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@bronterre

Socialist Green in Brighton.

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Iranians rethink the price of regime change Destructive US and Israeli war and Islamic republic’s resilience have alarmed even those who supported foreign intervention

Something relevant to a question I asked yesterday.

11.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, these clowns drew up smeary dossiers full of wild horseshit allegations against these journalists - whatever they could cobble together - then sent them to the authorities, claiming they were traitors. That’s known. But are you saying they did the same thing *twice*? That’s utterly insane

11.03.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Josh Simons MP O @joshsimonsmp
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This is an imp thread by @adamlangleben who gave a lot to expelling antisemitism from @UKLabour.
I was 22 when I went to work for Corbyn - angry about class, privatisation, agency work. I never thought being Jewish was relevant.
Eve since, ppl around Corbyn have been after Jewish friends and colleagues who worked to bring the EHRC case. They want to rewrite the history of what happened.
Here is the truth. The EHRC investigation had to meet a high legal bar to even happen. The Met Police was the only other organisation who met it. That is the depths to which the Labour Party sank.
The oldest hatred is never far from the surface.
Most journalists, politicians, and citizens in this country know that.

Josh Simons MP O @joshsimonsmp X.com This is an imp thread by @adamlangleben who gave a lot to expelling antisemitism from @UKLabour. I was 22 when I went to work for Corbyn - angry about class, privatisation, agency work. I never thought being Jewish was relevant. Eve since, ppl around Corbyn have been after Jewish friends and colleagues who worked to bring the EHRC case. They want to rewrite the history of what happened. Here is the truth. The EHRC investigation had to meet a high legal bar to even happen. The Met Police was the only other organisation who met it. That is the depths to which the Labour Party sank. The oldest hatred is never far from the surface. Most journalists, politicians, and citizens in this country know that.

Trust me bro, nothing suss happened here - The MP that just had to resign for setting investigators on a bunch of journos who wrote about Labour Together taking big bungs; told the spooks that they were working with the Russians, and quietly told MPs and other hacks those journos were traitors.

11.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

This is appalling. The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to the UK’s immigration system

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

10.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 306 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 9
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🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms

"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

10.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 757 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 88

CW for the British Labour Party using rape as a cudgel to beat their own MPs with

10.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.

10.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 448 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 30
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Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better | Owen Jones Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake again, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.

09.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 628 πŸ” 289 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 8
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Hannah Spencer: Green MP gets police escort from violent demo The Green Party MP was put into a waiting police car after a demonstration turned violent in Manchester.

The BBC goes to some length here to avoid stating that Spencer was harassed. We are told that the protest 'turned violent'.
No culprit is indicated beside in the Green's spokesperson's statement and no mention of Spencer being targeted is made.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna learn what capitalists actually worship real fast I guess

09.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Thinking - Is Might Right? - BBC Sounds The history of an idea that's shaped political philosophy, from Plato to Carl Schmitt.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

With Margaret McMillan, quite pertinent right now.

09.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.

09.03.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 519 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 21
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMissionπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...

09.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 929 πŸ” 354 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 26
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UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax Hampshire business seems to have benefited from β€˜phoenixism’, which costs the taxpayer about Β£800m a year

UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax.

Companies run up debts, declare bankruptcy, debts shed, new company formed with same management/owners ... rinsed and repeated.

HMRC loses Β£836m a year. Creditors, including SMEs, lose millions.

08.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 243 πŸ” 157 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6
But, rather than receiving a formal
invite to meet Trump, Farage was in
fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a
member of the club, according to
multiple people briefed on the matter


They said Farage had hoped he would
be able to catch Trump for a
conversation as the US president was
scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that
evening. However, Trump had a
change in his itinerary and decided to
stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s
drive away


The Reform leader's failure to secure
an audience with the US president
underscores a weakening of ties
between the two populist leaders who
famously formed a close friendship in
the vears before and after the 2016

But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

09.03.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 1691 πŸ” 552 πŸ’¬ 172 πŸ“Œ 86

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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09.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 3906 πŸ” 856 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 19

No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job.

