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Irish Conflict in Comics by James Bacon There are very few studies of historical events as they are portrayed through comics. An introduction may tackle the origins of individual c...

Review by Steve Holland of ‘Irish Conflict in Comics’ by James Bacon - looks fascinating!

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UCPI – Daily Report: 14 January 2025 - Liz (Denise) Fuller The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a relationship by spycop HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s

Catching up on our summaries of #spycops public inquiry hearings, we've just published the day they heard from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a long-term relationship by officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s
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A young reader chugs from a bottle of orange juice whilst avidly devouring 'Rico Dredd: The Titan Years' by Michael Carroll

@mikeowencarroll.bsky.social Another satisfied reader 🫡

#OtD 28 Jul 1985 Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was launched at a meeting at @ConwayHall in London, UK. Its dedication to "physical and ideological opposition" to fascism would see it drive numerous far-right groups off the streets. This is a short history: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1002...

‘So that attention does not diminish’: Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in Hungarian custody | Matthias Monroy Three members of the Bundestag visited anti-fascist Maja T., who is being held in Hungary. They are calling for a political reappraisal and her return to Germany. An inter-party delegation of three…

‘So that attention does not diminish’:
Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in custody in #Hungary. They return with information and demands.
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Presumably there will be an exit interview...

www.ucpi.org.uk/2025/06/04/i...

Out Now: Don Lawrence's Maroc The Mighty Brings Thirteenth-Century Action! | 2000 AD Originally serialised in Lion, Maroc the Mighty is a action-packed adventure story about a thirteenth century superhero! During the Crusades in the Holy Land, an English yeoman, John Maroc, came into ...

Just spotted that Rebellion is reprinting the Don Lawrence historical epic Maroc The Mighty! Not seen it since it got a cheap airing in the mid-80s in the Eagle Picture Library - even with watered-down ink and on newsprint the art jumped off the page 👍

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The Undercover Police Scandal Go to The Undercover Police Scandal.

💥💥OUT NOW! 📣📣Paperback of ‘The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed’. On @ITV tonight at 9pm.
#spycops
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Bumper sticker reading ‘HOW'S MY CHAIRING? CALL 020 7035 4848’, which just so happens to be the main switchboard telephone number for the Home Office, the UK government department under which the Inquiry was constituted.

What're your thoughts on John Mitting's current handling of the Undercover Police Inquiry?

Your feedback is important!

#spycops

Looks like a superb line-up!

Great to see Si Gane being lured out!

#Arnie4Life!

#OtD 12 Mar 1977 authorities shut down Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, during a rebellion in response to the police murder of Francesco Lorusso. The station had been an essential hub for workers, students, feminists & gay groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring 404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

DaNi is a beast of an artist - drips with flair and style and storytelling, with hints of & nods to the past, but ALWAYS fresh & absolutely of the moment 😎

Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip British cartoonist R.E. Burke has been detained for more than a week as an illegal alien, and her father is asking for help.

Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip

100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the #spycops public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry's delayed its next hearings by 7 months yet is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines
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Music Monday: Loose Talk TV (1983) - when Tom Waits, Grace Jones and Sade touched down in Deptford Loose Talk was a short lived Channel 4 music/arts and chat show that ran for two series in 1983. It was recorded in front of a live audience...

Loose Talk, a 1983 @channel4tv.bsky.social music chat show was filmed @thealbanyse8.bsky.social Deptford and featured in one episode Peter Capaldi, Grace Jones & Sade's first TV appearance (Tom Waits also touched down in Deptford in another episode) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/03/musi...

What a curio!

I rather liked the early 90s ITV (possibly Carlton?) show ‘Raw Soup’, which had great music acts on, though always with a weird ‘Grange Hill/Brookdale joint end of year disco’ vibe, or the murderball scene in ‘Scum’

Two Milk and Cheese color drawings, one a 5 inch by 7 inch pinup of them yelling "Eat the Rich" "And Spit Out the Poison!". The other is a 3 inch by 5 inch index card drawing of Milk and Cheese saying, "You Can't Deny it", "You Just Gotta Buy It!"

Closer photo of the Milk and Cheese color pinup.

New MILK & CHEESE original art up on ebay, with bonus index card drawing:
www.ebay.com/itm/25684765...

Far more #spycops were sent into antifascist than fascist organisations. Founded in 1968, they didn't infiltrate the far right at all until the 80s. One officer told the public inquiry that fascists weren't a problem in the 1970s!

The women who exposed the #spycops sent by the state to deceive and rape them have faced these horrors with extraordinary courage and strength. They have revealed the lengths to which the state will go - regardless of whether the Conservatives or Labour are in office - to crush dissent.

The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed review – what sort of country would let the police do this? This powerful telling of the shocking ‘spy cops’ story does what only TV can: shows you the astonishing women at its heart. You’ll be engrossed for three hours

"The officially sanctioned deception and abuse of multiple young women by British police officers was a disgraceful episode. It is not enough to pledge that it will never be repeated."

Editorial comment from the Guardian today.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#spycops

Leaked List Shows DOGE Is Lawyering Up A list of DOGE staffers reviewed by The Intercept shows Elon Musk’s quasi-agency has brought in at least four more attorneys.

The Intercept's @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social has newly identified several DOGE staffers, all with law degrees, including an Amazon plant.
* Dechert lawyer Justin Aimonetti
* Amazon lawyer Ashley Boizelle
* libertarian Institute for Justice fellow Joshua Fox
* Williams & Connolly lawyer Joshua Hanley

Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public Total shows scale of dishonesty in undercover operations over more than three decades

#Spycops

This is not individual bad behaviour, but systematic abuse

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

Police Spies Out of Lives Police Spies Out of Lives (PSOOL) is a campaigning support group working to achieve an end to the sexual and psychological abuse of campaigners and others by undercover police officers. We support the...

For more about the shocking stories of women deceived into relationships by #spycops, and how they've been camapaigning & winning legal cases to reveal the truth about Britain's political secret police, see the @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social site:

policespiesoutoflives.org.uk

So not-secret its recruitment process wasn't even revolving door, it was grab-any-warm-body-in-the-corridor

Who were the undercover cops who deceived women into sexual relations? Officers infiltrated variety of movements and leftwing groups, with some fathering children with women they met on deployments

Not quite a singular rotten apple: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public Total shows scale of dishonesty in undercover operations over more than three decades

Good piece from @robevansgdn.bsky.social on the degrading & traumatising nature of the #SpyCops scandal. Anti-#GMO protesters were among the many activists spied on. A new TV series (The Undercover Police Scandal...) starts 9pm Thursday 6th March on ITV/@itvx.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships Credit cards, passports and ingenuity led to the identities of undercover police who were loved under false pretences

Helen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would “like to spend the rest of his life” with her, and that he wanted to have children with her. But it was all a lie — he was an undercover police officer sent to spy on her. #SpyCops www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...