Award-winning short documentary film about how the Good Friday Agreement is protected by EU and threatened by #Brexit. Starring @MadeleinaKay & @ThomJacksonWood
🚨🇬🇧Patriotism or Fascism?
The Nazis didn’t start with camps. They started with flags, mobs, and shouts of 'traitor' at neighbours.
Tommy Robinson and his mob have twisted the St. George’s cross into a weapon - and it’s starting to look a lot like fascism 🧵👇
If you can't participate on the protest to allow people with disabilities to use public transport for free, Please consider using this time to protest online. There is a template email to write to elected SF representatives. https://t.co/3AxVc7u5Xp
This is surely true unless we change course. And it’s true that the current 20-year malaise began with the financial crisis and the policy responses to it, amplified further by factors outside our control such as the pandemic and the Ukraine war. However, there is also Brexit - the disruption of our trading relationship with Europe which has done so much damage. This we can fix by rejoining the customs union asap and plotting a course (via a party manifesto at the next election) into the single market, EFTA, EEA or (preferably from a geopolitical and regularity control standpoint) the EU. I get to speak to a lot of people on both the right and left of politics, and pretty much everyone I speak to understands this, but pretty much nobody has a clue about how to do it politically. Therefore, unless a political leader emerges from somewhere who has the rhetorical and political skills, courage and vision to set us on the course to recovery by reintegrating us with our continent in this dangerous and fractured world, I reluctantly agree with the headline in the Spectator.
In Northern Ireland, the authorities pretend paramlitary commanders are 'community workers' to give them public money. Here a real community worker (who loyalist thugs attacked for standing up to them) says people like him can hardly get any public funds.
https://t.co/nf0NiIHxEb
Happy Brexit referendum anniversary day. It weakened the economy. Reduced investment. Tanked the pound. Damaged the City. Increased red tape. Increased immigration. Decreased the rights of the young. Staffed billions wasted. But hey - Johnson has PM on his CV and his partner in crime Farage has replaced him as the darling of the right wing rags. So all worth it for the tiny minority who gained out of an act of national self harm
If Tice is on Kuenssberg tomorrow, how do the BBC justify that?
Reform are on the BBC so regularly with only 5 MPs.
The BBC are helping build Reform with this exposure.
It's not balanced, so why are they doing it?
They seem to use their own cover as reason for more.
Israel has declared the Madleen Gaza aid ship as a "security threat"
Just how does a civilian vessel with lifesaving aid & twelve unarmed civilians pose a security threat to Israel?
As a UK flagged vessel, the UK has legal obligations to protect the safe passage of the ship.
Congratulations to 'The man of the People 'Nigel Farage" MP Reform Party Limited. Top earning MP, on course for over £1 million with his 10 jobs plus MP salary! Top earner MP. Not been to Clacton his constituency yet though! 😉
Why on earth do @BBCNews so relentlessly pander to people who want to destroy them? Their love affair with @reformparty_uk and the lack of actual scrutiny is beyond weird … of all the things happening in the world tonight is the return of someone most viewers have never heard of really the most important, meriting one of @ChrisMasonBBC ‘s essays after an overlong news report. Beyond weird
They always come for the universities.
Whether right-wing or left-wing… throughout history authoritarians and dictators always come for the universities.
Labour quietly smashed it this week.
While Elon Musk begged for attention, the government cracked on with tackling Britain’s thorniest problems.
10 important changes to celebrate:
So just as Zuckerberg announces the death of factchecking, yet more new documents emerge about the Cambridge Analytica cover up & ‘alleged wrongdoing on a truly colossal scale’ & that he is to be deposed for interview
With the stepping down of #JustineTrudeau and the rise of the right across the globe, those of us who believe in tolerance, equality, integrity, freedom and consent have to seriously question the stability of global politics, protection of the rights, freedoms and compassion achieved over the last 80 years.
Can the decay be traced back to Reagan and Thatcher, and the failures of trickledown economics?
The stark contrast between going to a football match in Belfast vs going to a match in Ghent. Typically 2'500 fans arrive to @KAAGent home games by bike. Meanwhile Belfast doesn't even have a bike network, and few will arrive by train to Adelaide Train Station, so expect traffic.