Tibs Ashton

Why is Churchill being invoked for building Britain? Is this just to try not to completely put off flag shaggers?

Churchill was an advocate for European unity, but he seems a strange name to pick out of all those who did the work to create the EU and ECHR.

Although Dagda also right up there

The BEST pub

Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich

I miss the days when how someone ate a sandwich could break the main British political news cycle

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A treasure trove of brilliant folk, trad and roots music, and national treasure Mike himself.

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The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.

Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

Absolutely this. A musically perfect movie (and great in lots of other ways too).

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The best therapy is political change

Let’s tackle the external causes of mental health issues - Guarantee decent fair and equal minimum wages - indexed to the cost of living - Define housing, healthy food, and affordable renewable energy as basic rights - Abolish unpaid work including unpaid internships - Dismantle institutional and systemic discrimination - Improve access to mental health care via solid public investment

🧠 It's no secret, the political situation has a major impact on mental health.

✊ Let’s push for better mental health for all by fighting its external causes.

👉🏾 It’s fighting against social inequality.
💚 Against the climate crisis.
💪 For human rights.

#worldmentalhealthday

The politics of the left should be about making people's lives better regardless of their views and politics. That doesn't mean that we stop recognising and confronting racists, transphobes, homophobes, sexists etc.

I think there are better uses of energy than trying to "reclaim" a toxic flag.

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Absolutely fed up to the back teeth of people dismissing the surging rise of right-wing racism into mainstream conversation as a "noisy minority."

Try telling that to people who are persecuted and frightened just based on the colour of their skin or the country their parents are from. 1/2

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats” The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*

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David Cross folks.

Both excellent front men more than great singers (and I love Rick's voice)

The Killers, Northumbria University, Newcastle , Northumbria University, Newcastle

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That was the exact wording of the review that got me to try the album back in 2004.

Obviously, the journalist meant it as a diss, but no better recommendation for me.

Mahmood will say people seeking indefinite leave to remain will have to demonstrate they have integrated and contributed to society.

Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.

This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.

Join me in building a welcoming country.

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It is easy to forget how the mid 90s Tory government was basically scandal after scandal. Death orange, toe sucking, cash for questions, Jerry Hayes' outing, Lamont's sex therapist, Norris affairs, Aitken's lies and Alan Clark's diaries. Major managed his affair in secret mind.

If you’re calling for civility in a time when fascism is overtaking the country then you are on the side of the fascists

"We'RE oPPoseD tO poLItiCaL vIOLenCe ..."

A very well written piece about the truth of the man and what he said/did

Simon Harris and his family have faced credible death threats in recent days.

This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.

YouTube video by Ryan Reynolds John Candy: I Like Me | Official Trailer

How lovely ❤️

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Nadhim Zahawi @nadhimzahawi Did you think about my children? @AngelaRayner breaks my heart seeing anybody distressed about their children, but, the hypocrisy really does hurt. 💔 Quote Sky News @SkyNews · 20h "It's distressing...they're really upset." Speaking exclusively to #ElectoralDysfunction, Deputy PM Angela Rayner tells @BethRigby how coverage of her tax row has impacted her family. 🎧 Listen: https://podfollow.com/electoraldysfunction 📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8IrydigQffkV94y_hhSFgZC-lgZ5rod&si=STjNvuJDEA29PT03 7:47 PM · Sep 3, 2025 · 1.2M Views

Breaks his heart, IT REALLY DOES.

Zahawi, who claimed thousands from the public purse to heat his stables, attended men-only events where female staff were groped, was fined seven-figure sum for tax irregularities and breaches the ministerial code by failing to disclose it, suggests EQUIVALENCE.

No, not the mind probe!