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Former advertising and marketing executive, now publican. Bassist in The Tunnellers. Into Politics, Economics, Gastronomy, Art, Books, Film, Vintage Motorbikes & Disco. Please NO uninvited DMs. 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🪩 #FBPE
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is leadership. Great work.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
It’s very fun to put my bass down mid rehearsal to explain to the keyboardist or lead guitarist how they should be playing a certain riff. They obviously love it too. 😂 I wouldn’t dare with the drummer he’s bigger than me!
Sting is a multi instrumentalist too but most famously a bassist.
I play piano, guitar, drums and trumpet. I play bass in my band because it’s fucking cool as fuck. 😃😝
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
It’s the bedroom of the private jet I use but we refer to it as the cock pit.
Lobster Laksa at Maxwells Hawker Center, Singapore 🇸🇬
Only two days left in Singapore so I had to visit Maxwell Hawker centre. Lobster Laksa! It does not get any better! 😋😋
Awesome, well done.
I was a member of the Labour Party for more than 30 years and now a very happy member of the Green Party. I don’t recognise the Labour Party today and in fact their current policies and actions turn my stomach.
Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.
This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.
And we're making hope normal again - together.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?
| Anna Schurer
Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.
Starmer telling Labour MPs today that the Greens are "divisive," "sectarian," and "not the kind environmentalists they pretend" is not going to go down well with the millions who now back Greens. It'll simply tell them Labour doesn't hear us. More tin-eared stupidity.
Yes it’s time to ask yourself the most pertinent question.
A new politics of hope was born this morning. We do not need to be the cruel nation that Badenoch, Starmer and Farage want. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party have shown us we have a choice.
Hope wins! Counting underway in Gorton and Denton amid high turnout for crucial byelection – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Blue shows odds tightening, red shows odds drifting.
Greens hot favourites and coming in, Labour outsiders of three and drifting out.
If you want to oppose Reform don't waste your vote on Labour.
A vote for Hannah Spencer is the only way to stop Reform's hate and make hope normal again. ALL TACTICAL VOTING SITES SAY VOTE GREEN STOP REFORM UK XSTOP THE TORIES actica • VOTe TACTICAL.VOTE VOTE GREEN VOTE GREEN VOTE GREEN
PSA again..,
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.
That was ridiculous. Connections
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Happy Friday Bluesky!
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I think that may be a personal best.
I solved the 2/06/2026 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:43! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...
We thought Morgan McSweeney would be gone by now – but we have to wait while Keir Starmer asks political genius Morgan McSweeney what he thinks he should do
