Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling.
You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law.
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It was an accident.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holding the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him in 1964.
At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time.
MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
The decent Tories were culled in 2019.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
Agree with so much of this, especially the time unnecessary complaints take away from a school’s core purpose. I know this will sound boring but… policies always help. Code of Conduct for staff, Complaints policy for parents, etc. They provide a framework which is fair and transparent for everyone.
“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
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A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d;
And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
The virus in Wuhan was reported on the BBC in December, I’m sure. But nobody else seems to remember!!
Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
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A picture of the Mary Rose ship wreck, with the caption "TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice awards", and the TripAdvisor logo with the number 2025 underneath it. "Travellers'" is spelt the English way, not the US way.
For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice
Come and find out why this summer...
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Absolute Beginners and Happy Hour are corkers!
#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
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Kiefer Sutherland has a younger brother called Kief and an older brother called Kiefest.
