David Powell🐟 #Bluesky 🇪🇺#BLM #FBPE#InLimbo#

Believer in constitutional democracy and unfashionable truth telling in politics.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

There’s a link between the spread of Nigel Farage’s evidence-free rabble-rousing and Michael Grade’s calamitous time at OfCom. https://t.co/xcBIBOfDPJ

[David Powell🐟 #Bluesky 🇪🇺#BLM #FBPE#InLimbo# @DAPowell1]

spot on!

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is your reminder that JD Vance is the lapdog of Peter Thiel, a multi billionaire tech bro whose ideology involves the complete removal of democracy, in favour of a technocracy.

This is your reminder that Vance was linked to Georgescu in Romania who was arrested for collusion with Russia.

This is your reminder that Nathan Gill, Reform’s leader in Wales, was jailed for ten years for taking Russian bribes.

This is your reminder that the British frontman for MAGA is Nigel Farage.

This is your reminder that the US government has fallen to authoritarian far right extremism and is openly engaging in foreign interference.

This is your warning that tech billionaires are the only dangerous minority that anybody who calls themselves a patriot should be concerned about.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is your reminder that JD Vance is the lapdog of Peter Thiel, a multi billionaire tech bro whose ideology involves the complete removal of democracy, in favour of a technocracy.

This is your reminder that Vance was linked to Georgescu in Romania who was arrested for collusion with Russia.

This is your reminder that Nathan Gill, Reform’s leader in Wales, was jailed for ten years for taking Russian bribes.

This is your reminder that the British frontman for MAGA is Nigel Farage.

This is your reminder that the US government has fallen to authoritarian far right extremism and is openly engaging in foreign interference.

This is your warning that tech billionaires are the only dangerous minority that anybody who calls themselves a patriot should be concerned about.

[David Powell🐟 #Bluesky 🇪🇺#BLM #FBPE#InLimbo# @DAPowell1]

👏👏👏

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Murder rates
Ohio: ~50 murders per million people
United States: ~59 murders per million
England & Wales: ~8.6 murders per million
Physician heal thyself.
Motes and planks.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Murder rates
Ohio: ~50 murders per million people
United States: ~59 murders per million
England & Wales: ~8.6 murders per million
Physician heal thyself.
Motes and planks.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Hegseth, at D-Day event, says Europe faces an 'invasion' of dangerous ideologies.

Yes, we face a dangerous ideology, the same one our soldiers fought on D-Day; the fascist ideology of lies, hate, rabid nationalism authoritarianism, and military aggression. It is the ideology of Putin, Trump, Vance, Thiel, Musk, and the UK's greasy fascist tool, Nigel Farage.

Unlike the USA, we in Europe saw first hand what fascism does when it seizes absolute power. Never again! Fascism is the enemy of all that is good and true. It will always reemerge as a cheap, vicious fake solution to complex problems, and it must be fought everywhere it raises its filthy head. Fascists are not participants in democracy. They are its enemies who will abuse and exploit its freedoms in order to destroy it. And in power they will wreak havoc and destruction, because they have no answers to society's problems. All they have are hate, lies and aggression.
https://t.co/9CwCsGYLMb

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

In the early hours (around 2am) of 5 January 2025, on Military Road in Canterbury, this racist thug (then 20, now 21, from Sturry near Herne Bay) approached a woman walking alone.

He initially ran past her but then came back, stood very close, racially abused her (using slurs like calling her a "black ****", asking "What are you doing in this country?" and "Do you enjoy stealing our benefits?"), demanded her wallet, threatened to "shank" (stab) her, and pretended to have a knife by reaching into his waistband.

He threw her shopping on the ground, ignored her pleas, and punched her full force in the face (described by the victim as "like she was a full-grown man"). He then ran off.

The woman was left terrified and in pain; police described her injuries as serious at the time.

Wilson handed himself in about a month later, initially lied, but then admitted it and pleaded guilty to attempted robbery (with racial hostility as an aggravating factor).

On 28 May 2026 at Canterbury Crown Court, he was jailed for 2 years and 5 months. The judge noted the attack on a lone vulnerable woman at night, the racial element, and his intoxication/drug use as key factors.

Tell me again that there is no far-right in England.

#bbcqt

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

The easiest way to become more sympathetic to migrants is to become one.

Live abroad.
Work abroad.
Study abroad.
Fall in love abroad.

