Sal
@salarora.bsky.social
Former London corporate stooge. Trying to atone and help disadvantaged women and children achieve their goals
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Smile Foundation
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So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements…
Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
October 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements…
Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
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The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
October 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
October 5, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.
Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.
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1 in 3 people are now exposed to EXTREMELY HIGH levels of harmful air pollution, fuelled by record heatwaves and wildfires combined with climate-wrecking emissions.
Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right.
#AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right.
#AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
One third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution: monitor
Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year combined to expose one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said…
www.rfi.fr
October 5, 2026 at 8:21 AM
1 in 3 people are now exposed to EXTREMELY HIGH levels of harmful air pollution, fuelled by record heatwaves and wildfires combined with climate-wrecking emissions.
Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right.
#AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right.
#AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
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The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
October 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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On the importance of asking the right questions in politics.
October 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
On the importance of asking the right questions in politics.
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The Conservative Party is “authoritarian” and attacking the “free press” by banning journalists from its conference when Kemi Badenoch called Reform precisely that for doing the same.
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The Conservative Party is “authoritarian” and attacking the “free press” by banning journalists from its conference when Kemi Badenoch called Reform precisely that for doing the same.
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'
The Conservatives are still polling around ~20% on average. These are not good numbers. There’s also no evidence that Badenoch is holding up the Conservative numbers. They may simply be unrelated - which is different.
October 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'
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October 2, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday.
They lost all six.
Six contests. Six defeats.
Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉
Have a great weekend comrades!
#NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
They lost all six.
Six contests. Six defeats.
Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉
Have a great weekend comrades!
#NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
October 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday.
They lost all six.
Six contests. Six defeats.
Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉
Have a great weekend comrades!
#NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
They lost all six.
Six contests. Six defeats.
Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉
Have a great weekend comrades!
#NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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These are the people who will own the future?
October 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
These are the people who will own the future?
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For the avoidance of doubt, brown people coming forward to challenge their own nationality now is intended to normalise the idea and pave the way for white people to do the same later.
October 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
For the avoidance of doubt, brown people coming forward to challenge their own nationality now is intended to normalise the idea and pave the way for white people to do the same later.
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Not just Jude Bellingham - but many of the most iconic English sporting figures of the past few decades;
Moeen Ali
Maro Itoje
Maggie Alphonsi
Lewis Hamilton
Ian Wright
Paul Ince
Martin Offiah
Ugo Monye
Kelly Holmes
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Harry Kane
Lennox Lewis
Mo Farah
Good luck chaps.
Moeen Ali
Maro Itoje
Maggie Alphonsi
Lewis Hamilton
Ian Wright
Paul Ince
Martin Offiah
Ugo Monye
Kelly Holmes
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Harry Kane
Lennox Lewis
Mo Farah
Good luck chaps.
“Jude Bellingham isn’t English” is one hell of a thing to try to sell to the electorate
October 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Not just Jude Bellingham - but many of the most iconic English sporting figures of the past few decades;
Moeen Ali
Maro Itoje
Maggie Alphonsi
Lewis Hamilton
Ian Wright
Paul Ince
Martin Offiah
Ugo Monye
Kelly Holmes
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Harry Kane
Lennox Lewis
Mo Farah
Good luck chaps.
Moeen Ali
Maro Itoje
Maggie Alphonsi
Lewis Hamilton
Ian Wright
Paul Ince
Martin Offiah
Ugo Monye
Kelly Holmes
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Harry Kane
Lennox Lewis
Mo Farah
Good luck chaps.
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The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
October 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either...
a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'.
b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot.
What a position.
a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'.
b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot.
What a position.
Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations
October 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either...
a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'.
b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot.
What a position.
a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'.
b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot.
What a position.
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Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
October 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press."
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
bylinetimes.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press."
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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September 30, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
September 30, 2026 at 11:12 PM
An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care…
More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
In this week’s voting intention, Labour's lead widens as Reform fall to their lowest in over 18 months.
🌹 LAB 27% (+1)
🌳 CON 22% (-1)
⏩ REF 21% (-1)
🔶 LIB DEM 11% (-)
🟢 GREEN 9% (+1)
⚫ RES: 6% (-)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
⚪️ OTH 1% (-)
N = 2,041 | Fieldwork 25-29/9 | Changes w 18/09
🌹 LAB 27% (+1)
🌳 CON 22% (-1)
⏩ REF 21% (-1)
🔶 LIB DEM 11% (-)
🟢 GREEN 9% (+1)
⚫ RES: 6% (-)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
⚪️ OTH 1% (-)
N = 2,041 | Fieldwork 25-29/9 | Changes w 18/09
September 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care…
More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
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Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
September 30, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years"
My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities
Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities
Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
September 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM
President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years"
My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities
Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities
Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.