Reposted by David Strakflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19hJust a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine. 7331163
Reposted by David StrakSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 581618521
Reposted by David StrakWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not wanting to rain on the current Marr love-in parade, but... substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThe meaning of Johnny MarrAnd of not talking about Morrissey 63914
Reposted by David StrakPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The genuine concerns of the white working class. 1519
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026theguardian.comBritain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj AliYoung men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration, says Taj Ali, author of Come What May, We’re Here... 000
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I wrote a bit about Birmingham and fascism. As I do.interregnum.ghost.ioAuthoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-FascismDavid Stark analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organi... 0165
Reposted by David Strakflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Do you notice how you heard nothing out of these dorks for decades, until they started repeating and endorsing the newspapers’ nasty bullshit 4756583
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Proud to have volunteered at C4C earlier this year. Will 💯 do it again. Fuck you, Farage. 112
Reposted by David StrakChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Easier to convict a victim than to live up to the UK’s obligations to refugeesbbc.co.ukChan Mathok Atak jailed over Channel boat with 165 migrantsChan Mathok Atak has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison after piloting the boat. 0117
Reposted by David StrakChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I had no idea of this extraordinary episode. I reminds us of how easily people can be declared "illegal" or "immigrant" rather than native. These are not natural kinds, but administrative categories. Striking parallels with the Windrush scandal. Of interest to all, but tagging @spe07.bsky.socialtheguardian.comThe spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha MazziniIn February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini 37041
Reposted by David StrakRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hell of a piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social here. Grateful my solo car crash yrs ago got me sober & equally grateful I didn’t enter the public eye until I was years sober, married & a dad. Don’t envy Sterling or any young footballer right now. Wish him well. www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comRaheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan LiewThe winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned 723319
Reposted by David StrakSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon. 29964377
Reposted by David StrakChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Good that the Guardian got @trillingual.bsky.social to review @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.socialtheguardian.comEnd Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts hereA sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing it 03314
Reposted by David StrakAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The minute they knew they could plaster polyester flags everywhere they knew they could do what they wanted. To think local authorities had to take these fuckers to court themselves whilst members of the Cabinet went on TV talking about the flags in their kitchen. Blame Starmer for everything!!! 316834
Reposted by David StrakTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄. 3830111003
Reposted by David Strakflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them. 361019397
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wonder if the Daily Mail journalists held hostage by Danny Tommo and his goons thought about their role in any of this yesterday? Hoorah for the Blackshirts, eh lads? 010
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When your starting point is 'Hoorah for the Blackshirts', you don't get to complain when what you end up with is Blackshirts. 031
Reposted by David StrakLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/09/2026‘One of the main differences between today’s far right and the fascism of the mid-20th century is the absence of a uniformed paramilitary street wing. The anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth at the weekend mark an attempt to create one.’ Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...lrb.co.ukDaniel Trilling | Masks OffThe emergence of Patriot Platform is not necessarily a sign that the far right is getting its way. Radical right-wing... 46228
Reposted by David StrakMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection? 51817532
Reposted by David StrakSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One key dimension of Musk’s far right propaganda push is his effort to reframe far right extremism as “centrism.” It’s patently absurd to those who follow politics, but it’s effective messaging when aimed at low info voters. 722638705
Reposted by David StrakDr Caz 🌳🇪🇺 🇺🇦🔸 @drcj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Were “legitimate concerns” mentioned even once by the BBC with any of the, say, Extinction Rebellion or pro-Palestine protests? 726337
Reposted by David StrakPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised 19835351084
Reposted by David StrakTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 06/09/2026Several large far-right orgs across the UK will be looking at the events from this weekend and thinking "good practice run, folks, pretty clear we can do whatever we like now with no consequences - what's next?" 313139
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026'A balanced patriotic curriculum'.schoolsweek.co.ukReform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules 000
Reposted by David StrakPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The UK government agrees with the aims and ideologies of the fascists who are attacking racialised minorities. Their disagreement is that they think the state should be trusted to attack racialised minorities using the proper legal channels. 315552
Reposted by David StrakPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Times has done more than any other paper to mainstream and legitimise the Great Replacement conspiracy underpinning our turn to overt fascism. 012134
Reposted by David StrakAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle. www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...thamesvalley.police.ukMan charged with public order offences – OxfordshireFollowing a Thames Valley Police investigation, a man has been charged in connection with 14 offences in Oxfordshire. 29432177
Reposted by David StrakPete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Actually, does weaponised walking stick warrant a "listen to @bloodwork.show"? 0215
Reposted by David StrakJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party. 191166432
Reposted by David Strakflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It is not IMO much more complex than: the 2008 financial crisis destroyed the Thatcherite consensus overnight and, rather than just accept they had failed disastrously and standing aside, its champions turned to fear, hate and spite to retain their jobs, status and clout. 210938
David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Look at the glee on their faces. Look at that old bastard, trying to tear the protesters hair out by the roots. The violence is absolutely the draw here. 000
Reposted by David Strakelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jason Arday was driven to suicide but this is what counts as normal at Cambridge. It was never about standards. It was always about maintaining white male mediocrity. 3427133
Reposted by David Strakflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A particularly extreme example here of “The lads only see what they want to see”. If they want to see e.g. a black academic who they think is proof of the Tyranny Of Woke Conspiring Against Whiteness, up it goes on all channels. If they don’t want to know, it may as well have happened on Ganymede. 320055
Reposted by David StrakPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Interesting to think whether we'd have the BBC's flagship presenters running interference like this for, say, Diane Abbott, isn't it? 17221
Reposted by David StrakPatrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why oh why does BBC News do it❓ This is headlining as they provide a willing platform for Farage to turn this into another conspiracy against him Much like conspiracy that led him to to resign as MP, to fight the Establishment and then fight to rejoin it as an MP This shit👇shouldn’t get airtime❗️😡 46414106
Reposted by David StrakToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"the revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so" www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...liberalcurrents.comRespecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They’re Wrong and ImmoralUnderstand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right. 513932
Reposted by David StrakJoshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How many times does the BBC lead on a murder story with a large headline stating: Man accused of murder 'not guilty,' according to man* Oh, never, right? Because you can see the obvious problem with that style of reportage, right? 921513494
Reposted by David StrakAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026ICYMI this is what the BBC were up to while Channel 4 were investigating Reform for allegedly breaking the law on party donations 8308123
Reposted by David StrakRichard C @rchappo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Somebody needs to check his parchments. 031
