A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it

S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11 This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.

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I understand that Kemi Badenoch has claimed Terry Pratchett as her favourite author.
Please no one tell her what his books are about or indicate the fabulous exhibition currently at Worcester Art Gallery, I do not want to run into her there. Everyone else who loves Sir Terry should go.

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

It's been 5 years ... so I'm asking the question now ... what the fuck happened to Dido Harding?

You remember the one ... given £37 billion to implement test and trace during Covid with absolutely no accountability ... a test and trace system which never happened.

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Ha ha

Setting sun reflections gleaming on wet sand of outgoing tide. Blue sea and sky with Mumbles on the horizon.

The last of the blue for a while, I suspect. Happy weekend folks! 🍂🍃 😊☕️

In Herefordshire sweet chestnuts were called Spanish chestnuts.

If I understand capitalism correctly, it was by being very clever, and working much harder than anybody else. Right?

Right?

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The Four Lions is one fucking hilarious film..everytime 😂 😃 😄

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

35,000 failed asylum seekers returned since June this year.

Where did Farage’s girlfriend get her £800k+ from to buy another house?

It wouldn't pass the "I will not enrich this tool' test.

Labour announced the Hillsborough Law this week, which will ensure truth can never be concealed by the state again.

Justice for the 97. Justice for all.

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel The UK has formally recognised Palestine as an independent state, Keir Starmer has announced. The deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after the end of the UK mandate in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel. It comes in concert with Canada and Australia, who also made their own formal declarations on Sunday. Continue reading...

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state

Starmer confirms UK recognition of a Palestinian state Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in a historic if largely symbolic move. The Prime Minister said the move was intended “to revive the hope of peace for the Pale...

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in a historic if largely symbolic move

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Britain Recognises Palestine 🇵🇸 as a country... I'm crying 😢 😭 🤧

It is like a cruel but accurate joke someone made up about the left: "Two Corbynites walk into a pub and fall out over the definition of Corbynism. One of them was Corbyn."

Just join the Greens, Zarah. You will be so much happier.

In London, hate will never win.

This is the best yet 😹😹😹

There’s a house out by the airport currently flying an England flag and a Reform banner. Owned by a tradie, vans parked in the drive. Name of the company is Windrush Flooring.

Irony is dead.

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

25% reduction in injuries on Welsh Roads since introduction of 20mph. @20splenty.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hail and farewell Bob.

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

Who better to represent the interests of the working man than Danny Kruger, he being an old Etonian son of a wealthy property developer & Dame Prue Leith, as well as having been political secretary to old Etonian Boris Johnson.

He’ll smash the metropolitan elite in no time.