☘️ColleenAvril☘️🇪🇺💚
@colleenavril.bsky.social
Daughter of a Derry Girl. 🇮🇪 Socialist woke lefty allergic to Brexit, Fascists, Reform, Maga, Monarchy, Religion & Terfs #FBPE 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Scriptwriter, Poet & Theatrical Costume designer
Scriptwriter, Poet & Theatrical Costume designer
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I have today raised the case of the Palestine Action hunger strikers in Parliament, asking David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, to provide an update on their condition.
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I have today raised the case of the Palestine Action hunger strikers in Parliament, asking David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, to provide an update on their condition.
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Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today
No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit.
Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit.
Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today
No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit.
Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit.
Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
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Great! Now do a Customs Union!
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great! Now do a Customs Union!
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Eight Palestine Action protestors are currently on hunger strike in prison, thought to be the biggest of its kind in the UK since 1981.
So far bail has been denied and they are being held on remand until trial.
Write to your MP: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrike...
So far bail has been denied and they are being held on remand until trial.
Write to your MP: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrike...
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Eight Palestine Action protestors are currently on hunger strike in prison, thought to be the biggest of its kind in the UK since 1981.
So far bail has been denied and they are being held on remand until trial.
Write to your MP: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrike...
So far bail has been denied and they are being held on remand until trial.
Write to your MP: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrike...
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More than 50 MPs and Peers have joined me in urging David Lammy to immediately meet with the lawyers of those on hunger strike.
The government needs to wake up, take responsibility, and show some humanity before it is too late.
The government needs to wake up, take responsibility, and show some humanity before it is too late.
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
More than 50 MPs and Peers have joined me in urging David Lammy to immediately meet with the lawyers of those on hunger strike.
The government needs to wake up, take responsibility, and show some humanity before it is too late.
The government needs to wake up, take responsibility, and show some humanity before it is too late.
Why is the English press not reporting on this?
This is preposterous
This is preposterous
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Why is the English press not reporting on this?
This is preposterous
This is preposterous
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“Get out of my fucking seat.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“Get out of my fucking seat.”
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📸 Janine Niépce.
La fillette aux pain
Années 1950.
La fillette aux pain
Années 1950.
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
📸 Janine Niépce.
La fillette aux pain
Années 1950.
La fillette aux pain
Années 1950.
So glad to be back in France.🇫🇷
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So glad to be back in France.🇫🇷
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🔴 TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop ‘Slippery Slope’ Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics
Paul Nowak tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
Paul Nowak tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop 'Slippery Slope' Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics
Paul Nowak tells Byline Times that Keir Starmer's Government must stop seeking to 'out-Farage Farage' on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🔴 TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop ‘Slippery Slope’ Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics
Paul Nowak tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
Paul Nowak tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
This send chills down my spine.
When are Labour going to realise they are haemorrhaging their core voters in trying to out-fash Reform.
When are Labour going to realise they are haemorrhaging their core voters in trying to out-fash Reform.
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This send chills down my spine.
When are Labour going to realise they are haemorrhaging their core voters in trying to out-fash Reform.
When are Labour going to realise they are haemorrhaging their core voters in trying to out-fash Reform.
This is disgraceful
Human rights should be for all.
Human rights should be for all.
UK Government ministers will overhaul human rights law to make deporting illegal migrants easier, as part of a sweeping reform of the asylum system
Human rights law overhaul planned as part of Mahmood’s sweeping asylum reforms
UK Government ministers will overhaul human rights law to make deporting illegal migrants easier, as part of a sweeping reform of the asylum system. Billed as the largest change to the UK’s system in ...
wp.me
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is disgraceful
Human rights should be for all.
Human rights should be for all.
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Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
Why, oh why, are we trying to out-fash Farage and his cronies.
They’ll be advocating leaving the ECHR next……….mark my words
They’ll be advocating leaving the ECHR next……….mark my words
Refugees established in UK may have to return if home countries become safe
Refugees established in UK may have to return if home countries become safe
Approach modelled on Denmark’s controversial system forms part of home secretary’s changes to asylum system
Refugees who have established lives with homes and families in the UK – including Ukrainians – will still face having to return if their home countries become safe, the home secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said the asylum system was “out of control and putting huge pressure on communities” as she announced plans to end the permanent status of refugees, who will need to reapply to remain in Britain every two and a half years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Why, oh why, are we trying to out-fash Farage and his cronies.
They’ll be advocating leaving the ECHR next……….mark my words
They’ll be advocating leaving the ECHR next……….mark my words
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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A BBC news reporter talks of 'what Starmer *admits* is a crisis at our borders'. By using that word 'admits' the BBC indicates that this supposed crisis is a fact. But it isn't a fact. It's a manufactured moral panic.
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A BBC news reporter talks of 'what Starmer *admits* is a crisis at our borders'. By using that word 'admits' the BBC indicates that this supposed crisis is a fact. But it isn't a fact. It's a manufactured moral panic.
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This is how you speak when you know you are simply being honest and you are not interested in their nonsense. Unapologetic for his beliefs, compassionate and intelligent.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
I ❤️ the way you stopped and turned the question back on him when he tried to trip you “tax rises?”
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
I ❤️ the way you stopped and turned the question back on him when he tried to trip you “tax rises?”
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is how you speak when you know you are simply being honest and you are not interested in their nonsense. Unapologetic for his beliefs, compassionate and intelligent.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
I ❤️ the way you stopped and turned the question back on him when he tried to trip you “tax rises?”
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
I ❤️ the way you stopped and turned the question back on him when he tried to trip you “tax rises?”
Great news
Good news on Remembrance Sunday 🫶
Hero train worker, 48, who saved multiple lives during mass knife attack on London-bound train ‘regains consciousness’ - LBC
Hero train worker, 48, who saved multiple lives during mass knife attack on London-bound train ‘regains consciousness’ - LBC
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Great news
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Roadspect. Lovely stuff.
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Roadspect. Lovely stuff.
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There are so many cooking based jokes to be had here. I'm going to crowdsource it....
Go!
Go!
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There are so many cooking based jokes to be had here. I'm going to crowdsource it....
Go!
Go!
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
Lest we forget to give way at the road junction.
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'I believe my grandfather himself would rise out of his grave and rip the poppy off my chest if I was to wear it now it has been corrupted by the far-right' || @neilmackay.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
'I believe my grandfather himself would rise out of his grave and rip the poppy off my chest if I was to wear it now it has been corrupted by the far-right' || @neilmackay.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
Lest we forget to take the second exit
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Lest we forget to take the second exit
Legend
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85
Family pays tribute to actor who was ‘bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen’
The Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins has died aged 85, her family have announced.
She died peacefully, and surrounded by her family, in her care home in Highgate, north London, having had Parkinson’s disease for several years, they said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Legend