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- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Powerful words by London Mayor Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk in Byline Times on claims of 'lawless London' 👇 "These people can't stand what London represents... They believe a city as diverse & progressive as ours cannot be allowed to thrive. If it does, it makes a mockery of their entire worldview"
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙When Reform UK's Richard Tice complains about the Chagos islands deal, "giving away our strategic security asset" The Labour minister responds, "I'm not going to take lessons from a party that fawns over Vladimir Putin"
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
- Harrowing watch but damn good TV. Blanchett and Kline are standouts in a stellar cast superbly directed by Alfonso Cuarón. tv.apple.com/gb/show/disc...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙The media should be paying *a lot* more attention to Farage's climate views. He literally doesn't think that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
- Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone Martin Roche @bylines.scot @bylinesnetwork.co.uk bylines.scot/politics/bre...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙“It’s almost as if LBC thought no one would notice the fact that Myska had gone, but her case has attracted widespread interest…”
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙In Grangetown, where life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress. Will Teesside councils act?
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙“The idea that this country is not a free country is completely and utterly ludicrous. That woman was inciting violence. She's free to think her horrible, racist thoughts. That's fine. What she isn’t allowed to do is go and incite violence.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙This was a real pleasure.
- NEW EPISODE: 'Broken News'. The terror of the tabloids @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social talks to @goldbergradio.bsky.social about his new book, “Breaking – How The Media Works, When It Doesn’t And Why It Matters.” From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙🔴NEW🔴 by me for @opendemocracy.net Ministry of Defence pays out £20m in compensation for sexual misconduct over 10 years, figures obtained by FOI laws reveal www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙31% say 'no party represents working people'. That is a real problem. @yougov.co.uk
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙A new issue for most people? SEE: Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙“The Immigration White Paper aims to reduce international student numbers. But universities need them. Can the circle be squared?”
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Climate Change is worsening hurricanes. SEE: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-ch...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙If instead of fining water companies money, they were fined shares, they'd either have to do the job they've been paid for or lose the company piece by piece. Re-nationalisation at no cost to the public.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙"Water pollution is a massive problem. The River Ouse, a major river in Yorkshire, is identified as being at risk from manure pollution from factory farms. UK livestock farming produces an estimated 33,450 tonnes of manure every day."
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social is keeping a running list of all the claims made by Musk & his team that have been shown to be false:
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙C4News, "The Prime Minister Keir Starmer, unusually, chose to take only one broadcaster, GB News" What word would you use to describe a PM who only takes GB News on a trip to another country?
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Young people are locked out of opportunities their older siblings took for granted. A UK–EU youth visa deal could begin to change that. Read Prof. Johanna Waters on why this matters. From The Conversation -- thanks!
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙BBC Question Time Audience Laughs As Fiona Bruce Skewers Tory Chairman Over His Party's Record www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-qu...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Restrict cash ISAs and I for one will not shift to a stocks and shares ISA. Tried that twice. Lost money comparatively. To the charges of providers. Now who does the report say is lobbying for this? www.ft.com/content/8455...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Young people are locked out of opportunities their older siblings took for granted. A UK–EU youth visa deal could begin to change that. Read why this matters | Prof. Johanna Waters @eastangliabylines.co.uk @johannawaters.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙🔴The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad bylinetimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Good thread by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Palantir in NHS. Read also my newsletter from yesterday which reveals head of Palantir UK in middle of UK-US trade deal talks…of which we still don’t know the details. Why not?? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
- 🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Chris Philp says Nigel Farage's spending plans are "Liz Truss on steroids". The only snag is he was No2 in the Treasury in her government and gave the mini-Budget "9.5 out of 10". www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Jeez this is a painful watch. An EU youth mobility scheme is not a return to free movement. Why can’t the government just say that? Why is it so hard?
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙“While deals with India & US will be welcome news for UK industry and workers, the governor is right to highlight the greater importance of trade links with our nearest and largest market, the EU." - Tom Brufatto, Dir of Policy & Research, Best for Britain www.bestforbritain.org/britain_must...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Gentle reminder of Nigel Farage's views on the NHS...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙NEW | A close reading of *that* Gregg Wallace interview… GREGGING OUT AHEAD OF THE VERDICT Gregg Wallace's interview with the Daily Mail is a historically bad attempt to reshape a narrative. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/15-greggin...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙By me in @eastangliabylines.co.uk : interview with Anna Gazeley about Coton Orchard and the planned busway bit.ly/3XRxrsp
- Fantasy versus reality.
- Trump said he u-turned because 75 countries called to "kiss his ass". But the reality is his 'Liberation Day' tariffs put the US bond market on the verge of a meltdown, wiped TRILLIONS off the stock market and angered his tech broligarchy. He had no choice. Source: @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Found Adolescence a properly adult, complex, humane drama. To see it whittled down into 'ban phones in school' is so depressing.
- The asylum has been well and truly taken over.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Welcoming a 10% Trump tariff rate as a ‘Brexit benefit’ is like being grateful for a full tank of petrol after all the wheels have fallen off your car. Brexit has made us poorer and weaker, wiping £140 billion from the UK economy. The lower tariff rate is a drop in the ocean.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙I am fed up with my trade deficit with my local supermarket. They are taking advantage of me needing food and give nothing in return. I decided I am going to pay 20% extra on the top of their product prices. And I will continue doing so until they start listening to my podcast and read my articles!
