George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Some of the charges are so petty and tenuous that if they were levelled at anyone else, the shame would land on the reporters, not their targets. But with leftwing politicians, anything goes. 13672101
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...skywriter.bluePage by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.socialThe media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less i... 315140
Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Running on a ticket of unapologetically standing up for working people is as rare as hens' teeth. The establishment will do anything in its power to preserve the status quo and drag him back down. Their obsession with playing on the man rather than on the ball says so much. I wish him strength. 0121
B's Tees @brucebee18.bsky.social · 06/05/2026These tactics aren't limited to the right and far right, though, Starmer's Labour Party have also used them to demonise any threat to their power/status quo: www.thenerve.news/p/paul-holde...thenerve.newsI made Labour Together angry. Here’s how it feels when a political party targets youPaul Holden had been reporting on the thinktank at the heart of Keir Starmer’s rise to power when he was told he was the subject of a national security investigation. This is the twisting story of wha... 151
