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They’ve been in a foreign prison for two months. Bring them all back.

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Reform is a Limited Company Farage owns 53% It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam Please retweet widely

When that second intelligence memo came out that said Tren de Aragua was not a proxy for the Venezuelan government, I was certain someone was going to lose their job. Sure enough.

They're trying to make people fearful of speaking out.

All this for a draft dodger that insults veterans The irony

Beautiful Dartford Warbleron the Quantock Hills in Somerset recently. 😍🐦 #birds 🪶

Aaaand there it is.

I didn’t vote Labour and don’t trust Starmer but thought at least he was a statesman, with decorum and decency, and as such a necessary change from the Tories’ shrill, populist bilge. And then he makes a speech on immigration to dignify and empower base racism and I see we’ve barely moved on at all.

❗ No child should have to know what a food bank is, let alone need one. Repost if you agree

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

22 Reform Councillors have already quit because they never wanted to be elected. Each one costs £10,000 as an election has to take place to replace them. All these bills need to be paid by Nigel Farage as he owns the Reform UK company.

Left: Yvette Cooper, "We will be closing the care worker visa as well" Right: House of Commons Library, "131,000 vacancies for care workers"

"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b... Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened since the pandemic. On Friday, it was Zero Ships.

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

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In the same week Trump has attacked President Zelensky for upholding Ukrainian sovereignty, he can only bring himself to describe Putin's deadly missile strikes as "bad timing." This tells you everything you need to know.

Utter gibberish as usual. "Family GPs" don't sign off SEND plans or disability benefits.

This is what we all feared. The United States and Russia bullying brave President Zelensky into a terrible deal. Time for the United Kingdom and Europe to stand up to Trump and seize the Russian assets so we can go it alone.

I've been to Ukraine - I've seen the death and destruction Putin has wrought there over the last three years. So if he thinks that sanctioning myself and colleagues will get us to shut up he has another thing coming. Putin and his cronies must pay for the crimes they have committed. Slava Ukraini

I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to sign the petition below. Ban the use of NDAs to silence workers from speaking about abuse, harassment, or discrimination they face at work. Perpetrators of abuse should not be protected. buff.ly/8mqHNeR

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

“We cannot deny Reform’s appeal – but these fake patriots do not stand for British values” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Art needs to be read in the context of its time. Saying things like “JANE EYRE would never be a bestseller nowadays” is exactly as pointless as saying “ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT would never have been a bestseller in 1895.”

Andrew Husband is Reform UK’s candidate for Chester-le-Street North, County Durham. He’s become good friends with Darren Grimes & here he is with Nigel Farage 3 days ago. Do they know his terrible business record? Not the best look for someone asking #Durham to vote for him to run their finances.

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Nuala Kelly is the Reform UK candidate for Buckingham, Buckinghamshire. She thinks it’s funny to glue Muslims to the ground. No reason, guess just religious hatred.

“Mein Kampf” (TWO copies no less) remains on the shelves, but “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

The markets simply do not get it. No other country can trust the US economically or militarily now. The genie is not going back into the bottle.

Lots of differences but the similarity with Truss is that a lot of the market response is less about the specific event and more the realisation that these people really are total clowns and there's no clever plan behind the public statements of blathering ignorance.

Long live free Georgia! Death to the Russian regime!

Today is #NationalUnicornDay so in the children's library Eunice the #Orkney Unicorn is reading Boggis, Bunce and Bean a book about Unicorns. 🦄🧸🧸🧸

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Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library. Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump and Vance now have blood on THEIR hands for their utterly incomprehensible efforts to give Putin a free pass. 14 people dead. 6 children. Playground area hit.

It’s Farage who attracts them. Doesn’t matter what he calls the party.

Tesla pop-up on Oxford St 😱😱 Protest taking place tomorrow 11am 👇👇👇

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Brexiters crowing about being hit with a 10% Trump tariff, rather than 20%. Ffs. Brexit costs us far more than 10% on goods to the US. Every day. We now have *both* to contend with, without the leverage of a powerful bloc. A crappy deal won’t save us. Please just STFU you stupid, stupid bastards.

I have more than 410k followers on X and fewer than 63k on BlueSky. Yet the same tweet about Russian money supporting the Far Right in Britain has been shared fewer than 100 times on X and more than 1,300 on BlueSky. That's how much of a propaganda tool X has become.

Farage wants you to eat chlorinated chicken just so he can keep licking the boots of his idol Donald Trump. It's so pathetic and unpatriotic.