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a suit against Trump’s imposition of import tariffs on exports from China, arguing doing so under International Emergency Economic Powers Act – which president invoked to justify duties on nearly all countries – is unlawful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙ETA to enter UK - Cost: £10 (£16 from April 9) - Lasts: 2 years - Covers: UK only - Introduction: Already rolled out (from TODAY for EU citizens too) - RW papers: silent/supportive ETIAS to enter EU - Cost: 7 euro - Lasts: 3 years - Covers: 27 countries - Introduction: 2026? - RW papers: rabid fury
- 51 voters are suing #ReformUK for ignoring data requests. @goodlawproject.bsky.social says the party failed to comply with #GDPR, causing distress. The case could force #Reform to reveal and stop processing voters' personal data. @josiah.writes.news @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- Trump’s foreign policy is transactional, favoring power over values. Allies face tariffs and threats, while autocrats get deals. As US democracy weakens, global trust erodes. The UK will soon have to choose between the US and Europe. @alexhh.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- Keir Starmer toured the UK’s nuclear subs, but the UK’s deterrent relies on the US—an increasingly unpredictable ally. If the US withdraws support, the UK must choose: build its own costly arsenal, collaborate with Europe, or disarm entirely. #NuclearPolicy #NuclearDeterrence
- A progressive government? Labour voters' hopes dashed as Starmer appears deaf to needs of the vulnerable, the climate and pro-Europeans Tom Serpell | @sussexbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk buff.ly/8BIRwUX
- Iran: the struggle for rights continues A short recollection of recent human rights infringement cases in Iran Peter Sagar | @northeastbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk #Iran #HumanRights buff.ly/gcRwTTi
- The False Economies of Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement There is nothing “responsible” about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants #SpringStatement @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- Reform UK’s Murky Corporate Structure Raises Legal Red Flags, Experts Warn #NigelFarage’s party is structured around a series of opaque companies, but who is really behind them? #ReformUK #Farage @josiah.writes.news @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- It won’t improve much under #Labour.
- Ah, that ‘special relationship’.
- UK does not want to 'escalate' Donald Trump's trade wars, says Rachel Reeves news.sky.com/story/uk-doe...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Watch out for scams! Which? warns of fake Apple ID emails, Royal Mail texts, and Booking.com fraud @northeastbylines.co.uk
- You need rose-tinted glasses.
- Don’t share #Trump’s portrait. He hates it. #TrumpPortrait
- ‘Keir Starmer’s Government Should Stop the #Austerity Denial About These Cuts’ The uncomfortable truth about #Starmer and #Reeves’s economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Today's Poll: Are you broke & do you feel most people in the country are or aren't? What's CLOSEST to how you feel? 1️⃣ I'm broke, most are broke 2️⃣ I'm broke, most arenrl't 3️⃣ I'm NOT broke, most are 4️⃣ I'm NOT broke, most aren't 📊 Show results
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Best one I've seen yet.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Kemi Badenoch spent a week at £14,000 residential hosted by climate sceptic Neil Record just weeks before scrapping the Tories' net zero by 2050 policy. leftfootforward.org/2025/03/kemi...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙😂 they keep coming.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙This was an agonising interview. I understand why ministers are in the position they're in. They're trying to prevent tariffs. They want to keep communication open with the US over Ukraine. It all makes sense. But by Christ there's a downside.
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Our very own @cathobbs.bsky.social slams the government. Explaining how we can kick start the economy AND rebuild public services through public ownership. #SpringStatement #Budget www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Keep in mind: Like with Tesla, this decline is JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. The full realization of how toxic the US has become has yet to permeate the mainstream.
- ‘Why the #Democrats Must Start Fighting Back Against #Trump and #Musk’ Former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski tells Alexandra Hall Hall why the Democrats’ reluctance to push back against the Trump administration is only making things worse @bylinetimes.bsky.social @alexhh.bsky.social
- The art of the ‘obversification’: on Trump and truth The American president’s loves to say the opposite of what’s true – one of these days, that’s going to catch up with him @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/rig...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙🚨 Civil Servants Felt Pressured Into Giving ‘Special Treatment’ to Conservative-Connected COVID PPE Supplier Emails reveal officials felt threatened by firms benefiting from “back-scratching” by Conservative ministers My latest report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/03/21/c...
- GB News rages about being ‘victim’ of complaints following presenter’s homophobic comments @left-foot-forward.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙This is a very dangerous Bawbag!
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- ‘No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts – We Need a Wealth Tax Instead’ Keir Starmer must change course from this performative cruelty towards the sick and disabled, argues Neal Lawson @bylinetimes.bsky.social
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Like @GeorgeMonbiot, I too have been stockpiling food. Most people would if they’d read @ProfTimLang’s report on food security. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙Imagine negotiating with Putin and then coming out and telling everyone what bastards the Canadians are. Imagine having a brain so broken that this sequence of events is even thinkable.
