excog
@excog.bsky.social
"I do not think therefore I am a moustache"
Sartre, La Nausée, 1938
Interests:
art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs.
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And yet we hear nothing about this from the press that most of us trust
@theguardian.com
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
@neweuropeansuk.bsky.social
What do you know?
Is it so disturbing that you’re keeping it from us?
And yet we hear nothing about this from the press that most of us trust
@theguardian.com
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
@neweuropeansuk.bsky.social
What do you know?
Is it so disturbing that you’re keeping it from us?
EXPOSED: The Government’s Freeport Con Trick – A Forensic Takedown of Their Insulting Response
The government just responded to my petition about Industrial Strategy Zones. What they said was a masterclass in gaslighting.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
open.substack.com/pub/european...
And yet we hear nothing about this from the press that most of us trust
@theguardian.com
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
@neweuropeansuk.bsky.social
What do you know?
Is it so disturbing that you’re keeping it from us?
And yet we hear nothing about this from the press that most of us trust
@theguardian.com
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
@neweuropeansuk.bsky.social
What do you know?
Is it so disturbing that you’re keeping it from us?
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#TomStoppard
"...admirer of Margaret Thatcher and, in 1984, signed a letter of support for the US invasion of Grenada."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
⚪ Many admired Thatcher but Grenada? Where did that come from?
#TomStoppard
"...admirer of Margaret Thatcher and, in 1984, signed a letter of support for the US invasion of Grenada."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
⚪ Many admired Thatcher but Grenada? Where did that come from?
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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#TomStoppard
"...admirer of Margaret Thatcher and, in 1984, signed a letter of support for the US invasion of Grenada."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
⚪ Many admired Thatcher but Grenada? Where did that come from?
#TomStoppard
"...admirer of Margaret Thatcher and, in 1984, signed a letter of support for the US invasion of Grenada."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
⚪ Many admired Thatcher but Grenada? Where did that come from?
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#Working_Class_History
Class struggle in Palestine
2 podcasts ~ 45 mins
There are transcripts which some may find easier.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
#Working_Class_History
Class struggle in Palestine
2 podcasts ~ 45 mins
There are transcripts which some may find easier.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
E86-87: Class struggle in Palestine
Double podcast episode about the class struggle in Palestine during the British Mandate (1920-48). We discuss the organisations built by Palestinian workers, the 1936-39 revolt, and a number of joi…
workingclasshistory.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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#Working_Class_History
Class struggle in Palestine
2 podcasts ~ 45 mins
There are transcripts which some may find easier.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
#Working_Class_History
Class struggle in Palestine
2 podcasts ~ 45 mins
There are transcripts which some may find easier.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
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#CovidEnquiry
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
Anthony Costello
Byline Times, 26 Nov 2025
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
⚪ Member of Independent SAGE during the COVID pandemic.
#CovidEnquiry
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
Anthony Costello
Byline Times, 26 Nov 2025
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
⚪ Member of Independent SAGE during the COVID pandemic.
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#CovidEnquiry
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
Anthony Costello
Byline Times, 26 Nov 2025
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
⚪ Member of Independent SAGE during the COVID pandemic.
#CovidEnquiry
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
Anthony Costello
Byline Times, 26 Nov 2025
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
⚪ Member of Independent SAGE during the COVID pandemic.
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"...failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.."
"...failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.."
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"...failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.."
"...failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.."
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#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
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#Starmer
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has been put forward for Nobel Peace Prize 2025, for ability to keep a straight face while greeting President Herzog of Israel on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
#Starmer
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has been put forward for Nobel Peace Prize 2025, for ability to keep a straight face while greeting President Herzog of Israel on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#Starmer
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has been put forward for Nobel Peace Prize 2025, for ability to keep a straight face while greeting President Herzog of Israel on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
#Starmer
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has been put forward for Nobel Peace Prize 2025, for ability to keep a straight face while greeting President Herzog of Israel on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
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Woof Shadow by Tachra Design in Tehran, Iran
photo: Parham Taghioff
photo: Parham Taghioff
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Woof Shadow by Tachra Design in Tehran, Iran
photo: Parham Taghioff
photo: Parham Taghioff
Reposted by excog
Interesting & honest discussion here between Varoufakis and Polanski on centrist liberalism, nationalists and nationalism/fascist collaboration through history. A history of oligarchical control up to present day ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Interesting & honest discussion here between Varoufakis and Polanski on centrist liberalism, nationalists and nationalism/fascist collaboration through history. A history of oligarchical control up to present day ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
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✍️ Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter
This exhibition at Harewood House in Leeds, captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
By Oksana Hubina
This exhibition at Harewood House in Leeds, captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
By Oksana Hubina
Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter
This exhibition at Harewood House in Leeds, captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
✍️ Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter
This exhibition at Harewood House in Leeds, captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
By Oksana Hubina
This exhibition at Harewood House in Leeds, captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
By Oksana Hubina
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#infographic
#working_class_history
map.workingclasshistory.com?event=11266#...
⚪ A monumental project with endless fascination.
#infographic
#working_class_history
map.workingclasshistory.com?event=11266#...
