Writer, editor, former lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person, #Xdissenter. Views here not all party positions. On Bluesky @ Tom--Scott.

Cornwall/Kernow, UK
I'm now posting more on Bluesky than on Elon Musk's bully pulpit. Hope to see you over on the brighter side.
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Indeed. There are obvious and compelling reasons *not* to release the identities of terrorist suspects at this stage. Farage knows this, of course, but can't resist any opportunity to ramp up xenophobia & hatred of immigrants.
This tweet alone proves why Farage is totally unsuitable for elected office let alone to ever be PM. The Fairford bomb plot is an ongoing terrorist investigation, Farage is jeopardising it.
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It's also possible that this was not in fact a terrorist incident, & that the white vans & their occupants were involved in the theft and/or illicit distribution of fuel. We'll just have to wait & see. #Fairford
USAF Fairford. The vans marked FUEL2YOU are associated with illegal 'fuel laundering' - the illicit sale of red diesel. So yes this was an illegal operation but was it anything to do with the base or terrorism?
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3/ The Fairford incident was called in by a farmer who found the vans parked outside her farm. There is currently an epidemic of fuel thefts from farms. Seems odd that "security experts" have not noted this possibility.
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Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer. We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this. Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
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As a Protestant i fail to see how any good can come from the Garvaghy Road situation. Opening old wounds on both sides and forcing the PSNI to become the target in the middle. Move on. Dander home from church another way. This really isn't worth it.
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This Dispatches episode is very important for understanding what happened behind the scenes during the Israel arms licensing process. It should be watched in full, but I want to draw attention to one aspect in particular, where the whistleblower Mark Smith, who was involved in
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Ladies and gentlemen…Silicon Valley’s anti-cancel-culture free speech absolutists!
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The worst marine heatwave on Earth is ongoing off the coast of South America, with ocean temperatures up to 14°F (8°C) above normal. Not good.
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I reported on all the Garvaghy Road disputes through the Nineties and the associated deaths and destruction. Also reported on the first banned parade in Portadown in 1985. Terrible times. It’s incomprehensible that we could be heading back there
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Only £320 to our target to cover the costs of Ukrainian trade unionists who visited the UK yesterday, helping to boost solidarity. Please done and share and help us get to £2,000! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-bri…
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There are political tremors rumbling through Camden — is there gonna be an earthquake? All hands on deck, all shoulders to the wheel, all noses to the grindstone for another Green win! #BackZack
Very happy to have spent the day in Holborn & St Pancras with friends from East Hampshire Green Party, out campaigning for @ZackPolanski. It was a brilliant day of conversations on the doorstep, and great to see so many Green volunteers coming together from across the country.
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Yes, it’s really really bad. Yes, it’s insane this isn’t a huge media story. Yes, it’s not weird to be really really scared.
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
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We deserve to know the truth about why Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari used a strawman (John Simpson) to give money to Reform. Sasan later openly funded your trip to WEF and even posed for photos with you (with the usual Telegraph PR service). Large footprint using UAE company to install telecom infra in Iran - by the order of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. What are you people hiding, and why? Why did you lie about not knowing who was the donor behind Interior Architecture Landscape, @Nigel_Farage? And wider question to our MPs and authorities: shouldn't MI5 be a bit more on top of @reformparty_uk?
I have been warning both in and out of Parliament for many months about Iranian agents coming into the UK via small boats across the Channel. We deserve to be told the truth about the Fairford bomb plotters’ identities.
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It will shock you to learn that the executive director of the Tony Blair Institute is endorsing the main editorial in today’s Observer’s: a manifesto for AI boosterism. But that’s not the only thing going on here. 1/
“The most important message [the PM] has to bring to conference is that he has a plan to harness AI for government and citizens.” Spot on from @ObserverUK. End decline. Transform Britain. Sign me up.
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RT @davidyelland: Nearly all the billionaires queuing up to quit Britain and trash Britain funded Brexit, backed Brexit and conspired with…
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Dead bodies lie on the streets of Kyiv once again, and a market is on fire after another russian terrorist attack. Russia isn't shy to kill Ukrainians in broad daylight, during busy evenings, or burn us in our beds at night. They are openly terrorizing us every single day now.
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Margaret, a 94-year-old Jewish human rights lawyer, is believed to be the oldest person taking part today. She told @novaramedia: “I am here because I want Andy Burnham to lift the ban - not later, right now, this weekend - to call it a genocide & stop arming Israel.”
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The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) wanted a more restrictive version of Swiss neutrality to stop Switzerland applying sanctions on Russia. It failed. Switzerland should also sanction Israel.
Switzerland, final results: Save Swiss Neutrality (Initiative) Support: 29.85% Oppose: 70.15% Turnout: 47.06% NB: This vote also requires double-majority (People & Cantons (Regions)) to pass. ➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland #CHvote #Abst26 #Votazioni #Votaziuns
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British police are keeping tight-lipped about the arrests at Fairford, probably for good operational reasons. But Donald Trump can't resist shooting his mouth off.
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump responds to the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford "Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort, and working with the British worked out great and we got them"
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