Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So it was more telegram terrorism then. On behalf of actors yet to be identified. I've quite enjoyed not having an opinion on this until information is revealed. It's quite a liberating feeling and our press should give it a go! 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I hope everyone realises that Russia will directly attack NATO, it's just a matter of time. And we should be behaving accordingly 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you're wondering - this is how the BBC News reported this story at 5am this morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west. 510325
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I would quite like to live in a country with a government 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The 11k likes on this AI slop on Bluesky of all places makes me fear for our future 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Man who hasn't lived in the UK for 6 years says what about immigrants now? Man who is a multi-billionaire hoarder and hates taxes says what about taxation now? Man whose company has just launched a carbon capture company says what about making more carbon now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 010
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks 671278507
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have a legitimate concern that a bunch of oligarchs are conspiring to end western democracy, buoyed by irreversible structural trends, during an era of rapid change (the kind that has previously precipitated world war)... 110
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just a reminder that Russia is trying to use islamaphobia and the fash to attack the west and the only defence is to inform the public properly. Also they way they use this tactic betrays their own prejudices more than ours www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUkrainian guilty of vandalism at mosques linked to Russian network behind Starmer arson attackIllia Bilyk, a 21-year-old Ukrainian man, has pleaded guilty to targeting five locations in east London. 100
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 12/09/2026While UK politics are bad I don't think people are paying enough attention to what's happening in Yemen and the Saudi East/West pipeline being shut down. The £2k+ household cost of wars like this only make British politics more and more insane www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comUK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis showsCentre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027 122
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 651512603
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers. 2812020527
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One of those two looks like an invasion to me. 19675160
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat. 781710559
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026The alarms are all flashing red. 1552324731
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The White House still hasn't figured out that Iran controls escalation options and it will escalate whenever the US strikes Iranian tankers, and if the US blockade persists much longer it will be incentivised to hit global oil infrastructure again. 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Stephen Bush, in the FT today writes that Labour “has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point”. A key question of political analysis is why Lab (and/or the British state) can’t/won’t be more decisive (x/?) 813359
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling. 41856343
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232746735
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Starmer's inaction over Israeli acts of genocide is one of the reasons he had to go. Miliband is right to act on clear breaches of international law even if there are consequences in the relationship with the US (which is itself increasingly outside of the law anyway) 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is time for the UK to admit it has a fascism problem. Just as the rest of Europe does and as the US does. History is repeating itself and every alarm should be going off. 001
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy 30762272
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We all saw this coming decades ago and yet we're still rushing to make it happen. Since time machines don't exist it would be wise to stop before it's too late. We won't. 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social 1081635650
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If we look at history, the police aren't the ones who stop fascism. They normally join its machinery. It's time for everyone else to say that what the elites are doing in the UK isn't actually acceptable 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm not sure who needs to hear this but if the US prolongs economic pain and a blockade on Iran, Iran's response will be military escalation (targeting oil prices). This is very predictable. 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 15/08/2026People using someone's life as a political football are now saying his death shouldn't be used as a political football. Arday's death is political. It's one of the longest running polical ideologies in British politics. The one so much wealth is built on: anti Black racism. 291582337
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Why did the media including the BBC make an academic row national news for weeks? We know why. And now fake contrition 010
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Funny how no one asked russia to halt strikes on Ukrainian civilians. 1292209016447
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It's widely understood that climate change is accelerating right? Everybody agrees about that? Right? www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...carbonbrief.orgPace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon BriefAn acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before 2030, a new study suggests.… 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Here is a small reminder for everyone spreading the pro-russian narrative about "revenge for Wildberries," as well as for any normal person who doesn't follow the war closely and feels confused. Pay attention to the dates! Russia struck the Amstor Shopping Mall in Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022, 1231891
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 271159565
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I think part of the problem the UK currently faces is a failure by the few remaining reasonable voices in the media and politics to call a spade a spade. Musk is a white supremacist. It's not reasonable to use a platform owned by a white supremacist. 031
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The UK and European democracies need to urgently fund some pro-democracy education in the USA 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's hard for me to avoid the conclusion (as with Starmer) that some people just don't see/care/empathise with the people on the victim end of the UK's racism 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Neither Trump nor Musk want Ukraine to win and European leaders allowing a situation where a small number of venal Americans decide Ukraine's ability to defend itself are to blame 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is shocking. From start to finish. It took 4 assaults, two arrests and 6 months before British Transport Police even told the CPS?! And then multiple shockingly negligent failures by the police and CPS after that allowed him to rape and murder women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow police let a registered sex offender murder and attack womenSimon Levy’s second murder victim, Sheryl Wilkins, could have been saved, senior Met officer admits. 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Because only good actors have access to tools, as history as shown us repeatedly. And international affairs and treaties are currently stable. Oh wait... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukArtificial Intelligence used to design brand new virusesScientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence. 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 06/08/2026No these were not "anti-immigration" protests, they were race riots in which mobs broke into houses targeting people of colour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukArrests and injuries amid Thetford anti-immigration protestsNorfolk Police attend two nights of disorder in Thetford as MP condemns "ugly scenes". 012
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Yeah how about we shut them all down if big tech can't act legally? A quick reminder that hacking things without permission is in fact illegal. None of this is inevitable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMeta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firmMeta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns. 010
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/08/2026The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Dystopian Future Dawns in KhersonPutin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal. 61965414
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Have you noticed no one is claiming this is an escalation? 26759301
