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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You're certainly not wrong there!

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Makes me a bit uncomfortable to lionise anything the NP did. There were premium services for white commuters and packed lines hauling Black workers from townships. Metroblitz lasted barely a year. Gautrain now covers that corridor, and devolving Metrorail to the cities could fix the commuter lines.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Most those who support "Zionism is Racism" agenda have primarily the Palestinian condition in mind. While most diaspora Jews who oppose to it have the Jewish diasporic in mind. It's two separate conversations, talking past each other and that's not understood sufficiently.

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I thought they were upset with the new typeface, but apparently it's boobs? One misses so much as a gay man!

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With underwear underneath! 🙈

John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He has consistently done things to undermine SA, including pushing the white supremacist 'white genocide' conspiracy. We really really don't want him, and frankly we've got other problems to deal with. He was Canadian from birth too, can't those guys do us a favour?

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Diesel car sales sit at about 5% in the UK, compared to something like 3% in the US. There has been a long period of decline, and diesel vehicles must meet Euro 6 emissions standards to meet the criteria for the ULEZ. It's not specifically mentioned in the article, but it is certainly implicit!

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Oops, I take it back - they are! The underrepresentation point still stands though @dailymaverick.co.za

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sadly not on Bluesky as yet. SA is severely underrepresented!

John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'll take that point. Nevertheless, grouping 'Reform and the Greens' together, in a statement about progressive leadership is likely to raise the hackles of Labour voters who have abandoned them to the Greens.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Starmer's strategy seems to be that Labour is fighting a single opposition party called "Reform and the Greens", who sound like they did one of the musical segments in The Young Ones.

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Well this is... an odd take. The Greens, famously pro-war?! He's resisting moving to the left by pretending that Greens are actually dreadful hawkish right-wingers?

Starmer says neither Nigel Farage nor Zack Polanski offer "the serious progressive leadership that these times demand".

He says Labour has made mistakes.

But other parties would have dragged the UK into war with Iran, he says.

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Her point seems to be that there is a legal requirement for accessible toilets, but what if a venue has gendered toilets that are all accessible? There's never been a legal requirement for 'everyone' toilets, she's lying about what accessible toilets are *for* on top of everything else.

John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

With the Greens' excellent showing here, probably not - but in the rest of Scotland there's definitely the possibility. The Electoral Commission are so useless 🫠

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's just showing the councils that are up for election this time

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The party membership voted this down and even from across party lines I take no joy in seeing this sorry state of affairs, I can only imagine how painful this must be. Respect.

John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yes, that was the exact moment I turned off the radio. Stated as fact, no pushback from either guest.

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I suspect we won't ever see eye to eye, but my position is always emancipatory. Dismantling capitalism or white supremacy will ultimately be good even for those who currently benefit from them. The same is true of patriarchy - which is exactly why it needs dismantling. Thanks for the conversation.

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The universality of patriarchy is an argument for dismantling it, not accepting it as nature. We have all experienced violent, abusive men. I'm not denying that reality, I just think attacking minorities is not the solution some believe it to be.

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It's also not true that 'it's how we've survived' - anthropology shows huge cultural variation in gender & violence. Queer theory challenges the rigid gender roles that underpin patriarchy. Dismantling those roles addresses male violence, not policing who uses which bathroom.

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If male violence is 'biological', it can't be challenged, only managed. That's a conservative position, not a emancipatory one. Feminism argues that male violence is a product of patriarchal socialisation, not inevitability - because if it's inevitable, women's liberation becomes impossible.

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Women's oppression is not a result of their biology but of structural inequality. Male violence isn't because of their biology either, although it is a crisis we urgently need to address. Ideology which tells young men they are a danger because of some biological inevitability is not the solution.

What you've done is create entirely fictional enemies. Anti-landlordism was central to the labour movement for many years. Nobody believes Labour 'caused genocide', but they're standing by as one takes place. I don't think obsessing over genitals is a particularly feminist standpoint either!

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Exactly this. Describing fairly conventional leftist policy as extremist is a terrible position for the leader of the Labour party to be in. He is clueless.

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When our two-party system consisted of the Liberals and the Tories, people said the same about the Labour party. In any case, multiple parties and coalitions are the norm in most other European democracies. We need to change our way of thinking.

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Interestingly, the Guardian changed their headline to 'better reflect the article's text' - because the text is actually quite balanced, has quotes from the parties involved, and makes it clear that the MP's visit has already been re-arranged.

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Yup, I think you're absolutely right on that one. Starmer has a couple of years to row back from his kowtowing to the Reform agenda. I still don't think a few extra Green seats would be the problem, though.

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It will be devastating if it comes to pass, but blaming the Greens who have been consistent on policy rather than the Labour party, who frankly are feeding the Reform fire with all the weird nationalism is an odd thing to do in my eyes. If Labour want to get elected again, they need to be electable!

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Thing is, a genuine multi-party democracy is better for democratic representation than our broken two-party system. Reform helped Starmer to win, for sure, but the Tories are down and out completely now. Two of the Greens' seats were won from Tories so the transfer of votes is less clear.

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I think you'd be hard pushed to suggest a vote for the Greens allowed Starmer to get in (!)

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Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It is sorted by number of seats not vote share , so - Greens take a higher share of the vote than the nationalist parties, but will always pick up fewer seats because of the distribution of the vote 😕

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The UK being governed by and for cisheteropatriarchal ableist white nationalists continues!

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 27/02/2025

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It is deeply scarred by its history, but SA is also full of radical, brilliant people who believe deeply in liberation and are horrified by the loss of someone who created such an important space. Your comment doesn't help anything when people are grieving

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Unless Elon applied to keep his SA citizenship when he applied for his other citizenships, he will have automatically lost his SA citizenship. Ironically the only place to legally send him might be Canada now... Or Mars, yess 🙏

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

ART is funded by the state in South Africa, although the support staff and services - particularly those for MSM and trans people - are funded by PEPFAR. Some of our neighbours in Southern Africa are entirely reliant on PEPFAR for all medication, so they have it much worse than we do. Unforgivable

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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our local clinic for MSM called to cancel all appointments, and it's the same across South Africa. Staff are being retrenched. Obviously I'm not pretending this is equivalent to ART being withdrawn in the poorest nations, but the cuts are far-reaching www.mambaonline.com/2025/01/28/d...

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Dark Times as MSM and Trans Health Services Shut Down Across South Africa

America's shocking suspension of foreign funding has thrown South African organisations serving MSM and transgender communities into chaos.

John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Also like pretty much every new build school I've taught in