Maire Davies

Do tests still work.? I took one with my cold and cough and it came up negative.

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

Donald Trump is ordering extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

He's vilifying his political opponents and threatening to jail them.

His ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants and firing chemical agents at peaceful protestors.

And some people think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

🚨Just 345 signatures from 75,000! Lets get it there 🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.

You can support the campaign to change the law here👇
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We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

Two years that broke our world Since the Hamas attack of 7th October, what remains of big ideals such as our shared humanity?

“In two years everything can break. All norms, all decency. In two years you can take a big idea, like shared humanity or international law, and empty it of all meaning.” @aloner.bsky.social marks October 7th.

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

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Love this one!

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

Yes I suppose so. But having worked in humanities departments on both sides of the Atlantic myself, I love the depictions of culture shock for Swallow and especially Zapp - a great comic creation. And the paternoster scene …. pure farce. Etc.. I love your books by the way.

Changing Places is the best book about academic life ever. And it really hasn’t dated…

Horrible Histories is the greatest. Especially the songs. Currently running on BBC3. Catch it!

Huzzah! An excuse to share the Elvis parody song I wrote for Rowan Atkinson to sing on Horrible Histories about the dissolution of the monasteries youtu.be/odZsn7Y-VRA?...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

NEW: Last month, a delegation from GB News entered the White House & met with Trump.

Senior Trump figures turned up at its US launch party. Could it now become Trump’s preferred outlet in Europe?

It’s reopened the debate over Ofcom’s oversight of impartiality.

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

Amazingly, the only Beatle to have appeared on the programme as a castaway is Paul. Ringo would be an amazing person to have on. Snap to it BBC!

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

The inaction by the UK Government to citizens being abducted on the whim of the Israeli Government only emboldens them and others with malicious intent.
The safety of the people travelling internationally is now compromised.

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

At this inflection point for Trump's authoritarian project, the democratic resistance has a chance to rise to the occasion by linking together its legal prong (lawsuits), its political prong (the government shutdown fight), and its popular prong (No Kings). A moment of challenge and opportunity.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop