Not loyalists, but religious bigots with bowlers and brollies.
PS: I thought political uniforms were banned.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/27/tense-standoff-loyalist-march-portadown-protesters-block-route
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Why is this man not being charged with endangering life at sea?
#Racism #Fascismhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/far-right-activist-daniel-thomas-slashes-dinghy-with-blade-while-rescue-worker-onboard
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@pthane@toot.wales @John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot Switching to metric was first suggested in the 1860s. Changing the currency to the decimal system was seen as an initial stage to metrication and even that took over a century after that recommendation.
#ReformUK = cruelty personfied.
"A café owner who served up free meals to hungry children after food vouchers were removed has been told he will be reported to police by a Reform council leader.
Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook in Hastings, stepped up after East Sussex County Council decided not to issue school holiday meal vouchers to struggling families over the summer. He has criticised the move, which he branded “shameless”, accusing the council of turning its back of children in poverty."
#UK_politicshttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-meal-vouchers-police-37494875
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#R4today had yet another rich man, 'Sir' Jim Ratcliffe, advocating making poor people poorer.
The BBC really needs to stop giving these monsters a platform just because they have money.
Outrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’ .
#CDU #AfD #Stolpersteine #Heidenauhttps://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/europe/german-town-holocaust-stolpersteine-backlash-intl
There's nothing 'essential' [sic] about a disposable barbecue, you muppets!
#BadJournalismhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disposable-bbq-tesco-asda-ban-b3027116.html
"NHS England has admitted that a data protection document inaccurately stated who could access patient information, failing to disclose that Palantir staff could view identifiable data held within part of its Federated Data Platform."
#NHS #Palantirhttps://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/29/nhs-england-rapped-over-inaccurate-palantir-patient-data-disclosure/5280233
Dodgy Don allegedly drops economic harm claim against BBC.
He's obviously got something to hide...
#MakeAmericaGrateAgainhttps://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-emergency-motion-bbc-lawsuit-financial-records-1812863
14 peaceful protesters arrested at Palestine Action demonstration outside #Bristol Prison.
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/14-peaceful-protesters-arrested-at-palestine-action-demonstration-outside-bristol-prison/
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Bullshit klaxon.
"A police force using live facial recognition near a young people’s festival insists the controversial technology is “not mass surveillance or mass data capture”, but is being used to keep people safe."
#surveillancehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/boardmasters-festival-facial-recognition-newquary-devon-b3027787.html
RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116988188759385055
US forces are like vampires.
Once invited in, they never want to leave and will abuse one's hospitality.
Oversexed, overpaid and over here in the UK since 1942.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/116958043551926886
English colonialism is alive and well.
Auntie skewers the Mango Mussolini.
"Trump’s lawyers are also trying to dodge the forced release of his financial records by limiting the scope of the lawsuit. Alejandro Brito, a Trump lawyer, told Lett on Tuesday that he intends to amend the current complaint, according to Politico. The amended complaint will say the documentary only caused reputational damage, rather than undermining his businesses, making the financial disclosures unnecessary."
#MakeAmericaGrateAgainhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/trump-financial-details-bbc-lawsuit
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@RussCheshire@mastodon.scot @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk What you describe in your first paragraph can be encapsulated by the term corporate welfare.
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@christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @elCelio@mastodon.uno All my adult life, I've regarded the south east as strange and degenerate.
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@suearcher@toot.wales @spytfyre@mastodon.scot And the criticism is well deserved.
Amateur human beings.
"Matthew Torbitt, a prominent political commentator who once described himself as “Britain’s favourite lefty”, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation at a hearing at Thames magistrates court on Monday."
Never even heard of him...
#GBeebies #fraudhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/27/gb-news-pundit-matthew-torbitt-admits-committing-while-labour-aide
Abolishing standing charges for gas, electricity, etc. would have shown you really cared about putting more money in people's pockets, Mr Burnham.
Abolishing the 5% VAT rate was mere tokenism.
"Construction work has begun on a railway track running between Bristol and Portishead, which will allow passenger trains to run on the line for the first time in 60 years.
The £196m project will create two new stations, at Pill and Portishead, connecting them with Parson Street, Bedminster and Bristol Temple Meads in a 25-minute, hourly service."
