Hello Bluesky. I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a difficult few months. My husband and I are fundraising for Sands, the baby loss charity. Any donations will be very gratefully received:
justgiving.com/page/gandmfu...
My wife and I are fundraising for @sandscharity.bsky.social following the stillbirth of our son Henio in January. Needless to say we are devastated but the charity funds much needed research.
Any contributions, no matter how small, will be greatly appreciated.
justgiving.com/page/gandmfu...
🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
Huge story in @theipaper.com
"[Mandelson] was very involved in all the details; I think he enjoyed it. He was involved in all the personalities and the mechanics including asking the question of who do we want in which seat"
Probably a breach of GDPR laws too ...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Solidarity ✊🇵🇸
Starmer knew who he was appointing as ambassador to the United States. And for that decision, he should go.
Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
”There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see” - my reaction on visiting the combined Esso-Subway-Pret-Londis opposite Lewisham Hospital.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Pension scheme administration is "boring". Until it isn't. 400+ members (from just 4 civil service branches!) registered for a webinar about scheme administration problems tomorrow. I wonder why:
prospect.org.uk/news/shamefu...
Not convinced that referring to the workers you need to implement your reforms as ”sludge” will get you off to the best start… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🔴How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...
Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
While purporting to care deeply about the funding of other organisations and the importance of free speech, Lord Young's FSU won't reveal who funds the er ... Free Speech Union
Excellent work from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
There should be grave national concern about one of Britain’s leading economic sectors and chief export earners shedding tens of thousands of often skilled relatively well paid jobs. Universities are also key to local and regional economies across the country.
Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
Photos of Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed and David Lammy with copy that says: Amnesty UK urges David Lammy to act now to stop the deaths of hunger strikers.
We urge David Lammy to immediately authorise a senior official to meet with the legal representatives of Heba Muraisi & Kamran Ahmed - both on prolonged hunger strike & at extreme risk of death.
Their representatives have repeatedly requested this meeting & it is now critical to prevent a tragedy.
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
Two people close to the White House told the Washington Post that Machado had alienated Trump by accepting the Nobel prize, instead of giving it to him. Although Machado dedicated the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was the “ultimate sin" in Trump's eyes, one of the people told the Post. "If she had turned it down and said, 'I can't accept it because it's Donald Trump's, she'd be the president of Venezuela today," this person said.
So the US is ruled by a child whose tantrums change the course of history 👍
Unc (1958) - dir. Jacques Tati
first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after
The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
When those who hate trans people win - or pretend to win, cf Sandie Peggie - it's all over the media, even if it's just a tribunal decision. But when they lose, even in the Court of Appeal, it's absolute bloody tumbleweed. So here's our blog about Allison Bailey latest loss. goodlaw.social/3uyd
Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”.
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
