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Unpaid carer, vegan, drummer, woke socialist, born @ 319 ppm #ClimateEmergency, skint Tory hater, #SOSNHS, #FBPE #FBPR

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A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

I think the pill is the "threat" of being called anti-Semitic?

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

06.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Waiting for Starmer to tell the fascists not to march out of sympathy for the Muslim community.

Or something.

05.10.2025 08:31 — 👍 9    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

#Farage #Russia

Please read this 👇🏻

05.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Complete 💩
Scrap #BBCLauraK

05.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a load of pro Tory pro Israeli bollox.

Un watchable 💩

#BBCLauraK
#BBCNews biased propaganda

05.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The unhinged presentation of Muslims on GB News has been exposed. What will Ofcom do about it? | Miqdaad Versi Our new report documents how conspiracy theories about a Muslim takeover of Britain have become primetime TV fare, says Miqdaad Versi, founder of the Centre for Media Monitoring

Dec 2024 - GBNews has been promoting conspiracy theories about a Muslim takeover of Britain.

In just two years, “Muslims” or “Islam” were mentioned more than 17,000 times on GB News – accounting for almost 50% of all such reporting by British news broadcasters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 44    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 1
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“Clever, isn’t he?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

03.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 369    🔁 116    💬 5    📌 3
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This

03.10.2025 08:26 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It's good, but surely we've known this for decades? It seems there is an endless new discovery of man's stupidity against nature that never leads to change, just a "yeah I know that, oh well, carry on" maybe it's designed to do just that?

03.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

As I was saying…

24.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 36269    🔁 7960    💬 1715    📌 808
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Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson.

Here's a few of those things

11.09.2025 08:49 — 👍 3987    🔁 1672    💬 379    📌 167

"Save our kids"

10.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 962    🔁 443    💬 50    📌 7

Yup. They'd much prefer Reform over "might tax us rich people" Labour if the Tories can't win.
Why don't Labour talk about the right wing media esp all the Tories & Johnson appointees in the BBC?

10.09.2025 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Rising tide of voters warm to climate scepticism
Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Adam Vaughan Environment Editor
The number of Britons who think the dangers of global warming have been exaggerated has jumped by more than 50 per cent in the past four years, research for The Times reveals.

One in four voters believe that concerns about climate change are not as justified as scientists have said, against a backdrop of public concern at the cost of the government's net zero policies.

Less than a third of the public (30 per cent) are in favour of banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, down from 51 per cent in 2021. Only 16 per cent of voters said they would be prepared to pay higher gas bills to encourage the switch to electricity.

Experts said the findings showed that growing climate scepticism among mainstream politicians in Britain and the US was cutting through with voters and the broad consensus on climate action was breaking down.
"Climate change is being politicised in the UK] in the same way that has been done in the United States," said Professor Wouter Poortinga, an environmental psychologist at Cardiff Uni-versity.

"If you have Kemi Badenoch standing up saying that we're going to drill, baby, drill, that will have a polaris-ing effect."
The research, in collaboration with YouGov and the opinion consultancy Public First, compared public sentiment on climate change today with a study done by The Times in 2021.

There is concern at the top of Labour that its climate change policies could cost it votes at the next election. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, has called for net zero policies to be scrapped.

Voters' priorities change, pages 10-11

Rising tide of voters warm to climate scepticism Oliver Wright Policy Editor Adam Vaughan Environment Editor The number of Britons who think the dangers of global warming have been exaggerated has jumped by more than 50 per cent in the past four years, research for The Times reveals. One in four voters believe that concerns about climate change are not as justified as scientists have said, against a backdrop of public concern at the cost of the government's net zero policies. Less than a third of the public (30 per cent) are in favour of banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, down from 51 per cent in 2021. Only 16 per cent of voters said they would be prepared to pay higher gas bills to encourage the switch to electricity. Experts said the findings showed that growing climate scepticism among mainstream politicians in Britain and the US was cutting through with voters and the broad consensus on climate action was breaking down. "Climate change is being politicised in the UK] in the same way that has been done in the United States," said Professor Wouter Poortinga, an environmental psychologist at Cardiff Uni-versity. "If you have Kemi Badenoch standing up saying that we're going to drill, baby, drill, that will have a polaris-ing effect." The research, in collaboration with YouGov and the opinion consultancy Public First, compared public sentiment on climate change today with a study done by The Times in 2021. There is concern at the top of Labour that its climate change policies could cost it votes at the next election. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, has called for net zero policies to be scrapped. Voters' priorities change, pages 10-11

How pleased The Times, Tories/Reform and their fossil fuel friends must be that, together, they are melting people’s critical faculties down into mush and persuading them to vote against their own interests in favour of those who couldn’t give less of a shit about them or their future.

10.09.2025 07:23 — 👍 512    🔁 196    💬 54    📌 14

It's "don't look up" happening in reality, so many people seem to think that science is just an opinion & is subservient to politics. Unbelievable.

10.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So how many front pages do we think this story will be on tomorrow?

05.09.2025 19:13 — 👍 334    🔁 160    💬 19    📌 3
A St George flag, on which is written the words "Stop the Muslim Paki boats" and "Get out of our cuntry oi oi". In the centre of the flag, a swastika is drawn.

A St George flag, on which is written the words "Stop the Muslim Paki boats" and "Get out of our cuntry oi oi". In the centre of the flag, a swastika is drawn.

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

05.09.2025 19:51 — 👍 805    🔁 188    💬 54    📌 29
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New Lloyd’s boss signals shift on insuring fossil fuels Patrick Tiernan says market will no longer discourage underwriting of such projects, stressing ‘apolitical’ stance

#BoycottLloyds

Patrick Tiernan is a short sighted fool

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

04.09.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

500 cows, I wonder how many people that will feed, protein wise? Guess we'll need lots of extra planets if that's a solution . I thought 1/3rd green house gasses come from eating animals...

03.09.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

03.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 1620    🔁 602    💬 141    📌 191
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⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought.

New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

03.09.2025 15:32 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 3
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M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcaster’s Owner Bet on the Retailer’s Failure Marks and Spencer (M&S) continued to advertise on GB News even while the broadcaster’s boss was betting against the company, DeSmog can reveal. Since the start of the year, Marshall Wace – the hedge f...

Well this is awkward...

Another great story from @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/03/m...

03.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 39    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 2

It should be; if the US continues on it's current path, everything in the world WILL die

03.09.2025 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup, & especially daft that carers for clinically vulnerable don't qualify

03.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim.
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵

03.09.2025 08:27 — 👍 1318    🔁 379    💬 78    📌 45
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Keep fracking out of Britain! I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

03.09.2025 06:40 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to...

NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry.

The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.

31.08.2025 06:40 — 👍 430    🔁 227    💬 246    📌 173

By design. Don't want the plebs being creative or thinking critically.

30.08.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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