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“'I can still order four different versions of Mein Kampf, though,' he added, which illustrates the 'absurdity' of the situation." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/it-feels-quite-frightening-readers-rush-to-snap-up-sally-rooney-books-as-stocks-dwindle-amid-palestine-action-ban #UKPolitics #Bookstodon #FreePalestine #SavingLivesIsNotTerrorism

NEXT WEEK ⏰ Join us for the launch of our new report, 'Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment'. We'll be uncovering how AI is used in the UK immigration system, the secrecy around it and our recommendations for change. 🗓️ Wed 28 October 🕠️ 5:30–7:30pm 📍 King's College London Reserve a spot ⬇️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/automated-discrimination-unpacking-the-digital-hostile-environment-tickets-2002621759592 #ai #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

"It is an absurdity so mind-bending to think that today the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who rampaged through Syria as the commander of the al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra, could land in the UK and be received at 10 Downing Street, but Sally Rooney could be arrested on arrival on terrorism charges" #PalestineAction #SallyRooney #UKPolitics What the UK Is Doing to Pro-Palestine Novelist Sally Rooney Is an Act of Orwellian Villainy

Slashing the heat pump subsidy to fund the megapolluting arms industry is not only economically illiterate, it will decimate the nascent heat pump industry. Labour claims to want growth. The future is in renewables, not war. #HeatPumps #Renewables #Defence #UKPolitics Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending | Heat pumps | The Guardian

Police have launched a murder investigation into the death of right-wing British politician Ann Widdecombe. The 78-year-old former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead at her home with serious injuries on Thursday. Here's more from @BBCNews@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/RLRG_l #News #UKPolitics #AnnWiddecombe

Shocking Zack Polanski revelations, we're all back to voting Labour now, yes..../s #ZackPolanski #UKPol #UKPolitics #London #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty

lol Also, enable your profiles for the Fediverse guys! #ZackPolanski #UKPol #UKPolitics #London #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty

Ahh, the boiled egg that is Luke Akehurst is behind this shitshow? Anything but listen to the voters and run the country, yeah? London will go Green because of clowns like you Luke, cheers! #ZackPolanski #UKPol #UKPolitics #London #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty #LukeAkehurst #Labour

More terrorist pensioners arrested in Stroud today. #UKPolitics #SavingLivesIsNotTerrorism #FreePalestine

So they're arresting journalists who cover the protests now. https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/five-journalists-arrested-pro-palestine-action-protest-leicester/ #UKPolitics #SavingLivesIsNotTerrorism #FreePalestine

I thought about it, and here are some serious reasons why #CarolVorderman should hold back in the first #ClactonOnSea by-election and let @CountBinface@mastodon.world have the first go. Yes: 1st by-election. Per ¶40 of the Protocol approved by the House of Commons, #NigelFarage winning the 1st by-election allows the standards commissioner's investigation to be un-suspended, and could result in a *second* by-election should the Committee on Standards then so decide. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmcode/1084/1084.pdf#page=12 #UKPolitics

1. #CountBinface has already declared (as of 15:19 BST today) as a unity candidate.

https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116880095978834495

The only people left to state a position, as I write this, are the Greens and any other potential unity candidate such as #CarolVorderman.

It's daft to split a 'unity' vote.

Yes, the Count is satirical, whereas Vorderman would be serious. But that brings me on to point 2.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics #NigelFarage

1. #CountBinface would be a far less depressing loss than #CarolVorderman would be if #NigelFarage won.

There's a significant chance that Farage will win, given #ClactonOnSea's past record. Beating Vorderman, whom they hate, would be a feather in #ReformUKLtd's cap.

But they couldn't crow about sticking it to 'the establishment' when they only beat a comedian in a bin; who, moreover, has 9 years of practice turning election losses into pointed sound bites. c.f. Makerfield!

#UKPolitics

1. #CountBinface running would spur the political commentators into remembering when #NigelFarage ran against John Bercow over another little matter of houses, and faced John Stevens's dolphin named Flipper.

It's Silly Season, remember.

#CarolVorderman & the others need only to step back and let the journalists, desperate for stories, gorge themselves on Farage versus Binface; which will just make Farage look even worse, especially if xe gets cross on camera again.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics

"Restricting social media will not make public transport easier to use, youth clubs more welcoming or local venues less overwhelming. It will remove a route through which young people currently gather the information and contacts needed to navigate those settings" #Autism #SocialMedia #UKPolitics Social media provides valued community spaces for autistic young people

The UK social media ban is coming. That means every adult having to show their ID to get online. Age verification puts privacy at risk. Curbs freedom of expression. And simply doesn't work to keep kids safe online. The government needs to change course. But the clock is ticking. Sign the petition ⬇️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/say-no-id-online-access #ageverification #privacy #freedomofexpression #onlinesafety #socialmediaban #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights

"Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions" https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/green-party-split-over-iran-as-members-push-to-oppose-irgc-ban-and-sanctions/ #campism #strategy #Iran #internationalism #antiImperialism #politics #IRGC #UKPol #UKPolitics #GreenParty #GPEW

Motions may be performative politics "In the current political conditions of the UK, refocussing the public conversation around Zionism is a gift to the Right. They can distract away from genocide, or arms sales, or nakba, and back onto one about emotions or ideology." ~ Em Hilton @timhollo@aus.social writes about purity tests: https://in-between-days.ghost.io/zionism-is-a-shibboleth/ @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai #purity #populism #campism #strategy #IsraelPalestine #internationalism #antiImperialism #politics #UKPol #UKPolitics #GreenParty #GPEW #Greens

in which Dunt outs himself as a zio-apologist. So much coded and inflammatory language in the quoted part of the Politico article (which wasn't provided by Dunt). Dunt: "I find myself getting quite frustrated with this 'well it's a contested definition'. It's only contested if you think the views of ignorant people are as valid as those who know what they're talking about." FFS. #ZionismIsRacism #FreePalestine #AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism #UKPolitics #CentristMelts