Claire O

I have NEVER seen a party as determined not to get re-elected as the current incarnation of Labour.

It's bizarre and thoroughly depressing.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

With every passing day, the delta grows between my low hopes for Labour and where they are now.

They are abominably awful.

To think they were gifted everything on a plate: a gigantic majority, and a public filled with righteous fury at the Tories.

To mess up this badly is unthinkable. And yet...

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

I’d like to remind you that, despite the hysterical press, the IDF is not a persecuted minority. It’s a powerful military force committing genocide and war crimes.

Black men, however, are, and always have been, a persecuted minority.

Having walked around this area a number of times I’ll be there on the @righttoroam.bsky.social event. Excellent article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

A quote from the novelist Katie Kitamura that reads, “Novels and writing in general feel incredibly important, because it is already clear, in the new Administration, that language is going to be a terrain where a substantial part of this battle is going to be fought: what language people are allowed to use, how language is manipulated or denuded of meaning. I think what writers do or can try to do is to use language with precision and care.”

“When words stop meaning what they’re meant to mean, then we’re in trouble.” In a new interview, the novelist Katie Kitamura talks about why writing is particularly important right now.
glfdig.st/wRx6yw2

More than 20 Metropolitan Police officers broke down the front door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest six women who had met to discuss climate change and Gaza. It is thought to be the first time in the history of the famously ­pacifist Quakers that police have forced their way into one of their places of worship. The women, aged between 18 and 38, were sitting in a circle eating hummus and bread sticks on Thursday evening as part of a ­“welcome meeting” for Youth Demand, which calls itself a non-violent protest group.

I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.

Emojis. Fucking emojis. I get the ick when men use them about dating let alone bombings where civilians die.

This is so important - the reduction in women’s rights

Every day and in every way, Trump and his cohorts take another shit on the Constitution they have promised to revere and defend.

As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.

The rise of the AfD, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Reform, and every other Far Right party isn't 'organic' or a popular reaction.

It is due to unlimited, non stop support from the Far Right Billionaire Media, and the many idiots who will vote for blatant lies.

Sign the Petition Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News

Ive just signed and emailed the chairman

mailto:Chairman@marks-and-spencer.com

actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...

Don’t rely on Politico.

Mathias Döpfner, its owner, self described contrarian & CEO of Axel Springer, praised the “inspiring message” of JD Vance’s speech that was met with horror in Europe, as he berated the continent’s politicians for their “whiny” response to the US vice-president.

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

5. Sustaining the most extreme anti-protest measures in any allegedly-democratic country. You could even start to believe that Labour finds it convenient to criminalise protest and send peaceful dissenters to jail for years.

I'm not easily shocked, but the sight of individuals cheering on the richest man in the world as he takes away vital aid to the most desperate people on this Earth has shocked me.

There are good people. There are bad people. Then there's Elon Musk and his empathy devoid flesh failure followers.

Reform hasn’t got to this point organically. They have got to this point via foreign money, Russian interference, disinformation, mass manipulation, disproportionate MSM coverage and being constantly massively boosted by right wing social media companies. There is fuck all democratic about it.

Too many words - too many days of chaos - too many white men strutting around wanting everyone in their place

I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.

This terribly humiliating Farage business reminds me of that ancient proverb, “He who shall insert himself too deeply into the colon of another egomaniac for self-advancement must risk being shat out at very short notice”.

Why are we giving so much airtime to this grifting clown?

Thought it said defecated to reform… same same

They are unreasonably expensive for small business - having an agent in the eu is prohibitively expensive - not selling to NI is complicated - many many small businesses are questioning how they can move forward. Global Britain now means I can sell only to England, Scotland & Wales

She really was - what a lovely commission

So y’all know that the lead investor in this place is a crypto company founded by Steve Bannon’s ex-business partner, right?