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Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing one-on-one.
Agami Herons.
a detail of a large-scale installation by Ian Berry in blue-and-white with decorative tile features
a textile artwork depicting a colorfully patterned machine gun over a series of equally colorfully patterned spheres
a colorful, abstract textile work by Anne von Freyburg in a gallery
In London, 15 artists explore the potential of fabric and fiber in 'Textile Art Redefined.'
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If I were a Machiavellian strategy genius, I would simply avoid a position where *everything written about me ever* supports the “demanding bribes for factional allies” rumour
Four people have been charged over allegations that a Labour Party database was manipulated to increase a candidate’s chance of selection
A Reform UK candidate who is standing in the Scottish election previously branded Nigel Farage’s party a 'complete set of c*nts'
When I tell girls I'm in a band: sexy. When they realise it's a brass band: less so apparently.
Harriet Williamson on #NovaraLive: "the stench of Labour Together is all over this.. that's what was so important about what John McDonnell said.. Labour Together was the most hollow project from the get go & it was filled with some of the most unscrupulous & mendacious people in British politics"🎯
It's so fucking funny how the starmer defenders have completely bought the idea that if this Robbins character had just spoken up, Mandelson wouldn't have been the golden boy the PM wasn't looking to foist into a plum job as a reward.
Robbins said no.10 put pressure on the foreign office to give Matthew Doyle a job & not tell the foreign secretary!
Doyle is the man Starmer subsequently gave a peerage to despite the fact he'd campaigned for someone who'd been charged with possessing indecent images of children
Allegation that Morgan McSweeney phoned previous FCDO Perm Sec Sir Phillip Barton, and told him "just fucking approve it" re: Mandelson's vetting ..!
oh hang on, 4 fronts - that someone in no 10 was angling for a head of mission, ie diplomat, job Matthew Doyle (head of comms sacked by PM, v much not a career diplomat, bonkers idea ) which suggests they saw diplomatic service as somewhere you could park people you sort of owed one.
I would look at the astonishingly long list of MPs and officials who suicide bombed their own careers to tank their party and put these swine back in the top jobs, and were rewarded for it with peerages and other non-jobs for life or e.g. ambassadorships, and start putting two and two together.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 27% (+3)
CON: 17% (-2)
GRN: 17% (-1)
LAB: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)
RES: 3% (-1)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 19-20 Apr.
Changes w/ 12-13 Apr.
Keir Starmer is a man without any integrity.
He throws other people under buses for no other reason than to save his own skin.
He's not fit to be prime minister - and those who spent years presenting him as a decent man need to have a hard look at themselves.
a pencil drawing of a dynamic, chaotic cat
a pencil drawing of a dynamic, chaotic cat
a pencil drawing of a dynamic, chaotic cat
Cats in chaos! Anarchic new drawings by Léo Forest 🐱
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Keir Starmer tells MPs: "I know many members across the house will find these facts to be incredible"
They laugh.
'Labour MPs stunned...', as if it's news to them that their party is run by some of the most despicable people in the country.
@johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social : "Isn't the reality this, that when he sought to realise his ambition to become leader of the Labour party with very little base in the party, he became dependent on McSweeney and Mandelson and Labour Together to organise, fund his election.."
"If I was in his shoes I would have been forensic..."
@rachaelmaskell.bsky.social reminding us all how the Labour right sold Starmer to the British public, a long con they wouldn't have been able to get away with without a complicit mainstream media
Yeah well, we can’t have an inquiry into that because it’ll swiftly become apparent it was just Peter hooking Morgan up with undeclared millionaire bungs and Steve Reed drafting smeary dossiers on colleagues and passing them to Peter’s friends at the Times. And that’s just for starters, in 2018.
Susanna Reid to Douglas Alexander:
"you're asking people to believe that a PM who used to be a DPP.. can have the wool pulled over his eyes.. it absolutely beggars belief & I imagine viewers are asking, do you think we're stupid?"
"Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth," said one Labour insider. "Wrong. He's an asshole who's out of his depth."
Just a whole series of leaders here who don’t appear to have any plans except for “I’ll be in charge, I’ll announce the crackdowns and do the belligerent war speeches, our friends will get the plum contracts”. We should be in charge because we are smartest and best www.politico.eu/article/keir...
Update on the most moral army in the world. Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and 'promised to investigate!
This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.
Israel is "PROHIBITED" by the US from bombing Lebanon, says Donald Trump.
It underlines a basic fact:
Israel's genocide and war crimes could be stopped at any moment by any US president.
Sam Coates reports "We've got some breaking news"
It turns out that the head of the civil service told Starmer he should get all the security vetting done before he announced who'd be the new ambassador
"Clearly Starmer chose not to do that, [he] chose to ignore formal advice"
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
