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Retired builder, dotting grandad who hates bullies. Get up, stand up.. stand up for your rights
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Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

Today in 399 BC, Socrates was sentenced to death for encouraging people to think. Why? Authoritarian regimes thrive with uneducated population lacking critical thinking skills. Authoritarians target academia, media, educated and then women, essentially all that they wish to prevent or control.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

In 2019 Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said that there was no need to have further discussions on Brexit because, "If there is anything about this arrangement that we have not now debated, thrashed to death, I would love to know what it is"

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

submitted 24 days ago • 51 comments

A French foreign ministry spokesperson has said it would be “unacceptable” for Palestinians to to be forcibly displaced from Gaza, after US President Donald Trump suggested “cleaning out” the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lyg9kz

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

I love dogs @mrjamesob.bsky.social but I don't think it's possible to watch this and not crack a smile: www.youtube.com/shorts/2wXjz...

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

This woman is a hero they should make her President of the USA. She had more balls than every single Trump ass kissing loser in that room.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

“I also remember a Tory party advert saying… “If you want a coloured for a neighbour, vote Labour” - Robin Campbell @ub40official.bsky.social No wonder they were so political…

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

You need to watch this video of Palestine marchers 'forcing' their way through Police lines.

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submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

2025: Fiona Bruce, "People voted to leave the European Union, whether you agree with it or not" #BBCQT 2016: Danial Hannan, Michael Gove, Owen Patterson all explained how leaving the European Union would not take us outside the European Union Single Market

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments

Farage attending the launch of a new staunch climate denial group in the UK that has taken funds from oil giant ExxonMobil ? Not particularly out of character , since Dec 2019 92% of donations to Reform UK were from fossil fuel interest groups or climate deniers , per @desmog.bsky.social .

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown

submitted 45 days ago • 236 comments

Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

submitted 47 days ago • 213 comments

@mrjamesob.bsky.social HNY James. The Govt’s risk analysis projects an additional 4000 deaths due to the removal of WFA to our vulnerable pensioners. For every death there could be 10 admissions to hospital. 40000 additional OAP admissions will cripple our NHS. The policy will cost money and lives

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Suella Braverman tells LBC that Italy have "built a wall" on the "land border between Italy and Turkey" and insists that "I've been to see it"

submitted 52 days ago • 535 comments

'That's when I knew I was a rabbi and not a politician.' Rabbi Jeffrey, 83, explains to @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he's 'horrified' by Benjamin Netanyahu's actions.

submitted 93 days ago • 23 comments

Will Hutton talking sense www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments