Reposted by Roger CleghornGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down. 490167924907
Reposted by Roger CleghornRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026This is so very, very bad. 3199
Reposted by Roger CleghornDr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇 10432671210344
Reposted by Roger CleghornHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇 20561781613258
Reposted by Roger CleghornMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I love when he accidentally tells the truth! 922270585589
Reposted by Roger CleghornJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Bruce Springsteen is some good, strong, sorely needed, goddamn medicine for Minnesota. This is a concert that is, and my words won’t do it justice, amazing. Sharp, specific, resolute, angry, and inspired. Some rock shows are all about just having a good time. Something larger is in play here. 200120982160
Reposted by Roger CleghornJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening. 3892940663
Reposted by Roger CleghornLate555 @late555.bsky.social · 31/03/2026He forgot that Congress is a thing. TBF, Congress also forgot that Congress is a thing... 657182944496
Reposted by Roger CleghornGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comSay hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George MonbiotThanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 751742790
Reposted by Roger CleghornAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...adambienkov.co.ukHow the BBC and Daily Mail Spread Reform's ‘Family Voting’ LiesThe real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election 14037621490
Reposted by Roger CleghornChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/03/2026This is probably the least surprising piece of news ever. 1690198215819
Reposted by Roger CleghornDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/03/2026"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world." 21992286
Reposted by Roger CleghornAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it. 1273299749833
Reposted by Roger CleghornMollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Five-time draft dodger says what now? 577203696758
Reposted by Roger CleghornPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/03/2026THE PRIME MINISTERS SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION PLAN WILL CHANGE THE RULES FOR MIGRANT CARE WORKERS It will keep them in a temporary status for a decade or more, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised. WHEN DID THAT BECOME THE POLICY OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT? youtu.be/G7uTFllI5ks?...youtu.beThe Prime Minister’s shocking and shameful plan for immigration and why we must all oppose itYouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 20372169
Reposted by Roger CleghornSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I'm in the Observer today looking at why Reform is doing worse in the polls, despite an almost perfect set of circumstances for them. observer.co.uk/news/politic...observer.co.ukReform and Farage are losing support. There are two key r...The party’s polling average has fallen 5 percentage points since August and its leader is no longer the preferred choice for PM. It may be proving harder than Nigel Farage thought to keep two kinds of... 1931757
Reposted by Roger CleghornMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 21/03/2026Ooh! Ooh! I know this one. They have morals and a conscience. And a brain! 872257398
Reposted by Roger CleghornMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment. 950118553007
Reposted by Roger CleghornAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...observer.co.ukReform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say 27642902229
Reposted by Roger CleghornFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 18/03/2026“If you break it, you own it” “In the short run it is up to the US to fix the problem it created. It must find a way to end this entirely predictable (and predicted) threat from Iran. It cannot be up to others to save it from its failure to think things through“ www.ft.com/content/86be...ft.comTrump has broken it. Now he owns itContinued closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens the movement of gas and fertilisers as well as oil 519468
Reposted by Roger CleghornSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026“As Tice surely knows, the law sets the floor of our obligations, not the ceiling. A society cannot function on the basis that everyone does the bare minimum they can get away with” Very good on the mean but intensely - selfishly - greedy politics of Reform. open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...open.substack.comReform’s patriots don’t want to pay for their countryThe party's deputy leader imagines a Britain in which everyone expects to benefit from the system, but no one feels much obligation to sustain it. 37710287
Reposted by Roger CleghornRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam. 2229290387601
Reposted by Roger CleghornCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Pretty chuffed with my 0.07% tbh. 2169981
Reposted by Roger CleghornSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026In response to revelations about Farage’s racist, Nazi-sympathising, misogynistic, greedy little video side gig, Farage’s spokesman said - if you’re grifting your arse off as furiously as Farage is- “occasional mistakes can occur” Yes. Easily done. If you’re a racist, Nazi-sympathising misogynist. 32446222
Reposted by Roger CleghornOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This is excellent. Absolutely scandalous that GB News essentially has a licence to spread misinformation like this without OFCOM stepping in. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...thenewworld.co.ukGB News Scandal: The dossierTwenty journalists analysed 15 hours of television – none of which complied with Ofcom’s regulations. These are their findings 1001707841
Reposted by Roger CleghornRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 14/03/2026Illegal settlements on stolen land. I weep for all the innocents across the Middle East. Peaceful coexistence is possible, but takes leadership with integrity and humanity. 0195
Reposted by Roger CleghornPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Ed Davey responds to Donald Trump urging countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open 2550696
Reposted by Roger CleghornJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Exactly this. 🎯 17195552311
Reposted by Roger CleghornOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970. Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition. 101863130
Reposted by Roger Cleghornshardcore @shardcore.org · 12/03/2026i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke” 41188051542
Reposted by Roger CleghornPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In 2020 Nigel Farage said of MPs who defect & refuse a by-election “it’s not right, it’s dishonorable” I’m sure Mr Farage can’t wait to attend the debate on 16 March and repeat this comment. 9421148
Reposted by Roger CleghornRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026The USA is no longer a nation led by serious people. 02612
Reposted by Roger CleghornOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Grasping little nobodies, who think they have a god given right to literally lord it over us in perpetuity, because some ancestor bought a peerage or was the illegitimate child of a royal or won some battle in a long forgotten colonial war or lent money to some tosser who lived beyond their means. 25437110
Reposted by Roger CleghornChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share: 513177277125
Reposted by Roger CleghornDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/03/2026You can ask Americans to make sacrifices but you have to convince them why it's necessary, and crucially, you have to do it before the sacrifices are required. The Trump administration's instinct is to promise everything will be pure upside until it's not and only then scold Americans to be stoic. 2227653
Reposted by Roger CleghornSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026We shouldn't rule out the possibility that the Andrea Jenkyns has had a labotomy. 3930945
Reposted by Roger CleghornRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 10/03/2026I wonder what excising one's spine does to MAGA politicians? 3208
Reposted by Roger CleghornAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you 811500398
Reposted by Roger CleghornGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...independent.co.ukFarage U-turns again on Iran war as Reform’s policy descends into ‘chaos’ 34739218
Reposted by Roger CleghornRory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story? 701740875
Reposted by Roger CleghornPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The Justice Secretary - a former barrister - suggests that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee” in order to justify undermining and restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy. The most absurd argument yet 1523476
Reposted by Roger CleghornOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived. 1681671547
Reposted by Roger CleghornGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️ thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...thesecretbarrister.comKeir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual libertyThis week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our… 53930353
