"Polanski is right to support independence. And much like all the other times when heโs been right, itโs going to cause an almighty ruckus in the English media."
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"Polanski is right to support independence. And much like all the other times when heโs been right, itโs going to cause an almighty ruckus in the English media."
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
For Scots, see what happens, when ye leave London Looters Rule?
16.10.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3via Middle East Eye
16.10.2025 09:23 โ ๐ 232 ๐ 97 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4A story in the parts
A story in three parts
16.10.2025 15:33 โ ๐ 7688 ๐ 1497 ๐ฌ 90 ๐ 68Labour in freefall
The party of government, that won a generational landslide just over a year ago, is polling at just 15%.
Starmer will be remembered as one of the worst prime ministers in British history, and a willing midwife for the fascism to come.
Stop calling us Nazis or weโll murder you over things you say
16.10.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 1644 ๐ 451 ๐ฌ 46 ๐ 3Letter to the editor:
In 2018 alone, the EU gave ยฃ5.9bn to help deprived UK regions.
Now the government calls ยฃ5bn over ten years โambitious.โ
Brexit really did take from the poor to give to a slogan.
Reality: Brexit's a disaster.
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!
When someone says, "I'll pray for you," I reply, "I'll think critically for you
16.10.2025 02:41 โ ๐ 80 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Labour Vs Nature.
"The planning and infrastructure bill being rammed through parliament is a full-spectrum assault on nature protection, the worst in England in living memory. It was rushed out, without consultation or evidence"
At least we have The SNP in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hereโs the latest 'scoop' being spread by right wing gobshites on Shitter. Except:
-heโs not a teacher, heโs an assistant
-the school didnโt sack him, he works for an agency
-they stopped using him not for putting up flags but for posting racist bollocks and misinformation online.
The real seismic shift
Britain isnโt being changed by immigration.
Itโs being transformed into an authoritarian corporate client state
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All EU members must sign up to the ECHR, because it is a legal obligation under the Treaty of Lisbon. So of course parties in England who don't want the UK to rejoin the EU would much prefer we left it.
15.10.2025 12:40 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Dear People Who Read,
you have to pay more tax now because People Who Don't Read didn't understand what the EU does
Yours
Rachel Reeves
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification โ the Organic Literature Certification โ with a group of independent publishing houses to โcounter AI-generated booksโ ๐ #BookSky
15.10.2025 09:52 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4Here it is! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
The start of the Tory-Reform election pact. Arch-Brexiter Rees-Mogg is telling Tories in the Caerphilly by-election to vote RefUK. With Plaid Cymru leading in the progressive camp, the other anti-fascist parties have to get behind Plaid!
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
14.10.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 1120 ๐ 417 ๐ฌ 80 ๐ 66Yet more Englocentric obsessed policy making. Scotland does not have A-level English.
14.10.2025 16:03 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Imagine a bunch of bright folk who considered it their sacred duty to challenge conventional wisdom, hold the powerful to account, correct lies, bring new voices to the fore, add nuance to debate and never defend the indefensible
And then write about it with style
That's called a functioning media
The latest PLMR polling shows that UK voters' biggest issue is the cost of living and the economy
And yet a huge number say they'll vote for Reform's Farage....the very person who collapsed productivity and drove up inflation through his BREXIT!
Perhaps we deserve these useless tossers
If you think you're immune to propaganda ...
14.10.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 55 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Iโm utterly sick of the Royal Family and their greed.
13.10.2025 21:17 โ ๐ 301 ๐ 84 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 2War torn Portland.
I am
It's fascinating to see that all of the Right in the media and establishment have realised that the Tories are finished and that their only viable political vehicle is now Reform. They have seamlessly adopted a fascist party without a second's thought.
14.10.2025 06:56 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I am completely dumbfounded by Labourโs reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while Iโm at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?
14.10.2025 08:03 โ ๐ 117 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 4The fundamental divide is betweenโฆ
Those who live off wages
And those who live of wealth
But those who live of wealth will do everything in their power to convince you the divide is between immigrants and non-immigrants, black and white, trans and non-transโฆ
โฆ ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE REALITY.
Wake up Scotland
this. could have been us
now we have a second chance with Renewables.. second chances Dont come round too often so
Let's grab it with both hands and run don't let history repeat itself Dont let your children and your Grandchildrens future be stolen ever again ๐
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent โ persistence โ is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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