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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Excellent long letter from a Green councillor to their MP on the "Zionism is Racism" debate. www.facebook.com/martin.pugh.35/pos… Badly needs reducing to easily shared […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dear Sarah Sackman MP, Dan Tomlinson MP and David Pinto-Duschinsky MP,
Thank you for your letter of 9 October concerning my support for the Green Party’s adoption of the Zionism is Racism motion.
I welcome the opportunity to respond. However, I am concerned that your letter contains several misleading assertions about the policy, and I would encourage you to consider the full text of the motion and its accompanying briefing paper.
You state that most British Jews understand Zionism as the right of Jewish people to self-determination, and that it is not for a political party to define an identity differently from those who hold it. However, the motion is explicitly concerned with Zionism as a political ideology and its historical and material consequences for Palestinians. It does not purport to define Jewish identity; indeed, it specifically distinguishes the two.
Political ideologies, particularly those underpinning the structures and policies of states, must remain open to democratic scrutiny. The question is not simply how an ideology is understood by those who identify with it, but how it operates in practice and what consequences it has for others.
For Palestinians, those consequences include generations of displacement, dispossession, occupation and denial of fundamental rights. It is entirely legitimate for a political party to examine those consequences and challenge the structures it believes sustain them.
I believe strongly in the right to self-determination, but that right should not be dependent on the removal of another people’s rights.
Furthermore, I believe Jewish people should be safe wherever they live. I understand that many people feel deep ties to Israel as a place of refuge because of the Jewish historical experience. I also of course acknowledge the deep Jewish connection to the Holy Land, as I do for Islam and Christianity alike. I do not however believe anyone’s safety can ultimately depend upon segregation and domination over others. I support equal rights, security and freedom from racism and xenophobia wherever people live and for all peoples.
That is why I support the motion’s vision of a single democratic state with equal rights for all who live there and the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
This is a vision of a democratic, secular society, encompassing Jews, Muslims, Christians and others, based on equal rights rather than ethnonational or religious privilege, with freedom to practise different religions and cultures side by side and safely. It reflects the belief that no state should be founded or maintained through the subjugation or displacement of other people, and a commitment to human rights, reparations and justice.
It is important to point out that the Green Party adopting this position has no direct effect on existing constitutional arrangements. Like many of our policies, it articulates a political vision rather than imposing a settlement. It is a vision in which Britain critically acknowledges and addresses its historical and ongoing complicity in Palestinian dispossession and oppression since 1948, and supports the realisation of Palestinians’ inalienable rights. This policy being passed now does not come from nowhere. There is increasing rejection of any kind of fair settlement on a two-state basis coming from the dominant political class inside Israel. Indeed the Knesset overwhelmingly passed a formal resolution in 2024 by 68 to 9, stating firm opposition to any Palestinian statehood and this is being explicitly re-stated during the current election debates.
A single democratic state is proposed by grassroots coalitions in Israel/Palestine, academic networks, civil rights advocacy groups, and selective political organisations. It should be seen as a viable option on the table and the international community has every right to endorse it.
Perhaps most harmfully, your letter conflates the political objective of a single democratic state with the motion’s separate recognition of the Palestinian people’s right to resist occupation, domination and subjugation. The motion explicitly qualifies that recognition by reference to international law. The motion’s briefing discusses armed resistance in the context of current struggles against colonial domination. This raises serious questions of international law, including the continuing obligation to protect civilians. Such questions deserve accurate discussion, rather than being reduced to the claim that the Green Party advocates armed struggle to destroy Israel. That is not what the motion says. We are a party of peace not war.
Your letter also asserts that Jewish and non-Jewish self-determination are now regarded by the Green Party as racist. Again, that is not what the motion states. It explicitly rejects equating Jewish identity with Zionist ideology and recognises that no single political ideology should be attributed to an entire people.
There are growing numbers of Jewish people, both within and outside the party, who identify as anti-Zionist and have long campaigned for Palestinian liberation and against occupation. Jewish members were among the motion’s co-proposers, including an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor.
I have personally witnessed dear Jewish friends and colleagues in Barnet and beyond being viciously attacked as ‘self-hating Jews’ and cast out for challenging Zionist ideology. This was evidenced starkly at the demonstration against the Great Israeli Real Estate event in Edgware a few months ago. This kind of rhetoric is vile and antisemitic and directly contributes to a lack of safety for all Jewish people. I believe it is our duty to robustly challenge any conflation of Judaism and the actions of the state of Israel.
Not all Jewish people are Zionist and not all Zionists are Jewish.
I would therefore welcome your response to an important question: how do you ensure that Palestinian and non-Zionist and anti-Zionist Jewish residents are represented and their political beliefs respected and protected?
It goes without saying that I unequivocally oppose all forms of racism and xenophobia, including antisemitism. I treat threats and attacks against all residents and their institutions seriously. Every resident has a right to safety, dignity and freedom from discrimination. Nothing in this motion contradicts that.
I am concerned that your letter devotes considerable attention to the political controversy and media frenzy surrounding the motion, while failing to address the urgent circumstances that have driven demands for fundamental change.
The ongoing genocide and displacement of Palestinians, continuing occupation and expansion of illegal settlements demand more than expressions of concern. We need immediate meaningful action to prevent further atrocities, end UK complicity and uphold international law.
The Green Party has already called for sanctions, boycotts and an end to arms transfers. What this motion adds is an explicit political analysis of the structures sustaining Palestinian oppression. It asks not only whether governments are taking action, but whether those actions address the underlying causes of injustice, or are simply a sticking plaster. That distinction matters if we are serious about achieving lasting change rather than continually responding to the consequences of the same political system.
Finally, you ask how I reconcile my support for the motion with my duty to represent our community. My answer is straightforward: that duty is not at odds with my right to critique a political ideology.
I represent every resident of Woodhouse, regardless of religion, ethnicity, background or political beliefs. I do not ask residents whether they agree with me politically before offering assistance, nor do I make assumptions about their beliefs based on their identity or community.
I will continue to support all residents fairly, including those who disagree with me. My commitment to local issues, including housing, adult social care, disability rights, protecting nature, cleaner streets, challenging overdevelopment and community safety, is unwavering.
As elected representatives, we all hold political positions with which some residents disagree. That does not make us incapable of representing them. What matters is how we exercise our responsibilities, whether we behave respectfully and treat people fairly and whether we uphold the rights and dignity of everyone we serve. I would hope you apply that same principle to your own constituents, including those whose political views differ from yours.
I would also welcome a response on what further action you intend to pursue as Barnet’s MPs to prevent further atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, end the occupation, stop UK arms transfers and secure accountability for violations of international law.
These are urgent questions on which your constituents deserve clarity.
Yours sincerely,
Cllr Charli Thompson
Green Party Councillor for Woodhouse Ward"

