John Snelling

Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025 Stop Trump Coalition

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Kick Israel out of the 2026 World Cup Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban ...

Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban Israel from international football! #banisrael action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...

Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny! Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...

Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK 700+ people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them. ...

700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

The Brightest Stars there are shoes lined up at the edge of a crater, small ones- some still tied, some burned. in Gaza, a boy draws birds on broken cement with a red crayon. his sister says they are phoenixes. a word he repeats without knowing its meaning. in Ukraine, frost settles on the ribs of buildings where families once cooked soup and listened for the sound of returning. now there is only wind threading itself through the hollow bones of walls. the children do not speak of peace. they speak of silence-of what came before, of what might still be waiting beyond the smoke. above them-moonlight, hides all, but the brightest stars. some lights vanish. some refuse. they are not louder, only persistent. and in the dark, a hand is still reaching-not upward, not to heaven, just outward, for another hand. -Gerhard Overmann 8/10/25 (updated poem from 4/3/25)

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The Brightest Stars

Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Weapon: End ISDS Now Take action

UK oil giant Cairn Energy sued India & won $1 billion of its public money. Why? Because India tried to stop Cairn's tax dodging.

If the UK gets its way, UK corporations could bully other countries for $ billions more.

Take action with @waronwant.bsky.social:
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Check this out, over 30 leading economists have joined calls for a wealth tax!
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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We can’t ignore this

Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right. Women’s rights are under threat from the far right. Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention. A vote in Parliament could ...

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs on the fence are paying attention to him.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now: 38d.gs/sogk

I have set up a YouTube channel on which I post videos of myself reading poetry, and sometimes prose, by great writers. It is very new, but I intend to post on it several times a week. If anyone wants to see it, the URL for the channel is YouTube.com/channel/UCX9...

@ChuckWendig honestly do you blame it New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth [pic of jupiter]

Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage” Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.

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📢 No More First Past the Post Elections! Thursday’s election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning election...

🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:

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The worst disaster in every area.

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right The long read: Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections

"For more than a year, I went undercover in the British far right. Using the pseudonym Chris, I spent time with nine different groups of extremists."

A vital weekend long-read from Harry at @hopenothate.org.uk

History always has a lesson.

A real delight on here is the vibrant #poetrycommunity I've made a series of three starter packs of members of that community: poetry advocates, journals, competitions & above all #POETS. Here's PACK ONE. It's full. Please follow the great people inside & repost the pack if you can #booksky #poetry

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?

Useful clear piece by Faisal Islam on Trump's agenda
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The White House publication showing the tariff schedule. BIOT is listed with a 10% tariff.

A photo from above of the US military base on Diego Garcia. A runway is the most visible landmark.

The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless.

He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel.

TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE

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This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

“With so many things coming back in style, I can’t wait until morals, respect and intelligence becomes a trend again.” ~ Denzel Washington ~

I so agree with #DenzelWashington

Unfortunately, I think we’re going to be waiting quite awhile for that!

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias