Reposted by Mike PhelpsDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9hClearly blowing up ULEZ cameras is now viewed as "patriotic'. These people are mad, bad and dangerous to know and yet they get indulged by the media. 0113
Reposted by Mike Phelpsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h*Jonathan himself* is glaring proof his argument is bunk. He’s been noisily doing “Last chance to save Israel from itself” the entire 25 years I’ve known who he was; nothing that happened in that time altered his opinion one inch, he is a relentless opponent of any attempt to mitigate the horrors.theguardian.comThe Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan FreedlandThe resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 1620856
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMiddle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 11h30 Palestinians killed in Israeli occupier attacks in West Bank since start of 2026middleeastmonitor.com30 Palestinians killed in Israeli occupier attacks in West Bank since start of 2026Thirty Palestinians have been killed in attacks by Israeli occupiers across the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2026, official Palestinian figures showed on Friday, Anadolu reports. In a … 035
Reposted by Mike PhelpsPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11hSince Suella Braverman is trying to exclude many of us from England, here’s my family story from seven years ago to push back against this ethnonationalism This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness bylinetimes.com/2019/12/18/t...bylinetimes.comThis is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming EnglishnessNow that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity. 2021495
Reposted by Mike PhelpsOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Jeremy Corbyn suffered attacks for imaginary #ItWasAScam antisemitism for months across every newspaper & TV Channel Nigel Farage's actual, real, proven antisemitism appears in a couple of newspapers, one or two news programmes, for a day or 2, then vanishes If we let it meme via Huddersfield TUC 8225121
Reposted by Mike PhelpsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21hWith this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. 34254082245
Reposted by Mike PhelpsDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/10/2026“There were at least two direct hits on a school packed with children … and a couple of hours after those initial hits, as first responders came, as parents came, the U.S. launches more strikes.”democracynow.org“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian KidsDrop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli ... 612389
Reposted by Mike PhelpsPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026By Braverman’s definition: I am not English (half Armenian) nor is the mother of my kids (parents Welsh). In fact of my kids’ great grandparents — only one is English What do to do, Suella? There are probably 80 or so descendants of my great grandparents which by your benchmark aren’t English 4925159
Reposted by Mike Phelpsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13hThey’re still going. Can you imagine the response, if the Guardian or the Independent had flown someone out to interview Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, and promoted their denunciations of the government as urgent, pressing news content? 29928
Reposted by Mike Phelpsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16hTwo successive governments laid themselves open to war crimes charges, beshitted their reputations and radicalised much of the populace against them because the American government demanded we assist this man’s atrocities. 618453
Reposted by Mike PhelpsWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...willhaywardwales.substack.comReform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impactIs this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’? 18214135
Reposted by Mike PhelpsDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only thing you can do in that situation is to ask about the pros and cons of the two options. I often reflect on why the NHS uses an App called Patients Know Best because I thought that's why we had medical specialists. 221
Reposted by Mike PhelpsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026Trump: "I never get tired" (he naps on camera every day) 1762292447
Reposted by Mike PhelpsAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s a badge of honour for @bylinetimes.bsky.social to be banned from Reform and Conservative conferences - like being banned by Russia or China, it says more about them, than the journalists. Also, so ironic that the parties which waffle on about freedom of speech are the most scared of it. 627194
Reposted by Mike PhelpsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23hThe Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like 24575239
Reposted by Mike PhelpsRoger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'More than 200 people from a Protestant background have put their names to a letter to the UK and Irish governments, expressing concern over the dispute. In the letter, they said they were distressed by the "trauma that is being visited on the residents of the Garvaghy Road after 28 years of calm". 021
Reposted by Mike PhelpsDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/10/2026Drop Site contributor Ali Younes, a Jordanian-American journalist, was detained by Jordanian intel. in Aug. over a repost of an article questioning US aid to Jordan. He was later charged w/ undermining nat'l security, sedition, & hate crimes under Jordan's Cybercrime Law, & barred from leaving... 12610
Reposted by Mike PhelpsByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference. 20410166
Reposted by Mike PhelpsDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/10/2026🚨🎥 “We will finally give them the most basic human right: to honor them and lay them to rest.” Hundreds gathered in Gaza City on Thursday for the mass funeral of 105 Palestinians killed on Oct. 25, 2023, when Israeli forces dropped at least 20 bombs on the Al-Taj residential block & surrounding... 17138
Reposted by Mike PhelpsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign. 24794150
Reposted by Mike Phelps@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Two by-elections in Reform strongholds here in the NE. Not pretty reading for Farage… 1157
Reposted by Mike PhelpsRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive. 7073177924
