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🇪🇺 #AgainstLies 🦋 @againstlies.bsky.social · 2h

Totally agree.

It is a shame more people don’t recognise how good Starmer is.

The RW has succeeded in getting the left to help them get Farage elected, by persuading them to attack Starmer for not being RW enough.

Left always happier being protesters rather than getting things done.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 3h

Despite Starmer having to fight the lies thrown at him by our media and the opposition party. He’s still leading a team delivering for this country and playing a role on the global stage. He really is a very, very capable PM. We are so lucky to have him. I’m grateful every day.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 1h

Viral social media posts claim Italian PM Giorgia Meloni criticised Keir Starmer’s role in the Gaza peace deal as “cringe”.

But we couldn’t find any evidence Ms Meloni ever said this and the Italian embassy in London told us she made no such statement.

No evidence Italy’s PM said Keir Starmer ‘harmed’ Gaza peace deal – Full Fact

The Italian embassy in London told us social media posts claiming Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised Keir Starmer as “cringe” over the Gaza peace deal are false.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you for posting this. I really love his work.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 2h

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 1h

However sound someone might be sometimes I do get twitchy with (male) academics with privilege
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 8h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 2h

Tomorrow kicks off #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould. Be ready to go loud. No early posts—Friday to Thursday only. Break format, break silence. Tag it right. Use Alt Text. Get sharp prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 2h

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

ALT: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

media.tenor.com

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Andrea Robertson @mrsrobbo.bsky.social · 2h

From 2019...

A picture of musician Richard Thompson on the left, and bus driver Balwinder Jet Singh on the right.
Text reads: "So you reckon Islamophobia isn't racism because Islam isn't a race?
Musician Richard Thompson has been a Muslim for 40 years and has never suffered an Islamophobic attack.
Bus driver Balwinder Jet Singh has never been a Muslim in his life. He was attacked on his bus after being called "a suicide bomber" and was left disfigured.
Are you really sure Islamophobia isn't racism because Islam isn't a race?"

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 2h

Do I want to engage with this or will it make me cross?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

Confront the racists. Always. Never take a backward step. Make it very, very clear what they are. At a bare minimum, those who vote for them should know what it is they are endorsing.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17h

I notice all those brave journalists, Guido alumni, and Tory hacks, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security, at that - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone ALL QUIET now the witness statements have been released and are exactly as the PM detailed at PMQs.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 3h

I'm finding myself making some assumptions on the basis of gender here, so will leave this be.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 3h

I didn't see the whole thread - and , though I'm not very good at it , I'm trying not to assume deliberate offensiveness from other posters. For a Brummie girl who likes a scrap , it's useful learning!

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 3h

I couldn't find the whole conversation, but - having landed myself in assorted to- ing and fro-ing with folks I'd love to call trolls - I try to find some possible points of agreement. I know I don't always (often?) manage it but some folks it's worth listening to for longer than one post.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 3h

De rien! I didn't see the whole exchange but I can sense your irritation. I think sometimes folks who are used to being right (whatever that means) don't like challenge - especially when there may be a gender dimension.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 3h

Actually she so isn't- well that's not my experience. We don't always agree, but that's social media. I do think many of us - myself included - need to see robust but polite disagreement as an opportunity to hone our thinking, especially those who might be "influencers".

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 4h

Labour’s top 10 for this week includes funding for children’s hospices, flood measures and sanctioning of large Russian oil/gas businesses.

1. Mental health support/peer support networks to get people back into work get £80 million funding boost
2. Hampshire and Isle of Wight homes get personal flood protection
3. £80 million support for children’s hospices over three years
4. New campaign to alert young people to the dangers of ketamine, counterfeit medicines and adulterated THC vapes
5. All pupils will sit a mandatory reading test at age 13 to drive up reading standards
6. Specialist AI tech built by the UK government helped government’s decision to abolish Ofwat.
7. Construction of improved flood defences near Goole gets underway
8. Flood Protection Restored Along the River Mersey
9. SANCTIONED: The two largest energy companies in Russia and dozens of businesses across the world enabling Putin’s illegal war
10. Government works in partnership with industry to unlock £30 million electric vehicle R&D project
11. The UK is forecast to be the second-fastest growing of the world's most advanced economies this year. IMF)
12. Deposit Returns Scheme

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 5h

The government's message to Michelle Mone today, after the failure for Medpro failed to pay back £122m by yesterday's deadline:

"Our lawyers have been instructed and we are coming after her with everything that we have got."

"And we will get the British taxpayers money back."

'We'll get British taxpayers' money back': Labour minister warns Michelle Mone as he calls on Tories to revoke peerage | LBC

Stephen Kinnock has insisted the government has now instructed lawyers to start legal proceedings after the firm linked to the Tory peer failed to pay by deadline

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Yasmin Qureshi MP @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social · 4h

Over 1 million people are waiting for mental health care, including many in Bolton South and Walkden.
Labour is tackling the crisis with a new Mental Health Bill that modernises laws, strengthens patient rights and ends the use of police cells for those in crisis.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

I only got part way through reading this.💔🤬

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 5h

Is the whole China spying thing simply an embarrassing story for the Tories

because the alleged spies were so close to key Tory figures and leaked internal Tory info?

and so it's simply a game to direct attention away from the Tories and try & blame the Labour government?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

He is one hungry boyo!

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

My very Marxist tutor when I was doing my Masters in the 80s was all over Althusser like a rash and liked him to be mentioned in essays. Me, I avoided quoting him and bunged in stuff from Gramsci. Sometimes I still feel ideologically impure..🙃

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