You quickly discover that most people want exactly the same things: safety, opportunity, belonging and a better future.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

We need the toughest possible laws to protect us from foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). The UK is under cognitive attack from MAGA and Putin - 👏👏👏 @LucyMPowell

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Cue explosion by the Bresiteer cult

Majority of voters want Brexit to be reversed, says Britain’s leading pollster
There has been a ‘decisive and consistent shift away from Brexit’ since the referendum 10 years ago, says Sir John Curtice
https://t.co/BPNSwE7DhV

[Ineluctable Chris @BoveFromAbove]

As much as Nigel would like it, never forget that...

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KASPAROV: We’ve had 20 sanctions packages. How come Russian missiles that hitting Ukrainians and killing people every day are still mostly built with parts and components from sanctions list? How many criminal cases have been opened against sanctions violators? Practically none.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There is never any outrage about White people killing or raping anyone.

Even though it is 84% of the crime, they never ever mention it.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Let that sink in and never vote Reform

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones"

— Nelson Mandela

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Now Vance has joined in the US/MAGA disinformation campaign around British "two-tier policing", here's the EU DisinfoLab matrix of FIMI activities - I've highlighted every technique encountered from Farage, Robinson and their MAGA backers around the Southampton riot... 1/2

[David Powell🐟 #Bluesky 🇪🇺#BLM #FBPE#InLimbo# @DAPowell1]

👏👏👏👏👏

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Spare us the civilisational lectures, you charlatan.

Atatiana Jefferson, 2019. Shot dead through her bedroom window during a welfare check. Playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. The officer never identified himself.

Botham Jean, 2018. Shot dead eating ice cream in his own apartment by an off-duty officer who "thought it was her apartment".

John Albers, 2018. Seventeen years old. His friends called police because he was suicidal. Officers killed him during the welfare check.

Parkland, 2018. Seventeen children and staff massacred in their school. The armed officer paid to protect them? Hid outside.

Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School, Minab, February 2026. At least 175 dead, most of them girls aged 7 to 12. NYT analysis and US military investigators believe American forces struck the school. Trump blamed Iran without evidence. US Senators are still waiting for answers.

In 2025, American police killed 1,201 people. 98 unarmed. 233 school shootings at K-12 schools. American children do active shooter drills in primary school. American families are afraid to call for welfare checks because officers shoot the people they're sent to help.

Henry Nowak's father said: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension". You used it anyway, to lecture a country 3,000 miles away while your administration bombs schoolgirls and your officers shoot people through bedroom windows.

The UK's government has plenty to answer for. But we don't take civilisational lectures from those who run a country that can't keep its children alive in their own classrooms and in their own homes and bomb children in far away lands, you pathetic charlatan.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Spare us the civilisational lectures, you charlatan.

Atatiana Jefferson, 2019. Shot dead through her bedroom window during a welfare check. Playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. The officer never identified himself.

Botham Jean, 2018. Shot dead eating ice cream in his own apartment by an off-duty officer who "thought it was her apartment".

John Albers, 2018. Seventeen years old. His friends called police because he was suicidal. Officers killed him during the welfare check.

Parkland, 2018. Seventeen children and staff massacred in their school. The armed officer paid to protect them? Hid outside.

Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School, Minab, February 2026. At least 175 dead, most of them girls aged 7 to 12. NYT analysis and US military investigators believe American forces struck the school. Trump blamed Iran without evidence. US Senators are still waiting for answers.

In 2025, American police killed 1,201 people. 98 unarmed. 233 school shootings at K-12 schools. American children do active shooter drills in primary school. American families are afraid to call for welfare checks because officers shoot the people they're sent to help.

Henry Nowak's father said: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension". You used it anyway, to lecture a country 3,000 miles away while your administration bombs schoolgirls and your officers shoot people through bedroom windows.

The UK's government has plenty to answer for. But we don't take civilisational lectures from those who run a country that can't keep its children alive in their own classrooms and in their own homes and bomb children in far away lands, you pathetic charlatan.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

With respect, JD when Britain wants moral instruction on how a civilisation treats its own people, we won’t be asking the country whose own agents have shot dead unarmed American citizens in the street this year.

Renée Good. Alex Pretti. Both Americans. Both unarmed. Both killed by your government’s enforcement squads and you’ve defended every one of them.

You don’t get to lecture us about a young man dying “abandoned and handcuffed by authorities” while your own administration handcuffs, shoots and buries its own. Clean your house before you inspect ours.

We’ll mourn Henry Nowak as our own. We don’t need a foreign politician using his name to score points for a record stained with the blood of his own citizens.

🇬🇧 Mind your own country.