⚪ A monumental project with endless fascination.
WCH Map
map.workingclasshistory.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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#infographic
#working_class_history
map.workingclasshistory.com?event=11266#...
⚪ A monumental project with endless fascination.
#infographic
#working_class_history
map.workingclasshistory.com?event=11266#...
⚪ A monumental project with endless fascination.
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" Iran and Russia rely on electronic components from Western and other countries, such as the U.S., Switzerland, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Ireland, for Shahed-107 production, according to HUR."
" Iran and Russia rely on electronic components from Western and other countries, such as the U.S., Switzerland, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Ireland, for Shahed-107 production, according to HUR."
⚡️Ukraine details foreign-made parts in Russia's Shahed-107 drones used on front line, warns of “deepening cooperation” between Iran and Russia.
Ukraine details foreign-made parts in Russia's Shahed-107 drones used on front line
Similarily to other types of Shahed drones, Iran and Russia rely on electronic components from Western and other countries, such as the U.S., Switzerland, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Ir...
kyivindependent.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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" Iran and Russia rely on electronic components from Western and other countries, such as the U.S., Switzerland, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Ireland, for Shahed-107 production, according to HUR."
" Iran and Russia rely on electronic components from Western and other countries, such as the U.S., Switzerland, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Ireland, for Shahed-107 production, according to HUR."
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😼 [Wry Ginger Cat emoji]
⚪ Labour MPs, including Ministers, seems to have been bought, left, right and centre: fossil fuels, defence and aviation industries, Israel lobby. You name one they're on board.
😼 [Wry Ginger Cat emoji]
⚪ Labour MPs, including Ministers, seems to have been bought, left, right and centre: fossil fuels, defence and aviation industries, Israel lobby. You name one they're on board.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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😼 [Wry Ginger Cat emoji]
⚪ Labour MPs, including Ministers, seems to have been bought, left, right and centre: fossil fuels, defence and aviation industries, Israel lobby. You name one they're on board.
😼 [Wry Ginger Cat emoji]
⚪ Labour MPs, including Ministers, seems to have been bought, left, right and centre: fossil fuels, defence and aviation industries, Israel lobby. You name one they're on board.
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#BBC
#Panorama
The BBC is not News & Current Affairs, though its a very big News biz.
Total BBC expenditure £4.5 b. p.a., largely from the licence fee. Though it earns from sales of programs made. Much of the programs made have been outsourced, creating work.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
#BBC
#Panorama
The BBC is not News & Current Affairs, though its a very big News biz.
Total BBC expenditure £4.5 b. p.a., largely from the licence fee. Though it earns from sales of programs made. Much of the programs made have been outsourced, creating work.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Turner painted the world like no-one else, yet his life remains a mystery. Tracey Emin, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Wood explore his personal sketches to reveal the man behind the art.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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#BBC
#Panorama
The BBC is not News & Current Affairs, though its a very big News biz.
Total BBC expenditure £4.5 b. p.a., largely from the licence fee. Though it earns from sales of programs made. Much of the programs made have been outsourced, creating work.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
#BBC
#Panorama
The BBC is not News & Current Affairs, though its a very big News biz.
Total BBC expenditure £4.5 b. p.a., largely from the licence fee. Though it earns from sales of programs made. Much of the programs made have been outsourced, creating work.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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#Thnksgiving
...often associated with 1621 harvest feast shared by Pilgrims of Plymouth & Wampanoag people, its modern form evolved from earlier English traditions of days of thanksgiving and religious observances, and it has become a secular national tradition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
#Thnksgiving
...often associated with 1621 harvest feast shared by Pilgrims of Plymouth & Wampanoag people, its modern form evolved from earlier English traditions of days of thanksgiving and religious observances, and it has become a secular national tradition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
Wampanoag - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#Thnksgiving
...often associated with 1621 harvest feast shared by Pilgrims of Plymouth & Wampanoag people, its modern form evolved from earlier English traditions of days of thanksgiving and religious observances, and it has become a secular national tradition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
#Thnksgiving
...often associated with 1621 harvest feast shared by Pilgrims of Plymouth & Wampanoag people, its modern form evolved from earlier English traditions of days of thanksgiving and religious observances, and it has become a secular national tradition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
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We Ain't Buying It
Target caved to Trump and rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Home Depot has doesn't protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids
Amazon funded the Trump administration through donations and discounted government contracts
Target caved to Trump and rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Home Depot has doesn't protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids
Amazon funded the Trump administration through donations and discounted government contracts
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We Ain't Buying It
Target caved to Trump and rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Home Depot has doesn't protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids
Amazon funded the Trump administration through donations and discounted government contracts
Target caved to Trump and rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Home Depot has doesn't protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids
Amazon funded the Trump administration through donations and discounted government contracts
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#Starmer
Has to go & soon. This will mean the spring. But with him all the old Blairite lags & their acolytes must be 'shown the door' too.
The hard bit is imagining a Labour govt. with competents rather than Place Men. Those who have been bought (most of the cabinet) have to be pushed aside.
#Starmer
Has to go & soon. This will mean the spring. But with him all the old Blairite lags & their acolytes must be 'shown the door' too.
