Reposted by James SparrowAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Green Party has written to the Telegraph demanding an apology and retraction for publishing these two cartoons, which they say use "well known racist and antisemitic tropes in depicting Mothin Ali and Zack Polanski" 35644178
Reposted by James SparrowBob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026…A small sample of the ghouls who denied Assad’s chemical weapon crimes, smeared civilian first responders, and amplified the testimony of a child obtained under duress 0156
Reposted by James SparrowBob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026… as Chloe notes, this disinformation campaign didn’t just involve Kremlin state broadcasters;  it was actively promoted by conspiracy theorists in Western Europe and North America, such as David Miller, Peter Hitchens, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate. 1207
Reposted by James SparrowBob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Vital reporting by the great journalist @chloehadj.bsky.social who tracked down a key witness to the 2018 Douma chemical weapons atrocity. At 11, Hassan was locked up & forced to give false testimony on film, used in Assad/Putin’s disinformation campaign… observer.co.uk/news/interna...observer.co.ukAt 11 he was forced to lie about Assad’s chlorine attack....After a video showed Hassan Diab in the aftermath of a chemical attack on Douma, Syria and Russia pushed him to call it a fiction. Eight years later, he and his family finally feel safe enough to spea... 1189
Reposted by James SparrowJoe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If all your political activities have consisted of protests, eventually that suggests that you aren’t interested in acquiring the power to do something about the stuff you shout about. 0252
Reposted by James SparrowWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At a certain point you gotta be willing to just say these are basically crazy people that nothing you can do will make happy, man. Like I’m sorry but if you’re protesting Mamdani over this people should just ignore you. 27977105
Reposted by James SparrowHughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Full Lubna Speitan clip from OP. Transcript: "We will continue until we dismantle Zionism, from every country, from every place, they will be shunned. And inshallah that time will come…when they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi[s] were … We will obtain freedom. It won't happen without force" 113220
Reposted by James SparrowHughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lubna Speitan, proposer of the Green Zionism is Racism motion, making fairly clear what she's about (OP here is a fash PoS so not including their name or their last contestable sentence) 6328
Reposted by James SparrowJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aaaaannnndddd Zack is liking tweets telling people who oppose the Zionism is Racism motion 'sometimes things don't go your way' and 'to move on'. Right. 2216132
Reposted by James SparrowHugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It makes no allowance for any other form of Zionism. It bundles them in. Again, if a motion said "anti-Zionism is antisemitism" and then used circular argument in the text to exclude any situation where it obviously wasn't, then I doubt you'd be ok with that. 1102
Reposted by James SparrowJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A new chapter for Profiles in Courage ... 0367
James Sparrow @sparklyjed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm starting an online business. £4.8 trillion is spent online each year, globally. My business plan is that if I can get just 1% of that business... 010
Reposted by James SparrowJamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are many arguments against PR; the one I don't really see is the idea it would lead to "permanent coalitions". For the last 108 years the UK has been led by coalition governments. It's just that for 94 of them those coalitions were either called "The conservative party" or "the labour party" 3245
Reposted by James SparrowRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comJewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagoguesThe Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism 1615541
Reposted by James SparrowAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conferencebylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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 661092548
Reposted by James SparrowOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dementia and Alzheimer's are absolutely devastating not only to the sufferer but for their friends and loves ones as well. Currently if it happens to your parent or partner you're effectively on your own navigating this terrible and often very expensive landscape of care. 701105185
Reposted by James SparrowGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you haven't been through this with an elderly parent yet it's maybe hard to explain why social care reform feels like a big deal but there will be a surprising number of people i suspect feeling quite tearful listening to this 1312318
Reposted by James SparrowSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 561634528
Reposted by James SparrowGeoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟 @semperbufo.bsky.social · 29/06/2024I feel like plenty of solid posts were never posted, because—in writing them—the poster realized all of the potential bad faith interpretations (even by those who'd actually agree with them), tried to add more detail to counter that, ran into the character limit, said "Fuck it" and clicked Discard. 1012917
Reposted by James SparrowMicah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2024I may be an optimist but I believe the tenor of online debate could be vastly improved if more people were capable of distinguishing “this is what I believe reality to be” from “I heartily endorse this” 2079581
Reposted by James SparrowJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights". 28461179
Reposted by James SparrowIan 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. 361037281
Reposted by James SparrowRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship 1330471
Reposted by James SparrowJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like Burnham as a person. He seems a decent sort, someone you could have a pint with, who'd nod along in agreement as you put the world to rights. But I have yet to see any indication that he is a leader, let alone a courageous one. I really hope he proves me wrong. I doubt it, though. 5183
Reposted by James SparrowTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea . 271371380
Reposted by James SparrowDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous 4359285
Reposted by James SparrowThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Neglecting any mention of Thomas filming himself trying to sink the boat with RNLI rescuers aboard is bordering on disinformation, frankly. 413132
Reposted by James SparrowWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point. 421134319
Reposted by James SparrowJames Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just had a quick read of the US-Greenland-Denmark agreement and it seems like a complete non-event. Trump threatened the territorial integrity of a NATO ally and got nothing.stm.dkAftale mellem Grønland, Danmark og USA 1419767
Reposted by James SparrowSarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 22/09/2026Today, the government has announced it is bringing in statutory bereavement leave for pre-24 week pregnancy loss from next April. This will make a huge difference to women and their partners who experience the pain of losing a pregnancy - and finally recognise it as the bereavement that it is. 24311
Reposted by James SparrowJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has. 641940446
Reposted by James SparrowLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible 24865571
Reposted by James SparrowIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊 10772244
Reposted by James SparrowHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵 40574205
Reposted by James SparrowDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of? 271296341
Reposted by James SparrowJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do. 632781881
Reposted by James SparrowMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Your country’s gangs of far-right rioters are Nazis. My country’s gangs of far-right rioters are overly enthusiastic patriots 27920
Reposted by James SparrowDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242674684
Reposted by James SparrowLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This government reminds me of Joe Biden. Biden didn't want to be the prosecute Trump president, he wanted to pass an infrastructure bill. Burnham doesn't want to be the take on the hard right PM, he wants to do social care reform and devo. But you have to do the task you're set or face disaster. 1430488
Reposted by James SparrowMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary 832790
Reposted by James SparrowJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sadiq achieved this by leading not following. A follower would never have done what he did. It is a lesson that will go largely unlearned. But by being politically brave, Sadiq has literally saved countless London lives. 1187
Reposted by James SparrowDawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As Chair of the London PLP, I have written to Reform Chairman Lee Anderson on behalf of London Labour MPs following Zia Yusuf’s vile and racist attack on Cllr Sagal Abdi-Wali. He must retract his remarks and apologise. There is no place for racism in our politics. 23448129
Reposted by James SparrowDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115643175
Reposted by James SparrowPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The intense harm that this causes, ignoring all science and medicine, to appease a few rich bigots and Spectator columnists. Trans kids exist, have always existed, will continue to exist. You can help them or harm them. This cowardly government has chosen the worst harm. Forever shame. 8281110
Reposted by James SparrowRen Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. People have a tendency to see it through rose-coloured glasses. Stop whining about young people and their more reserved habits and let them live their own lives. The world is very different place now and they have to live in it. It’s not easy and it’s not kind. 13310
Reposted by James SparrowRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted. 181616700
Reposted by James SparrowSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k. 771328544
