Sign in

multigums.bsky.social

@multigums.bsky.social
484 followers 736 following 1.3K posts

Culture War Correspondent. Brian in name only

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
11237671384
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
1025082
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 20h
Applying Burnham's approach to football Man City will be severely punished after the next election
000
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Pete Sinclair @petesinclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good to see that the Green Party has made Hope normal again. Every word of Andy Burnham’s speech is a direct result of the Greens winning votes from Labour. Vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras to keep the pressure up!
196
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
11428931257
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
382311661
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers. Any help welcome but what about renters? No curbs on rents. Previous schemes boosted house prices. Real problem is low wages, job insecurity, high interest rates, profiteering by developers.
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers
Exclusive: Policy initiative for England will help more young people on to property ladder, prime minister tells Guardian
3530798
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...
eventbrite.co.uk
The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it
Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.
45034
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alastair Campbell's new book is. called Persevilience: The Word the World Needs Now. And you’re telling me we’re not living in some kind of shoddily written satirical simulation?
3511410
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People will shrug about this because that’s the premise of every political party conference. *But* that is also blatant corruption. Witness all the credulous stories about big business shifting to Labour’s conference when they were locked on for a general election win.
55612
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I used to wonder, "How could someone as seemingly reasonable as Cheryl Hines be married to that obnoxious, stupid kook, RFK, Jr.?" Well, now I have my answer:
2382419742
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
999205226176
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A bit of a Morgan McSweeney situation, I guess: if you know someone who can put you in touch with generous zillionaires, then you can get whatever bullshit you want read out on TV.
0494
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I downloaded an Ed Sheeran track but it wouldn't play on my laptop - the file was unsupported
000
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tom Watson is clearly suffering from a pain in his right foot - Palantir Fascistis
000
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
371417473
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Left absolutely smoked the AfD in Berlin my goodness 😭😭 my heart!
2045589
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran and Kraft food a real fit - both heavily processed
000
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Adderley suspension lifted by Greens after six-month wait insidecroydon.com/2026/09/10/a...
insidecroydon.com
Adderley suspension lifted by Greens after six-month wait
Husband of TV personality Nadia Sawalha is finally allowed to sit at Croydon Town Hall as an official Green Party councillor. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Croydon Council, as of this …
021
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
JP Morgan billionaire CEO with $43m pay meets Burnham and Healey to oppose UK bank tax rise. Banks making record profits from high charges, measly payment to savers, speculation, wars. What chance of the poor meeting PM/Chancellor to make their case?
theguardian.com
JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise
Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understood
1101103512
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's nonsense to suggest that people who support Brexit and Reform are motivated by racism. And if you don't believe me, check out this perfectly reasonable tweet by prominent Reform member and former mayoral candidate, Arron Banks.
1262034672
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nationalise Balaclava production - we shouldn't have Vietnamese factories clothing the patriots
110
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only the voters of Clacton can judge him so Farage must re-re-sign
000
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Those closest to the orange criminal-in-charge know him best. They know he is a liar and a cheat. Why don't others realize this. I suppose that they cannot admit being duped by a conman. SMH.
20169152253
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When roots of corruption are ignored, lazy policing kicks in and authorities wait for a neat media sting to hand them evidence instead of doing the hard work of investigating complex corruption. That’s the steep price of being right too early and democracy is the price we pay. #Brexit
11577209
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Having said after my last book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football (2025), that it would be my last...I just finished my manuscript for my fourth... Barrio Clubs: Football in the Shadow of Iberian Giants will be out next year (TBC) I've also started plotting two other future books...🤦🏻‍♂️
1172
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Police investigating Reform over potential foreign donations after channel 4 sting. I make that now *four* live police investigations into Reform over political finance. Which must be a record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations.
31524153
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’d like it if someone prominent would call this a grotesque, despicable insult to the public’s intelligence, since that’s what it is.
422848
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Currently the most read on theLBC website (and I beat the FT to it, who have published a v similar piece this morning) …. Full article here - www.lbc.co.uk/article/legi...
Britain does not have an immigration problem, it has a nuance problem writes Natasha Devon
By endlessly repeating that people's anxieties are 'legitimate', politicians are giving credence to the far-right's propaganda and inadvertently stoking the tensions they were designed to rile up.
On social media, outright lies are not only permitted, but increasingly financially rewarded. Crimes committed by asylum seekers are either invented or endlessly
recycled and amplified to give the impression of greater rates of criminality within that group (whereas in reality there is no evidence suggesting non-UK citizens commit crimes in larger proportions than the general population).
If you're caught within a certain algorithm, pretty much all you'll see on Facebook or X is content about how dangerous asylum seekers are and how they're the reason communities are in decline. When you combine this with the often-alarmist
