DOGE intern to blame.”
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I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵
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April 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵
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As Winston Churchill didn’t say, “Never has so much bile been heaped by so many onto so few” #TransRights
April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As Winston Churchill didn’t say, “Never has so much bile been heaped by so many onto so few” #TransRights
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Why does any news outlet run these staged events bit.ly/4j9GVaS of a woman whose husband sues magazines which publish unapproved pictures of her and her family?
Kate celebrates ‘peace and reconnection’ in nature with Scouts
The Princess of Wales has championed the outdoors, highlighting its restorative power, as she met the chief scout, Dwayne Fields, and children from across the north
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Why does any news outlet run these staged events bit.ly/4j9GVaS of a woman whose husband sues magazines which publish unapproved pictures of her and her family?
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The latest from the Britain Elects poll tracker - Reform ahead by 1
REF: 25% (+10)
LAB: 24% (-10)
CON: 22% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+2)
👉 britainelects.com
REF: 25% (+10)
LAB: 24% (-10)
CON: 22% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+2)
👉 britainelects.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The latest from the Britain Elects poll tracker - Reform ahead by 1
REF: 25% (+10)
LAB: 24% (-10)
CON: 22% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+2)
👉 britainelects.com
REF: 25% (+10)
LAB: 24% (-10)
CON: 22% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+2)
👉 britainelects.com