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMiddle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Around 79,000 children displaced in western Yemen in less than a month: UNICEFmiddleeastmonitor.comAround 79,000 children displaced in western Yemen in less than a month: UNICEFAround 79,000 children have been displaced in western Yemen in less than a month amid escalating fighting between government forces and the Houthis, UNICEF said late Thursday, Anadolu reports. “Acr… 034
Reposted by Mike PhelpsStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Clinging to my discredited old beliefs like 'you do in fact need to try to work out how to govern and not just win', I need to get with the programme. 2282
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMiddle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Israeli army continued attacks Thursday in southern Lebanon, carrying out airstrikes, blowing up homes, firing artillery and conducting machine-gun sweeps, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA). Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261001-isr... 023
Reposted by Mike PhelpsChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026True. I was surprised Starmer didn't emphasize this more. He should have given a full audit of public sector failures, presenting the Tories as wreckers; repeated that the fire brigade isn't accountable to the arsonist; & stressed that the repair job would take years. 3453
Reposted by Mike PhelpsPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?independent.co.ukTrump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latestThe US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’ 1818480
Reposted by Mike PhelpsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 841503614
Reposted by Mike PhelpsBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump is considering pre-emptively pardoning members of his administration before leaving office Legally there is no such thing as a pre-emptive pardon In order to get a pardon you must be found guilty, or at the very least say you are guilty You cannot be pardoned before that 40314105
Reposted by Mike PhelpsJames Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Bearing Witness is an independent, grassroots, long-term testimonial initiative, established out of the urgent need to confront the ongoing humanitarian, political, and human crisis in the Gaza Strip through facts, context, and systematic, evidence-based documentation.” — Bearing-Witness .com 02516
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/10/2026At the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unhinged rant at the UN, he recited a seemingly obscure Bible verse. But it’s actually a dog whistle for genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/neta...mondoweiss.netNetanyahu just incited genocide in his UN speech. Here’s what you missed.At the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unhinged rant at the UN, he recited a seemingly obscure Bible verse. But it’s actually a dog whistle for genocide. 33827
Reposted by Mike PhelpsHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Normally, being [a money boy for Saudi royalty, who pressed for war, while using $ to boost Israeli military capabilities (also wanted war) and using POTUS connections to sideline US Dept of State (didn't want war) and keep the war running] would be, like, a scandal or something. 32513
Reposted by Mike PhelpsRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I had no idea this was an option. 841081
Reposted by Mike PhelpsSharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I suppose the Free Speech Union will be all over this… won’t they? Is anyone there? 18834
Reposted by Mike PhelpsDaily Doze of Ronda 💫 @rondasmystic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Fuck! They all need to be arrested 918145785223
Reposted by Mike Phelps💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“First we kill. Then we find a reason.” Retrospective incrimination. #FreePalestine 02013
Reposted by Mike PhelpsBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him. 70648154
Reposted by Mike PhelpsFrancesCrook@bsky.social @francescrook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No BBC news, prisoners are not ‘walking free’ they are being released earlier but mostly onto highly restrictive conditions. 1133
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026President Trump's demands for Fox propaganda are getting even more bizarre and extreme. 841024278
Reposted by Mike PhelpsLuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Menacing 92 year olds in the middle of the night, whose side do these people think they’re on? #Fascism #Crowborough 36535
Reposted by Mike PhelpsResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/10/2026The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work. 5157
Mike Phelps @mike1phelps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...jonathancook.substack.comReporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows a hole in the idea of a ‘free press’When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state 000
Reposted by Mike PhelpsChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 18/08/2025💥 Trump's 79-Year History of RACISM, pt2 13354200
Reposted by Mike PhelpsAndy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... It is groups like the Orange Order that make reasonable people despair of Unionists and of Northern Ireland more generally. Their dogmatic and risibly stubborn actions threaten Stormont - all over the matter of a short walk - so fucking childish.theguardian.comDrumcree standoff continues after Orange Order says it will ‘not surrender’ to proposed dealUnionists spurn NI secretary’s attempt to resolve impasse after nationalists block controversial Garvaghy Road march 1349
Reposted by Mike PhelpsMiddle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026How Gaza's genocide is reshaping U.S. domestic politics by Dr Mustafa Fetourimiddleeastmonitor.comHow Gaza’s genocide is reshaping U.S. domestic politicsTo claim that Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has fundamentally changed the internal politics of the United States and the wider world might be an overstatement. But what cannot be overstated is a s… 064
Reposted by Mike PhelpsGavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I do wonder what some politicians are scared of …. 922080
Reposted by Mike PhelpsGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 6381144
