There’s a clear pattern here: removing trial by jury for a whole layer of cases; blocking Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the country; the Filton 4 being sentenced as terrorists but not charged as terrorists (yes, really); a British citizen in Russia having his citizenship removed without being charged with anything; stuff like this - constantly.
It’s becoming so normal now. There’s a great phrase ‘turnkey tyranny’: you might like the people doing this today, or despise those on the receiving end, but tomorrow it WILL be different. The end point is very obvious. And these tools, and this trajectory, in the wrong hands, is quite a terrifying thought.
Today is Land Day.
50 years ago today, six un-armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and more than 100 were injured during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.
Palestinians observe today by holding protest marches and planting olive trees.
This is the same CPS that failed to prosecute Stephen Lawrence's killers, forcing his parents to privately prosecute, that failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile, and that failed to prosecute John Worboys for over a decade. But boy, they work hard to prosecute some cases...
BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.
If you would’ve told me 5 years ago that Azealia Banks would be performing in Tel Aviv with a Star of David crown and Candace Owens would be calling Israeli land cursed for generations for the perpetuation of genocide I would have recommended you psychiatric help
If you’re a guy in your early 20s, buy a Gromit mug
Go into debt if you have to
Having a Gromit mug communicates status to women and business relationships
Tractors are now blocking ambulances at St Thomas' Hospital. (Josiah Mortimer, elsewhere)
Where is the Right Wing OUTRAGE !!!!! at this as there was for JSO ?
O-fucking-K… where was your rage when we didn’t get our promised 40 new hospitals , where your rage when we didn’t get the levelling up, where was your rage when schools were crumbling, where was your rage when sewage started being pumped into our rivers and seas, where was your rage when pensioners were keeping warm on buses and warm banks, where was your rage when millions more families were pushed into poverty, where was your rage when millions of people’s mortgages went up, where was your rage when we didn’t get £350m a week for our NHS… AGAIN I could go on forever about how Tories went back on their mandates and back on promises.
Tories decimated our public services. Tories wasted £Billions and £Billions but NOW you’re angry. Blame Labour all you like BUT without taking into account what TORIES have done to this country… it just screams disingenuous and fucking fake. You should’ve been angry a LONG TIME AGO.
@samcalvert02 Yeah, it brings a lot back up for me. Secondary school wasn’t really a nice place for me, so having an experience like that would have been unimaginable. It makes me feel sad, as if I am watching what I could have had. I feel so jealous even tho I am an adult In a relationship.