Pete Cookson
@pete-cookson.bsky.social
'People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' - R.V.
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#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
September 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
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If the goal in Musk taking over twitter was to boil brains on an industrial scale, radicalise, create mobilised armies of pro-Russian fascists & weaken western democracy then it seems to be going well.
September 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
If the goal in Musk taking over twitter was to boil brains on an industrial scale, radicalise, create mobilised armies of pro-Russian fascists & weaken western democracy then it seems to be going well.
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I left X because it's a fascist disinformation site.
Bsky users post their admiration daily. Probably why you left X... too many notes.
bsky.app/profile/rati...
bsky.app/profile/rati...
Bsky users really love X's Community Notes... something lacking over here, notably. I wonder why...
September 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I left X because it's a fascist disinformation site.
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A major fire 1am last night at a big hotel, the Great Burstin Hotel in Folkestone is being treated by police as having been started deliberately. 280 people evacuated. 26 fire engines attended. Minor injuries thankfully.
No police statement about potential motive yet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No police statement about potential motive yet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fire Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel treated as suspicious
About 280 people were evacuated from the premises at Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 8:08 PM
A major fire 1am last night at a big hotel, the Great Burstin Hotel in Folkestone is being treated by police as having been started deliberately. 280 people evacuated. 26 fire engines attended. Minor injuries thankfully.
No police statement about potential motive yet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No police statement about potential motive yet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rishi Sunak said - loudly - that multiculturalism works. Keir Starmer called immigration in the 2020s a “squalid experiment”. It is a night and day difference.
September 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Rishi Sunak said - loudly - that multiculturalism works. Keir Starmer called immigration in the 2020s a “squalid experiment”. It is a night and day difference.
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Phillipson: Lab decided not to get involved in the US war on Iran
Lab have let US planes take off from UK bases to bomb Iran & as PM Keir Starmer boasted that within 2hrs of the war starting RAF pilots were shooting down Iranian missiles. Does that sound like not being involved?
Lab have let US planes take off from UK bases to bomb Iran & as PM Keir Starmer boasted that within 2hrs of the war starting RAF pilots were shooting down Iranian missiles. Does that sound like not being involved?
September 20, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Phillipson: Lab decided not to get involved in the US war on Iran
Lab have let US planes take off from UK bases to bomb Iran & as PM Keir Starmer boasted that within 2hrs of the war starting RAF pilots were shooting down Iranian missiles. Does that sound like not being involved?
Lab have let US planes take off from UK bases to bomb Iran & as PM Keir Starmer boasted that within 2hrs of the war starting RAF pilots were shooting down Iranian missiles. Does that sound like not being involved?
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Bridget Phillipson: "The royal family don't comment on politics & I think its not for politicians to comment on what has/hasn't happened within the royal family.. I don't think its for politicians to opine on the royal family"
September 20, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Bridget Phillipson: "The royal family don't comment on politics & I think its not for politicians to comment on what has/hasn't happened within the royal family.. I don't think its for politicians to opine on the royal family"
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#BBCLauraK pushing the narrative that its billionaires who create wealth.
Compare what would happen if all the billionaires didn't turn up for work tomorrow with what would happen if every worker didn't turn up.
Compare what would happen if all the billionaires didn't turn up for work tomorrow with what would happen if every worker didn't turn up.
September 20, 2026 at 8:29 AM
#BBCLauraK pushing the narrative that its billionaires who create wealth.
Compare what would happen if all the billionaires didn't turn up for work tomorrow with what would happen if every worker didn't turn up.
Compare what would happen if all the billionaires didn't turn up for work tomorrow with what would happen if every worker didn't turn up.
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Bridget Phillipson "I do find it extremely disturbing it has become normalised..."
Yes racism has been legitimised & racists emboldened, but as immigrants & refugees were demonised and scapegoated over many years not only has Labour failed to challenge that, they joined in!
Yes racism has been legitimised & racists emboldened, but as immigrants & refugees were demonised and scapegoated over many years not only has Labour failed to challenge that, they joined in!
September 20, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Bridget Phillipson "I do find it extremely disturbing it has become normalised..."
Yes racism has been legitimised & racists emboldened, but as immigrants & refugees were demonised and scapegoated over many years not only has Labour failed to challenge that, they joined in!
Yes racism has been legitimised & racists emboldened, but as immigrants & refugees were demonised and scapegoated over many years not only has Labour failed to challenge that, they joined in!
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Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story.
My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
September 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story.
My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
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#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9327...
September 20, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9327...
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I don't think we disdain the center-right enough.
First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation;
Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers;
Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation;
Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers;
Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
September 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough.
First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation;
Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers;
Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation;
Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers;
Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
September 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Democracy depends on a fearless and free press.
Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society.
This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.
Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society.
This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.
September 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Democracy depends on a fearless and free press.
Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society.
This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.
Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society.
This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.
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Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place.
They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation.
This graph puts things in perspective.
They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation.
This graph puts things in perspective.
September 20, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place.
They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation.
This graph puts things in perspective.
They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation.
This graph puts things in perspective.
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At 2pm on Monday 28th September, UNISON will hold a rally outside Labour conference to send a message – you can't build a National Care Service while attacking migrant workers.
September 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
At 2pm on Monday 28th September, UNISON will hold a rally outside Labour conference to send a message – you can't build a National Care Service while attacking migrant workers.
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Your regular reminder that almost all of us reject NHS privatisation - no matter who we vote for
September 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Your regular reminder that almost all of us reject NHS privatisation - no matter who we vote for
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Incredible surprise results from Moscow...
September 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Incredible surprise results from Moscow...
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"We're seeing weekly protests against migrants.. whats that tell us about where we are as a country?"
Taj Ali: "I think we've become increasingly divided.. the work is on us, its not going to come from the top.. its going to come from ordinary people who refuse to look away"
Taj Ali: "I think we've become increasingly divided.. the work is on us, its not going to come from the top.. its going to come from ordinary people who refuse to look away"
September 19, 2026 at 6:54 AM
"We're seeing weekly protests against migrants.. whats that tell us about where we are as a country?"
Taj Ali: "I think we've become increasingly divided.. the work is on us, its not going to come from the top.. its going to come from ordinary people who refuse to look away"
Taj Ali: "I think we've become increasingly divided.. the work is on us, its not going to come from the top.. its going to come from ordinary people who refuse to look away"
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Given he moved to Monaco to dodge his taxes in 2020 (after supporting Brexit) he seemingly lost faith in the UK some time ago ...
Jim Ratcliffe, bigoted billionaire, gets another platform to waffle on about a country he doesn't live in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jim Ratcliffe, bigoted billionaire, gets another platform to waffle on about a country he doesn't live in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Given he moved to Monaco to dodge his taxes in 2020 (after supporting Brexit) he seemingly lost faith in the UK some time ago ...
Jim Ratcliffe, bigoted billionaire, gets another platform to waffle on about a country he doesn't live in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jim Ratcliffe, bigoted billionaire, gets another platform to waffle on about a country he doesn't live in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wole Soyinka, the first Black African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, knows this firsthand. He was imprisoned in Nigeria for nearly two years, much of it in solitary confinement, and has spent his life defending the freedom to write. Put The Man Died on your #HumanistBookshelf.
September 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Wole Soyinka, the first Black African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, knows this firsthand. He was imprisoned in Nigeria for nearly two years, much of it in solitary confinement, and has spent his life defending the freedom to write. Put The Man Died on your #HumanistBookshelf.
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'Facism thrives when you let it.'
Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.
Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.
September 19, 2026 at 8:42 AM
'Facism thrives when you let it.'
Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.
Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.