thufir-hawat.bsky.social
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
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🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
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Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?
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Farage is Trump’s gobshite mouth in the UK.
DO NOT think he’s not as dangerous/self-obsessed/prejudiced/ignorant/corrupt.
He’s just better at masking his extremism.
He’s the nicotine yellow version of the vengeful orange manbaby and he would usher in dysfunctional hell.
DO NOT think he’s not as dangerous/self-obsessed/prejudiced/ignorant/corrupt.
He’s just better at masking his extremism.
He’s the nicotine yellow version of the vengeful orange manbaby and he would usher in dysfunctional hell.
Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
September 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Farage is Trump’s gobshite mouth in the UK.
DO NOT think he’s not as dangerous/self-obsessed/prejudiced/ignorant/corrupt.
He’s just better at masking his extremism.
He’s the nicotine yellow version of the vengeful orange manbaby and he would usher in dysfunctional hell.
DO NOT think he’s not as dangerous/self-obsessed/prejudiced/ignorant/corrupt.
He’s just better at masking his extremism.
He’s the nicotine yellow version of the vengeful orange manbaby and he would usher in dysfunctional hell.
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This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous.
The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
August 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous.
The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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As usual, @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social points the finger, ridicules & lambasts those in office across the region & talks about a 'gratin dauphinoise of hypocrisy'. #Farage supporters are accurately described as 'moral pygmies.' Politics in the UK really has lost its head - bring on the tricoteuses.
Clive Lewis told not to attend protests in his own constituency, while Robert Jenrick poses with far-right figures outside asylum hotels.
Two-tier policing and Tory hypocrisy in full view.
Pecksniff’s weekly diary
Two-tier policing and Tory hypocrisy in full view.
Pecksniff’s weekly diary
Pecksniff: If news is the first rough draft of history, we will be considered mad
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
As usual, @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social points the finger, ridicules & lambasts those in office across the region & talks about a 'gratin dauphinoise of hypocrisy'. #Farage supporters are accurately described as 'moral pygmies.' Politics in the UK really has lost its head - bring on the tricoteuses.
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Debunking the 'Asylum Freebies' lies
August 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Debunking the 'Asylum Freebies' lies
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🔴Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel”
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel”
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter's use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were "in line with audience expectations for this channel"
bylinetimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🔴Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel”
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel”
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
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One front page headline does 5 things at once:
(1) it takes the focus away from the the obvious: the majority of prisoners are born here.
(2) it makes something that is unrelated to migration suddenly about migration
🧵
(1) it takes the focus away from the the obvious: the majority of prisoners are born here.
(2) it makes something that is unrelated to migration suddenly about migration
🧵
And 1 in 8 of all people in this country were born overseas so..... 🤷♀️
August 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
One front page headline does 5 things at once:
(1) it takes the focus away from the the obvious: the majority of prisoners are born here.
(2) it makes something that is unrelated to migration suddenly about migration
🧵
(1) it takes the focus away from the the obvious: the majority of prisoners are born here.
(2) it makes something that is unrelated to migration suddenly about migration
🧵
I added my name to demand real action from the UK government – not just words - to protect civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza with @dotwuk.bsky.social. 💙 Please take a minute to do the same.
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...
PETITION : The UK must put pressure on Israel
Doctors of the World humanitarian workers are responding to the mass violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Please sign the petition to protect civilians and medical workers.
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I added my name to demand real action from the UK government – not just words - to protect civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza with @dotwuk.bsky.social. 💙 Please take a minute to do the same.
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...
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It's quite rare & refreshing to see someone in UK politics
not using immigrants & migrants as a punching ball & challenging the politics of the extreme Right which seem to have mesmerised the Labour leadership .
not using immigrants & migrants as a punching ball & challenging the politics of the extreme Right which seem to have mesmerised the Labour leadership .
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's quite rare & refreshing to see someone in UK politics
not using immigrants & migrants as a punching ball & challenging the politics of the extreme Right which seem to have mesmerised the Labour leadership .
not using immigrants & migrants as a punching ball & challenging the politics of the extreme Right which seem to have mesmerised the Labour leadership .
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"Grooming Gangs" prosecutor Nazir Afzal on challenging toxic masculinity
The Problem With Men
www.bylinesupplement.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"Grooming Gangs" prosecutor Nazir Afzal on challenging toxic masculinity
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
July 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Personally, I'd reserve overheated rhetoric like "national shame" for our (and the international community's) failure to take action to halt systematic war crimes and the deliberate murder of starving civilians, not what some rappers said at a music festival.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chief Rabbi says 'vile Jew-hatred at Glastonbury' a 'national shame'
Sir Ephraim Mirvis hit out after Bob Vylan's controversial performance at Glastonbury was aired by BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Personally, I'd reserve overheated rhetoric like "national shame" for our (and the international community's) failure to take action to halt systematic war crimes and the deliberate murder of starving civilians, not what some rappers said at a music festival.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The questions we should be asking our politicians www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... Most political interviews are lame and land few punches. So, what questions should our politicians be asked? I suggest round 30 here that might search out what they really think.
The questions we should be asking our politicians
Introduction
Too many political interviews and debates miss the real questions. They aim for theatre, not scrutiny. So, what should we actually be asking politicians? This list has been developed as ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The questions we should be asking our politicians www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... Most political interviews are lame and land few punches. So, what questions should our politicians be asked? I suggest round 30 here that might search out what they really think.
June 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I'm so sick of Goodwin and Goodheart and their stupid immigration hot takes that I've resorted to old fashioned mockery.
Meet Professor Ivor Oddgrin ...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
Meet Professor Ivor Oddgrin ...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I'm so sick of Goodwin and Goodheart and their stupid immigration hot takes that I've resorted to old fashioned mockery.
Meet Professor Ivor Oddgrin ...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
Meet Professor Ivor Oddgrin ...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
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Francesca Albanese is the Leader the world desperately needs. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #EndTheApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
June 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Francesca Albanese is the Leader the world desperately needs. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #EndTheApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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I found that Telegraph article about the family having to cut back on their five holidays a year and you'll never guess who the protagonists are...
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I located that 'five holidays a year' Telegraph article
And you won't believe who the protagonists were....
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I found that Telegraph article about the family having to cut back on their five holidays a year and you'll never guess who the protagonists are...
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Just in case you didn’t see it. You’re welcome.
May 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just in case you didn’t see it. You’re welcome.
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As usual, there’s a lot of panic about the UK-EU trade deal, so I’ve taken the time to write an FAQ.
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
🐻
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
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You Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like.
No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind.
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
As usual, there’s a lot of panic about the UK-EU trade deal, so I’ve taken the time to write an FAQ.
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
🐻
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
🐻
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This tiny spider has binoculars for eyes and a brain so efficient it puts supercomputers to shame.
What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI?
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What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI?
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May 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This tiny spider has binoculars for eyes and a brain so efficient it puts supercomputers to shame.
What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI?
1/10 ⚛️🧪
What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI?
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