The hard bit is imagining a Labour govt. with competents rather than Place Men. Those who have been bought (most of the cabinet) have to be pushed aside.
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#Starmer
Has to go & soon. This will mean the spring. But with him all the old Blairite lags & their acolytes must be 'shown the door' too.
The hard bit is imagining a Labour govt. with competents rather than Place Men. Those who have been bought (most of the cabinet) have to be pushed aside.
#Starmer
Has to go & soon. This will mean the spring. But with him all the old Blairite lags & their acolytes must be 'shown the door' too.
The hard bit is imagining a Labour govt. with competents rather than Place Men. Those who have been bought (most of the cabinet) have to be pushed aside.
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#Trump
The natives are getting more & more restive. Yesterday a big crowd gathered round a ICE squad & shooed 'em off.
Not much talked about is if 47 dies leaving J D Vance, the cut-price Gilead, POTUS till 2018.
Despite 2 further years of mayhem it'd be better for the term to be completed.
#Trump
The natives are getting more & more restive. Yesterday a big crowd gathered round a ICE squad & shooed 'em off.
Not much talked about is if 47 dies leaving J D Vance, the cut-price Gilead, POTUS till 2018.
Despite 2 further years of mayhem it'd be better for the term to be completed.
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#Trump
The natives are getting more & more restive. Yesterday a big crowd gathered round a ICE squad & shooed 'em off.
Not much talked about is if 47 dies leaving J D Vance, the cut-price Gilead, POTUS till 2018.
Despite 2 further years of mayhem it'd be better for the term to be completed.
#Trump
The natives are getting more & more restive. Yesterday a big crowd gathered round a ICE squad & shooed 'em off.
Not much talked about is if 47 dies leaving J D Vance, the cut-price Gilead, POTUS till 2018.
Despite 2 further years of mayhem it'd be better for the term to be completed.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#Panorama
#PrescottMemo
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test
The document at the heart of the BBC’s crisis is unfairly selective and ignores most of the corporation’s output
David Aaronovitch, Observer, 12 Nov 2025
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
⚪ Top article explaining the memo
#Panorama
#PrescottMemo
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test
The document at the heart of the BBC’s crisis is unfairly selective and ignores most of the corporation’s output
David Aaronovitch, Observer, 12 Nov 2025
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
⚪ Top article explaining the memo
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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#Panorama
#PrescottMemo
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test
The document at the heart of the BBC’s crisis is unfairly selective and ignores most of the corporation’s output
David Aaronovitch, Observer, 12 Nov 2025
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
⚪ Top article explaining the memo
#Panorama
#PrescottMemo
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test
The document at the heart of the BBC’s crisis is unfairly selective and ignores most of the corporation’s output
David Aaronovitch, Observer, 12 Nov 2025
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
⚪ Top article explaining the memo
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JOSE OLIVARES AND ALEX COLSTON, DropSite News
A single warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, packaged and transported over a thousand tons of military equipment to Israel every week in the first eight months of 2025
JOSE OLIVARES AND ALEX COLSTON, DropSite News
A single warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, packaged and transported over a thousand tons of military equipment to Israel every week in the first eight months of 2025
A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week
Three New Jersey-based logistics companies have worked for decades with Israel's Ministry of Defense, U.S. contractors, and weapons manufacturers to ship military equipment from the U.S to Israel.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
JOSE OLIVARES AND ALEX COLSTON, DropSite News
A single warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, packaged and transported over a thousand tons of military equipment to Israel every week in the first eight months of 2025
JOSE OLIVARES AND ALEX COLSTON, DropSite News
A single warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, packaged and transported over a thousand tons of military equipment to Israel every week in the first eight months of 2025
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#MauriceGlassman
#Baron_Glasman_of_Stoke_Newington_&_of_Stamford_Hill
"John Prescott, spoke for many Labour members [..] tweeted: “Glasman. You know sod all about politics, economic policy, Labour or solidarity. Bugger off & go ‘organise’ some communities.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...
#MauriceGlassman
#Baron_Glasman_of_Stoke_Newington_&_of_Stamford_Hill
"John Prescott, spoke for many Labour members [..] tweeted: “Glasman. You know sod all about politics, economic policy, Labour or solidarity. Bugger off & go ‘organise’ some communities.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...
Maurice Glasman, architect of Blue Labour: ‘Labour needs to be itself again’
Ten years ago, political theorist Maurice Glasman was one of Labour’s brightest stars – until a fall from grace. Now, back with a new book, he talks about conservative socialism, backing Brexit – and ...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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#MauriceGlassman
#Baron_Glasman_of_Stoke_Newington_&_of_Stamford_Hill
"John Prescott, spoke for many Labour members [..] tweeted: “Glasman. You know sod all about politics, economic policy, Labour or solidarity. Bugger off & go ‘organise’ some communities.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...
#MauriceGlassman
#Baron_Glasman_of_Stoke_Newington_&_of_Stamford_Hill
"John Prescott, spoke for many Labour members [..] tweeted: “Glasman. You know sod all about politics, economic policy, Labour or solidarity. Bugger off & go ‘organise’ some communities.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...
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#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...