Malcolm Sleath

YouTube video by BlackBeltBarrister Be VERY Careful What You Say!

I find this incredible:

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This thread contains helpful advice for anyone thinking of relocating from Brexitania to Ireland to regain European citizenship.

I understand why some people might have misgivings or question whether he’d be a good choice for PM - maybe, maybe not - but THAT’S NOT THE POINT. Right now, what we need is someone doing exactly what he does really well, as a communicator.

A very old oak in Dereen Garden, Kerry. When it started life, the area likely still belonged to the O'Sullivan Beares, before English colonialists took it by force in the mid-17th century and cleared the rainforest.

Just like Palestine now, land theft, racist genocide, & ecocide went hand in hand.

Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...

The real problem

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I reviewed a book about why the UK nuclear industry has declined and there were many reasons but I swear the author didn't mention gender identity once

🚨Winston Churchill at the Hague Congress in 1948:

"In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law".

This meeting was crucial in shaping the ECHR.

Maybe it is time to listen to those who faced down fascism.

It's absolutely nuts. How do they not understand our economy? The creative industry adds £124bn to the economy. Universities contribute £265bn. Sea fishing is variable but hovers around £500mn, ie £0.5bn. Steel is £1.8bn direct, £2.4 indirect (via supply chains).

These people simply cannot count.

Also, I find it incredible that successive governments keep trying to knacker industries where the UK punches above its weight, such as an awful lot of the arts.

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

This rather hard hitting video of a police officer being questioned about his role in arresting peaceful protesters and watching it land is well worth a view.

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

Just wow!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely kills it in the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast.

"Let's make hope normal again"

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The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po... To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform :
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

"Deported" is a very interesting way to say kidnapped, imprisoned illegally, abused, then released. 🤔

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

As a @privateeyenews.bsky.social reader, I'm not sure I would go along with that.

We can't tax billionaires, because they might take their tax avoidance to another country. But we can drive out brilliant people who do much-needed work, contribute to our society and culture, pay tax, create jobs, and have done nothing wrong. That's fine, apparently.

EYE PREDICTED A RIOT A RECENT Guardian investigation into the role of Facebook groups in the 2024 summer riots concluded that the platform played a significant role in driving anti-immigrant sentiment and radicalisation, pointing to "algorithmic amplification" as a reason for the growth in these communities. This has, of course, long been a known issue. Back in 2020, Eye 1523 reported on internal Facebook presentations from 2018 in which the company admitted that "64 percent of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools".

Facebook as a major vector for riots.

(What if anything is being done to stop this?)

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I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

UK home secretary decides that protesting against genocide is insensitive towards Jews A couple of days ago, a terrorist slaughtered two British Jews in a horrific attack at a Manchester synagogue that every right-thinking person condemns.

It seems we're conflating Israel and Jewishness now. Please keep up x

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why are West Midlands police allowing flag hangers to block a public highway, exactly

I understand your subjective view. I have mine too. I don't agree that the participants in a pile on have any more right to define reality than the Israeli Government and would point out that they are in a minority.

It seems to me that you have given the Israeli Government the right to determine what words mean. They don't have that right and never have had it.

Ed Miliband's message to Elon Musk:
"Get out of our politics and our country."

YouTube video by Katie Couric The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth

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great stuff. next step: learn how to take less than six days to say it.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

The man who can't stop opening disastrous London cinemas Preston Benson received millions of pounds in public funds to help revive London's high streets with a chain of cinemas stretching from Ealing to Catford, and Sidcup to Sutton. What keeps going wrong?

One man opened a series of cinemas in abandoned London buildings (from Catford to Ealing, from Sidcup to Sutton) as part of a plan to revive the capital’s high streets. Politicians love the idea and provided millions to help. So why do they keep going bust? www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...

A brilliant @newyorker.com cover.