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This is just the beginning.

I find it harder and harder and more and more infuriating than ever to tolerate anyone who excuses police being complete pigs. I cannot bear the sight of the faces of police ‘just doing their job’; absolute enemies, always have been always will be.

Leeds. Leeds. Leeds.

💐🐾 nothing prepares us but their presence stays with us, they don’t give up. Sending ➕🌊🌊🌊🌊

In Leeds for a bit of work. An almost spiritual place for the younger me. I used to follow bands about the UK in my teens and Leeds was always special, mostly for its Sisters-ness.

www.peopleshistoryofleeds.com/gothcity

"Until our last breath": Journalist Anas al-Sharif on Documenting Israel's Genocide in Gaza Every Day for 11 Straight Months The Al Jazeera correspondent has refused to leave northern Gaza, even as Israel has threatened him and killed his colleagues.

"Until our last breath": Journalist Anas al-Sharif on Documenting Israel's Genocide in Gaza Every Day for 11 Straight Months

(September 2024)

By @Sharif Abdel Kouddous

www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

The only reason to kill all of the journalists is that you have terrible crimes to hide

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

The government is an ass…

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

Natural magic in the Old Country, way out West 🖤

Food delivery riders banned from luxury flats in London Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats push back after Canary Wharf complex’s managers link ban to claims about ‘undocumented’ workers

Well this was predictable. Labour's well publicised fearmongering about delivery drivers, especially with some of their adverts, was guaranteed to generate more hostility against people just trying to make a living. We are already seeing more violence against them
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling

An homage to yellow-backs!

Hilary and Ian are doing The Big Ride for MECA Help Hilary Chuter raise money to support GlobalGiving

If you can, please donate 🍉🙏
www.justgiving.com/page/hilary-...

I would like everything everywhere to stop getting worse all the time

Early modern ‘wot no …’ (Mr Chad) meme; or, Robin from ‘Stranger Things’ meme, as you prefer …

UK media are covering up British spy flights for Israel Britain’s obedient defence correspondents are refusing to report a story of clear public interest in the middle of a genocide.

Analysis by Goldsmiths media professor Des Freedman last month found that UK mainstream media had not carried out a single investigation into the extent or impact of the more than 500 RAF spy flights over Gaza carried out since December 2023.

www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-are...

Rylands BlogIntroducing the Early European Print collection John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections

We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

Not even a comedian came up with this.
Professional politicians need replacing but not with AI.

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

Keir Starmer's Government plans on arresting so many more grannies holding placards as "terrorists", it has to make space in the already overcrowded prisons.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As for what the public currently thinks: It’s no surprise the “social fabric” is in the state it’s in, given what this new YouGov polling shows about public attitudes and awareness of immigration. Almost half of Brits (47 percent) believe immigration to the U.K. is primarily illegal rather than legal, when the reality is that irregular or illegal migration accounted for just 4 percent of overall immigration in the year to March. Forty-five percent support ending all immigration and forcing recent migrants to leave. Then again: The scale might be overestimated — but the reality remains that Brits (and now even some officials at the OBR, of all places) think legal and illegal migration is too high. And no politician is going to be bold enough to tell voters they’re wrong in “small boats week.”

Large parts of our media and politicians bear responsibility for the misconceptions voters have about migration. Via Politico

Honestly feel like Norman Cohn is saving my scrambled soul at the moment. There has always been difference, deviation, multiplicity, creativity and resistance to organised power and authority. People just never get to learn about it (because - organised power and authority)

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

a “17th-century EastEnders” - please don’t put me off!!

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England | Heritage | The Guardian

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Genuinely. WB, Zweig and many of the prominent. Have been thinking also about Erich Maria Remarque’s amazing (and neglected) ‘refugee’ novels too (Flotsam; Night in Lisbon; Arc de Triomphe; Spark of Life). The despair is immense.

"if you kill someone's father right in front of him, it's a safe bet that he's going to spend the rest of his life trying to kill you"

Caitlin Johnstone wrote on X, and she’s 💯% correct

If you play or would like to play Fantasy Football (‘soccer’ to some) this coming season (starts Fri 15 Aug) join the mini-league

“Rare Boots"

It has people who work in libraries and with rare books collections but all are welcome!!

fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...

League Code: 63hge9

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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