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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 3m

There's a plausible deniability thing (favourite dog whistler's trick, of course) in that non-SS Panzer crew overalls were black (to hide the oil stains). I very strongly suspect that's not what he was wearing, all the same.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2h

In 1972, Idi Amin expelled Uganda’s Asian community in the name of culture.

In 2025, a British MP is using the same language to justify removing lawful residents.

Don’t say it can’t happen here.

"They Will Also Need to Go Home"

A sitting Conservative MP has introduced a bill that would make lawful residents deportable for earning under £38,700 - and Britain’s political class is barely blinking.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 6h

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 6h

Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.

ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.

If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)

The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5h

It's only a Hummel kit but it will still cost you £106, that's not cheap.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7h

In the 17th century the British famously removed the need for the royal hat budget with a single stroke, FFS!

Given your whole "Parliament is supreme but actually we mean King-in-Parliament when we say Parliament" thing I'm more than a /little/ skeptical that you'd had anything close to a "No Kings" movement in the 17th century.

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Football Supporters Europe @fanseurope.org · 18h

Game over for La Liga. The match will now be played where it belongs - in Villarreal. European football united once again to protect the future of our game. Congratulations to #Villarreal and #FCBarcelona supporters, @fasfeaficion.bsky.social, AFE, and everyone who stood up against this madness.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 19h

Villarreal and Barcelona’s La Liga match in Miami has been postponed, with organisers saying there is insufficient time to organise the event.

Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⤵️

Villarreal-Barcelona match in Miami postponed as organisers run out of time

In August, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) approved the request for December's La Liga fixture in Miami,

www.nytimes.com

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly how pleased were you with that "Aurions nous rêvé?"/New Rave juxtaposition?

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 1d

He's very much in the top five of "I wouldn't want to pathologise but" candidates in the English-speaking world, I'd say. Although milhist is always going to be a crowded field.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

The Epstein Memorial Ballroom is going to be quite the legacy for future presidents, isn’t it?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 4d

Well, yes - It was an attack on all English football fans. Far more than this single-team, single game ban is.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

I started getting random jours-non when I developed hay fever in my early 30s (after doing a lot of particulate-heavy city centre riding as a courier for a couple of years).

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

Hashtag fenian

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

Just practicalities.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

I'm guessing that any hashtag mentioning "Irish" in English will promptly be overwhelmed by people from Chicago with one Irish great-great grandparent, and/or fans of the Notre Dame college football team.

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 6d

Because I'm out at a gig tonight.

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 7d

Chanson française or sad girl indie?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, target practice they badly needed, then.

Early enough war that they were doing the cruiser warfare thing, then? Stop, take crew off, sink.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 8d

The shell splash seems quite a long way behind it, possibly firing at something else? Or just really bad shooting.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 8d

The Isley Brothers medley of Ohio and Machine Gun.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 8d

lol they're doing the thing again

Serving in the U.S. Navy was one of the greatest honors of my life.
Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy.

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