This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Since the "out with foreigners, up with the flag, who cares about foreign wars, let‘s focus on OUR NATION“-school of thought is gaining so much traction in the UK media these days, may I refer you to this map from the 25 Strategic Defence Review.
You think you can pull the drawbridge up?
Good luck.
Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
MY NEW POLITICAL PAPERBACK OUT NOW!
It’s time to talk about politics, because politics affects EVERYTHING. From your health, education and job security to your safety, home, and family’s future, every decision counts.
In this week's Private Eye.
Marie Don't Be A Big Sap And Cry Every Time You Stumble Upon This Speech Challenge
[difficulty: impossible]
Tonight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social has a special report on - you guessed it - small boats.
And I will be on representing the “policies that drown people are bad, actually” position.
Watch out for me 😌
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
Very sad news
Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Fascinating piece on (another) unseen health timebomb, which also helps explain a lot about both pressures on A&E and arguably on sickness benefits www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Happy story in newspaper shock
Here’s another poem from ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’, and one of my more enigmatic offerings: it’s called ‘Frisbee’.
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
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You'd think 7 big, manly policemen, four on horseback, would be able to control a single woman without having to shoot her point blank with a "non-lethal round," but apparently not...
Men often ask me what they can do to help support women’s rights.
Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man.
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
The UK-EU summit agreement covers the following 12 areas:
1. Sanitary & Phytosanitary
2. Energy cooperation
3. Emissions trading
4. Steel
5. Law enforcement & judicial cooperation
6. Irregular migration
7. Defence, security & development
8. Fisheries
9. Youth & educational mobility
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Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
So clever. For Monty Python fans everywhere. 😂
And thank you, Green Frog Labs. 🐸
Left: Wes Streeting talking about recruiting 1,500 more GPs
Right: Sky News reporting that GPs 'working as Uber drivers' because they can't find jobs
We have unemployed GPs who can't get jobs as Labour haven't fixed the GP contract which restricts funding to hire more GPs but has funding for PAs
At a time when the criminal justice system is closer than ever to complete collapse, those electronic books people have made the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller #StoriesOfTheLawAndHowIt’sBroken a Kindle Monthly Deal - an absurd 99p.
Read. Learn. Get freaking furious.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
Christ alive.
We’re all doomed.
“To forget is guilt”: 80 years on, we remember the Durham Light Infantry’s role in the relief of Bergen-Belsen
@northeastbylines.co.uk
He asked if he could try tuning it... And eh, why not, right?
One evening, about a week later, he appeared with a bag of tools, and tuned the piano.
It would quickly fall out of tune again, he said - the wires were in a terrible state after decades of abandonment, but it was playable.
