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King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion Royal subject to ‘censures deemed necessary’ in sharp change of tone by Buckingham Palace

This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected.

An act of self-preservation.

If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago.

They didn't.

www.ft.com/content/a7d6...

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Drawing of a carved turnip in front flames and the word Samhain #Samhain #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Ireland #Halloween

Happy Samhain 🔥

Cartoon of two pumpkins screaming in terror beside the traditional Irish Samhain carved turnip #Art #Samhain #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

What happens when a minority is forced to fight for its very existence?

Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.

The Womble and The Clanger in the style of The Omen and The Exorcist

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

A black and white illustration of a woman (poss a witch) dressed in a long robe and having her hair loose, standing in a circle while holding n her left hand a two prong pitchfork.

Susan Wowan, a witch from Bewdley, Worcs, was said to be so wicked that she had horns growing out of the back of her head. These were shed every three years. A Mr.Soley of Sandbourne had one tipped with silver and another was sent to the Ashmolean Museums, Oxford.
#wyrdwednesday #LegendaryWednesday

Just heard Harriet Harman say Zack Polanski is a cross between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn which means you can add potty Blairite fossils to the ever growing list of political degenerates tugging their collars over him.

A patchwork of green and gold in the Clun Valley as trees cast long shadows in the evening sunlight. I was standing above Newcastle on Clun for this shot, enjoying what is one of my favourite viewpoints in the whole of the county. In the distance is the looming shape of Corndon Hill. #Shropshire

It irritates me that a lot of the british media are using headlines like 'Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa' Completely over looking the rest of the poor bastards that live there who have lost everything.

He knows sweet FA about our country, have a look at the state of your own country first. Neither yours nor our country's problems are caused by immigrants.

Under the current criminalisation of protest, even the famous campaigners that we celebrate in the UK would be at risk of arrest simply for peacefully protesting.

The right to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy; we cannot allow its restriction to go unchallenged.

Actor Alan Cumming says trans people are ‘vilified’ to distract from politicians’ ‘screwing up’ | LBC Hollywood actor and director Alan Cumming told LBC he wants to celebrate refugees, trans and queer people who are being used as a ‘smokescreen’ for political problems.

Actor Alan Cumming says trans people are ‘vilified’ to distract from politicians’ ‘screwing up’

“We make it all about them, when actually it isn't about them. They are such a tiny part of our population and they are a population that we should respect and, in this case, celebrate. “

Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things"

"Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice.

The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

Imagine having these three at your 18th birthday party, what a treat.

Farage: epic grifter

Nursing Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

Something I have seen in my own areas of work - and which is beyond unacceptable.

Who’s joining Artists for the Green Party?!

(he says with zero artistic ability himself 😬 )

Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you

You know what else can recommend books to you

~a fucking librarian~

The British press in all its ignorant, blinkered, navel-gazing, entitled glory here

Note to Metro fact-checkers: she’s Ireland’s third woman president, lads

If you're watching advertisements on tv and counting the races of the people in them you're not only a massive racist - but you're sad as fuck.

YouTube video by Paul Whitewick Why I Am No Longer Welcome HERE

Private security guards, tankerloads of water, and the Trump-supporting billionaire Steven Schwarzman

A brilliant short film from @paulwhitewick.bsky.social about his recent experiences walking on public highways around Schwarzman's 2,500-acre Conholt Park Estate:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOA...

Governments are very well aware that UBI would save money and make everyone happier. The *only* reason nobody has implemented it is because employers would have to stop taking the piss out of their staff and the resulting adjustment period would be tumultuous to say the least.

thehazelhayes everyone on this list thinks a paycheck is more important than trans rights Variety ... 1d Audible's 'Harry Potter' Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More https://wp.me/pc8uak-1lGhgG X -Keira Knightley as Professor Umbridge -James McAvoy as Mad Eye Moody - Kit Harington as Professor Lockhart - Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley - Leo Woodall as Bill Weasley - Iwan Rheon as Professor Lupin - Ruth Wilson as Bellatrix Lestrange - Ambika Mod as Nymphadora Tonks - Leo Woodall as Bill Weasley - Gemma Whelan as Professor Sprout - Matt Berry as Sir Cadogan.

Despite many of them being wealthy and not in need of publicity, it’s incredibly disappointing that so many British thespian ‘luvvies’ don’t have a backbone in standing up for an already marginalised minority against a billionaire bully bankrolling transphobia off the back of this series! 😖

#Shame

Worcestershire County Council considering 10% tax rise The county council is asking people for opinions on large tax rises next year to cover deficits.

Reform’s claims keep colliding with reality:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6750qjp9vo

These kind of comments are deliberately designed to breach your personal boundaries. It’s what extremists do. If you accept this breach, then they’ll go further next time until eventually you’ve no boundaries left, and one day you’re living in a world where they say what’s right and wrong not you

No different to the Tories