Mark Doidge

Screenshot from the Telegraph saying Protesters accuse RNLI of being 'taxi service' for asylum seekers Dozens of campaigners accuse charity of using lifeboats to 'facilitate' illegal immigration

Imagine being so "patriotic" that you protest the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for saving lives.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.

Comic actor Totò takes on champions Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, and other lions of the Italian cycling world in Totò al giro d'Italia

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Totò!
February 15 (1898-1967)

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

Nearly 10,000 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed.

But always looking for more!

If you know of any collections not listed, please get in touch.

#history #archives

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say? Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

Worth a read…

Even if the quote’s not 100% accurate, it’s a useful warning for our times, as Gramsci was there at the first rise of f*scism.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.

Sport is good for you 🙄

screenshot of a website for the Olympic Shop selling a t-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympics. At the top is information about the shop and below is a t-shirt with images from Berlin 1936 on it. To the right there are sizes for the t-shirt and a tab to click to add to cart.

The IOC has banned the courageous & principled Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych for his “helmet of memory” commemorating Ukraine’s war dead.

Meanwhile the IOC is selling a $42 "Heritage T-shirt" commemorating the 1936 Olympics, known as the Nazi Games. shop3.olympics.com/en/olympic-g...

A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.

Never a days goes by without me feeling gratitude to my Dad and his mates for imbueing in me a love of sport. Honestly, whatever your obsession is, if it stirs the soul it's hardly pointless. These clips, in no particular order, have all enriched me.

Oh dear, indeed. Since when are emotions infectious? Le Bon argued that over 100 years ago, and it's been disproven. I've been at football and some people booed and others criticised them for booing. Clearly we're all animals who just follow the herd... 🙄

Not a good look for the IOC in the shadow of their banning a Ukrainian athlete for his humble act of remembrance for fellow athletes killed in Russia's war of aggression...

Ratcliffe says immigrants cost too much, while Ineos lobbies for state funding Billionaire’s business has in recent years claimed UK and EU support for refineries and chemicals plants worth about €800m

The Guardian's Jillian Ambrose unpicks the many tens of millions in state support that Jim Ratcliffe's businesses have accepted, after the billionaire railed against people on benefits (and claimed Britain was being "colonised" by immigrants while himself having moved to tax-free Monaco).

I genuinely have no idea where right-wing men get the idea that young women aren't constantly being told this, all the time, to the point where many are genuinely surprised when they try to get pregnant in their 30s and it happens relatively quickly!

Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.

On Radio 4 this morning, Nigel Farage blamed potholes on immigrants. Pesky immigrants. Only their cars do damage to roads. It's the laws of physics. 🙄

Well I fucking hate this. Who are they intending to sell these to? The ICE agents that have travelled to Milan?

Tax exile, Jim Ratcliffe makes a factually incorrect & racist statement about too many immigrants damaging the country & its all over the news
Yet massive tax inequality helps to explain why the country is damaged & it will barely make a drip in the ocean of hate the media puts out.

Not sure if this is a good thing or not. So much of UKIP/Reform was around the charisma of Farage. If that charisma is on the wane, but Reform's message is on the up, then we should be worried.

When Sir Jim Ratcliffe Plays the Colonised As someone raised in a country shaped by British colonial rule, I know what domination looks like. Migration under UK law isn’t it.

Speaking as an immigrant out of Monaco, Sir Jim Ratcliffe told us this week that Britain has been “colonised”.

Except that Britain still writes its own laws, controls its own borders and governs its own migration system.

Almost as though he doesn’t have the foggiest what he’s talking about.

When everyone else is reiterating that powerful women shouldn’t be having sex with young women, Goodwin is calling for women to have children younger

The Trump administration is literally going to kill its supporters, and still they cheer the circus.

Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

Struggling to find the words to describe the utter reckless vandalism of this sickening move - deliberately making millions of people sicker & less secure in order to enrich billionaire polluters

‘It’s emptiness’: banned Ukrainian athlete accuses IOC of fuelling Russia’s propaganda The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been kicked out of the Winter Olympics after he refused to back down from wanting to wear a ‘helmet of memory’ in honour of Ukraine’s war dead

‼️Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych is barred from racing in the 2026 Winter Games because he wanted to wear a “helmet of memory” in honor of Ukraine’s war dead. He calls out the International Olympic Committee for doing Russia’s propaganda for them www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Bear Grylls baptised Russell Brand, which means that the least controversial candidate on the list was... George Osborne!!!

A man who arrived in the UK aged nine, as a refugee, now seeks not only to pull up the ladder, but to chop it into pieces, build a bonfire, and incinerate as many other helpless refugees as he can round up.

The British public doesn’t ’foot the bill’ for immigration. The opposite. Immigrants foot the bill for Brits.

Terrific piece this. Something that Yvette Cooper said the government would do that seems to have fallen by the wayside is to release this data *themselves*, but instead they've seemingly quit the field leaving it only to bad actors (and now, thankfully, Anoosh)

A sublime piece.
We could also add an addendum on sport. A Department for Sport, if we had one, could regulate sport so that foreign billionaires couldn’t invest in it whilst simultaneously undermining British democracy. Or they could regulate on gambling & its pervasive influence on society.