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Boo loves to find a stick to accompany her on her walk, the bigger the better. It helps her to be brave around dogs & kids

DWP pays HALF A BILLION to dead people - while underpaying pensions & cutting benefits While the DWP paid £512 million to deceased individuals over the past five years, it underpaid pensions by £200m and cut benefits

DWP pays HALF A BILLION to dead people - while underpaying pensions & cutting benefits

While the DWP paid £512 million to deceased individuals over the past five years, it underpaid pensions by £200m and cut benefits for the poorest people.

WTF is going on???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Weed that makes you gay

“Hello, do you have ‘Unleashed’ by Boris Johnson and ‘Ten Years To Save The West’ by Liz Truss❓

What a pound each, that seems excessive..

OK good so a pound for both, I’ll take them..

Yes correct they’re Xmas gifts for two people that I really can’t stand”❗️

How cooked is the British left? In 2017 the British left almost won power for the first time in generations. Since then it's been routed at every turn.

The British left been in retreat ever since the high water mark of 2017, but how bad is it actually?

Keir Starmer Rejects Call for Fairer Votes Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation Keir Starmer is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system

BREAKING: Keir Starmer Rejects Call for Fairer Votes Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation

Keir Starmer is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/04/k...

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

EXPOSED: the scandal of big money in UK politics - corruption, dark money, and cash for access Research from Transparency International has revealed that one in every ten pounds from political donors comes from dubious sources

EXPOSED: the scandal of big money in UK politics - corruption, dark money, and cash for access

Research from @transparencyuk.bsky.social has revealed that one in every ten pounds from political donors comes from dubious sources
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences

NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing

Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy

But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...

UK refuses to confirm if it gave Israeli military chief special immunity on visit this week Israel reportedly fears that Herzi Haveli, who visited the UK this week, could be issued an arrest warrant by the ICC

UK refuses to confirm if it gave Israeli military chief special immunity on visit this week - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-refuses-say-if-it-gave-israeli-military-chief-special-immunity-visit-week

#Xodus #BlueSky

If Keir Starmer will not speak up for Gaza, we must continue to raise our voices for them If our Prime Minister will not speak up for the people living through a genocide in Gaza, then we must raise our voices for them - Samuel Sweek, Peace and Justice Project.

Our government’s complicity and callous attitude towards the genocide in Palestine is a stain on humanity and must galvanise more of us than ever to take action.

📰 Read my latest article in @labouroutlook.bsky.social:

Boo is curled up fast asleep. I've only had her for just over 5 months, but she seems to have really settled with me now & starting to show her sweet personality

One in four households with very young children are in food poverty. Labour has no excuse. This shocking state of affairs on child food poverty has been worsened by Labour's failure to act on things like the two-child benefit cap

One in four households with very young children are in food poverty. Labour has no excuse.

This shocking state of affairs around child food poverty has been worsened by Labour's failure to act on things like the two-child limit
www.thecanary.co/uk/2024/11/2...

UK threatened with emergency ban of arms exports to Israel after ICC warrants Rights groups warn British government that it is 'now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court'

The UK is now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court, the ICC.

The government must end ALL arms sales NOW.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-isra...

No Other Land: An Israeli-Palestinian duo fight to expose apartheid as war rages in Gaza MEE speaks to Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra about death threats, mob attacks and antisemitism

No Other Land: An Israeli-Palestinian duo fight to expose apartheid as war rages in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/no-other-land-israel-palestinian-filmmakers-on-carnage

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.

But he still needed a 45% pay rise.

Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.

#AbolishTheMonarchy

Israel strikes central Beirut in predawn attack, killing 11 The Israeli military used cluster bombs to destroy a residential building in Basta al-Fawqa neighbourhood

Israel strikes central Beirut in predawn attack, killing 11 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-strikes-central-beirut-predawn-attack-killing

Blair patron of charity that shows Gaza and West Bank as part of Israel Jewish National Fund's UK branch also includes Golan Heights in map of Israel on website

Blair patron of charity that shows Gaza and West Bank as part of Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-patron-jewish-nation-fund-erases-west-bank

“Zarah Sultana speaking passionately in a formal setting, wearing a mustard blazer, with a decorative wallpaper background. Text overlay quotes her urging the UK government to comply with ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, end arms sales, impose sanctions, and suspend trade deals with Israel. The image features ‘The Left Bible’ logo in the top right corner.”

💯🎯

World beating UK, energy prices nearly double anywhere else.

Also the UK, every energy firm making 4-10x profits.

I wonder if they are related?

I think if the British government has decided it only obeys laws it likes from now, then that goes for all of us.

Pick the laws you like disobey those you do not.

I don't like the one that says you can't guillotine the rich or impale the heads of politicians who defy the will of the people.

The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke of a Matter – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account The normalisation of racism and dog-whistles will only get worse if the press continues to treat Farage as an entertaining figure representing the ‘real views’ of the British people – it must stop, wr...

🔴The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account

The normalisation of racism will only get worse if the press continues to treat him as representing the ‘real views’ of the British people writes Hardeep Matharu

EXCLUSIVE: just like Iraq, private US security is already negotiating to take control of Gaza It seems that the shock doctrine is back - as US private security firms using biometric tech in Gaza is already being secretly discussed

#EXCLUSIVE:

It seems that the Shock Doctrine is back (not that it ever went away), as a US private security firm tells the Canary a contract worth $200m for six months in #Gaza is under negotiation - but it's the extent of what it involves that's even more shocking.
www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...