Reposted by Owain SuttonJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 32mAt this point I would honestly prefer that the UK authorities said nothing on this than they kept dribbling out cryptic clues like it's a murder mystery evening. "What if I told you one of them rang 999 himself?" "We've bailed them, but it's still Iran, what might that mean?" Not. Helpful. 5568
Reposted by Owain SuttonEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why does Labour conference sound like the conference of a party in opposition? They're in government now! "we might" "we'll consider" "the next manifesto" We need actions now! 810024
Reposted by Owain SuttonSophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 6hAnother take based on the very same fantasy politics they accuse us of. Burnham stans are genuinely just sitting there, closing their eyes and imagining that he MUST be in favour of all the good things, with absolutely no evidence to support any of it It's end-stage FBPE Twitter I'm afraid 132
Reposted by Owain SuttonSteve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026"aim" and "where possible" is not "will". 2225
Reposted by Owain SuttonSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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. 1024478
Reposted by Owain SuttonSir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 11hImmigration is mentioned 4 times in Burnham's conference speech. The first 3 repeat the idea that we "lost control" over immigration, or that control was "weakened", and the fourth says that we need to work with the EU on immigration. Nothing about the positives of immigration or immigrants' rights. 1189
Reposted by Owain SuttonLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21hI don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted. 1238477
Reposted by Owain SuttonReal Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"it would begin to accelerate if a certain pedal was pressed whilst it was stationary". It's known as an accelerator pedal. Not knowing how your car works is NOT a defence, but an admission of guilt. Just a 2 year ban, but no extended retest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGrandmother drove into nursery trapping boy, 2, under wheelsJayne James has been given a suspended jail sentence over the incident in Ellesmere Port. 10379
Reposted by Owain SuttonDavid Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a story well over 100 years in the making. Britain considered introducing partial* PR (well, STV, but near enough) in the 1917-8 and came very close to it, but failed. It is now time to do it. * Due to the mix of multi- and single-member seats. The rest would have been elected by AV. 042
Reposted by Owain SuttonNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m so fed up with reminding everyone that trans people were warning this would happen 15 years ago and you didn’t listen… 110020
Reposted by Owain SuttonGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵 328793
Reposted by Owain SuttonYour Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Christian Concern? The ultraconservative Christian group behind the Darlington Nurses? That Christian Concern, the one that worked with The Darlington Nurses™ ? I wonder if people know that the anti-trans Darlington Nurses stuff was organized by Christian Concern, an anti-gay ultraconservative org 17610
Reposted by Owain SuttonGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukChristian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hearsFelix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality. 22501167
Reposted by Owain SuttonEuan @euan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026okay but like, all that other stuff was already illegal 1284
Reposted by Owain SuttonAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is it the bit where she talks of (legal) migration in the same terms as knife crime or serious violence? 2274
Reposted by Owain SuttonJon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Outstanding. More of this sort of thing. 0232
Reposted by Owain SuttonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shout out to the various archivists and restoration peeps who follow me: Read the whole thread, but the TLDR is that this is the last recording of a lovely choir in their prime, and it would be nice for them to hear that again, before time has its way. As it does with us all. 27018
Reposted by Owain SuttonElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is just bollocks. When my dad and grandma faced the most disgusting racism in the 60s and 70s (more extreme than what would ever be considered mistreat today) migration was far lower and many Brits were facing plenty ‘inwards’ 315039
Reposted by Owain SuttonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope." 492503706
Reposted by Owain SuttonJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Add ‘red diesel’ to their lexicon of picturesque elements of English rurality. 715116
Reposted by Owain SuttonRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron. 103562200
Reposted by Owain SuttonM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can we have an AI CEO news blackout i’ve really fucking had enough. They’ll say any old shit for a headline and you lot fall for it. 87015
Reposted by Owain SuttonDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895404926
Reposted by Owain SuttonDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's all either hints, as in this case, or blatantly misconstruing what she's doing, as with claiming previous "safe asylum routes" with increased restrictions are "new routes". She's still implementing the most hostile anti-immigration policies in a generation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comShabana Mahmood hints she could water down controversial care worker visa plansHome secretary under pressure over changes to indefinite leave to remain that would penalise foreign care workers 15321
Reposted by Owain SuttonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd. 29459104
Reposted by Owain SuttonAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The work is, of course, highly feminized and racialized, and is currently performed within companies by executive assistants. Tech bros are big mad they didn't get to participate in the era of the Mad Men secretary and now think they can get the bot to do it. 112814
Reposted by Owain SuttonAlexander Louis Sallons @sallonsax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How does Green Party Conference work? You asked, I answered. Full video live now. 494
Reposted by Owain SuttonNick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s like if you’re middle class with a bit of a “working class” accent (whether that’s Newcastle, Dagenham or wherever) then you must be putting it on. The fact that there are distinct middle class regional accents seems to evade some people too. 061
Reposted by Owain SuttonJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAnger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared onlineThe My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies. 4674173
Reposted by Owain SuttonCaolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026russia is systematically destroying European science and cultural heritage sites. They literally just hit this 19th century historic building in central Kyiv. It’s the headquarters of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. Deplorable. 611961
Reposted by Owain SuttonNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is only happening because of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection. Burnham will announce Heathrow expansion the day after polling day. 67219
Reposted by Owain SuttonMags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think I understand now why he got this position. His ability to lie with utter conviction, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, while dealing with trans kids and their families while Health Secretary, it set him up for this level of bullshitting. 1226
Reposted by Owain SuttonThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My library is still closed. 4142
Reposted by Owain SuttonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9251983183
Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026[Columbo voice] Just one question, sir.....'underperforming' for who? 070
Reposted by Owain Suttonpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is your Diabetes diagnosis really helping you? 2076183
Reposted by Owain SuttonJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well. 55376109
Reposted by Owain SuttonianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 27/09/2026I will pay good money for a local resident next to RAF Fairford to be interviewed about the fuss and say, "I can't believe it's happening here, it's such a nice quiet village", just as a Typhoon jet flies overhead. 3415
Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If he announces a national tour, they can put it down as 'national spending' in their annual totals. Regardless of how much it's targeted, online and via leaflets, at specific locations. SO MUCH reform of political campaigning is needed. 000
Reposted by Owain SuttonTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram 211300238
Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They'll be reading directly from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, soon. 011
Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Labour in opposition: "You need to lend us your vote, to make a change for the better." Labour in power: "Somehow, this empty room prevents us from changing the law to overturn that Supreme Court ruling." 0328
Reposted by Owain SuttonTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe. 102009541
Reposted by Owain SuttonJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"...PURSUED BY A FUCKING BEAR" 11776
Reposted by Owain SuttonJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here's a mad idea: when you have a 150-seat majority why not break manifesto commitments you think are ridiculous and then let the electorate decide in three years' time whether you were right to do so? 37510
Reposted by Owain SuttonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion. 351036279
Reposted by Owain SuttonDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Shipman’s really gone all the way huh. “The courts are a conspiracy against the nation”?! 1123534
Reposted by Owain SuttonAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026Burnham, as expected, fuelling far-right narratives instead of addressing them He knows painting these as "legitimate concerns" will only embolden and legitimise them He knows they are minoritarian but he makes them "the people" He's comfortable for the rest of us can suffer the consequences 7276106