WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱

WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱

@wanwizard.bsky.social

IT Entrepreneur. DC architect. PHP developer. Fuel PHP Framework project lead. Open Source lover. Asperger brain. Old Dutch. New Scot. Always European. Also on @wanwizard@mastodon.scot.

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

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🇬🇧 No doubt uk westminster are complicit in this Gaslighting of the people of Scotland, as they are determined to build Nuclear Power Stations all over Scotland, for the purposes of powering England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 NOTE: Scotland already produces far more electricity than it uses 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

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Putin, Trump and Musk all colluding to defeat Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

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The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

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2026: Zarah Sultana, "Under our sell-out Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, pensioners continue to be arrested for holding placards opposing genocide" 2014: Shabana Mahmood at a 'Free Palestine' protest before she became Labour's enforcer for arresting thousands of pensioners for non violent protest

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Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?

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Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

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Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel

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Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comPolice arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in ChannelThirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Remember in Schindler's List when the Nazi commander uses a sniper rifle to shoot prisoners in the Concentration Camp. This is a video of Israel using machine guns from a tank to shoot prisoners in a Concentration Camp.

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"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...

russincheshire.substack.comLegitimate ConcernsHow politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story

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Nothing says "We value your privacy" as "We and our 641 partners" 🫠 #privacy #adblock #fuckthisshit

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My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...

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The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

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80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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Reform say they'll force school children to sing hymns. Only 5% of Britons go to church. So what we have here is a religious minority forcing their wishes on the majority, and refusing to integrate with Britain's culture. They should go and live somewhere else. According to Reform.

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🇬🇧 In this bonkers uk, the uk Gov are arresting thousands of old age pensioners for carrying placards calling out the Genocide in Gaza, whilst at the same time they are accommodating racist ‘demonstrations’ by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s Neo-Nazis thugs🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk

🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.

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This is horrifying. On 6th September, the AfD could gain an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt's regional parliament. It would be the first time since 1945 that a party of the radical right has controlled a German state.

thetimes.comSegregated schools and deportations: the AfD’s plan for powerVictory in Saxony-Anhalt would be the first time since 1945 that a radical right party has governed a German state. Loca

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The nightingale hospital in Birmingham cost £106 million and didn't treat a single patient. We had no trained staff, because for decades we prioritised tax cuts for "wealth creators" (aka wealth hoarders) over investing in our country. Hospitals. Schools. Roads. Prisons. This is the result.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

Richard Madeley on #GMB pushing the idea that you can build 'Nightingale prisons'. Kevin Maguire asks, where are you going to get all the trained prison officers to staff these places? Madeley says, "you work it out"

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I've just signed an EXECUTIVE ORDER that renames Donald Trump Wiggy Little Hands. Thank you for your attention to the matter.

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Well done Yvette Cooper & Keir Starmer… Your frothing tyrannical stupidity is being admired and aped over the pond. 👏🙄

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I used to wonder what the answer to the Fermi Paradox was, but now I realise that every advanced civilisation out there destroyed itself so Muriel in HR could write slightly more impersonal emails. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comTwo planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis findsExclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

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Well I for one am astonished that a party run by multimillionaires and funded by billionaires wants to slash welfare to the bone and force people on benefits to work for nothing ... so that they can cut taxes for the rich www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

theguardian.comJenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics liveParty’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits

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This is a fucking appalling article. It imposes a political loyalty test on Jews based on their ethnicity and religion. How is that remotely defensible? How is it not antisemitism? And opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza is not “anti-Israel fervour”. The UN concluded Israel is committing genocide.

The Economist@economist.com

These days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins, not a disciple of Jewish ideas. Our profile explores how he has embraced the anti-Israel fervour that has swept the new left

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EVs are so much cheaper to run than petrol/diesel that weakening EV targets will waste £3 BILLION a year, almost as much as the £4.4bn this series of heatwaves cost the economy. The briefcases should be rapidly decarbonising if they want their pointy graphs back.

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

REMINDER: As UK govt launches consultation on weaker EV targets, worth noting that this could cost consumers £3bn a year by 2030 (cos EVs are far cheaper to own) It could also add 8% to net oil imports and undermine UK's single-biggest climate policy www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social the daughter of a Holocaust survivor has been arrested because of a policy Starmer and Cooper rolled out which Labour Baron Hain said in the House of Lords, was shameful, and the UK's High Court initially said was 'unlawful' She says, "It's not what my parents died for"

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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed.

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