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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 3h
Great summary of curious events
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 4h
'When one of their own is in the dock, the right-wing press can be remarkably and uncharacteristically kind.' – @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 11h
Britain's press must explain how it decides whose reputation receives relentless scrutiny and whose receives restraint. via @jamradiouk.bsky.social jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
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When the Press Protects Its Own | Jam Radio
Euen Herbert-Small asks whether Britain's media applies fair, proportionate and consistent scrutiny regardless of race, power or professional connections.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amnesty International UK launch of report on the response of many UK universities to Palestine solidarity and the impact on students www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silencing-...
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Silencing Dissent: UK Universities' Response to Palestine Solidarity
How have UK universities responded to Palestine solidarity on campus over the past three years? Join the launch of a new Amnesty UK report.
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Kurt Fleischer @kurtfleischer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Then the coppers need to round up these yahoos.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026
Femme_brulee: Too many well meaning white progressive allies are in denial about how bad this is getting and how fast.
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Political uniforms were banned under the Public Order Act of 1936. #PatriotPlatform
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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Learning Point: #Scotland
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026
Perhaps the Bridget Phillipson of August should have a word with the Bridget Phillipson of October and tell her to either condemn the racist violence and intimidation or get the Home Secretary to. samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...
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The Far Right Are Escalating
...and someone is going to get killed
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026
Yet it is striking that neither Phillipson nor her ministerial colleagues have spoken publicly about the incidents highlighted above or even about Patriot Platform's Danny Tommo and his balaclava clad street army.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026
Bridget Phillipson was right when she said that racism and misogyny have grown increasingly commonplace in Britain. You need only read about the two Asian women who were raped last year in attacks that police treated as racially motivated.
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They live and work among us.
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The far right are escalating... and someone is going to get killed samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...
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The Far Right Are Escalating
...and someone is going to get killed
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Queer. VIciously, with intent to wound. @leilashafiqmog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And when someone, inevitably, murders one(or more) of us it'll be all "This isn't who we are," and "who could have predicted," while they post wholesome family pictures of the murderer
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Ghost of Empires Admiral Rodney Lourenço Marques @rodneymarques.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is where the cowardice of the 'centre left' has taken us. Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have spoken out more strongly against this behaviour than Andy Burnham, and Keir Starmer before him. Burnham thinks it's OK to quote a high profile racist in his little tiktoks—he's not going to address it.
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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Only a matter of time before hotels are running risk assessments on bookings of 4 or more non whites, or subtly restricting availability due to "security reasons"
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John Thundergun @niallbrady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The estates of Belfast are under the jackboots of paramilitaries who make up a tiny % of the local population. It’s virtually impossible to get rid of them. If the government don’t start to get a grip, the British mainland is going the same way.
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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 10/10/2026
this man is who Andy Burnham is working so hard to impress
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"So, a group of Nigerian IT professionals was spotted at Palms Hotel on the A127 near Upminster … and you can pretty much guess what happened next. Jesus Christ this f*****g country." – Simon Harris
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The BBC report is filed under local news and focuses on the attack on a police officer. it is called an “anti immigration march” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man charged over attacking police officer during Glasgow protest
Social media showed dozens of people, many wearing masks or dark clothing, walking through the city's east end.
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Eleanor @eleanoralbaugh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who is this? Has he been arrested yet?
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annetomato50.bsky.social @annetomato50.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And the Labour govt say they have 'legitimate concerns'
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🥴
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy Black History Month everyone 🫠
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 10/10/2026
"The far right are escalating... and someone is going to get killed". These are not the actions of a group with "legitimate concerns".
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Pat @ticgran45.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Where are the cops! Oh wait they've all been suspended for violent action and domestic abuse . Maybe they've joined the racist cowards who hide their faces. O my people not welcome on streets are these idiots in masks
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A thread of what life is like for anyone these groups dislike, usually by existing in our own skin. The threat has always been there, but it’s escalating and endangering ever more lives as so many either look away, or even embolden this hatred and violence.
