The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
It’s now 14 years since the passing of Gary Speed, every year around the anniversary, this clip featuring Dan Walker comes back into my mind. It’s such a beautiful tribute to the man and a reminder that there’s always someone to talk to.
Nish Kumar’s joke should be funny, but it’s not, because it’s too close to the truth.
Immigration has become the endless decoy.
Every crisis 👉bills, energy profiteering, climate breakdown, corporate greed gets reframed as “immigration”.
It’s distraction politics, and it’s working far too well.
We promised we wouldn’t let it happen again after WW2. Yet here we are, watching rights stripped, foreign interference ignored, and the same dark forces we warned about re-emerging in plain sight.
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
Hey do you remember when Darren Osborne, drove his car into people in Finsbury Park Mosque in June 2017. He killed Makram Ali, 51, and injured 12 others in the attack. Remember?
Did the police guard every mosque after this?
https://t.co/HrfGi77qpA
You really can't make this up, Lee Twamley is the organiser of raising the flags. He was jailed for 20 months after being stopped at British border checks in France with four Vietnamese people hidden under camping gear in the back of a van. He calls it old news on his tik tok.
Wow.
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I have been thinking a lot about how musicians are filling the political vacuum so many of us see
Here's @KNEECAPCEOL in Glasgow "our fight is a fight of the working class, we know we have more in common with a poor rangers fan, than a rich celtic fan" 😍
Terrorism:
- spraying paint on RAF planes
Not terrorism:
- shooting children in the head
- creating largest cohort of child amputees in the world
- leaving babies to die in ICU beds
- starving an entire population
- bombing hospitals and universities
- assassinating journalists