* Andy Burnham breaks the silence on rejoining the EU
* How McSweeney’s Labour Together reshaped the party into a Brexit outfit.
* Reform’s narrative collapses as huge poll shows voters reject their fear-mongering
All in this week's @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
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Car crash briefing with Kemi Badenoch spokesman in which he
- Couldn't say if she'd ever raised grooming inside govt (having never mentioned it in the House)
- Admitted she hasn't spoken to any survivors
- Refused to condemn Elon Musk for attacks on Jess Phillips
and said she's still a "fan" of his
🔴#MuskWars: 'The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’
After claims the UK is suppressing investigations into child sexual abuse, we’re republishing part one of a five month investigation
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/muskwars-t...
🎯
I first learnt of grooming gangs from @theTimes in Jan 2011
I became chief prosecutor May 2011
I authorised charging Rochdale grooming gang June 2011
After convictions (May 2012) Starmer put me in charge of national response
Far Right thugs attacked my home
1000s of rapists were brought to justice
The Conservative party accuses Keir Starmer of refusing to take child abuse seriously.
In other news, here's former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson complaining about £60 million being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse cases
🚨🚨 "The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on". Great report by Kate Devlin & Alicja Hagopian (@the-independent.com) on the far-reaching negative implications of #brexit for UK economy. 🧵
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
So a Nazi oligarch tweets a lie, and the leader of the Tory Party jumps at it like a puppet on a string. English politics needs a reboot. The number of bad politicians in positions of power can't be seen as coincidental anymore. It's systemic.
Your regular reminder that the editors and senior management of the Times are entirely comfortable with Phillips' deranged racism.
A police helicopter filmed a thermal camera capturing footage of an unidentified flying object over the Bristol Channel that remained undetected by air traffic control, moving against the wind and defying identification as a common object like a balloon or a Chinese… #ufo #uap #aliens #ovni #ufosky
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed...The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…"
New Scientist Finland's two-year test of universal basic income concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients' mental and financial wellbeing bit.ly//2k19J8
It was pointed out to me that the board game Monopoly includes UBI – collect 200 for passing GO – and it's not the reason people lose.
Migration is too often used as a political weapon from those on the far right to demonise some of the most vulnerable in society, with terms like asylum seeker, refugee and migrant deliberately conflated.
Here's what you need to know.
He may be… but he can be mean, in a sibling like way, to his sister (Feathers)
Our Harry likes posing too…
Sadiq Khan, who won his mayoralty again in 2024, is being ‘rewarded for failure’, while an identical honour for Andy Street, who literally lost his, is not…
What could possibly explain this glaring anomaly?
Happy new year to you all 👍🍾🍻🎉❤️
Similarly the term Non-Human Intelligence, avoids the stigma of the term 'Aliens'... 👽
I'll correct this for you BBC.
Three human beings die attempting English channel crossing.
Three human beings with names, stories, families and hopes and dreams.
Stop dehumanising these poor people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I don't know who needs to hear this, but sex with an underage girl is called STATUTORY RAPE.
Can we stop sanitizing it please?
Der Spiegel reports the attack on a Christmas Market in Madgeburg, killing two people, carried out by a man from Saudi Arabia apparently with far right sympathies for the AfD's anti-Muslim agenda. He puts the X owner Elon Musk with Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson as inspiring his journey to violence.
Boris Johnson, who wasted billions of taxpayers £ on useless PPE, making a sick "joke" about a mass murderer for clicks.
What an appalling little man.
Visitations?
Who's he expecting?
The bigot of jingos past?
It’s bad enough former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been allowed to spout his absolute boll**** about “Brexit saving lives” unchallenged on UK news shows - now he’s traveling the world repeating it!
Let’s stop him rewriting history - share these actual FACTS
youtu.be/pAm62GE6pi8?...
