My family legacy is a new canpaign to ask South Asian families in Britain to share their stories of service in the world wars & raise public understanding of the enormous contribution
For Royal British Legion from @britishfuture.bsky.social and @easterneye.bsky.social
www.myfamilylegacy.org.uk
"Save our kids"
September 7th is International Manatee Day
USFWS manatee and sea turtle rehabilitation
manatee calf being bottle fed
This little manatee calf, found orphaned, was brought to the center for care.
Oh.
🇺🇦 PM Svyrydenko: This is how the headquarters of Ukraine’s government now looks after this morning's Russian attack. Our whole team works in this building daily. Fortunately, no one was injured. Russian barbarism will not halt the work of Ukraine’s government.
Oleksandr Hordiienko, head of the Kherson Farmers’ Association and regional council deputy, was killed by a Russian drone strike in Kherson region yesterday.
Oleksandr was a well-known farmer and public figure.
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public.
This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
Oh my.
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving, free speech impostor and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come over to America and see what Trump and Mega are doing to destroy our freedom, kidnap college students off the street, ban books from our libraries, militarise our police and unleash them against our communities, take over our universities … You might think twice before you let Mr Farage “make Britain great again”
Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, on Nigel Farage:
A ‘Putin-loving, free speech impostor and Trump sycophant… Think twice before you let Mr Farage “make Britain great again”’
Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov
ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions.
This happened to me *literally today*.
"You have successfully registered"
“Thank you for your application for media accreditation to Reform UK’s 2025 national conference. On this occasion your accreditation request has been declined.”
Yes, I'm a journalist who's critical of Farage and Reform UK. But I'm an accredited journalist with a press card, I'm the political editor of a weekly magazine, and when I registered back in May I got confirmation it was "successful". Until today, when it's now "declined". Here's the pics:
France today issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six other former Syrian officials for the 2012 bombing of the city of Homs that killed two journalists, Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik. Assad escaped with his family to Russia after being ousted by Islamist rebels in late 2024.
Video credit: itsjuliencohen
Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"
This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵
#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
According to officials cited by the Financial Times, the aircraft carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to make an emergency landing after Russian interference disrupted GPS navigation systems at a Bulgarian airport. Pilots had to rely on paper maps to land safely.👇
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with <gestures at all of Russia’s behavior for years>.
Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
This by @sundersays.bsky.social now ongoing useful and necessary fact check against the total nonsense most UK papers are still spouting out. As if they still really want to make it happen.
I am so sick and tired of it.
I feel truly heartbroken today. My Chinese takeaway, which has been serving this community for more than 10 years, was vandalized with hateful graffiti telling us to "go home." This is not just paint on the wall - it is blatant discrimination, and it hurts deeply The police are already following up on this incident. If anyone has seen anything or knows who did this, please contact us We work hard every day to serve our customers with love and dedication. I believe our community is stronger than hate, and 1 hope everyone will stand together against this kind of behaviour.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads.
Race hate.
Dammit. I can feel the heartbreak.
⚡️Update: 22 killed in Kyiv after Russian attack, rescue operation continues.
In that he's massively miscalculated and going to unleash a set of changes he didn't remotely intend?
3 years ago, I had a patron come to the library and tell me they wanted to get into reading and didn’t know where to start.
We talked for a bit, figured what he liked, then found a few titles.
Now every summer he comes back and we find him a ton of books.
It’s a wonderful ritual :)
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
I’ve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me.
“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
