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• Post #4450344

  The USA has spent 250 years trying to replace the monarchy which it evicted in 1776. This week it made a big breakthrough,when the POTUS's personal lawyer was confirmed as head of the United States Department of Justice, and thereby the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. #uspol

• Post #4440895

  "If you are using your microphone, you are more likely to be arrested under the #TerrorismAct", — warned a heroic officer of the #MetropolitanPolice in #London on Thursday. Luckily for Londoners, this microphone #terrorism was halted by prompt arrest of the #terrorist. I heard no mention of #PalestineAction. It seems that this was a crackdown on Microphone Action. And Karaoke. #MetPol keeps London safe from karaoke. Video via Tony Zimnoch https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DE6FdubUB...

• Post #4430065

  I must have seen this video clip several dozen times. But i still laugh out loud at this heckling by LibDem MP #MaxWilkinson of Tory-to-ReformUK defector #RobertJenrick MP. It will have a very long life as the one of the greatest examples of the danger of the #RhetoricalQuestion #ukpol

• Post #4385816

  "Christian Brother" is an Irish oxymoron. Young men coerced into a life of chastity & poverty in the name of Christ & education. Their own trauma & resentment was infamously vented on their pupils by decades of sadism & #rape. Now they try to evade liability for their crimes. As an unincorporated body, the Christian Brothers cannot be sued unless they provide a 'nominee’. The brothers didn't. So all of the relevant members are being sued individually. https://...

• Post #4283281

  #London, Thursday: heroic #MetropolitanPolice officers arrested at least 117 terrorists, mostly elderly. In a sinister escalation, many of the terrorists displayed no sign of their opposition to #genocide or support for #PalestineAction. #MetPol arrested the terrorists for the sickening crime of sitting on the pavement. Others were arrested for attending court as summoned. Video by #AmnestyInternational Reports at https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/30/wrongful-arrests-at-palestine-action-demo-...

• Post #4270296

  The #GreaterManchester Mayoral election votes will be counted today. It looks like an easy win for the #LabourParty's #BevCraig. That's a big reversal of the #ReformUK win expected 6 ,months ago when Labour blocked Burnham's return as MP. But there is a v depressing part of this poll. It shows 100% of Conservative voters giving their second preference to Reform. That's the result I'll be watching. Do Tory voters really ALL prefèr Farage's mob to a moderate Labour candid...

• Post #4252975

  THREAD: #AndyBurnham has written his "letters of last resort" to the commanders of the Trident missile submarines: how to act if the UKgov is destroyed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort I tried this myself ~20 years ago, as the UK got a new PM. It was a surprisingly simple task. These letters are opened only because deterence has failed. The UK is destroyed. Retaliation might be due in other cases, but this would be pointless mass slaughter. Captain, disable your...

• Post #4211296

  Why do #Scwhartz spices exist? Scwhartz is more than ten times the price per kg of British Asian #spice. It comes in jars too small to season a lone stuffed lentil. Then I saw a photo of a spice rack.Weird device to store jars of uniform size, as if any real cook used all spices at similar rates. That's when it hit me. Scwhartz isn't about cooking. It's about display. Schwarz sells spices to people who don't use spices. Cynical, but genius. Marketing beats eating. High prof...

• Post #4202367

  I was raised around the corner from the Forty Foot swimming place in Sandycove, County Dublin. #BrendanBehan had upped and died while I was a toddler, but the sign was unchanged. Until one day in the early 70s, some feral pedant repainted the sign, with a full stop after "forty foot". My outrage was widely shsred. The dot was soon painted over. Later, women iniststed on swimming there too, which was great. But eventually they painted over the word "gentlemen", spoiling all...

• Post #4149720

  Iit's nearly 30 years since #Chumbawamba and #TheOysterBand released "Farewell To The Crown", as the B-side to their smash hit single Tubthumping. FTTC is one of my favourites. https://youtu.be/4XmNNb63TVo 1997 is a long time ago now. Most of the big names are dead, although Tony merely looks and sounds dead. But noisy anarchist punk feels very dead. 😞

• Post #4132892

  #Clacton's choice: #Binface versus #Farage. #ukpol h/t Gerry Hassan

• Post #4131162

  "Big new boyfriend energy, with a present every day' is the best description I have heard of #AndyBurnham's first week. Shame it came from sodding #MichaelGrove. 😞 #ukpol #Burnham

• Post #4057809

  #KemiBadenoch wants to pull the UK out of the #ECHR, wrecking treaties from the #GoodFridayagreement to the Gibraltar deal. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/europe-kemi-badenoch-uk-echr-treaties #ukpol #Badenoch #HumanRights

• Post #4044027

  Four years of courtroom circus is finally over. ❤ Three members of #EnochBurke's family have been banned from attending court in person.👏👏 Enoch Burke's mother Martina Nurke, sister Ammi Burke, and brother Isaac have repeatedly disrupted proceedings by shouting down lawyers, witnesses and judges. The order applies to hearings in Enoch Burke’s dispute with #WilsonsHospital School and related litigation. https://archive.is/jCm1F #ielegal #BurkeFamily

