Nick McGeehan

The gulf between English and Scottish education is continuing to grow and I don't think I've ever been so glad for devolution than right now.

What is happening in English schools is horrifying. Kids will die due to this - and all to appease a hateful mob that can never, ever, be appeased.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Oh wow our @38degrees.bsky.social petition to cap political donations in the UK has over 94k signatures!! 💥

There's still lots of time for amendments to Elections Bill. Would be so powerful to get it over 100k

Can you help? Please sign and share! Thanks! 😀 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Man Utd boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe claims UK has been 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who owns part of Premier League football club Manchester United, is under fire after claiming that 'huge levels of immigration' costs the UK 'too much money'

Manchester City and Manchester United are now run by people aiding the rise of the far-right in the UK. We need to talk about billionaires but we also need to talk again about who we allow to run our football clubs www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Minister and Burnham escalate row with ‘hypocritical’ Ratcliffe over claim UK colonised by immigrants – politics live Labour mayor of Greater Manchester joins those criticising Ratcliffe over his comments

Jim Ratcliffe's hiring of Morgan McSweeney already backfiring.

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Man Utd boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe claims UK has been 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who owns part of Premier League football club Manchester United, is under fire after claiming that 'huge levels of immigration' costs the UK 'too much money'

Manchester City and Manchester United are now run by people aiding the rise of the far-right in the UK. We need to talk about billionaires but we also need to talk again about who we allow to run our football clubs www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

ICE says it will play ‘key part’ in 2026 World Cup security Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director, was responding to a question from Democrat Nellie Pou before a panel in the House of Representatives.

❗ICE agents will form a “key part” of the security at the 2026 men’s World Cup. “ICE, specifically homeland security investigations, is a key part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup,” said Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director. By @colinmillar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her. The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.

By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
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"The uncomfortable truth is that Infantino seems unwilling to risk his personal relationship with Trump by publicly criticizing policies that fundamentally contradict FIFA’s stated mission."

Excellent from Rasoul Rahmani on @antoineduval.bsky.social's sports law Blog

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🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I deleted my post from before…

I thought it was fake

So I went to WH Smith and here it is

An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.

I had to check the date on this three times

‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*

This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??

I was once an undocumented migrant in Spain – this new decree will change lives | Francheska Melendez Yes, migrants are key to Spain’s economic boom. But Pedro Sánchez’s decision to regularise 500,000 people should rather be applauded for its humanity, says journalist Francheska Melendez

Those crazy Spaniards. Imagine treating people who have left their families and risked their lives in search of a better life like humans and integrating them into society. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
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Good to see Guardiola address Sudan and Ukraine in his advocacy on Palestine. Let's hope he's got a good response prepared for the next question that comes his way.

“Shakir said that his experience illustrated that while public opinion has evolved on Israel in the last several years – with “concepts of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing” increasingly voiced in mainstream circles – the right of return remains a third rail.”

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

A year after Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire, over 64,000 Lebanese displaced Many say they have received little support from government or Hezbollah, not enough to rebuild lives or homes destroyed.

More than a year after the Nov 2024 ceasefire, there are still 64,000 internally displaced people in Lebanon, according to the IOM.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

So Trump came up when I was debating with Andrea Jenkyns of Reform…

And unbelievably she almost walked off the show.

The Peter Thiel connections to Epstein, Ehud Barak, Palantir and...of course....JD Vance should get more scrutiny.

Thiel created Vance and essentially hand delivered him to the White House.

Thiel is a white nationalist billionaire, part of the "Pay Pal" mafia. Buddy David Sacks is Trump's AI Czar

"According to the report, the magazine reviewed minutes from internal discussions concerning potential cooperation between the Polish platform Visegrad24, known for its wide digital reach and its ties to far-right milieus in Central and Eastern Europe, and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Visegrad24 yes?

Not to mention..

Remarkable.

‘But why are we victims of the hate we spew? Jeez!’ - Emirati Muslim lacking in self awareness.

“Privately, Emirati officials welcome Farage’s pledge to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, although some are concerned at growing anti-Muslim rhetoric on the nationalist right in Europe and beyond.”

UAE treated poorly over failed Telegraph bid, says Nigel Farage Reform UK leader visits Abu Dhabi to generate funds and boost ties with Gulf petrostate

ICYMI, the UAE - owners of Manchester City - are openly courting the UK far-right and will look to help them into government. The UAE's hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood aligns with Reform's islamophobia and the quid pro quo will be gruesome for UK democracy.
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‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

This huge @wsj.com scoop about a UAE government-linked company agreeing to invest $500m in the Trump family’s crypto company makes the 1st term concerns about foreign officials staying in Trump’s DC hotel seem quaint by comparison. 🎁🔗