The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Why does nobody ask British Palestinians how it feels to be told not to protest against the mass killing of their people because it might upset parts of the British Jewish community?

Imagine being told your grief is too offensive to be seen.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

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This is chilling. The American far right Project 2025 is coming to the UK. Please read and distribute

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable. I October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM • Everybody can reply 314 reposts 20 quotes 898 likes 12 saves • 34 . 334 0898 George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.b... • 3h We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social

All politicians build a brand @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Most base it on their own values & virtues.

But some, like Jenrick & Johnson, build it on ambition alone.

They shapeshift to suit whatever sells. There are no lines they won’t cross because there are no values to anchor them.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

“If he feels uncomfortable, perhaps he needs to look inside himself.”

Robert Jenrick thinks he’s found one of the ‘worst-integrated’ areas in the country.

But caller Jack, who is from Handsworth, tells a different story.

“A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.”

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All politicians build a brand @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Most base it on their own values & virtues.

But some, like Jenrick & Johnson, build it on ambition alone.

They shapeshift to suit whatever sells. There are no lines they won’t cross because there are no values to anchor them.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

Or even gated communities.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

A one-man mission to drive up anti-Tory tactical voting by probably 10 points in marginals.

Going back to what I was saying yesterday, this is more about "allies" using the conflict as a marker of their own identity than it is about the Palestinian/Muslim/Israeli/Jewish communities themselves.

I heard a man saying that he voted for Brexit because there are too many brown faces when he goes to Tesco.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Jewish staff at Scottish universities condemn 'weaponisation' of Manchester attack

A group of Jewish academics working at universities across Scotland have condemned 'unfounded, irresponsible and dangerous' attempts to link the Manchester terror attack with pro-Palestine protests

Fancy doing a livestream commentary counting white faces in Birmingham @mrjamesob.bsky.social

It took me one second to find one.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Layla Moran is of Palestinian descent and has lost family in the Gaza conflict.

If she protested the ongoing slaughter of her people today, would Keir Starmer, or anyone else, dare to call her un-British?

Who would tell her it was inappropriate?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

It's probably better comms work. But I don't think it's more logical.

Calling for the end of a war on the anniversary of its commencement should not be controversial - even when that start was marked by a horrific massacre.

Peace is not an affront to the memories of the slain.

Layla Moran is of Palestinian descent and has lost family in the Gaza conflict.

If she protested the ongoing slaughter of her people today, would Keir Starmer, or anyone else, dare to call her un-British?

Who would tell her it was inappropriate?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

This sums up my feelings:

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

The British media holds these conversations as if British Palestinians do not exist.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

This sums up my feelings:

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

The British media holds these conversations as if British Palestinians do not exist.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

For me, it took ONE second for a white face to appear on this Birmingham live webcam.

How about you?

worldcams.tv/united-kingd...

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

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

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like.

Absolutely shameful.

He'll probably become Tory leader.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her