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Mis-remembered Gurdjieff. Listening to his father and uncle talking. Where is God now? He's in the mountains And what is he doing? He's making ladders. What are the ladders for? For the nations of the world to go up and down on.

For instance, one evening when I was in the workshop, my future tutor entered unexpectedly and, as he walked in, asked my father:

‘Where is God just now?’

My father answered most seriously, ‘God is just now in Sari Kamish.’ Sari Kamish is a forest region on the former frontier between Russia and Turkey, where unusually tall pine-trees grow, renowned everywhere in Transcaucasia and Asia Minor.

Receiving this reply from my father, the dean asked, ‘What is God doing there?’

My father answered that God was making double ladders there and on the tops of them he was fastening happiness, so that individual people and whole nations might ascend and descend.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

E-Bicycle confession. I occasionally ride on pavements. I some times leave early on red lights. I have been known to ride the wrong way on one way roads. My e-Bicycle is a little bit illegal with a throttle, 20mph top, ~500w. Bu I try really hard not to hurt […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ebikes now come in all shapes and speeds. It is astonishing that the sleek Freesky Alaska, with its 250W engine, can be treated as if it was just another manual pedal bike. To my mind, it is blatantly a motorbike. When a delivery driver on one careers past me in Hyde Park, I wonder if I took a wrong turning. These machines must be put on the roadway where they belong.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This just turned up on C4 News. American Meterological Society - State of the Climate 2025. Released today. www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/jo… Press Release […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Remember all those patriotic flags on UK lamp posts? They were always a temporary thing, now they're in tatters. That just created work for the councils to remove them from unauthorised locations. And this is what the council workers now have to deal with.

