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Middle-aged centrist mum. Spend my time reading, singing and being angry about stuff. Views my own (obviously).

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 6h
An aristocratic British military man leading a disastrous charge. Plus ça change. #CelebrityTraitors
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19h
everyone in 2005 after hearing You’re Beautiful for the ninety millionth time #celebritytraitors
James Acaster saying ‘we’ve got to murder James blunt’
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 8h
I see some people have decided what the Fonagy Report says without actually reading it (or even reading the executive summary).
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 10h
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, controlled by the Greens, wrote to some Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them. I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety. www.jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-re...
Dear Mark Thank you for your emails to us. We take it from both the tone and the content of your email that you are deeply embarrassed with the decision taken by your party to not only brand Zionism as racism but to call for the eradication by any means necessary including violence, of the only Jewish state, the only practising democracy in the Middle East, and also home to half of the world’s Jewish population.  We are not surprised you are embarrassed. The policy decision which has not just been endorsed by but was publicly celebrated by the Haringey branch of the Green Party, of which we assume you are a member, is thus aligning itself with Hamas, a genocidal, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist terrorist organisation not only responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but countless murders and torture of its own people. You may not be aware that members of our synagogue have close relatives and friends who perished in that pogrom - of which today is the third anniversary - not to mention other horrendous terrorist atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance that your party supports. We also adopted Emily Damari, a British Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, suffered terribly at the hands of her Hamas jailers and had to keep her sexual orientation secret from her kidnappers or else would have been murdered, along with 87 others including the Bibas children, four year old Arieh and nine month old Kfir who were killed in cold blood for the sole crime of being Jewish children born in their ancestral homeland.  Our synagogue along with the majority of British synagogues recites weekly Sabbath prayers for both the Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the State of Israel and will continue to do so, irrespective of what you or other Green Party members think. 

 Love of Zion and a hope to be able to return to live in our ancestral homeland is integral to all streams of Judaism, as, it so happens,Earlier this year we hosted at Highgate Synagogue a noted Palestinian campaigner Ahmed Fouad AlKhatib who lost more than 30 family members in Gaza. He told a packed synagogue - and it was really packed -- how he as a Gazan and a Palestinian believed that Hamas had brought nothing but disaster on the Palestinian people, and that those keffiyeh wearing sympathizers in the West who cheer for Hamas are doing more harm than good.   He was no shill for Israel or its Prime Minister, but he at least acknowledged the attachment of Jews to this land, and the fact that non-Jews in Israel have rights that no-one, certainly not Jews or Christians, let alone Muslims can aspire to anywhere else in the Middle East. So no, we don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch. You may see no connection between the ceaseless vilification of Israel, the blood libels that you and your party regularly trot out, and the hostility to Jews in this country, but we do. If this motion does not mean that Jews in Haringey who have family or friends in Israel, or who attend our synagogue, or who maybe aren’t religious but believe that there is a place for a haven for the tattered remnant of the most persecuted race on earth, are considered by you and your party as racists and by implication fair game for ostracism, intimidation, violence or worse, please explain to us what else it means. And if that is indeed what it means, and we are pretty sure that those who voted for it believe that is precisely what it means, how can we as Jews feel safe when the largest party of the borough we live in, entirely peacefully up to now, publicly align yourself with the most virulent jew-hating racists of all, Hamas and the Nazis. As it is, despite living in one of the most peaceful and crime free parts of the borough, we have had as a synagogue to invest substantial sums in building terrorism-proof fences round our premises, and employ both volunteers and professional security with stab vests to enSo your embarrassment is not enough. If you really want us to feel you do not agree with the racist and genocidal implications of your party’s policy, the least we can expect is for you to publicly resile yourself from that policy and commit yourself and your party colleagues to reverse that policy and to educate themselves about the realities of the Middle East conflict, and about Jewish life, before you pronounce on these matters with such unshakeable certainty again.  Yours sincerely,
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 21h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15h
Britain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are:
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20h
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 20h
Lab only down 3.7% as the incumbent party is very good. Extra Green votes almost all came from Feinstein not standing this time.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 20h
The Greens' embrace of left populism has been an unmitigated disaster. At a moment when climate politics is more contested than ever, they've abandoned their post. Not just in Camden last night but in Lambeth too. Serious figures need to act.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 08/10/2026
Town (Newcastle-under-Lyme) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 46.2% (+18.0) ➡️ RFM: 26.7% (-0.4) 🌍 GRN: 12.3% (-9.2) 🌳 CON: 11.8% (-4.3) 🔶 LDM: 2.9% (-4.0) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2026.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is where we are. Live stream executions for Maga porn. Such barbarism is not easily wiped away.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I didn’t have the return of public executions on my Insanity Bingo card, and yet here we apparently are.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
James!! #celebritytraitors
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What in a what now
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In Leeds, a group of Jewish students planned a vigil for the victims of 7th October - they arrived to find someone had scrawled the Green Party’s new policy position at the planned location.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tories damn Labour leader as loveable national treasure whose appeal crosses political divides.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My abiding memory of 7th October 2023 is of witnessing people openly celebrating, in the street in my own neighbourhood in London, the murder of Jews. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Admittedly I’m biased but this doesn’t seem like the sort of conversation we need to be having in London
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A bit obscure, but the TV adaptation of Peter Dickinson’s children’s book The Gift. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUu...
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The Gift 1990 (TV Mini-series) EPISODE 1: THE WARNING
YouTube video by Archive Media Vault
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scaring Jews is part of the fun.
If the headline motion is itself racist, the refusal to even pretend to make a carve-out for Jewish members of your own party is perhaps most revealing. Evidently, a majority of Green Party members who voted for the motion and against the amendment simply have little interest in finding an accommodation with Jews.

