@glasgowdiamond.bsky.social

Mike Diamond - Glasgow still in my soul after 10 years of Dorset and 25 odd years of South Down.

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1 week ago

Policies designed to appeal to my racist 90 year old father who would never vote Labour are madness in the modern outward looking democracy most of us want to live in.

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1 month ago

Americans really need to ask themselves is this the bottom of it all, the worse it gets?

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1 month ago

Trump becoming president twice.

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2 months ago
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No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

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2 months ago
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911 "They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

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2 months ago
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Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

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3 months ago

Brave move but terrible that you had to do it. #RobbieGibbmustbefired

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3 months ago

What is going on at the BBC?

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3 months ago
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X is not above the law.

The plaything of the world’s richest man won’t take down illegal posts on X – but no-one’s above the law.

Join the fight: https://goodlaw.social/6pw6

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3 months ago

Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.

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3 months ago
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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:

“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”

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

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3 months ago
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Former Farage classmate tells James O'Brien why he came forward YouTube video by LBC

Here's the whole interview.
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...

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3 months ago
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Farage in Scotland: it should make our collective stomachs heave that this repulsive and dangerous extremist has come to spread his poison in our country. Anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter

My column in the Herald today

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3 months ago
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this story isn’t going away

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

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5 months ago
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There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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5 months ago

Billy Bragg on fire

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5 months ago
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier, and are much more likely to have a university degree."

🇬🇧Britain would be weaker without multiculturalism.
https://on.ft.com/4gxvEB1

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6 months ago
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Groypers, Charlie Kirk and a new Turning Point If you didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was until this week, you probably don’t know who Nick Feuntes is. You should. Having instantly and desperately labelled the suspected killer of Charl…

Groypers, Charlie Kirk and a new Turning Point bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/13/g...

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6 months ago

Incredible paragraphs from Allison Morris here

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6 months ago
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The European Convention on Human Rights and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement - UK in a changing Europe This explainer examines the relationship between the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights. It explores the role that...

Correcting the reports.

UK withdrawal from the ECHR absolutely breaches the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...

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6 months ago
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

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6 months ago
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Here’s a cartoon I did about the far-right weaponisation of vawg. If you’d like to share it with someone who’s not on social media, there’s a PDF link at the bottom of this thread. Thank you!

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6 months ago
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Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be) Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”

Labour, Tories and Reform are talking about trying to shrink the UK’s working age population by curtailing immigration. Here’s an excellent summary of why this approach is catastrophic even solely on economic grounds. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...

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6 months ago

Utter pish. And what's with using Ulster in a headline about Northern Ireland/ The North. Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan are not ruled from London. No reason any Nationalist would ever trust a deal with Perfidious Albion without the ECHR. This is like Brexit garbage written by posh boys all over again.

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6 months ago

Remind him that Nationalists in Northern Ireland who are close to being a baked in majority will have no truck with renegotiating the GFA to please little england. I read it cover to cover in 1998 before I voted for it. Suggest they do the same only 36 pages.

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6 months ago

Article headline: "National Flags Have Started Lining Our Streets - Who Is Putting Them There, And Why?"

me: £100 says it's racism

fourteen paragraphs into the article: "the co-founder of the movement has ties to the English Defence League and Britain First"

😮 😮 😮 😮 😮

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Welcome to most loyalist areas of Northern Ireland every Autumn....

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6 months ago
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Palestine Action ban presents complex challenges for PSNI Police in England arrested over 700 people in recent weeks for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts, while the PSNI has arrested just two, despite many attending a rally in Belfast last weekend. The diff...

RTE news : Palestine Action ban presents complex challenges for PSNI

www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

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