Sue Birch

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Sending you a virtual hug. x

Every man is like the company he keeps.
- Latin proverb

Nigel's choices of company to keep show a very clear (and heavily denied) pattern. Methinks he doth protest too much.

And, of course, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it IS a duck.

Take a look.

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s

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Thanks, Steve! Hope you and Karen are doing well. Miss you and wish we could talk sometime.

Here's that US politician giving an honest character reference to Nigel Farage.
Time for UK journalists and politicians to step up too.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Page One in Scotland.

MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights Amendment to crime and policing bill will change law to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies

About time.

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"Cowards like you, weaponising lies, taking people's insecurity and fear, and making it currency. You are exhausting. You stamp on the truth, choke our bandwidth, and shred our patience, because the only strategy you have is to wear us down." Doctor Who, Lucky Day.

A new passport photo is a once-a-decade opportunity to dazzle – the Edith Pritchett cartoon The effort I went to is once again not commensurate with the results …

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Picture of two story stone cottage taken from the beach at Llanbedrog. Rocks and and sand in the foreground.

Picture taken from hilltop overlooking Llanbedrog Bay. A sculpture of a tin man looking out across to Llanbedrog is on the right hand side of the picutre. Bracken and rock in the foreground.

Just back from a few days in Llanbedrog. Great walks and fabulous scenery. We stayed in this cottage (the downstairs part).

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський on X: "London. A meaningful and warm meeting with Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. During our talks, we discussed the challenges facing Ukraine and all of Europe, coordination with partners, concrete steps to strengthen Ukraine’s position, and ending the war with a just peace, along with https://t.co/IAwcPgbhYW" / X London. A meaningful and warm meeting with Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. During our talks, we discussed the challenges facing Ukraine and all of Europe, coordination with partners, concrete steps to strengthen Ukraine’s position, and ending the war with a just peace, along with https://t.co/IAwcPgbhYW

Still not happy about the State Visit thing but .... proud of all this. Sorry it's from the other place.

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Another State visit? So angry, so ashamed of our government. Will be in the streets protesting like before if that man sets foot here.

Could someone (a journalist, perhaps?) ask Nigel Farage how he feels about sharing a platform with people who give Nazi salutes?

Yes!

Love #3 - what a fabulous pic!

If you follow me, then we chat privately.

Yes! :)

Just deleted my Facebook account. It will be weird without it after 20 years, but couldn't stay on after the policy changes. Bluesky is it now!

80 years ago Auschwitz was liberated. More than one million children, women and men were murdered there as part of the Holocaust. A dark lesson of history; humanity owes it to each of the victims to ensure it will never happen again. #HolocaustMemorialDay

A picture of every Vice-President in order, alongside a picture of Kamala Harris. Four of the VP pictures are outlined, one in red, the next in blue, the next in yellow, and the final in green.

"Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective. See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved. See the blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school. The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account."

Adding my voice to those asking why on earth you have Nigel Farage on air AGAIN. For goodness sake stop giving this man oxygen.

Opinion | You have to perform contorted intellectual gymnastics to avoid the word "fascism" which explains the phenomenon we see in front of our eyes

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That's great! I am enjoying being here, too. Hope all is well with you.

Just the other day I thought the thumbs up from everyone in all the photos was the new Nazi salute. I guess I was wrong. The new Nazi salute is the actual Nazi salute.

"Don't Engage, Just Block"

Ella Baron on Los Angeles and the wildfires of misinformation – cartoon While LA burns, the response on social media – not least from the US president – has distracted from the true causes

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There are 'block lists' which aid in moderation. Check out this helpful account: @lists-to-block.bsky.social

The community here is focussed on keeping this a nice place to be.