And I think this speaks to what a lot of people fail to understand. That for Jew-haters, antisemitism is fun. Even better, it frequently forces Jews to play the game of emptying their pockets and patiently explaining why this obviously horrible, racist thing — a slogan, a placard or a burning of ambulances operated by a Jewish charity — is in fact antisemitic. That, too, is part of the fun.

You don’t need to label every antisemitic terrorist attack (and there are horrifyingly many to choose from this year alone) a “false flag” or suggest that “Zionists control the media” to oppose a terrible war or in any way dilute support for Palestinians. You certainly don’t have to, as Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories claimed in a recent interview, say that Jews in Nazi death camps were called “Muslims”.

I could attempt to explain why they do this. Why so many people believe that Jews, whether stabbed on the streets of Golders Green or murdered in gas chambers, are molecularly incapable of being victims. Indeed, how and why the Holocaust itself is an example of Jewish power and privilege. But that would be to play the pocket-emptying game.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The open secret re: the Greens is that the UK has a tiny set of full time rabid ‘left-wing’ antisemites who move from org to org trying to turn them into full time monomaniacal antisemites like themselves.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m afraid if this kind of motion falls, intention is pretty clear
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something I repeatedly find with far left politicians is that they seem to think that if they say the magic words "antisemitism has no place in our society" this frees them from doing anything tangible about the antisemitism right in front of their sanctimonious fucking faces.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hope the Greens get fucking trounced in the by election on Thursday.
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Terry Watkins @gerrygow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're minutes away from the notion of a Left Bloc in English politics completely imploding. There is no way that I, as a Labour voter, could vote for a Green Party which has almost certainly transformed itself into the largest and most extreme antisemitic force that this country has ever seen.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Current odds on Ladbrokes.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
looooool #celebritytraitors
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please murder Amol. #celebritytraitors
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!"
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So many wildly popular authors who are now almost completely unread. Walter Scott, Hugh Walpole, Dornford Yates spring to mind. DH Lawrence and Evelyn Waugh perhaps heading that way too.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Nick Confused Meme Reaction
ALT: Nick Confused Meme Reaction
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that I think would change politics/policy discourse for the better is if young people & their interests were treated with the same concern and respect as pensioners.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure why everyone is treating this as such a gotcha. The arrested men are all from NW London, so it seems unlikely they’d have come all that way just to steal diesel/bait badgers/delete as appropriate.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech...
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026
We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️
Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mogJaffa in his cone of shame
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If I never hear the words ‘Independent SAGE’ again it’ll be too soon. Children’s wellbeing was an afterthought during the pandemic and I’m yet to see any serious attempt to address the consequences.
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is absolutely spot-on. I’m increasingly convinced that our revealed sense of what we expect MPs to do (be good legislators, scrutineers, and deal with ever-increasing amounts of casework and correspondence) is, with current resources, unsustainable.
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a really excellent piece (which no doubt will cause her to be yelled at by precisely the people she is criticising). www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This was an under-19 cricket team, so the mob was targeting teenagers. Absolute scumbags.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!'"
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