They have these β€œnews” items though

09.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 498 πŸ” 214 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7
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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

09.03.2026 07:30 πŸ‘ 1054 πŸ” 734 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 97

While we stood shoulder to shoulder and listened to women’s voices, Belfast’s self appointed defenders of women were elsewhere:

Steven Baker was speaking at an anti-HMO protest, which is the new cover for protesting asylum seekers and ethnic minorities in east Belfast.

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08.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

09.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 2300 πŸ” 1183 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 124
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Hannah Spencer being harrassed by fascist YouTube streamers in Manchester, every week they are at it

08.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 848 πŸ” 317 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 250

If Epstein had never been caught then there is a 100% likelihood that Epstein would be hired at either Bari’s fake university or Bari’s fake CBS News

08.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 983 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 1

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.

I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

08.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4
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INBOX: Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens and New Hampshire Rep. Chris Pappas, who are both running for Senate, cut two video messages for AIPAC's official Instagram yesterday.

If you may recall, a US-Israeli joint strike this week killed over 100 Iranian schoolgirls, widely considered a war crime.

08.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 47
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Another view of the "crowd control" faced by non-violent protesters in Bristol yesterday. This is the busy Broadmead Shopping Centre, on a Saturday lunchtime. Police charged horses at the crowds, batons swinging. All to facilitate a far-right march of around 30 people. Β© #ukpolitics #photography

08.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This goes hard

08.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The home secretary talks about her reforms to the asylum system, including reprocessing applications every two and a half years, as a means to end "pull factors" for refugees. This shows a disturbing lack of awareness about the current system.

The majority of those seeking asylum who we work with come to the UK because they have existing ties to this country. It is where they feel the safest in rebuilding their lives after fleeing war and persecution.

Despite the home secretary's claims to the contrary, the Home Office has neither the ability nor the resources to implement this policy in a workable way. We already see initial applications taking more than a year. To increase the number that need to be reviewed is unfeasible and costly. Not only that, it would leave people seeking safety and security in limbo, at more risk of becoming undocumented and exploited.

This is a policy that is not supported by evidence, and instead has been designed to grab headlines with no thought to the harm it causes those individuals who hoped that they may find some safety here, and the economic and social costs to all of us.

Daniel Sohege

Director, Stand For All

The home secretary talks about her reforms to the asylum system, including reprocessing applications every two and a half years, as a means to end "pull factors" for refugees. This shows a disturbing lack of awareness about the current system. The majority of those seeking asylum who we work with come to the UK because they have existing ties to this country. It is where they feel the safest in rebuilding their lives after fleeing war and persecution. Despite the home secretary's claims to the contrary, the Home Office has neither the ability nor the resources to implement this policy in a workable way. We already see initial applications taking more than a year. To increase the number that need to be reviewed is unfeasible and costly. Not only that, it would leave people seeking safety and security in limbo, at more risk of becoming undocumented and exploited. This is a policy that is not supported by evidence, and instead has been designed to grab headlines with no thought to the harm it causes those individuals who hoped that they may find some safety here, and the economic and social costs to all of us. Daniel Sohege Director, Stand For All

My response in the Guardian to the Home Secretary's changes to asylum rules, and the utterly false claim that Labour's hostile and Inhumane anti-asylum policies reduce "pull factors".

08.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
peaking to a left-wing think tank, the home secretary argued that the sheer scale of low-skilled migration in recent years β€” including the vast, fraud-ridden expansion of the health and care visa β€” will not only be a substantial fiscal negative for the country, but is deeply unfair for the existing working class, who will find themselves paying not just through their taxes but via pressure on social housing and NHS waiting lists. β€œIt is essential,” she argued, β€œthat the privilege of living in this country for ever is earned, and not automatic.”

peaking to a left-wing think tank, the home secretary argued that the sheer scale of low-skilled migration in recent years β€” including the vast, fraud-ridden expansion of the health and care visa β€” will not only be a substantial fiscal negative for the country, but is deeply unfair for the existing working class, who will find themselves paying not just through their taxes but via pressure on social housing and NHS waiting lists. β€œIt is essential,” she argued, β€œthat the privilege of living in this country for ever is earned, and not automatic.”

Welcome endorsement for Mahmood's fictional numbers/false claims from @rcolvile.bsky.social, who of course had to pull his own "research" when it turned out to contain fictional numbers and false claims...

archive.ph/fMiWc

08.03.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0