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Tommy Robinson is not the British Home Secretary, is he?
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Solomon Hughes
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Solomon Hughes
@SolHughesWriter
Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also available @solomonhughes.bsky.social
Katılım Haziran 2012
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SNP leader embezzled party funds to fund a "lavish lifestyle he craved but could not afford": Outrageous - you should get millionaire party donors, gambling firms, lobbyists to pay for the lifestyle -suits, glasses, tickets, future career - you can't afford, not party funds
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Latest post - The elephant in the room: antisemitism in the shadow of Israel's wars
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-elephant…
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Calling Mr O̶s̶w̶a̶l̶d̶ Arnold with the swastika tattoo/ There is a vacancy waiting in the English Voodoo
Mirror Politics@MirrorPolitics
Reform councillor seen with 'Swastika tattoo' but wife claims it's peace symbol mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Riz Ahmed says someone from the BBC tried to recruit him…for the security services.
You have to be incredibly naive if you don’t think this stuff happens quite regularly. It’s a regime broadcaster. That’s not even a criticism - that’s just what it is!
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Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, is an armed forces charity supporting limbless veterans in the UK for the duration of their lives. We are proud to provide rehabilitative activities, welfare support and financial help. Find out more, including fundraising ideas and events.
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@AllyFogg @MrOwens212 Aha , cringe-memories flood back also some awful 'Mod' groups in 79-80 including Squire,Secret Affair , Purple Hearts, Back To Zero. Tbh Id file having seen Gary Glitter or Rolf Harris would be historically memorable as a way of understanding a different era rather than shameful
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@AllyFogg @MrOwens212 Seen Peaches twice she was great esp the second time, involving an audience-walk in a giant see -through Penis. CSS in a little club in Southampton were fun. Sham 69 in 1978 were possibly the cringiest gig ive been at, also found a capella group Sweet Honey In The Rock a bit poor
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1 - Arctic Monkeys
2 - Morcheeba
3 - The Thrills
4 - Peaches
5 - Goldie Lookin' Chain
6 - The Rakes
7 - The Futureheads
8 - Kaiser Chiefs
9 - Klaxons
10 - CSS
Ally Fogg@AllyFogg
That 10 bands thing is way too smug. So... Introduce yourself with 10 bands you're ashamed to have seen. 1. Toploader 2. Rolf Harris 3. Atomic Kitten 4. Fairground Attraction 5. Kiss 6. N-Dubz 7. Sigue Sigue Sputnik 8. David Grey 9. Daphne & Celeste 10. Lostprophets
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“All the spin doctors say ‘you can quote me as a Cabinet member, you can quote me as a senior Labour source, you can quote me as a Starmer acolyte’, or what have you. It is all the same person.”
Peter Oborne@OborneTweets
Political journalists conspire with ministers’ aides to fake multiple sources for stories to give them spurious credibility. Stories quoting three separate sources can be nothing of the sort, a Times journalist alleges. I report for Byline Times: bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/tim…
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@bat020 I think there is an issue that some of the newer alternative media , online etc , is more conspiracism friendly , (or more simplistic about why stuff happens) in a way the older more Marxist/ socialist stuff wasnt .
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blame for conspiracism lies squarely with big consumer media, which actively & blatantly misinforms the public re these issues. people smell a rat, then try to figure it out themselves with whatever is ready to hand. and we ARE in fact gonna have to figure this one out ourselves.
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
The Greens' membership has exploded in size in a very short space of time. But they desperately need to prioritise sorting out their vetting. The other thing is that we need to deal with conspiracist thinking on the left. It's not socialism and leads to very dark places.
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@aljhlester Or indeed well educated racists - the ex-Tory 'golf club' types will have passed their exams, and some of the 'blue collar' Reform voters will have a good craft or skills education
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1/2 Farage & the Reform leadership have managed a Janus faced strategy. At leadership level it is about money. Money for Farage and policies to enrich donors yet further. The other face attracts mass support from poorly educated racists using anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim propaganda
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@smerkinkones @StarmertheFraud This would be the better option - Labour peo-Mahmood folk trying to bounce Burnham right - than Burnham positively wanting this (neither are great) :/
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@StarmertheFraud @SolHughesWriter It’s labour sabotaging Burnham so they can say left wing politics don’t work. Happy to lose to reform.
Then they’ll say kier is staying.
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Best to take anonymous briefings with a pinch of salt, but this is very concerning. Mahmood was key to the Labour Together project. Her immigration policies were the core of McSweeney's strategy of shadowing Reform: one of the policies that fractured Labour's voting coalition.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
EXCL: Andy Burnham is backing Shabana Mahmood’s controversial changes to the immigration system, his allies have said, in a blow to those in Labour who hope to soften them. The Greater Manchester mayor is understood to be keen to reframe the changes - but is supportive of home secretary’s attempts to limit legal and illegal migration. Burnham faces tough fight to return to Westminster against Reform UK, which has already called him “open-borders Andy”. But those close to his campaign say he will not seek to dilute the government’s curbs on migration - which have been criticised by some senior Labour MPs as un-British and mimicking Trump. Big story from @jessicaelgot & @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@PaulBrandITV I think the polling is a lot less solid than that - the question doesn't mention Mahmood or her plans (under consultation), a default Labour member could easily read this as Labour's approach before those plans become fixed
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Interesting. Polling of Labour members shows that they’d prefer to stick with Shabana Mahmood’s policies than adopt a more liberal approach to immigration.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
EXC Andy Burnham is expected to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms as he fights to win the Makerfield by-election The mayor is understood to be supportive of the proposals to limit legal and illegal migration Story with @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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Exciting news for those interested in the history of popular protest in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Upris… @kmflett @stillawake
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Our statement on the police’s more or less open campaign against the Palestine movement…
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@ryan_wain @LCRMayor @liamrobinson24 @jamesbreckwoldt Afair Liverpool built 5,000 council houses under Militant- led Labour . Building social housing has been a serious weakness in Manchester under Burnham, despite his hopes, so I don't think doing simply 'baddies v goodies' is right here
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Liverpool v Manchester.
A tale of two councils. Thankfully Liverpool is in great hands today with @LCRMayor and @liamrobinson24 but this from @jamesbreckwoldt lays out so clearly what strong, business friendly, local leadership can do for a region - and how the opposite can hold it back.
Excellent 👇
James Breckwoldt@jamesbreckwoldt
🚨NEW POST BY ME🚨 Greater Manchester’s growth success is real, but didn't happened by accident. The country should be studying it closely. Long-term strategy that is aggressively pro-growth, pro-development & pro-FDI works if given time and consistency substacktools.com/sharex/8x1zxD4F
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My read with @sandralaville about the billionaire Trump donor who could soon be in control of Thames Water
theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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@Wonderfuel_Gas Good calls - although Caliban Shrieks didn't totally grab me as it felt a bit like an essay rather than novel sometimes
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@SolHughesWriter All the culture series by Banks
Caliban Shrieks - Jack Hilton
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Love on the Dole - Greenwood
Lots of Dickens
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(1)That Guardian 100 best books list, if the Guardian was a socialist/radical/alternative paper
PLife of the Automobile -Ilya Ehrenburg
USA -John Dos Passos
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Germinal-Zola
Company K - Willam March..
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