Barry Dickinson

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@johnmcdonnellMP He is the scorched earth prime minister, always faction and funders first. Unfortunately they would rather see a facist government than a redistributive one.

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@sophwilkinson Starmer's labour split the vote, when the authoritarian right wing faction took over and told the rest of us to fuck off.

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@JAHeale I thought they'd just taken over the BBC?

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@johnmcdonnellMP Sadly that party no longer exists. We don't have time to rebuild it whilst the far right are pushing; it's time for you and the few remaining socialists in labour to face reality and move to the Greens.

[Fiona Lali @fiona_lali]

Racism comes from capitalism. It is a tool the ruling class uses to divide the working class. We see it in housing, employment, healthcare, police brutality and more.

The BLM movement in 2020 was a phenomenal mass movement. However, its leadership were liberals full of identity politics. They did not connect the struggle with the fight against capitalism. Instead, people were told to 'decolonise their minds' as individuals.

Every discussion around racism which reduces it to interpersonal dynamics alone LOWERS the understanding needed to build a serious struggle.

Racism is not the result of 'bad thoughts in peoples heads'. It is the material result of a system built on the exploitation of the working class. During and since the slave trade, all state institutions have promoted racist ideas to justify their extra systems of oppression. That has to be fought through CLASS STRUGGLE.

When you take the discussion away from the capitalist system and the ruling class, you take away our ability to ACTUALLY fight it. Of course, we should always call out racism, we have an ideological struggle, and a need for political education. But some people think you can take the fight against racism into the realm of 'changing the way you think' rather than CHANGE THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS THAT PRODUCE IT.

Because people have no way to express themselves politically, because there is such a DEARTH of political ideas, they are reduced to obsessing over celebrities or individuals or random isolated incidents as a way to make sense of the JUSTIFIED anger they feel over the racism they experience. But all of this anger should be channelled at the SYSTEM.

The BBC is institutionally racist. Capitalism is institutionally racist.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Amnesty International, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Save the Children, the UN, International Association of Genocide Scholars, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council, Islamic Relief - all say, it's a genocide.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Apparently @elonmusk hates this Banksy.

Would be awful if we kept sharing it...

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Reform are always obsessively challenging others to debates.

But my invitation to debate Nigel Farage - leader to leader - still hasn’t been taken up.

What are they running from?

The Green Party will stop Reform.

https://t.co/0qbagSwgNX

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

"Conspiracy theory is a term that's used whenever anybody ascribes conscious intent to people with power" —Michael Parenti

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@OfficialHuey Thanks for so many great shows. It was my radio highlight of the week, gonna really miss you!

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@BBCNews @TheGlastoThingy Can you put it back on i-player now, would love to re-watch best gig of 2025!

[Barry Dickinson @BarryD58]

@implausibleblog Shit panto

[Huey @OfficialHuey]

A thought I had in line at the post office trying to get my licence renewed…

I’ve been thinking about the days when depression and PTSD feel like permanent residents instead of unwelcome visitors.
Some seasons are simply harder than others; the weight settles in, the old wounds reopen, and everything looks as though it will stay exactly this gray forever.
But it won’t.

That’s the part experience keeps proving, even when hope feels out of reach. Nothing in this life is fixed; sorrow, like everything else, is on loan.

It passes through us the way weather passes through a house: sometimes it rattles the windows and soaks the floors, but it always, eventually, moves on.

For me, music has been the clearest evidence of that truth.
A single song can reach places words and people sometimes can’t.
It has carried me across some of the roughest water I’ve ever known, and I’ve watched it do the same for others.

When everything else feels stuck, three or four minutes of melody can quietly prove that change is still possible.
If you’re in one of those heavy seasons right now, please hear this: what feels endless today is not the final word.
The light shifts.
The heart, against all odds, finds its way back to rhythm.
And somewhere, right now, there’s a piece of music waiting to remind you of that.

You’re not alone in this. We’re all just walking each other home, one quiet song at a time.

Keep the music close.
It’s still on your side.

[Paul Jinks @meatybeefy01]

@implausibleblog

[Laura Webster @LauraEWebsterr]

These are the eight prisoners taking part in what is thought to be the biggest hunger strike in UK history since Irish republicans began refusing food in 1981.

Tonight it has emerged that five of them have been taken to hospital.

Two haven't eaten for nearly 39 days.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate (the) grave evils (of capitalism), namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society."

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? (1949)

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Washington Post unleashes a scathing takedown of Trump after he smeared their murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a playdate with the brutal Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

This is just a taste of what the history books will have to say about Donald...

"The United States government often advances its national interests by working with nasty people, and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is one of the nastiest," the paper's editorial board wrote. "It’s one thing, however regrettable, to deal reluctantly with him. President Donald Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: weak, crass and of no strategic benefit to America."

The opinion piece was entitled "things happen," a direct quote from Trump's Oval Office meeting yesterday with MBS. When asked about the assassination — in which Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw — Trump dismissively said that "things happen" and that Khashoggi was an "extremely controversial" man who a "lot of people didn't like."

Trump falsely claimed that MBS "knew nothing about that," when in fact he ordered the killing. The president also chided a reporter for trying to "embarrass our guests by asking a question." The disgraceful remarks were a major PR boon to MBS and are rendered all the more shameful by the fact that Khashoggi was a U.S. resident.

"These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president," the Post's editorial board wrote. They explained that Khashoggi's reporting for their outlet allowed him to stand strong against "the Saudi regime’s repressiveness at home and recklessness abroad."

"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility," they wrote. "No doubt other dictators took note. Legitimizing and defending Mohammed this way will embolden him and his ilk to mistreat not just journalists but any Americans — knowing that they’ll probably face no real consequences."

The board slammed Trump for greeting MBS "cost-free with an honor guard of black horses, herald trumpeters and fighter jets."

"Forgetting Mohammed’s brutality and Khashoggi’s warnings is a choice, and Trump made the wrong one," they concluded.

At the root of all of this horror is, as usual, Trump's insatiable greed. He doesn't want to upset bin Salman because Saudi Arabia has proven to be an incredibly lucrative personal partner for his family. The Saudis poured $2 billion into Jared Kushner's firm — and that's just one of the deals that we know about. Until a full forensic investigation is undertaken, there's no telling how much the Trumps have made by buddying up to a murderous tyrant.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand a Congressional investigation into Trump's Saudi connections!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Watch this and then share this. Zack Polanksi is doing what Keir Starmer should have done, treated asylum seekers with dignity and taken on the divisive rhetoric of Reform UK; watch how Polanski rebuffs the Reform UK person

Instead Starmer, Cooper and Mahmood have prostrated themselves to the far right, making division in society worse

This is why so many are leaving Labour and going Green

Zack Polanski, "Every single Labour MP needs to look to the conscience.. This is extreme, this is inhumane.. And it is a government of cowards"

"Rather than take on the powerful, because the issue here is not immigration it's inequality, Labour went for pensioners, the disabled, and now going for people fleeing wars"

"This is a totally unconscionable way to deal with things"

"And how dare the Labour minister say we are an open tolerant country, how dare she come on Newsnight and talk about compassion, at the same time as she's talking about seizing people's assets"

"This Labour government needs to hang their heads in shame"

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me.

An exceptional response to Trump's little people!
The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.
this is Jack’s response…
"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc."
"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda,"
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all,"
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."
"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves,"
"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief,"
"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...