- Raise the Colours Oxfordshire organiser Ben Cullen head-
butted a highways worker

- RTC Oxfordshire fixed trackers to the vehicles used by
highways staff, then used this to find out their home
addresses — which have been published online, and
repeated to staff with threatening messages;

- Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in
unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings and do not travel
alone for fear of attacks;

- Highways staff working on streetlight maintenance, not
flag removal, have been spat on and abused by RTC
supporters;

- Cullen and his partner Trudy Wells posted the office
addresses and phone numbers of highways depots online,
leading to comments suggesting “hanging council workers
from those same lamp posts”;

- A highways contractor's sponsorship of a children’s
football club is being rethought after concerns that children
could be targeted.

- One highways manager said that ensuring her staff's
safety in the face of RTC intimidation is “often over 50% of
her working week... She is fearful of being followed home,
tracked and exposed on social media without her consent.”

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Covid Stats. Lots of graphs out there of a huge range of diseases increasing since 2020. But this is a weird one. Who told you in 2022 that repeat Covid infections would have the biggest impact on elite sports *coaches*? A 6 year drop in the average age of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Graph of average age of Premier League Football managers. Falling since 2020.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

La farce continue. - PA given right to appeal to the Supreme Court over the proscription. Due in Sept. - Existing cases put on hold till then - More people arrested outside the court on terrorism charges of supporting a proscribed organisation - Including Jonathan Porritt. Again.

One arrestee:

'I'm looking forward to simultaneously appearing in Courtrooms 11 and 12 at 2pm, for a hearing that I must attend but must also not attend, which may or may not be happening, about what may or may not be a crime, on behalf of an organisation that no longer exists.'

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Clacton Postal votes have gone out. I'm loving that "BINFACE, Count" is on the top page. And FARRIDGE, Nigel is on the 3rd or 4th fold down. Not my legs. Invisible Banana for scale.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Bookmark post. From the very wonderful @spellingmistakescostlives This is going to get quite a work out as New Burnham Labour and their critics try and explain Treasury finances using the corner shop / household finances metaphor.

Complicated cartoon.

Run your household just like the national finances.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Classic. I go for a walk up on the hill to waste some time before kick-off. Get back and it's delayed for an hour due to weather. Hmm, we'll see. Meanwhile, here's Moonrise over Essex. Two pubs on lock-in. One corner shop still selling beer.

Moonrise over Essex. Waning, golden glow.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

No idea if this is true, but, has the ring of truthiness. Ukraine levels up. > Russians complaining that Ukrainian Forces are now outsourcing drone operations to gamers all over the world by connecting hundreds of drones to a virtual server and inviting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

UAV developer

Forwarded from

(8) Unofficial Bezsonov

The day before yesterday, at one of the front lines,
our soldiers captured a prisoner who told us that only
16 UAV operators were fighting against our
battalion in a destroyed high-rise building.

Their task was to simply deploy a couple hundred
FPV drones and connect them to a virtual server where
people from anywhere in the world could control

these drones. They received instant payouts for every hit
target.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

That's no holly bush. That's an Empire Garden Destroyer with a landing space airlock for sparrows.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Hottest decade. So far. Hot temperatures. Hot wars. Hot pandemics. Hot politics. Hot prices. Hot memes. Hot AI.

Captain Haddock : What a decade, eh?
Tintin : Captain, it's 2026
Snowy : sweat, slurps a beer

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

#Cocktail - classic 5:1 Dry Martini. Christening the birthday gin in the birthday glassware.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

One of the weirder aspects of yesterday's UtK march. Piles of crosses for people to pick up and carry. Were they flammable? Captured by money from the US Evangelical Right? www.facebook.com/reel/2684593227504… The there's the Pro-Israel side […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

March banner

End Zionist Occupation of Britain
Stop White Replacement

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

FFS Facebook! Not today ... Some of the structure. Zero content.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

This one hits. x.com/TheVertlartnic/status/1904571… There are people (like me) that describe themselves as "NoVid" [1] because they've never had a positive Covid LFT despite plenty of tests. Maybe we should really call ourselves "NoPos" […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A child
Headline:
It’s Not Long Covid,
You’re Just Getting Old.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Drones, Drones, Drones... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/… Do these have nicknames? eg "Donkey", "Caterpillar".

Types of Ukraine unmanned ground vehicles.
- Wounded rescue, logistics supply
- Mobile gun
- Mine layer

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

That about wraps it up for the "Four Weeks War". Welcome to the "Five Weeks War". Did Trump declare victory yet? Or are we still celebrating "Epic Fury"? Where's "Get Your War On" when we need them? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Three cell cartoon. While collar execs talking on phone.

