@olliek.bsky.social
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*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession:
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
September 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession:
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
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If a celebrity backs away from supporting certain causes because they perceive them as jeopardising their career or livelihood, but have gladly thrown their weight behind other causes, that should tell you something about the motives behind their support and the depth of their commitment.
September 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
If a celebrity backs away from supporting certain causes because they perceive them as jeopardising their career or livelihood, but have gladly thrown their weight behind other causes, that should tell you something about the motives behind their support and the depth of their commitment.
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Frankly it’s been “fuck Ed Sheeran” ever since he was voted “most influential person in Black music” (LOL) and instead of maybe discussing how white artists often come up on Black music for cool points then drop it when they’ve made it he tweeted “listen with ears not eyes”
September 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Frankly it’s been “fuck Ed Sheeran” ever since he was voted “most influential person in Black music” (LOL) and instead of maybe discussing how white artists often come up on Black music for cool points then drop it when they’ve made it he tweeted “listen with ears not eyes”
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Almost as if it’s not about antisemitism isn’t it
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
September 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Almost as if it’s not about antisemitism isn’t it
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It’s apt, today of all days, that there’s a live, very racist international scare about Afghans as certain sex offenders that’s getting Afghan women deported, and the reason for the scare is: lots of Afghan soldiers we gave asylum to could give evidence against special forces in war crimes trials.
Afghan woman deported from US in first use of secretive terrorism court reut.rs/46Tb0ag
Afghan woman deported from US in first use of secretive terrorism court
An Afghan woman accused of supporting the Islamic State has been deported from the United States in the first case to be pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice through a little-known court created 30 years ago to deport "alien terrorists."
reut.rs
September 11, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It’s apt, today of all days, that there’s a live, very racist international scare about Afghans as certain sex offenders that’s getting Afghan women deported, and the reason for the scare is: lots of Afghan soldiers we gave asylum to could give evidence against special forces in war crimes trials.
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How to put this: it’s not the first time that paper has stampeded any old shit into print on the say-so of some crackpot they found who tickled their funny button
🔴 Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times' 'Impossible Data'
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
bylinetimes.com
September 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
How to put this: it’s not the first time that paper has stampeded any old shit into print on the say-so of some crackpot they found who tickled their funny button
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🔴 NEW 🔴
Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors.
📝 @desmog.com
Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors.
📝 @desmog.com
Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
www.desmog.com
September 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors.
📝 @desmog.com
Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors.
📝 @desmog.com
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NEW | On a shocking interview…
ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
September 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
NEW | On a shocking interview…
ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Incredible revelation www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
www.haaretz.com
September 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Incredible revelation www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!”
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
September 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!”
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Somehow ‘Lord Walney’ on Radio 4 has managed to be more critical of climate protesters this week than the masked street fascists
Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
September 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Somehow ‘Lord Walney’ on Radio 4 has managed to be more critical of climate protesters this week than the masked street fascists
Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
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The pro-fascist British press is alive and unwell
September 8, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The pro-fascist British press is alive and unwell
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"The ICJ is beginning a second day of hearings over allegations that Germany is facilitating genocide in Gaza through its military support for Israel"
Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.
Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.
September 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
"The ICJ is beginning a second day of hearings over allegations that Germany is facilitating genocide in Gaza through its military support for Israel"
Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.
Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.
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Yeah, can we decide whether this is 1) a reset of our relationship with Israel 2) a big nothingburger, or 3) a racist attack upon an embattled domestic ethnic group? Because it seems to me that these three things quite obviously will not all fit through the door at the same time.
September 8, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Yeah, can we decide whether this is 1) a reset of our relationship with Israel 2) a big nothingburger, or 3) a racist attack upon an embattled domestic ethnic group? Because it seems to me that these three things quite obviously will not all fit through the door at the same time.
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A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
September 8, 2026 at 7:49 AM
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
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We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
September 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
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Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine.
It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”
September 7, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine.
It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
September 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
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Just so: the last police chief who barred fascist football thugs from attending a match was subjected to six months of screaming abuse in parliament and the National press, he was hounded into retirement and he’s now being investigated to find out whether he’s secretly the catspaw of Islamists.
Given that the Police banning racist football hooligans from attending a match led to a Commons 'debate' defending the thugs and the Police Chief's resignation, the Government have already made their expectations clear to law enforcement.
No arrests until a pensioner holds an anti-genocide placard.
No arrests until a pensioner holds an anti-genocide placard.
September 7, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Just so: the last police chief who barred fascist football thugs from attending a match was subjected to six months of screaming abuse in parliament and the National press, he was hounded into retirement and he’s now being investigated to find out whether he’s secretly the catspaw of Islamists.
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John Healey has said "public control" doesn't mean "public ownership".
It means "exerting public influence", "fair bills", "better services", "investment", an "active state" and "better regulation".
The old adage: "you don't control what you don't own" has never been more apposite
It means "exerting public influence", "fair bills", "better services", "investment", an "active state" and "better regulation".
The old adage: "you don't control what you don't own" has never been more apposite
September 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
John Healey has said "public control" doesn't mean "public ownership".
It means "exerting public influence", "fair bills", "better services", "investment", an "active state" and "better regulation".
The old adage: "you don't control what you don't own" has never been more apposite
It means "exerting public influence", "fair bills", "better services", "investment", an "active state" and "better regulation".
The old adage: "you don't control what you don't own" has never been more apposite
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On the JLP / Reform polling scandal - and the papers that are implicated:
"The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"
"The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"
Pollsters and the media also have questions to answer after the Reform donations story
There are questions for the polling industry and the media following the Channel 4 broadcast about Reform.
theweekinpolls.substack.com
September 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
On the JLP / Reform polling scandal - and the papers that are implicated:
"The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"
"The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"
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Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism
September 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism
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Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
September 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.