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Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

While purporting to care deeply about the funding of other organisations and the importance of free speech, Lord Young's FSU won't reveal who funds the er ... Free Speech Union

Excellent work from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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The supreme sense of Lord Percy's entitlement drips off the screen grab.

Coincidence, Im sure!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Rattled: the Gentleman Racist. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Living Angel of the North sends a message to Northumberland County Council People in Hexham demonstrate in support of plans for an art facility by world renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley

❤️ Several hundred people formed a living Angel of the North in Hexham to show support for plans by internationally renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley for a new arts facility in the town.

It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...

A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.

(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)

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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.

An absolutely essential read

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

You know the assignment 👍

Wow! Does that sound familiar Lord Gove? Any suggestions for punitive measures to serve on these corrupt officials or should they just be elevated to the upper parliament?

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

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Just to be technically correct Blair is Scottish, not English. Not that you’d know it. Anyway, your original point stands.

I am writing to you both to express my severe disappointment in the recent statements made by The Prime Minister on immigration and social cohesion. X, you are my excellent constituency MP here in X, and Y, you were my mother's excellent MP for many years. My family is tribal Labour. We have supported Labour since 28th May 1912 when the Irish Labour Party was founded by a group of trades unionists including my mother's family. I have voted Labour in every UK election since I turned 18. So you will understand my dismay about language like "A squalid experiment", "incalculable damage", and "and island of strangers". Whatever was meant by such words I and my diasporic friends heard it as language completely unacceptable from any Labour politician, let alone the Prime Minister. And yes, I've read the somewhat desperate justifications from Number 10. It does not matter who they meant to quote.

What I, my family and my friends heard was that we are squalid people who have wrought incalculable damage. People respond to emotion first. If you have to explain your language afterwards you have failed. Communication is not about what you say, it's what people hear. And this is not a one off. Last week the PM said that all "decent British people" greatly admire Churchill. You will forgive me if those of us of Irish or Bengali descent have a different view. I said that we are tribal Labour but I fear that that tribal support may end with my generation.

The LGBT members of the next generation hear from Labour that they are "unnatural". Unnatural, not a decent Britsh person, squalid, causing incalculable damage. That is what they hear. It does not matter what Labour intended to say, it would not matter if the policies were the exact opposite. What they heard is what they heard. We face an empowered far right resurgence supported by much of the media. This could be the last liberal democratic government the UK has. Which makes it all the more important for UK Labour to fight Reform and their Tory friends. Reform winning power would be horrifying. So why is UK Labour continually repeating Reform's talking points? Why is UK Labour othering the very diasporic communities who have consistently organised for and supported UK Labour?

Why do I feel a sense of growing despair about UK Labour? Where is the courage? Where is the fight? The vision? I'm a member of labour.ie in honour of my late mother. To be honest l am not seeing much reason to join UK Labour.

After Starmer’s immigration speech in May I wrote to my own Labour MP and to my late mother’s Labour MP whom my mother had worked for as an activist and ended up as twice Labour Lady Mayoress

I got no reply. Sadly the email I sent then still seems relevant today.

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead.

Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

ICYMI

"'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner"

This can’t be allowed to happen, we can’t award a £2 billion contract to an Israeli arms company in the middle of this genocide, mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. We’re obliged to do what we can to prevent Genocide when we see it happening - not support it.

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Utterly, utterly shocking. I can’t be the only person to be struck by how much she’s changed?

Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards

Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out

And, the feathers it would ruffle

My lovely followers, you know what to do:

nationaltvawards.com/vote

🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep

I commend you to examine the equivalent cost across UK households. And for dessert, look up average cost of rail travel across EU current and former member states 😂

Yes indeed. Privatisation has been such a spectacular success for the water and rail industry what are we waiting for? 😂😂😂

P&O Ferries boss who sparked outage after mass sacking quits Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite led the company when it sacked hundreds of staff in March 2022.

P&O Ferries boss who illegally sacked 800 staff quits.

He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt.

Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff.

Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.