It looks like Israel is finally getting serious about its long term security interests

Yeah, | think history will prove the brilliance of Israel's strategy. I can't imagine Hamas coming out of this more popular than ever

Tee-hee, this is fun! OK, Now this time you be the idiot and I'll be the dummy

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

An aerosol specialist writes. MenB is airborne. x.com/ukhadds/status/20339531114845… Meanwhile, UKHSA warns about close contact, droplets, kissing, sharing vapes. NHS staff don't mask much at all. Possibly infected people travel all over the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

WARNING: Surgical masks do not protect you from an airborne pathogen!

Meningitus B can be carried on exhaled aerosol. Meaning if you want any protection, wear a respirator. If you are in Kent, mask up PROPERLY, and protect yourself (and others)!!

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Looks like Novavax will be available in the UK from Spring-26. Hopefully that will include cheap, private jabs. Why did it take so long?

pharmaletter
Sanofi to supply
COVID-19 vaccine for
UK booster campaign
Biotechnology + 16 March 2026

French pharma major Sanofi (Euronext: SAN) will
supply 600,000 doses of its protein-based COVID-
19 vaccine Nuvaxovid (recombinant spike protein
vaccine) for use in the UK's Spring 2026 vaccination
program.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

> The data shows that Labour’s core voters think Keir Starmer disagrees with them on *Gaza, social equality issues and Brexit*. They want someone that shares their values. > “The chaos that will come from London descending into Green madness with no housing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One London Labour MP told the Guardian: “We can’t dismiss voters’ concerns and need to work hard to rebuild trust. We have some incredible Labour councils and councillors doing amazing work in their communities.

“That work risks being undone if Labour nationally doesn’t start addressing worries of progressive voters around policies like welfare cuts, the language government uses on immigration and the response to Gaza.”

A second accused party chiefs of refusing to listen to warnings over the Greens and approaching the threat on their progressive flank like “student politics”. “The chaos that will come from London descending into Green madness with no housing being built and no investment in social care will be catastrophic for the poorest people.”

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Yay! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75… > The petition calling for a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence in Britain has surpassed 100,000 signatures, meaning it must now be considered for a debate in parliament.

Petition
Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported Israeli state-linked and pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics. We believe it is important to determine the scope and impact of any such influence campaigns.

More details
Sign this petition
103,317 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target:
Show on a mapthe geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency100,000signatures required to be considered for a debate in Parliament
Parliament will consider this for a debate
Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

I'm going to assume that this is true. That the IDF-USA has assassinated a major section of Iran's leadership. 1. Doing this, and without even a declaration of war, seems like a new development in the "international rules based order". 2. Iran has probably […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screen shot of some list of 15 Iranian top people allegedly killed by IDF-USA in the last few days.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

@bruces comment > "Measles and mumps set loose again? Damn! Wasn't I killing antivaxers fast enough?" The Rona #Covid26 With a fav image.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

The scam that is maintenance fees on freehold property on new build, un-adopted housing estates. It's being repeated across the country. Maintenance fees on freehold property have even less rights than Service Charges on leasehold or Ground Rent on leasehold […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Being sold fake freehold houses that are at the mercy of local unscrupulous managing agents who are ripping off all the residents. Fees have tripled in 3 years but still apparently in deficit with extra bills being issued. We are charged for items that don’t even exist, ( one example - we have been paying towards allotments that haven’t even been built yet. We get charged a bill for water yet pay our own metered water rates to name but a couple)double charged with entries appearing more than once on different invoices with slightly different wording. Charged for work that has never been completed or eventually completed to a sub standard level. We are shown invoices for work that has the names of different estates on in totally different areas of the country. We pay for public liability insurance, maintenance and inspections on 2 parks that are used by anyone not just people on ... especially people from the on-site school which pays zero towards the Estate management. Recently charged over £2.5k to replace some grass seed under 3 items of equipment and nearly £100 to check a couple of screws in a bench in park. We are paying twice for services like street lighting, road maintenance, grass cutting of communal areas, litter picking etc , once to local council in our council tax and then again. yet under current legislation we have zero powers to hold them to account as us fake freeholders have less power even than leaseholders.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

That about wraps it up for the UK Autumn 25-26 Covid Vax programme.

Graph of cumulative Covid vax uptake for 80+, 75-80 and at risk

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