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The far right are escalating... and someone is going to get killed samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...
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The Far Right Are Escalating
...and someone is going to get killed
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On 9 October, a man left his car, walked over to another car with a woman and child inside, banging his hands on their car and shouted into the window, “You’re brown. Your mum’s brown. And you stink. Get some deodorant.”
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At the beginning of this month, 2 October, a man was found unconscious with a black eye and injuries to his face and neck. According to police, the victim was subjected to racial abuse before being assaulted by a group of people.
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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
British media completely ignoring this is part of why we are so fucked as a country.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
According to the Guardian, another street patrol group, British Security Project claim to be the "tip of the spear in mass deportation under a Rupert Lowe government". On its Facebook page the group states that it aims to "provide 124,000 security personnel to public spaces by 2035".
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the footage, they can be heard shouting: "We're gonna smash every black c**t.” “More of the bl*ck b*s***ds there!” “P*kis an' all” “Fuck off, nobody wants you here, you're not welcome anymore. There's too many of you here and we've had enough…"
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On 7 October, a video shared by Stand Up to Racism Scotland, with the caption This is what happens when you keep telling racists that they have "legitimate concerns"... appeared to show a group of black-clad men ‘patrolling’ the streets of Glasgow while making racist threats.
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Home Office figures released today show that hate crimes have reached a new record level. In the year ending March 2026, racially-motivated hate crime increased by 9% compared to last year, with a 13% increase in religiously motivated hate crime.
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Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2026
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"What is enshrined in International law is the right of a people to exist"
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 09/10/2026
Everyone I know is holding their breath because we know the far right is going to kill someone soon, but yep let's chat about the Green party endlessly and into the foreseeable future.
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Glasgow last night: "We're gonna smash every black c**t.” “More of the bl*ck b*s***ds there!” “P*kis an' all” “Fuck off, nobody wants you here, you're not welcome anymore. There's too many of yous here and we've had enough…"
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Tim Burnett @tritim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely hideous. Who does this harm? The landlord of the HMO, and the taxpayer who has to pay for the repairs. And, in the meantime, more accommodation has to be found for those in need, be they asylum seekers, young workers or whoever. 🤬
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Bikey McBikeface @bikeymcbikeface.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK fascism
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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
more about far right violence that really should be national news www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Salford mayor calls for city to unite
'The spirit of Salford is what unites us'
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The far-right smashed up a HMO housing asylum-seekers last night.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Really proud to see Ahmed have his first book published! I can't wait to read Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters to Power ✨ irishpages.org/product/rott... So many fantastic @writersofcolour.bsky.social alumni have had books published over the last 10 years. Pleased to see each one thrive!
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 02/10/2026
Letter to the University of Cambridge calling for the suspension of James Orr jonathanchaplin1.substack.com/p/letter-to-...
In my judgement, the Faculty and university are now suffering considerable and mounting reputational damage as a result of the highly credible allegations of criminal behaviour, in the form of breaches of electoral law, reported in the recent Channel 4 News programme about Dr Orr’s fundraising activities for Reform UK, and at greater length in the Verbatim Investigations film on which C4 drew (VERBATIM). In the C4 report, a former Electoral Commissioner declared himself to be ‘shocked’ by what he saw and said that some of the activities of Dr Orr there reported seemed on their face to be plainly illegal. In the Verbatim film, a senior lawyer was even more forthright in asserting that he judged they were clearly breaches of the law. It is at least very clear to any viewer that Dr Orr regarded some of his fundraising activities as needing to be concealed from public view.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hope this legal team knows what they're doing, cases like this can establish troubling precedents if they are unsuccessful. In the UK, Cofnas was more or less able to legally establish scientific racism as a protected belief
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Kaiser of Crisps @kaiserofcrisps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He looks like a haunted Cabbage Patch Doll...
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ahh remember this little fresh-eyed chinless wonder bursting onto the scene all billy big-bollocks thinking he was going to make the big time right-wing circuit, and then how he disappeared almost as quickly as soon as people Noticed?
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