Norrette M.

Cartoon of 2 people having a coffee 1st square - Person 1 “Let's not talk about politics anymore, I can't bear it” “ Person 2 “Same” 2nd square - Both stare silently 3rd square - Person 1 “THE THING IS THOUGH…” Person 2 “THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS” @emilyscartoons

We all have the same conversation, everyday 😂

Speaks volumes...

Neighbours of Manchester synagogue attacker say they reported concerns to police Exclusive: Concerns about apparently fanatical interest in Islam shown by Jihad al-Shamie and another family member were reported, Guardian told

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Notwithstanding the radical state of the assassin, @theguardian.com shld consider some of the pov's of their voxpop

Wearing traditional dress is NOT a sign of radicalisation.

Not unusual for Jehovah's witnesses out door-knocking preaching their religion.

Making a drama about refugees could defuse anti-migrant anger in UK, says Jonathan Pryce Actor says ‘people aren’t aware of the facts’ and the realities for people living in migrant hotels

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My thoughts too.

‘Delivery robots will happen’: Skype co-founder on his fast-growing venture Starship Ahti Heinla on bringing his tech to small towns, its effects on jobs – and whether he’s still interested in money

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So will hijacking...

This is absolutely wild, @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social filmed Robinson with a Hitler appreciation society in Germany for Panorama, a film that was never shown. He has openly expressed antisemitic views.

Met considers making officers declare whether they are Freemasons Consultation comes after concerns raised about impact of membership on ‘investigations, promotions and misconduct’

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Huh, #Freemasons do they still ban women?

Interesting what a few minutes on Ancestry can tell you. Nigel Farage's GG Grandfather and GG Grandmother both immigrants to the UK from 'Germany' in ~ 1860s

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

“...he’s saying that we’re no better than Hamas because people are joining because they want to break things and they want to kill people...for anyone that’s been in the military, he’s not qualified to be secretary of defense. He’s barely qualified to be a host on Fox News."

If they don't, they'll look really weak across the world. To be talked to like that, by the twat that is Hegseth (see other articles), would be unacceptable by most militaries.

Trump, Hegseth lecture military leaders in rare, politically charged summit The unusual, hastily organized event became a forum for the president and his defense secretary to tout their partisan agenda.

Trump, Hegseth lecture military leaders in rare, politically charged summit

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Well, now they all know what they must do to save the west.

Just a case of when.

Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

So yesterday, he told his military to stop fighting and killing enemies abroad, but to fight their own country.

Somehow, I don’t think they'll agree.

It'll be the Curragh Mutiny writ large.

Gift Article

Shame on Nick Robinson refusing to allow Shami Chakrabarti finish a sentence just now on #R4Today

No wonder he's ignorant. He won't listen and learn.

But he shouldn't be given the power to edit what we can hear.

Starmer finally finds his voice as he speaks from the heart | John Crace PM sounded like a decent man making the case for decency – it’s just not clear if that’s what the British public demands of its politicians these days

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"It’s as though Starmer has unresolved issues with his father that he keeps trying to work out in public. Maybe it would be more helpful if he saved that for a therapist instead."

<< I've been saying that all along. 😂😂

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November’s budget Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Quelle Surprise...

What’s in Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza? Plan calls for immediate end to war between Israel and Hamas but lacks detail on how key points will be executed

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

And in exchange Nethanyahu will annex/occupy the West Bank, and Trump's family will make billions out of the rebuild.

Shame on you #MAGA for giving this greedy so&so such power.

Trump Nethanyahu stitch up? What about the West Bank? Has the fuckwit Trump given that to Nethanyahu?

Labour Conference votes for a full arms embargo on Israel Conference comes to life as delegates vote to sanction Israel and demand a wealth tax. In a victory for the tireless campaigning mounted by solidarity activists, Labour’s Annual Conference has voted for a resolution on the Gaza conflict which is sharply at odds with the line pursued by the Starmer Government. The Party grassroots voted for a full arms embargo on Israel, an end to UK-Israel military cooperation and a recognition that Israel’s policy towards Palestine constitutes genocide.

Labour Conference votes for a full arms embargo on Israel

Conference comes to life as delegates vote to sanction Israel and demand a wealth tax. In a victory for the tireless campaigning mounted by solidarity activists, Labour’s Annual Conference has voted for a resolution on the Gaza conflict…

YouTube video by Labour Left Podcast | @BrynHGriffiths The John McDonnell Interview

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From Gramsci to Graeber

Is the Labour Leadership terrified of the Labour Membership?

"The in-depth interview with John McDonnell explores what thinking lies behind his decades of socialist activity."

Labour Conference to debate Israel’s genocide and a full arms embargo Labour Conference will tomorrow debate an emergency motion supported by UNISON, TSSA, ASLEF and many CLPs which acknowledges Israel is committing a genocide. It calls for the Government to “employ …

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How much of Reeves' economic black hole could be filled by these profits?

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

UK inflation is caused by profiteering

Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%.
Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%.
Shipping up by 650 times.
Health and social work up by 118%.

People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Thats what they said about Reform getting too much BBC coverage in '24. Now look.

You have to prove your age on here to get full use of DMs etc.

Next step will be asking you to provide your digital ID.

Replicate that elsewhere.

A bit of background to the ID card story.
Tone Langengen works for the Tony Blair Institute, she is the wife of Lewis Goodall.
Goodall is tactfully ignoring the wider issues of Starmer's Digital Brit ID card. You have to wonder why.

Ten Books to Understand Labour Conference Mark Perryman selects his top ten reads to make sense of a Party in trouble. The landslide of July 4th 2024 seems like a lifetime ago in the lived experience of this Labour government and attendant party. A Prime Minister elected on a record-breaking low share of the vote, 33.7%. A victory secured by the split in the right's vote between the Conservatives and Reform UK.

Ten Books to Understand Labour Conference

Mark Perryman selects his top ten reads to make sense of a Party in trouble. The landslide of July 4th 2024 seems like a lifetime ago in the lived experience of this Labour government and attendant party. A Prime Minister elected on a record-breaking low…

Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

"Trump, failed coup leader, and Putin, indicted war criminal, are not in formal alliance, yet. They have not agreed a 1939-style Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact."

...as far as we know.

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Breaking news: emergency motions on Gaza ruled in Late this afternoon, news emerged that emergency motions calling for a full embargo on Israel have been approved by Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee and will go to compositing. An unprecedented number of Constituency Labour Parties – around twenty - and trade unions submitted emergency motions demanding the government recognises the genocide in Gaza and impose sanctions on Israel, including a full arms embargo.

Breaking news: emergency motions on Gaza ruled in

Late this afternoon, news emerged that emergency motions calling for a full embargo on Israel have been approved by Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee and will go to compositing. An unprecedented number of Constituency Labour Parties –…

Danny Kruger in the confessional of #PoliticalThinking cannot cope with different lifestyles of immigrants and wants to press for rewarding marriage and family.

Imo racist and sexist.

The Guardian view on Labour conference: a clash of visions and direction, not egos and personnel | Editorial Editorial: With his authority ebbing, Sir Keir Starmer offers continuity. Andy Burnham promises rupture. The choice is between Anglo-American orthodoxy and European-style interventionism

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About right.