Duncan Jackson

PhD in something or other. Southerner living in Yorkshire. Love words & writing. Passionately anti-Tory and their wrecking approach to governance. Pro EU.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This video gave me goosebumps: retired workers are chanting the name of a woman who bravely protested forced hijab by undressing in public.

It’s powerful to see the older generation defying the regime’s attempts to silence a woman who used her body to protest against Islamic ideology.

This is the Women, Life, Freedom movement—one woman’s courage uniting a nation. The regime should be afraid.

The Islamic Republic tried to discredit a woman from the Science and Research University by labeling her “mentally unstable. They are failed.

Now, we are all united.

Although her name has not been confirmed, “Ahou Daryaei” is circulating on social media.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

It's just been announced Nigel Farage is once again in the USA on another jolly. The good people of Clacton however are still waiting for their MP to set up a constituency office, to agree times and places for a surgery or even establish an email address or phone number.

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

We now know the name of this iconic Iranian woman: Ahoo Daryaei, meaning Deer of the Sea.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances...it is being charged 67% more than the previous tenants paid.

Great reporting from Sunday Times Insight team @Arbuthnott @JCalvertST @KatieTarrant_ @thetimes

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

Today, at Amir Kabir University in Iran Tehran, the morality police harassed her for wearing an improper hijab. In response, she took off her clothes in protest. It’s an act of incredible courage and, at the same time, heartbreaking. I’m deeply concerned for her well-being.
These women are the real freedom fighters.

#womanlifefreedom #زن_زندگی_ازادی

[RockGod @TheHoustonWade]

Trump: "we always have huge crowds and never any empty seats."

Cameraman: *pans camera*

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING NEWS:

Legendary actor Harrison Ford has OFFICIALLY endorsed Kamala Harris in an awesome video:

“I’ve been voting for 64 years.

Never really wanted to talk about it very much but when dozens of former members of the Trump administration are sounding alarms saying “for God sake don't do this again” — you have to pay attention.

The truth is this Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her about policies or ideas and then as we have done for centuries.”

Drop a 💙 if you agree and appreciate Harrison Ford for speaking out!!

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Standing tall vs the Islamic regime. In laying down her life, she exposed regime afraid of independent women.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

SHOCKING
Sunday @thetimes & #Dispatches investigation into the grubby & secretive earnings of the Royal Family

Incl charging huge rents to Marie Curie & Macmillan charities WHICH THEY'RE PATRONS OF & which WE donate to. They get the money!

The list is long
Follow @JCalvertST

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Turns out Prince William, who's just launched a big PR Campaign to "End Homelessness" Personally Owns over 600 Properties, which he Rents out & makes Tens of Millions a year, while his own tenants are living in Mouldy, Freezing conditions.
https://t.co/MDkREWlrco

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now.

A joint @C4Dispatches and @thetimes investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair.

This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities.
Be her voice.
#WomanLifeFreedom

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Should the UK abolish the Royal Family?

(Take away all their properties, lands and titles, and leave them as regular citizens)

RT

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

Dispatches can reveal how King Charles and Prince William are making millions from the taxpayer.

In a joint investigation with @thetimes we have uncovered lucrative deals with the armed forces, schools and even the NHS.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Tucson’s largest paper, The Arizona Daily Star, has thrown its weight behind Kamala Harris, taking a hard stance against Trump’s “vile, racist, sexist” rhetoric.

They’re not mincing words—calling this a no-brainer decision with the stakes at an all-time high.

For them, it’s clear: Trump’s divisive, dangerous approach versus Harris’s vision for middle-class opportunity, healthcare, and climate action.

The message? Arizona, it’s time to stand with Harris.

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

This is quite something. The most comprehensive investigative research into Royal finances I've seen. Even the NHS is being charged by the Royals.
If there is no discussion now about whether the monarchy can go on like this, then I don't know when. https://t.co/bR0lac6Pgj