#Bristolhttps://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/work-begins-on-train-track-between-portishead-and-bristol/
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @elCelio@mastodon.uno And getting darker by the day.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @elCelio@mastodon.uno I too was born in the Midlands between the Potteries and Shrewsbury.
'Police say they will "not tolerate criminality, disorder or hate of any kind".'
So why are you letting the #fascists and #racists assemble in the first place, Mr Plod?
#Bristolhttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-issue-stern-warning-ahead-11097207
People of Britain, you *will* work until you drop dead!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment
Deluded.
Price of olive oil expected to rise again as European crops feel the heat.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/04/price-olive-oil-expected-rise-again-european-crops-heat-drought-wildfires
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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world The good chaps element of the uncodified constitution is an anachronism.
The only time the country has had a codified constitution was during the Commonwealth following the English Civil War. It dates from 1653 and was called the Instrument of Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_of_Government
"According to the official plans, the bridge from Torre Faro to Villa San Giovanni in Calabria would be the world’s longest suspension bridge, with a central span – the distance between the two main supporting towers – of 3.3km. Its deck would carry six traffic lanes, two service lanes and two railway tracks. No suspension bridge with a comparable span exists. (The closest is Japan’s Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge, opened in 1988, with a main span of 1.1km.)"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/sicily-italy-bridge-plans-strait-of-messina
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@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk Don't forget that the BBC has also been the biggest media cheerleader for Farage over the years.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @elCelio@mastodon.uno Great word; accurate too. :)
If there's no increase in the personal allowance, pensioners will soon be paying income tax on their state pensions.
You're a coward, Burnham!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/andy-burnham-live-updates-tax-bus-policies-uk-cabinet-b3019250.html
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space A friend of mine usehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/bristol-car-crash-attempted-murder-b3029989.htmld to teach the online journalism module for UWE's media studies degree course.
He used to despair at the low standard of English his students exhibited.
Von der Leyen: brown people go home!
#Ceuta
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/03/stronger-eu-borders-physical-barriers-ceuta-von-der-leyen
"In the annual guga hunt, up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed over a 10-day period on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir, 40 miles north of Lewis and Harris.
NatureScot, which is responsible for licensing, refused to allow this year’s hunt to go ahead, citing a potential “adverse impact” on gannet populations according to new modelling."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/03/scottish-seabird-hunt-cancelled-for-first-time-in-400-years
"Continuously wooded since at least 1600, Oaken Wood is a plantation on ancient woodland site (paws), which means it is the site of an ancient forest that has been replanted. For centuries it has been worked as a sweet chestnut coppice, with whole sections felled in rotation, allowing the stumps to regrow."
#Kent #ReformUKhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/oaken-wood-ancient-woodland-kent-quarry-expansion-reform-council
First Jodrell Bank, now particle physics.
I know the country needs more sparks and brickies, but cutting funding to high-end science is ill-advised, myopic and will ultimately backfire.
I bet Burnham's never heard of the heptarchy.
#devolution
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space I'd never have known. :)
I like go point out that my parents who both left school in rural Norfolk in the 1940s wrote English to higher standard than today's journalists.
"The reforms require authorities to limit the number of councillors on their planning committee to 13 and only allow planning applications to be decided by the committee if they meet a strict criteria [sic]."
A criteria? FFS!
#BadEnglish #BadJournalismhttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/stalinist-planning-permission-reforms-condemned-11068728
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social @ShredderLivesOn@mastodon.scot Quite. Soon to replace all other classes of crime.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space The teaching of English hasn't improved in the 50-odd years since I left secondary school.
Data centres should be sent to the back of the queue.
People need electricity first.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/datacentre-projects-fees-grid-access-connection-queue-ofgem
Auntie has found the most sensitive part of the Mango Mussolini's anatomy...
"Donald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records, as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster."
#MakeAmericaGrateAgain #tRumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/trump-bbc-lawsuit-financial-records
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@ShredderLivesOn@mastodon.scot One thing that concerns me is that someone authorised the handover of the case to counter terrorism police.
I wonder who that was as it has never been disclosed.
Burnham to give councils more powers to block vape and betting shops.
He's shutting the door on an empty stable. The horse vanished ages ago.
On my local 'high street', it's not vape and betting shops that predominate, but hot food takeaways.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/10/burnham-to-give-councils-more-powers-to-block-vape-and-betting-shops