When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
05.10.2025 09:40 — 👍 414 🔁 172 💬 4 📌 0
This is grim & dangerous over reach.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
05.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 1871 🔁 727 💬 65 📌 33
She is a disgusting bigot and opportunistic right-wing authoritarian ghoul. We will be a lot safer as a country the second she's turfed out of her seat and consigned to the history bin.
03.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
03.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 857 🔁 325 💬 20 📌 9
Feeling Blue: Lord Glasman on Why He Backs Shabana Mahmood Over Nigel Farage
The 'Blue Labour' founder, credited with pushing the party to the right, singled out Keir Starmer's "tough" new Home Secretary for praise
🔴Feeling Blue: Lord Glasman on Why He Backs Shabana Mahmood Over Nigel Farage
The ‘Blue Labour’ founder, credited with pushing the party to the right, singled out Keir Starmer’s “tough” new Home Secretary for praise, reports @davidhencke.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/03/f...
03.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 9 📌 6
"Palestinian solidarity protests have been taking place in several countries..."
Barcelona. Rome. Glasgow.
03.10.2025 05:34 — 👍 35 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
And this is why you never ever give them an inch.
Migrants deported for crimes > Reform suggesting fly tipping is enough.
Reform of ECHR > leaving ECHR.
Removing citizenship for dual national criminals > removing for a UK national only
They will never be satisfied
02.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Like Scandinavian...but brown.
01.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 6615 🔁 1078 💬 152 📌 93
Israeli forces are minutes away from illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla.
One of the ships - the Ohwayla - sails under a UK flag. Onboard are humanitarians with vital aid, demanding a humanitarian corridor.
The Labour government must act NOW to protect UK citizens.
01.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 340 🔁 112 💬 10 📌 2
The Labour Chancellor declares herself an eternal friend of a state committing a live-streamed genocide.
We are ruled by moral disgraces who are criminally liable for aiding and abetting one of the worst crimes of our age.
01.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 436 🔁 168 💬 23 📌 9
Nandy praises protesters from the past who were up for the fight
I've seen how this govt treats protesters peacefully holding placards that say "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action". Praising protesters from yesteryear while criminalising protesters today as terrorists
29.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 59 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 3
A child of migrants fronting Labours strategy of attacking & scapegoating migrants #Lab25
29.09.2025 15:12 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Just the height of absolute stupidity from these centrist losers.
29.09.2025 12:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crazy this would happen to one of the world’s oldest parties of labour after being taken over by a right-wing puppet directed by a right-wing advisor with right-wing politics who was mentored by a right-wing toady to large capital and oligarchical interests, all of whom pathologically hate the left.
27.09.2025 06:19 — 👍 117 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 2
I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van
28.09.2025 08:35 — 👍 486 🔁 206 💬 7 📌 2
Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel
The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.
This is what happens when your government joins in the rhetoric that presents people seeking asylum as a threat and says racist intimidators have legitimate concerns instead of roundly condemning it. Escalation
Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers’ hotel www.bbc.com/news/article...
27.09.2025 10:14 — 👍 289 🔁 107 💬 12 📌 8
my list MSP who sent me a long email about how banning trans women from women's toilets would protect women and girls etc. has just been suspended from his party for allegations of inappropriate conduct
27.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 94 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 1
Monday in the Guardian: Progressive fightback starts here lads, more soon!
Friday in the Telegraph: OK I want to start by apologising for the left and the ruinous consequences of their stupid ideas
26.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 130 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 0
This is not born of concern for women. It is pure unadulterated hatred of trans women and men.
May he rot in hell.
24.09.2025 22:53 — 👍 178 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 1
Latest on Keir Starmer's "progressive fightback" 👇
24.09.2025 08:09 — 👍 227 🔁 56 💬 21 📌 2
Wes Streeting's recent pre-leadership contest attempt to rebrand himself as Not Actually Wes Streeting continues. It's not fooling anyone. Especially as he'll lurch further right than Keir if he gets the gig.
21.09.2025 10:45 — 👍 98 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain.
One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism.
The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way.
The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness.
The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.
NEW
Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
19.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 623 🔁 309 💬 30 📌 12
Israel has murdered at least 16 Palestinians in Gaza so far this morning.
19.09.2025 08:06 — 👍 38 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 1
Of course they did!
18.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Zack Polanski might actually do really well pursuing this strategy of just asking British politicians a follow up question
18.09.2025 09:36 — 👍 314 🔁 60 💬 8 📌 3
Yvette Cooper shunted off to foreign jaunts but replaced by Shabana Mahmood … Wes Streeting making entirely useless attempted apologies to trans people with no action… Keir Starmer acknowledges people of colour exist in this country too late… Labour’s farcical attempts appear nicer are a joke
16.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 51 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
A #GMB poll of people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds found 34% had experienced racist abuse since the beginning of August, half believe its connected to the flag movement & 28% feel less safe than last year.
16.09.2025 05:34 — 👍 85 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 9
It is over for the genocide deniers.
Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide.
Those who supported Israel's onslaught:
You backed a genocide.
You will never scrub the shame away.
16.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 1766 🔁 721 💬 38 📌 38
Govt minister Alex Davies-Jones, whose responsibilities include violence against women & girls, is asked 4 times why the fact that Mandelson stayed at Epsteins house after he'd been convicted wasn't enough to stop him being appointed.
She dodges the question every time
16.09.2025 06:34 — 👍 206 🔁 90 💬 26 📌 34
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