@catrees.bsky.social
Archaeologist in North Wales. Currently studying PhD looking at death in Pre-Roman Wales. Other interests include making random stuff and scruffing my hounds.
History repeating itself?
UKIP under Nigel Farage controlled Thanet Council and nearly bankrupt it.
Reform UK under Nigel Farage controls Worcestershire Council and itβs on the verge of bankruptcy.
Never trust Reform UK. Imagine a country run by them. We'd be bankrupt with Trussite policies.
Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign"
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
Get Palantir out of the UK.
Protect our NHS.
Protect our country.
www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
βThe combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?β
Oli Dugmore
Itβs absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
He is correct, education, be it academic, vocational or hands-on (apprenticeships) benefits society. This country has, over the decades, placed less value on education in my opinion.
Abolish all fee paying educational institutions and fund them adequately. This is how a real meritocracy looks.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
And mass rolled out AI capable of producing deep fake video images at around the same time making it more difficult to determine which are real. I also think that it is tied into the mass release of imagery from Palestine - they want to hide what is real amongst the sheer volume of fake content
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will beβ¦
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able prevenβ¦
The UK version of βProject 2025β by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
Itβs on their website. Thatβs how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Ground rent cap is good news (though peppercorn would be better straight away). Also welcome is promised abolition of new leasehold properties. Better still would be the outright abolition of leasehold altogether, a feudal anachronism virtually unique to England and Wales.
27.01.2026 07:53 β π 809 π 145 π¬ 44 π 16If Burnham goes independent then he defeats the objective of standing in order to lead the Labour party. Burnham is a party man and will bide his time. Starmer is playing dangerous game though as Labour need a popular and viable successor asap
25.01.2026 18:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Amazing episode!
24.01.2026 16:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy.
Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion ππΌ
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.
20.01.2026 22:51 β π 2132 π 549 π¬ 242 π 87Here's a conspiracy theory - the people who have fraudulently overextended themselves re: the AI bubble have asked Trump to tank the global economy to hide that the next big recession is going to be their fault.
21.01.2026 07:03 β π 1181 π 223 π¬ 98 π 18NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare Β£333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)β¦
Mark Carneyβs lessons for Keir Starmer β his Davos speech outlined the βprogressive realistβ doctrine that should be Starmerβs own. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Dr Assal Radβ
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βThis should be the headline in every major news outlet.β
As we celebrate MLK holiday, we should be reminded that our national parks used to be free for everyone today. No more, now Flag Day is free which just happens to be Donald Trumpβs birthday.
19.01.2026 21:26 β π 385 π 68 π¬ 50 π 4Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Hereβs how strikes work:
1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You donβt get paid.
2. Win or lose you go back to work.
European Union is silent:
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
bsky.app/profile/then...
I was about to suggest Kindred, I adore that book. Other favourites in this area are Penny Spikins How compassion made us human, and Bones and Ochre: the Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. The Paviland book is really fascinating look at techniques for obscuring evidence in the 19th C
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Trump's "Board of Peace" isn't an international organisation; it's a personal fiefdom.
Its Charter names him personally as chair,subject only to resignation or unanimous vote of incapacity; lets him pick his successor; allows him to hire & fire the executive...
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
Foxhounds are ALREADY being killed by hunts!
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Tech companiesβ access to UK ministers dwarfs that of child safety groups
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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π¨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
When do you think that the US will cotton on that Go Fund Me is socialism administered by capitalists π€£.
16.01.2026 12:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yesterday I resigned from the EAA Appeals & Anti-Harassment Committee (AAHC) after I was targetted in what I believe was an attempt to disprupt & undermine the AAHC. Be assured, AAHC are v much committed to making EAA a safe space, despite the restrictions imposed on them by the existing statutes. πΊ
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