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31.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
85% of group-based child abusers were white in 2024.
It is important to prevent it amongst ALL groups where it occurs.
3.5% of child abuse cases were group-based in Q3 2024. So 96.5% were not. Those cases mustn't be ignored just to fulfil Goodwin's racist preferences.
news.sky.com/story/wrong-...
Is Matt Godwin turning into Robert Jenrick? There is something about their faces that look very similar. I’m genuinly wondering this… but I am also open that it might not be a true facial similarity but just a similar smug and condescending expression… 🥹
31.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows:
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
📊 Immigration is so often in the media. But did you know that our latest research found that only 26% of people view the issue as one of the top three issues facing their local communities?
Read our brand new report below! ⬇️
https://www.bestforbritain.org/the_uks_biggest_challenges
Is Matt Godwin turning into Robert Jenrick? There is something about their faces that look very similar. I’m genuinly wondering this… but I am also open that it might not be a true facial similarity but just a similar smug and condescending expression… 🥹
31.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The fundamental problem:
58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased.
67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut.
In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.
An old style greetings card picture saying “a merry Halloween” with a black cat and broom, and four carved pumpkins
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31.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.
30.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 123 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 0Spot on 🥹
30.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very much this 👍 there seems to be a concerted effort to find comparatively small administrative errors (I am comparing to Tory sleaze, expenses & vip lanes etc) & elevate them & exploit them. If I was KS I’d have reputation & financial auditors in for Labour cabinet & a check list for all MPs.
30.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Very much this 👍 there seems to be a concerted effort to find comparatively small administrative errors (I am comparing to Tory sleaze, expenses & vip lanes etc) & elevate them & exploit them. If I was KS I’d have reputation & financial auditors in for Labour cabinet & a check list for all MPs.
30.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0bsky.app/profile/levi...
30.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Uhuh.. as I was saying..
Good that the trade press can still investigate a news story 👏 even if the majority of Westminster lobby press just does gossip, “gotcha” & stenography these days 🥹
propertyindustryeye.com/news-update-...
Letting agents in Reeves' case admit they said they would licence the property and failed to. That should be that.
propertyindustryeye.com/news-update-...
Print in black and white featuring a bat hanging upside-down above a spider on a web
#Printmaker Gertrude Hermes,
Bat and Spider, wood engraving, 1932 #womensart
#Halloween 🎃 🕸 🦇
She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.
30.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 741 🔁 200 💬 29 📌 8She let her house through a letting agency who failed to advise her or do correct licensing application within their service, so why aren’t you doing an investigation programme on how letting agencies fail their customers? This minutiae of “gotcha” politics fails uk citizens
30.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Spending cuts being bandied around by Tories & Reform wld hv such a huge negative impact on UK citizens everyday life that all but very richest wld be looking back at Labour Govt in 2025 as peak halcyon days. And yes, you can recognise the failings of Labour & still see how much worse it could be 🥹
30.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely and insightful article
“As the years start to take their toll, you draw energy and joy from the young, and inspiration from the very old,”
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
I am looking forward to buying the new book and finishing the trilogy, and in the meantime I’m enjoying the reviews!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
28.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 509 🔁 146 💬 10 📌 8
![Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards
Script:
An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang
Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes
mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past
and assembled from all over the world
Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution
to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen
in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light
[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]
WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!
whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity
which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen
who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth
[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]
with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around
[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"
in this endless, silent void.
[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]
"… I want a pasty.”
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreighnpydnplb5ldc7a4xvoxwcpkgi6kluz4z6onzzedvcvmipplkgm@jpeg)
Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards Script: An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past and assembled from all over the world Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light [Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:] WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth [Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps] with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around [Guy has a thought]: “Mmm…" in this endless, silent void. [Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it] "… I want a pasty.” [ends]
new print now in my shop!
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
Yes, this is very true. Just as voting green will be splitting the progressive vote in others areas, and Lib Dem etc etc. Best for Britain was very good with its polling data - one of the most accurate at last GE & I will be keeping an eye on their tactical voting info.
28.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like-
-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?
-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?
I cannot remember.
I’d agree it’s impossible to call this far out. Ppl will just have to watch and see what happens, and help raise awareness when tactical voting is clear and will help keep out Reform and Reform like Conservative MPs. Still a long way out from next GE, & even 7 months from local elections. 👍😊
28.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.
28.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 909 🔁 258 💬 51 📌 37I will agree & disagree w you😀 tactical voting (T-V) has been a part of Uk politics, but as I understood it from Best for Britain analysis, & campaigns for T-V at the last GE, T-V increased in ‘24, & post Caerphilly byelection analysis revealed high T-V levels not previously predicted in the polling
28.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0“Talking about London, England!”
Thread 🧵👇 on London and its mahousive size and population
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpV...
“few Reform supporters have even voted Labour at any point this century. Instead, they conclude: “Reform’s gains have long originated from the Conservative split on the right, & are continuing to do so today.”
Another good analysis on how Morgan McSweany can’t count & why Labour needs to turn left
