Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12hWhat? Newsnight is on now? And it features a guy with a man bun? Who seems like a tw@t? Bring back the good old days. 4222 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialnomorexitter.eurosky.social @nomorexitter.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026Europeans need to make it clear to musk, that starlink operation licences depend on keeping Ukraine supplied. 310316 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14805001111745 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialShady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence. 91267432 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialKenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026He's such a brave little man, Jenrick. Such a brave, brave little man. But mostly little. 6294 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast. 1091409258 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 2844586 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The first time since she became leader that I actually respect something Badenoch has said. Very low bar but a lot of right-wing politicians can't clear it. It's a Rees-Mogg versus Tucker Carlson scenario. Of course she may well end up making a deal with Reform anyway. 5648 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A much better part of the speech - the best section yet – sees Badenoch give a concerted kicking to the idea, as indulged by some Reform MPs, that people from minority ethnic backgrounds can't be English. Certainly doesn't sound like a pact between the parties is imminent. 3826 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As I was saying yesterday there is an obvious switch in approach and it's a welcome one. Let's see if it sticks with Katie Lam, Nick Timothy etc... on the front bench. 1730643 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Is it propaganda to acknowledge an atrocity, to grieve its victims, even if there are also other atrocities worthy of our attention? Is that a bar we set for other massacres? For, whatever came after it, this *was* a massacre.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026... 2345 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tim Stanley deserves credit for continuing to try and make Conservatism sane again. We've recently heard similar sane-ish moments from Rees-Mogg, Hannan and even Allister Heath, but they are not (yet?) as consistent as Tim Stanley who seems to be growing into this role. 24929 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed. 271001226 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh yeah. There're 364 other days of the year they could have chosen, including 28 October when Israel launched its ground invasion of Gaza - kinda a big date if you're protesting on behalf of Palestine. But no, they pick the day terrorists murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 more. I wonder why 310312 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026GMB headlining with 150 migrants who arrived in Gosport overnight. In a parallel universe where the number of small boat crossings is low and falling, this would not be news, never mind headline news. 1422134 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/10/2026"There is no reason to give these people any thought. They aren't getting any of my attention. I have little time for stupidity in real life, and none on social media either." 💕 www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig...bundesliga.comGermany coach Jürgen Klopp takes clear line against racismNew Germany coach Jürgen Klopp said football dressing rooms can inspire the world ahead of his side's UEFA Nations League clash against Serbia, after racist comments about his team were made on social... 1017126 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either... a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'. b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot. What a position. 6024051 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTrump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report findsThe figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year. 9229148 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialYoungy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just further proof of the bent nature of the sponsorships. No regular sponsor would threaten to sue the Prem for the reputational damage of a report they arent even named in. They would just cut ties with the club www.theguardian.com/football/202... 40453122 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialKenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but UK 30-year gilt yields haven't topped 6% this century. Until now. Does this matter? Yes ... all that debt that governments have been building up is costing eye-watering amounts to service. And that makes Mr Burnham's ambitious plans ever-harder to finance 3141 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDaniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Concerted, deliberate, calculated cheating is the conclusion. A Premier League heist. So throw the book at them and run the owners out of town. And Manchester City supporters should want to lead that movement. Column (free to read) inews.co.uk/sport/footba...inews.co.ukThrow the book at Man City - and force the owners outThe verdict leaves City facing questions that money and bluster can no longer drown out 1010728 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I support unions and have been a member for decades. I regularly advocate unions should disagree with even a Labour gov't, to represent their members' interests. But I cannot abide this destructive fix-everything-without-touching-anything constant heckling. 1135017 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialSean 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 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialGijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment. 9518248 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right? 251170183 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialTreblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Refugees should all put on balaclavas and shout “Stop the boats” while crossing the channel in dinghies 28515 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Let me be clear: I despise Jacob Rees-Mogg. I would still prefer he take the right side on this, because I am not a big baby and as someone with a child with some who immigrated to the UK, I have a personal stake in people of mixed origin not being othered. 960042 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Even leaving aside the unseriousness of pledging £17bn of tax cuts, I don’t understand how ‘tax cuts, but not until 2034’ is a good way to address the cost of living squeeze. 3404 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org 5472221 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialJohn Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Net zero was political consensus, now it isn't. It has become somewhat less popular as the right has turned against it, but support is still strong. So dismissing the role of the right, including the media, seems parti pris at best. 44310 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.sociala slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019) 29772150 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.social👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEarl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to DianaPrincess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair". 2550482 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20/09/2026I really really don't care about this and I don't care what Ed Sheeran of all people thinks about Gaza. Next week: that guy from Eurovision on Greenland 913710 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The playing field is not level: “According to analysis by Newscord, 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned – compared to 13 articles by the same media outlets on James Orr in the week after the broadcast of the undercover filming he was featured in”bylinesupplement.comThe Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong 212957 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:thetimes.comRishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA testI worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers 1447183 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So Tim McNally... • Appealed to Musk & Trump for help. • 'Would consider a name change to Trumpington if Donald took an interest in making us the 51st state'. • Talks of 'every man and his woman' • Talks of 'indigenous people' • Says he's not a Libdem Yes, we know exactly who Tim McNally is. 1011540 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...thetimes.comRishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA testI worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers 50655135 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago. 671759598 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 481140256 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026She is so brave and good. I hope she doesn't get too much grief. 36887128 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bonnie Greer making a fool of Nick Griffin on *that* Question Time. RIP Bonnie. youtu.be/afE05e6n4Zk?...youtu.beBonnie Greer OBE & Nick Griffin, BNP on Question Time 22.10.09YouTube video by I'mPOSSIBLE. 1130684 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052352687 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That’s not to say Hamas and Islamists aren’t to blame for a lot horrible stuff, because they are - of course they are What’s also true is Hamas’s egregious crimes do not give the Israeli govt the right to commit egregious crimes with impunity I just pray for better leadership in I/P, and soon 2677 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026100% this, a rubicon has been crossed The Israeli govt has killed tens of thousands of people, including 20,000 children, over the course of just a few years - and have showed no accountability, no genuine remorse, and came under little meaningful intl pressure to end the killing 328268 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It is perfectly coherent to think that tighter fiscal policy was the wrong macro policy call circa 2008-2020 and is the right one now. Because a lot of things have changed. We’re in a different macro environment when it comes to interest rates and inflation. 116521 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaireBen Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump 371012469 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th... 17657417 0
Reposted by @tbasra.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement. 3709279 0
