Mike Noyes
@mikenoyes.bsky.social
Humanitarian aid worker. Londoner, European, Arsenal supporter. Metropolitan liberal values. Son of a migrant, married to a migrant.
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Dear BBC, the objection to Israel is not its "war in Gaza". It's its *war crimes* against the Palestinian people, in Gaza (and let's not forget the illegal occupations).
Tell it how it is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tell it how it is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete
There had been calls for Israel's exclusion over the war in Gaza, as well as unfair voting accusations.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Dear BBC, the objection to Israel is not its "war in Gaza". It's its *war crimes* against the Palestinian people, in Gaza (and let's not forget the illegal occupations).
Tell it how it is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tell it how it is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
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The Colonel
Steve Cropper
Irreplaceable
Booker T and the MG’s are the hippest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
Steve Cropper
Irreplaceable
Booker T and the MG’s are the hippest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
YouTube video by LeeEstradaMusic
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Colonel
Steve Cropper
Irreplaceable
Booker T and the MG’s are the hippest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
Steve Cropper
Irreplaceable
Booker T and the MG’s are the hippest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
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The country is losing nearly half its FCDO funding, which NGOs say will have a devastating effect on education programs.
How UK aid cuts are hammering education in Sierra Leone
How UK aid cuts are hammering education in Sierra Leone
www.devex.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The country is losing nearly half its FCDO funding, which NGOs say will have a devastating effect on education programs.
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Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
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As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
It's a start. Not so much the deal but the very act itself.
“we must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal we have has significantly hurt our economy”
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's a start. Not so much the deal but the very act itself.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Such a terrible idea, both on principle it is precisely what good aid and diplomacy should be for, but also short sighted as it will foster greater costs and pressures in the future.
Such a terrible idea, both on principle it is precisely what good aid and diplomacy should be for, but also short sighted as it will foster greater costs and pressures in the future.
Fears for UK security as Foreign Office moves to scrap unit on conflict and refugee crises
MPs warn axing FCDO’s migration and conflict directorate amid staff cuts risks undermining peace work and expertise
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Such a terrible idea, both on principle it is precisely what good aid and diplomacy should be for, but also short sighted as it will foster greater costs and pressures in the future.
Such a terrible idea, both on principle it is precisely what good aid and diplomacy should be for, but also short sighted as it will foster greater costs and pressures in the future.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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Is Badenoch really good stupid? Doesn't she realise that the early Christians were a tiny, persecuted minority under the Roman empire (which had executed the founder of their religion)?
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Is Badenoch really good stupid? Doesn't she realise that the early Christians were a tiny, persecuted minority under the Roman empire (which had executed the founder of their religion)?
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
I had hoped this kind of deliberate performative cruelty would end when we got rid of the Tories. I was wrong. Even the Labour Party want to separate children from their parents.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I had hoped this kind of deliberate performative cruelty would end when we got rid of the Tories. I was wrong. Even the Labour Party want to separate children from their parents.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
A government lead by people who opposed the stupidity of Brexit is unable to tell the truth about it or try to remedy it.
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A government lead by people who opposed the stupidity of Brexit is unable to tell the truth about it or try to remedy it.
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ANOTHER BIG EUROPEAN WIN IN THE BOOKS ✅
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ANOTHER BIG EUROPEAN WIN IN THE BOOKS ✅
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Ban on Palestine Action is repugnant and should be lifted, high court told
Ban on Palestine Action is repugnant and should be lifted, high court told
Co-founder’s lawyer says group is part of an ‘honourable tradition’ of direct action and civil disobedience
The proscription of Palestine Action is a repugnant, unprecedented and disproportionate interference with the right to protest, the high court has heard.
On the first day of a legal challenge to the ban brought by co-founder Huda Ammori, her lawyer said the group had been engaged in an “honourable tradition” of direct action and civil disobedience prior to proscription. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ban on Palestine Action is repugnant and should be lifted, high court told
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Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.
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This was a botched Budget by a Chancellor who’s diagnosed the disease but won’t administer the cure.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This was a botched Budget by a Chancellor who’s diagnosed the disease but won’t administer the cure.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
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Nigel Farage thinks the song ‘Gas 'Em All’ is just bants. Pass it on.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nigel Farage thinks the song ‘Gas 'Em All’ is just bants. Pass it on.
A long read, but a thorough analysis which chimes with my observations of right wing evangelicals who refer mostly to the old testament as the gospels are too humane for them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A long read, but a thorough analysis which chimes with my observations of right wing evangelicals who refer mostly to the old testament as the gospels are too humane for them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
Day 23 (unranked)
The Undertones - Get Over You ❤️🎶🎵
youtu.be/7_Axli2C5ew?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 23 (unranked)
The Undertones - Get Over You ❤️🎶🎵
youtu.be/7_Axli2C5ew?...
undertones-get over you
YouTube video by ludeboy77
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November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
Day 23 (unranked)
The Undertones - Get Over You ❤️🎶🎵
youtu.be/7_Axli2C5ew?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 23 (unranked)
The Undertones - Get Over You ❤️🎶🎵
youtu.be/7_Axli2C5ew?...
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Brilliant Eze hits hat-trick as Arsenal thump Spurs to extend lead in title race
Brilliant Eze hits hat-trick as Arsenal thump Spurs to extend lead in title race
It was an unguarded comment from an Arsenal official and it came shortly after Eberechi Eze’s mural outside the Emirates Stadium had been defaced with white paint – presumably by a Tottenham fan. It summed up the snark between the clubs and Arsenal’s delight at pipping their rivals to Eze’s signature from Crystal Palace at the end of August. “We sign a top-class forward for £60m. They throw paint at walls.”
Eze’s mural has since been redone; it now has a caption to reinforce the storyline about the boyhood Arsenal fan coming back to his club after being released as a youngster. “All roads lead home.” So it did not need a joke from Thomas Frank on Friday to set up Eze vs Spurs. “Who’s Eze?” the Spurs manager had said; a classic of the fate-tempting genre. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Brilliant Eze hits hat-trick as Arsenal thump Spurs to extend lead in title race
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