Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialRafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I was on the telly. 1302089476
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 33600263
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."nicklowles.substack.comDid Kent Police ignore a 999 call?Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information. 26711282
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialColbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026bsky.app/profile/geor... 0438
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals. 391642616
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration. 602405851
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialLBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London. 411540461
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialLuca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out. 11340701383
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialPhil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Parts of this really should not be difficult. You *can* have legitimate concerns about a lot of things, and protest about them peacefully. What you *cannot* do is mask up, join up with 300 others, and block roads, burn houses, and threaten people. 39815
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialDavid Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Radio 4 Today presenter Anna Foster saying the protesters looked very much like Fascism and 🙌 for actually calling it what it is. 1550676
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer. 1343243849
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping. 491333856
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Mass graves discovered at Gaza hospitals contain hundreds of bodies with hands tied behind their backs. Our democracy funded execution-style murders. 37629327
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Ryan Bridge was banned from Stirchley in May after this day when Raise the Colours did a hit and run on a local resident. Perfect fit for the Conservative Party 12511
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company lawFarage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents 10333421640
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026In case we had any doubtlemonde.frElon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers sayThe newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X. 2233831315
penren.bsky.social @penren.bsky.social · 03/06/2026BBC Verify has confirmed what many people had been claiming, that Iran has inflicted a LOT of damage to US bases and very expensive kit 000
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21 391000533
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialCarol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 11/05/2026😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 Morning Bluesky. More ‘warnings’. I am appalled by the indifference of the media. Today i will print all the warnings out and send them, with a handwritten letter to Sir Keir. I am currently enduring ‘transferred trauma’. Please bear in mind when responding 77533
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This is what normalisation looks like. 11429190
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state: 47777296
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026If Labour react to this pattern by saying "we need to win back votes from Reform" they risk making a major misdiagnosis, one which could make their current troubles even worse. 857692
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026“I don’t know. I’m not sure, you have to ask the various people involved...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.now‘When did it come out?’ Trump remains disengaged as events unfold around himToo often, the president sounds like someone who just wandered into the Oval Office, blissfully unaware of current events. 1381802594
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full: 4520461179
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialCarol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🇺🇸😾🇺🇸😾🇺🇸😾🇺🇸😾🇺🇸😾 Chapeau to this female reporter! Going where NONE of her cowardly male contemporaries dare to go! More of this! #trump #epsteinfiles 2729590
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Wow. They’re so thick it’s almost impossible to credit. 1311619
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform 16340602093
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse” Oh it really can. You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse. Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy. 111939323
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"It can't get worse" is what put Trump in power 30576157
penren.bsky.social @penren.bsky.social · 15/04/202624 years in Israeli jails … www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comPalestinian leader Marwan Barghouti facing ‘escalating abuse’ in Israeli jails‘Palestine’s Mandela’ suffers three recent attacks including assault where prison guards set a dog on him, lawyer says 000
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialMiddle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Israeli forces beat elderly Palestinian woman to death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-…middleeasteye.netIsraeli forces beat elderly Palestinian woman to deathSoldiers violently shoved Sabriya Shamasneh, 68, with their rifles during a raid on her home 02928
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Gen. Caine and Adm. Cooper should put a statement now making clear the U.S. military will not follow orders that would mean committing war crimes, including military actions whose purpose would be to destroy a country or a civilization. 1153140689
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down. 490167914907
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him. 13519172
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"The Peace President." This madman must be removed from office. www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-hous…nbcnews.comTrump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' ahead of deadline for IranTrump's threat is among his most extreme rhetoric toward Iran since the war started. 2243436948
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026All countries between the US and Iran should shut down their airspace- deny landing rights, overflights, refueling or any other support for these explicit genocidal operations. Ideally, US military would refuse illegal orders and Congress would intervene- but that’s not happening. So, world must act 15452174
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14725698516890
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This @dandrezner.bsky.social analysis is correct and it is difficult to imagine any action Trump can take in the next week that would change it, except some actions would have an immediate, immense human toll, military and civilian. Other actions (a “deal”?) will still impoverish and harm millions. 325268
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Turning the physical world into the worst of the internet. And in the physical world we don’t have ad-blockers. 14114
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... 126982241
Reposted by @penren.bsky.social🐈⬛ ChrisCat 🦋💙 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🇦🇶🇺🇦✊🏻🐈⬛ @chriscat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026DJT is in his 'send lawyers, guns & money' moment b/c his 'little excursion' has morphed into the 'shit has hit the fan' consequences phase. No one should help him. He broke it. He owns it. No one should die b/c his ideas of how to lead are based on the playground bully model. Color me: disgusted. 0116
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I thought he thought we were all useless and US could go it alone, didn’t need our help???🤷♀️ 2213323
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/03/2026“We can take them at their word.” 2128070
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I never again want to hear someone, especially a journalist, refer to this shit stain as the leader of the free world, unless it's for ironic or comedic effect. bsky.app/profile/atru... 2419
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Another one: Reform's Cllr Jones (on the standards committee) has to apologise for saying speaking to the Conservatives about drainage would be "the equivalent of knocking on Michael Jackson's door and asking how to entertain children. We wouldn't do it." 2113
Reposted by @penren.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business. And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections. He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukNigel Farage takes significant stake in Kwasi Kwarteng’s Bitcoin companyFarage’s investment in crypto company Stack, headed by executive chairman Kwasi Kwarteng, comes after Labour asked the Electoral Commission to investigate crypto donations to Reform UK 35519230