headlines, it's little wonder so many people are concerned.People's fears are understandable given the current legacy-media and online landscape, but they are not 'legitimate' because they aren't founded in robust data or empirical reality. The distinction might seem subtle, but it's this type of nuance our politics so desperately needs right now.
26916
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
Fr Paul @revpaulwhite • 1h
Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
14753235
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a step forward, but this is still weak The settlements are backed, protected and Palestinians violently displaced by the Israeli state The sanctions should be on Israel When Russia invaded Ukraine, we sanctioned Russia not the areas they illegally occupied www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK to adopt tougher stance on Israel with illegal settlements trade ban
Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move likely to draw fierce criticism from US and Israel
1618372
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Those deliveroo drivers in Dover/ Portsmouth - did someone take their bikes away?
000
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In case you had any doubts about the judgement and moral standards of my (former) Chief of Staff, Dan Jukes, here he is with Andrew Tate.
601775623
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk · 06/09/2026
Given the continuous bad news, just a reminder that I wrote a book about the history of football against fascism. More 👉 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/defiant #FootballHistory
13415
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sure, and I can tell you that the police know who all of these guys are, not least because they’ve had to fight them on the street multiple times. The cops in Scotland know exactly who all our fascist protestors are, where they live and what their seat number at Ibrox is.
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social • 1h
A high level of organisation and coordination requiring extensive networking and careful communication.
Which makes it all the more surprising *IF* the UK internal security service (MI5) and Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police (SO15) were unaware of the planned 'storm' action. 6/13
2
1 11
33
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social • 1h
If MI5 and SO15 were aware of the operation being planned, then they clearly either chose not to inform Kent Police and withheld vital operational information needed for adequate policing.*
OR
If they were unaware, which indicates a massive intelligence failure, undermining
49818
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Clacton should have to live with consequences of electing the Trumper copy - I sentence them to permanent bye election with ever declining turnout until it's one nil to Farage (postal vote by NF himself).
021
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Stepping down ‘pending outcome of Reform internal investigation’ This is clearly an attempt to end the story — but it really shouldn’t be
27475113
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Isabel is an expert in not being a journalist.
Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott
X.com
More than 1000 journalists successfully applied for accreditation for @reformparty_uk party conference. Of three rejects, one broke the law; another has only one agenda; and the third is not a journalist. This is a non
7808
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Johann Hari writes books that say astonishing things that some people want to hear; it doesn’t matter to them or his publisher that he is a fabulist with a long history of lies and distortions behind him. Isn’t it amazing that it’s always Hari who finds these novel takes that experts haven’t?
35811
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you want to join in by getting the book in paperback (or ebook — it’s currently 99p on Kindle), here’s the link you need geni.us/BreakingMicW...
geni.us
Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn't and Why it Matters
Out now!
01813
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... Not just the worst Labour Prime Minister (yet), but also its worst leader, making Ramsay MacDonald look like a lifelong party loyalist.
taxresearch.org.uk
Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP
Sir Keir Starmer is to leave the House of Commons, resigning on the first day after the summer recess and opening the possibility of a very difficult by-election for Labour in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, where the Greens have a very strong level of support, and Andrew Feinstein...
1213148
multigums.bsky.social @multigums.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At book launch for @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social -enjoying the Q and A. Highly recommended
020
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don’t think it was deliberate but if you wanted a one-two series of General Elections to 1) Demonstrate that British democracy is a cruel, stupid fraud, and then 2) Prove it beyond doubt for slow learners who have to be told twice, then I don’t think you could do better than Johnson and Starmer.
theguardian.com
Keir Starmer to stay on as MP but unlikely to want cabinet role
Spokesperson says departing PM will serve out remainder of his term representing Holborn and St Pancras
411334
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
France has banned Microsoft Windows from all Government PCs. Because when the USA sanctioned the ICC, Microsoft locked out the Head of the International Criminal Court from all his Microsoft accounts. Microsoft and all the USA Tech giants, Google, Facebook, Apple cannot be trusted. BOYCOTT.
27479187
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What an endorsement...
95115
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
1003262589025
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Talking about public control is just tinkering and on Thames Water he’s even tinkering with the tinkering by backtracking. If he wants hope: tax the wealthy, take water back under public ownership, bring in rent controls & no to new North Sea drilling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
More public control is only way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs
Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform
621322374
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why are Labour dragging their heels and not acting to end rip off Britain? They could announce a windfall tax now but are clearly afraid of something.
34804223
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
18803421612022
Reposted by @multigums.bsky.social
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Backsliding on Thames Water Backsliding on wealth taxes Backsliding on North Sea drilling, As the Chancellor said, a continuity government.
How andy Burnhams summer honeymoon could turn into a miserable autumn
45821285