@matkinson956
Proud former public servant now in consultancy/service advice/improvement. NED, charity trustee & Chair. Lifelong passion for & work on REAL social justice & equity. Gobby northern cat mum. Barnsley my heart's home. Radio ham. Musician. Gardener.
Reporter: A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school in Iran. Do you take responsibility?
Trump: I don’t know about it.
Grittier - and given the period it's set in, portraying BIG issues in S.Africa, deep in the '80s apartheid years: Catch Me A Killer based on true story of Profiler brought into far-flung S.A police bases to track down, fathom & catch serial killers. Raw and dramatic moments so be very aware.
Bookish; McDonald & Dodds; The Chelsea Detective. All for casts & portrayals of somewhat whacky human dynamics. None of them desperately taxing if you like series that are, so be warned. We got very involved in The Iris Affair though it gets gory in places. New Ipcress File was good. Spies not cops.
Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
Heckuva job, Greg Abbott.
I’m sure the Sunday morning politics shows will be all over this when they interview Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf in the morning
Trump still wants to annex Greenland.
"I think the desire from the US president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Danish PM Frederiksen said after talks with American diplomats.
This sheds a completely different light on Rubio's hypocritical speech in Munich!
#HandsOffGreenland
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax 10% rise!
Cap-busting tax hike is embarrassing for Farage, who has made low council tax a priority.
Source: Guardian
Wrongs and rights: the real Keir Starmer
It’s wrong to say Keir Starmer isn’t interested in policy.
Contrary to so much supposedly informed political commentary, he’s a revolutionary at heart who wants to embed for at least a generation social democratic government, for the betterment of all. /1.
ALERT: Jan 6 riot defendant Chris Moynihan has pleaded GUILTY to charge of Aggravated Harassment in the 2nd Degree in New York for sending a text message in which he threatened Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in 2025
Moynihan is latest pardoned rioter to plead guilty to new crime
Watched the whole debate live. Not one Reform representative showed up, unsurprisingly. The MPs who spoke were more alert to threats than expected and I think that's at least partly due to the work of Peter Jukes and Carole Cadwalladr.
Here's a 6-part summary thread of it.
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Lets call it as it is..
MSM worked tirelessly to undermine Labour & Starmer since the Election ❌
They’ve been promoting Farage & Reform daily, Reform has just 6 MPs but BBC had them on multiple times over LibDems with 72 MPs❌
Tories scandal after scandal & got kid gloves❌
#MSMNeedsBalanceNotBias
So someone who was never mentioned in the Epstein Files should step down but someone who is mentioned in it dozens of times shouldn't? What a weird world we live in
Which should not be “rewarded” by a seat in the Lords 🤬
In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland. bit.ly/4qH0yug
A Scottish party leader calls for an embattled PM to quit but his cabinet rallies round and backbench MPs bang desks to show their support....
What the public want investigating? That’s not at all what they’re concerned with. All they exist to do is generate engagement and therefore revenue. Conflict and drama literally pays their wages. A drawn-out leadership crisis is manna from heaven.
Absolutely. When you pay journalist by the click then the whole system is designed to further political chaos
Completely agree. And where is the coverage of Farage & his 42 mentions in the Epstein files.
There’s a real sense that political journalists have lost touch with the public & what the public want investigated.
“Many countries would simply play along, knowing Trump’s playbook. Sign a vague deal, make sure there are some lucrative money-making prospects for some of Trump’s friends, and wait for his attention to lapse.
“Iran is different. The regime is extreme, well entrenched, and determined to cling on.”
Pardoned J6er Jake Lang, who was chased out of Minneapolis a few weeks ago after trying to publicly burn a Quran, was arrested after he destroyed an anti-ICE sign in St. Paul yesterday.
These are the worst people empowered to do the worst possible things.
I really do not see how we can have a functioning democracy & keep DHS.
One of the things we learned during our High Court case against Reform is its propensity, nakedly and without embarassment, to lie. Only the blissfully naive would take its explanation for this at face value.
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton.
The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.
Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK & EU
🚨 Code fucking red 🚨
'A report from the Financial Times last night made my stomach drop
'The FT revealed that Trump’s State Department is pulling together a “slush fund” to bankroll pro-MAGA groups in the UK and Europe'
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Does 74 year old Patricia Clegg from Gorton and Denton even exist in real life?
Most definitely worth reading.