• Post #4043802

  #DUP #nonce #Donaldson de-knighted.https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5174577 The #paedophile former leader of the so-called Democratic Unionist Party had asked to surrender his knighthood after his convictions for child rape and other sexual offences. However, a forfeiture process was already underway. https://www.thejournal.ie/jeffrey-donaldson-stripped-of-knighthood-by-britains-king-charles-7111377-Jul2026/ #nipol #ukpol

• Post #4042098

  Forget Andy Burnham's fancy words, and tiny measures on energy & buses. Follow the money. ££££. The big money is for war. In the next decade, #Burnham, #Healey & #Streeting are pouring over £100 billion extra into weapons. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/22/increased-defence-spending-uk-economic-growth-wes-streeting-military-andy-burnham This money is not for "#defence". There is no defensive use for destroyers or nuclear submarines or aircraft carriers. Th...

• Post #4006378

  80 years ago, a bomb blew up the HQ of the British Mandate in #Palestine, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. 91 people were killed. Ir was planted by the Irgun, a right-wing #Zionist group. UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee called it an "insane act of terrorism" .Winston Churchill was similarly outraged. In 2006, on the 60th anniversary, 64 MPs signed an #EDM denouncing the attack. The proposer & 17 others were Tories. #KemIBadenoch wouldn't allow that. https://edm.parl...

• Post #3996964

  This is NOT defensive. The United States attacked Iran a few months ago. That was aggression, and all subsequent events have been part of the same US aggresion against Iran. Burnham's new government is the same mendacious puppet of the USA as Starmer's govt. screenshot from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vp4x7gkxo

• Post #3963535

  Charlie struggles to be polite, as his morning is wasted greeting yet another short-term temp.

• Post #3932347

  This is how #Starmer will go down in history. #PaulHolden, an investigative journalist who was targeted by a #LabourTogether smear campaign, writes a political obituary for Keir Starmer as his premiership comes to an end. Read it at https://novara.media/457EOPt #ukpol #LabourParty

• Post #3929691

  So #AndyBurnham is starting out with the tired old scam of the official leak. Major policy shift decided without a formal cabinet discussion, before the cabinet is even formed. Big decision announced with no attribution to any named person. Digital ID is a terrible policy. Cancellation is great. But this isn't the way to make decisions. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-to-scrap-starmers-digital-id-scheme-in-reset-of-priorities #ukpol #Burnham

• Post #3919870

  The British "constitution" is basically whatever you can get away with. So go on, give yourself a partial veto on #Burnham's new cabinet. Name any 2 people who will be banned from the cabinet. If your veto sticks, it's constitutional. If not, hey-ho. You can veto whoever you like. But you will have more impact if you veto someone who might actually be considered for appointment. #ukpol

• Post #3890686

  Nearly a century after the Third Reich, #Germany is still arresting people for opposing genocide. At keast the twentieth century European leaders didn't stay in a political union which shared sovereignty with #genocide enablers. #Greta #GretaThunberg #Palestine

• Post #3887189

  Andy #Burnham prepares to tske on the most important job of his life: serving #LarryTheCat. #BenJennings 8n ##TheGuardian. #ukpol #Larry

• Post #3856196

  #IRGC. One of the dying acts of the UK's hated #Starmer regime was to ban Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It was unclear whether a state entity could be banned, but in April the National Security (State Threats) Act removed doubt. This will also allow a UK ban on the so-called Israel Defense Forces (#IDF). Starmer and Burnham will not ban the IDF. But now a future #UKgov has the power to do so. The UK's v powerful #Israel lobby may bitterly regret this short-term...

• Post #3852879

  It's not coming home! "It's no nay never, no never no more It's not coming home no never no more" — stolen from Coimhin on Facebook

• Post #3850090

  #Burnham to appoint rightwing hardliner as Chancellor 😡 #ShabanaMahmood is part of the extremist #BlueLabour faction. 🤮🤮🤮 https://archive.is/nekq8 #ukpol #FT

• Post #3811307

  The UK didn't need to wait long for proof, if further proof were needed. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". Both selling out the UK for Israeli interests. #Burnham #ukpol #IRGC

• Post #3780263

  Professor Tim Wilson is insightful about The Purpose Of Count Binface. https://youtu.be/IylZ2upd7rk #Binface #ukpol

• Post #3779738

  "20 times less"!?!?!? 😡 What sort of innumerate, illiterate, halfwitted oxygen thief would say "20 times less"? Until I saw the chart, I didn't know what on earth it meant. They could have said "one twentieth". Or "5%" Or "95% less". But "20 times less" is so ammiguous that it's headwrecking. Screenshot from https://www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-kingdom/articles/uk-forfeits-almost-ps2bn-by-remaining-a-tax-haven-for...