Reposted by Colette AustinShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...timesofisrael.comPM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ livesIn bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe 7249129
Reposted by Colette AustinPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428471093
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Some of the most hypocritical people in the world call themselves Christians. 130
Reposted by Colette AustinAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 1551907904
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Criticism from the Israeli government” is meaningless. It carries no weight. It has zero credibility. 040
Reposted by Colette AustinBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊bestforbritain.orgFarage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain 39968509
Reposted by Colette AustinCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake". 8929961011
Reposted by Colette AustinParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs" 1142487784
Reposted by Colette AustinDinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I, too, remember the 1980s boom! And we could do it again! Sell off the railways, water, gas, electricity, and council housing, and use the income to cut taxes for the rich! Oh, wait... 4038276
Reposted by Colette AustinAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026Pilots in beautiful machines dropping bombs down air chutes into drug slash nuclear factories? 3511664437
Reposted by Colette AustinDale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026Was just explaining this to someone at Labour’s conference - Crown Estate owns the coast and seabed and charges for the use of it for green energy projects - pushing up energy bills. 710448
Reposted by Colette AustinPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity? 9265119
Reposted by Colette AustinMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.” 591321389
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s not as broad as that. She said a garage full of young males who assume, probably rightly, that she knows little about engines and she gets ripped off or fobbed off. That’s not paranoia or fear of all-male environments, that’s reality. You wouldn’t believe the patronising shit I’ve encountered. 100
Reposted by Colette AustinPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.leftfootforward.orgThis is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardshipSustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population 961890707
Reposted by Colette AustinRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 231356486
Reposted by Colette AustinPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.cityam.comDeloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth. 18579258
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This administration has already started an unnecessary war on a false pretext. That’s the only re-election strategy Karl Rove ever had. 010
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Words ending in consonants, you say. Dogs in Italy are screwed then. 100
Reposted by Colette AustinSande @sande0724.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell. 9132551271
Reposted by Colette AustinBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today Prince William is lecturing us about Climate Change. Yesterday he flew in a Private Jet, then a Helicopter, then travelled in a multi vehicle Land Rover Convoy. Early this year he went on holiday in this $450m Megayacht that uses as much fuel as 2000 cars. He is full of shit 25646208
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Those are Liverpudlians, not Scots. But equally awesome! They take no crap from anyone. 010
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If the UN were not headquartered in the US, he wouldn’t be. 010
Reposted by Colette AustinHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: We have obtained accounts from Circulo Independente LDA, a Portuguese company established by Adam Geary to run Stephen Lennon’s political operation. Was the company established overseas to avoid British company rules and, ultimately, Corporation Tax? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...hopenothate.org.ukTommy Robinson’s Algarve Empire: Exposing his shadowy Portuguese companies – HOPE not hate 6330213
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’n surprised the baby-killer still has a wife and children to return home to. 000
Reposted by Colette Austinpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Outside the US, the UK is Palantir's biggest market. 1 in 6 of its employees are based in the UK. As of 2026, Palantir holds £900m in government contracts, inc. £182m from the NHS, £375.8m of which have been awarded without competition. Concerned? Hell, yeah! #politicslive youtu.be/wcGDSsxvSI4?...youtu.beHow Palantir captured the UKYouTube video by TLDR Business 59642
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also, football managers like Harry Redknapp and actors like Ray Winstone. What’s wrong with them? 020
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The UN doesn’t do propaganda campaigns; it researches and reports facts. 100
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Russians are savages. They did the same in Poland at the close of the war (worse than the Germans, who were enemies). They’re still savages today. 000
Reposted by Colette AustinRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not a real estate deal that needs to be negotiated. Don’t expect Trump, Vance, Witkoff or Kushner to even acknowledge this, much less condemn it. 1432502944
Reposted by Colette Austinnullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939. 17850355
Reposted by Colette AustinEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Very difficult to argue against this… 12397197
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Muted for posting AI slop without identifying it as such. 020
Reposted by Colette AustinProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände. 🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯 Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz. 832120932
Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yet half the people they employ are so poorly paid that the taxpayer steps in to top up supermarket pay to a living wage. So, since the taxpayer subsidises their wage bills, they are the biggest benefits recipients in the UK. 010
Reposted by Colette AustinBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit. About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit. Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires? 723084
Reposted by Colette AustinBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The French got rid of this in 1793, the Russians in 1917. Why have we still got it in 2026? 4632786
Reposted by Colette AustinRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comJim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration 771093303
Reposted by Colette AustinAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 491140256
Reposted by Colette AustinAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate 611928648