little fat politics & sci-fi geek who knows enough to know he does not know enough. follow many people you disagree with as this is just an echo chamber
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within an hour of me posting this the @BBCNews Middle East correspondent described the said for IDF general and creator of the Dahiya doctrine as a leftwinger !!!!
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Only a British journalist could be this astonished that the public considers a country that has bombed, invaded or attempted to overthrow governments in at least 70 countries since 1945 a threat to world peace.
Former US Chargé d'affaires to the UK Philip T. Reeker tells @MarkUrban01 a new survey finding 74 percent of people see the US as a serious threat to world peace is an "important moment" to reflect on the UK-US relationship.
trib.al/nzSSueb
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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This is winter in Gaza because Israel had blocked the entry of not just aid, but essentials for life.
Tents are not allowed in because the poles are considered dual use.
950k need new shelters. Hundreds of thousands are at high risk of flooding.
Palestinians in Gaza need life essentials to enter. This is collective punishment and a crime in intl law.
but whatever you do, don’t call the ethnonationalist political ideology that underpins this racism.
#GazaGenocide
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Manchester City is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former City player and Academy graduate, Darren Beckford - truly one of our own.
We extend our heartfelt sympathies to Darren’s family and friends at this difficult time 🩵
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Man City fans realising that losing their game would put Man Utd in the relegation zone
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Revealed: how Kate Middleton was weaponised by an anti-Muslim propaganda campaign – and the trail that leads to Israel.
Was an honour writing this for @thenerve_news
thenerve.news/p/anti-muslim-…
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It's not just confined to Tories. Earlier in the session @KrupeshHirani had compared criticism of Zionism to racism of Tommy Robinson.
Again Labour seem completely unaware that Tommy Robinson is a Zionist as well as aligning with the Antisemitic right.
Labour & Tories confused.
no fan of #Putin IMHO he’s nothing but an immoral murderous corrupt gangster.
but where does this he wants to destroy the West narrative come from?
Syed has bugger all to say from the late 90’s till around 2017 when he was using the West especially London to launder his money
“Russia wants to destroy the West.”
Matthew Syed of the Sunday Times warns we’re “tilting towards war” because of Russian hybrid warfare efforts in Europe.
#Newsnight
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This rape victim blaming is just despicable
Reality:
>1500 rapes a day in uk
80% by someone they know
200 of these rapes reported to police
Only 6 of them prosecuted
Look, if you want to avoid being convicted of rape in 1, 10 or 20 years, just don’t rape anyone
#RussellBrand
'There were people who knew stuff and they stayed silent'
Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal told #BBCBreakfast 'we shouldn't be reliant on the victims to keep reporting what happened' after Russell Brand was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…
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Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
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An honor to have my book enlisted by the courageous @ZackPolanski in the battle against conflating Jews with the wicked project of Zionism.
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It takes a certain type of brain rot and/or flagrant dishonesty to argue that a Jewish lawyer being interviewed by a Jewish journalist and praised by another Jewish journalist constitutes a campaign against Jewish children – but that's Ben Kentish for you!
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Hi Ben, this is a truly disgusting (and cowardly) tweet. So glad I have spent the past year turning down your repeated invites to appear on your show.
For the record, this is a Jewish journalist interviewing the Jewish *author* of the IHRA antisemitism definition for Zeteo, and it is Stern himself who thinks it’s a mistake to use the IHRA definition in the way the government is.
But since you can’t engage with the substance of any of this, you resort to smear by insinuation.
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This is a really important interview by Rivkah Brown in Zeteo with Kenneth Stern, who helped draft the predecessor to the IHRA Working Definition.
He's adamant that the IHRA should be dumped, even as an academic and monitoring tool. He's very clear it is so "poisoned" it should never be used in schools, as the government is now planning to do based on the Bell review.
This is what Stern says:
“I think it’s become so poisoned now that I wouldn’t use it primarily for [data collection] or any other purpose...The track record of IHRA in the U.S., Germany, Australia and, yes, the UK has been to use [the IHRA definition] to label pro-Palestinian speech” – including that of pro-Palestinian Jews – “as officially antisemitic."
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NEWS! Asylum seekers suggest deporting Reform councillors to Rwanda ‘to protect women and children’ newsthump.com/2026/11/04/asy…
a frankly insane amount of people on here today who are more upset about @AbdulElSayed putting his hands on a @SkyNews journalist than they have been about Israel killing over 200 of them in #Gaza.
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For those mad that AES put his hands on a journalist.
Perhaps this video will make it all make sense to you.
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This is the same Labour Government letting B52 bombers take off from British soil to bomb Iran - while people here at home pay the price of Trump's illegal war in spiking energy prices.
Warm words about ending the war won't cut it - Burnham must end the UK's participation.
