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People voting in English council elections on where they stand on Palestine, mass immigration etc but local councils mostly deal with refuse collection, social care and local libraries...

Following the latest violence against the Jewish community I look forward to the left & anti-racists organising a march against antisemitism They march against anti-black & anti-Muslim violence Now it's time for a public show of solidarity with victimised Jewish people

It's pretty noticeable how a lot of the same people who a few years ago were making comparisons about this country being like "1930s Germany" appear to have absolutely nothing to say now that Jewish sites here are being firebombed on the regular.

I repeat: the British middle class contempt of the working class is the only prejudice they have allowed themselves, so this is just ridicule porn from JOE to spoon feed to them.

The 1979 Iranian revolution was a hinge point in history that dramatically set back the values that progressives claim to care about, including women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and rationalism in public policy. In “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi recalls the story of Niloufar, an 18-year-old communist activist sentenced to death by the clerical regime. The religious jurists have no problem with the death penalty for Niloufar, but they worry that as a virgin she may go to heaven. So they arrange for her to be raped by a prison guard before her execution. Later the authorities send Niloufar’s family a small dowry to commemorate this “marriage.” Ali Khamenei led this murderous medieval regime for nearly forty years. This is a regime that beat women for showing their hair and publicly hanged gays from cranes. It’s a regime that ignored the needs of its own people to fund jihadist groups in, among other places, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories. It’s a regime that committed murder in dozens of countries, including Germany, France, India, Australia, Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Just weeks ago, it slaughtered thousands—possibly tens of thousands—of its own citizens for protesting its repressive policies. Because the Iranian revolution offered a template for Islamist rule, albeit a Shia variant crafted by Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamists of all stripes took inspiration from it. Few countries adopted the extreme measures favored by the mullahs of Iran, but the revolution’s malign influence was felt from Morocco to Mindanao. In the 1980s it also sparked a theological arms race with Saudi Arabia, which spread its own regressive brand of Islamism around the world. Progressives in democratic countries who mourn the death of Khamenei come in different flavors. Some are simply Islamists or Islamist adjacent. Their ideology conceals the deeper religious passions that motivate them. Others are so blinded by their hatred of America and Israel that they reflexively oppose any action by them. Yet others are simply so ignorant of the nature of the Iranian regime that they can’t see the absurdity of comparing Khamenei with Dumbledore from Harry Potter. But all of these people have one thing in common. They spit on the suffering of the talented Iranian people who have had to endure nearly 50 years of brutal clerical rule.

This is something I HAD to jump on 👀 There’s a trend doing the rounds calling ‘2026 the new 2016’ - a nod to a time people remember as lighter, simpler, more optimistic. For me, that year is frozen in one tournament 🫡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 EURO 2016 didn’t start smoothly - I went into it as an injury doubt and began on the bench. Then football did what it always does and turned the script without warning 😅 I came on, scored the winner against Slovakia, and the whole tournament felt different from that point on. Days later, we faced Belgium in the quarter-final. I started up front, we played without fear, and that night became part of our history 😉 It’s a reminder I come back to often: progress doesn’t always look like a straight line. Setbacks don’t mean you’re out of the picture… they’re often just the pause before the game opens up. Stay ready. Things can turn quicker than you think ⚡️

British-Iranian actor Omid Djallili says the narrative that Iran’s protests are “Israeli-led” or “American led” is “so offensive to Iranians.” “I’m all for free speech but when you’re pushing this narrative you’re getting people killed.” - @omid9

Last night on @BBCNewsnight a message for when you’re standing up for the people of Iran and still have some culture war nonsense going on inside your head. #IranianRevolution2026

This looks like a sixth form college project from the late 90s. Makes Zach Polanski's fairly basic social content look like it was made by Spielberg

I'm sure the Ukrainian working class (with which Sultana will have consulted) think of little else as they sit in air raid shelters or wonder if the kindergarten survived that last unprovoked Russian attack

Not seen anything bring British people together like the death of Ian Watkins since London 2012

People think that Britain is in terminal decline but, honestly, there was so much more dog shit around in the '90s and I think we need to acknowledge the progress we've made in the last 30 years

In Paddington Station. Good fun trying to guess who's been here for the Tommy Robinson march and who's off to Last Night of the Proms

Not wanting to get drawn into the flag debate but that is first class dismounting of a ladder

Interesting to see Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS has invested in Castore. If Man U have to start getting their kits manufactured by Castore I reckon that's the final nail in their coffin

You see people post the most incendiary shit on the comments section on insta and then click on their profile and it's just loads of pics of them walking their dogs

My mother is the UK’s worst conspiracy theorist. During covid she called for nurses and doctors to be hanged. Last year she murdered my sister Paloma, by preventing her from getting medical treatment for her cancer. My brother and I are now fighting for justice. Please help us.

Oasis are probably the most English rock and roll band of all time. Glam rock riffs (Slade/T Rex,) Beatles-harmonies, punk attitude, Mod/football casual aesthetic. A frontman modelled on Lennon, Lydon and Brown. A lead guitarist modelled on Marr. All English influences.

God has cursed the Palestinian people with the stupidest, most unimaginably dumb "allies" and "pro-Palestine" fools that humanity could have ever produced. What was poor Hamas supposed to do on October 7, 2023, when 240 Palestinians were killed that year? I'll tell you how your favorite “resistance” group could have spared tens of thousands of Palestinian lives and avoided Gaza’s complete annihilation: 1- Don't carry out the worst single attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, don't take women, children, and the elderly as hostages, and don't hold Super Bowl-styled parties/ceremonies when returning them. 2- Don't hand Palestinians in Gaza on a golden platter to the most far-right extremist government in Israel's history. 3- Consider unity with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and stop being a tool of division for Benjamin Netanyahu. 4- Don't act at the behest of the Islamic Republic of Iran and other terror groups and militias. 5- Consider announcing formally that you're for the Two-State solution on the 1967 borders and that you accept Israel's existence. 6- Develop an actual political program that has a vision for how to create a compelling Palestinian political scene, which will invite international interest and intrigue from moderates in Israel. 7- Don't start a war for which you have no strategy to win except hoping that mass casualties generate pressure and outrage against Israel on social and traditional media. 8- Turn Gaza into the most compelling example/model of effective Palestinian self-governance and economic success and stability to show what an occupation-free West Bank would look like. 9- Declare that you no longer want to be in the governance business and wish to relinquish control of Gaza to allow you to focus on pursuing Palestinian freedom, dignity, safety, and statehood. 10- Announce that you will work with the Palestinian Authority to engage in legal, political, and diplomatic forms of resistance and that you're evolving and moving away from violence. Just imagine if Hamas had done any of those – we’d be talking about less than 300 dead Palestinians, not 60,000 killed, 2 million displaced, 200,000 wounded or maimed, and $50 billion’s worth of damage. @piersmorgan has never once invited me on his show even though he knows who I am; but he'll invite every lunatic there is out there to speak about my people and my homeland - truly pathetic.

The moment you realise you're going to have to meet your next mistress in Burnley