Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
It’s the 9th day of 2026 and ICE has already had its second detention death.
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🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed.
🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu.
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www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
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Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation. “We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed,” says Labour energy spokesperson Ciarán Ahern.
In Darndale Park, people fish for carp and pike – but an invasive weed threatens the balance. When people see photos of the impressive specimen caught, they can’t believe it was in Darndale pond, says local Alan Kennedy.
Some homeless hostels are operating with just one staff member on duty. “That is madness,” says Louisa Santoro, CEO of the Mendicity Institution. “A single person is not a sufficient level of staff to run any homeless service.”
Developer Ballymore says it had meetings with ministers, council about its vision for Sheriff Street. They're not on the lobbying register. “For nearly a decade, conversations about the possible demolition of people’s homes have gone on in the background.”
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.
BREAKING: Met Police arrest 50 of 600-700 ‘terrorist supporters’ before the 2pm chime.
“We will keep going. Our numbers are already growing for the next wave of action in September.”
Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger joins Lift The Ban
“Proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the government, the group is being punished for exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the UK’s role enabling it – we cannot let our opposition be silenced”
www.independent.co.uk/voices/bianc...
‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist suspect.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New edition back from the printers today, with a cover image by Pablo Marín García.
“This is my local community. I’m worried about my children.”
That’s what a woman told GB News at the anti-migrant protest at the Barbican in London.
Problem is, she said the same thing at a protest in Epping days earlier. 🤦 ❌
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...
NEW: Baby Pereppadan, a Fine Gael councillor, co-owns a company accused of charging nurses unlawful ‘agency fees’.
One nurse paid over €3,000 into another Fine Gael councillor’s account as part of the recruitment process.
http://jrnl.ie/6784617
Netherlands. Ireland. You're involved too.
"The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."
Ireland Sunday Independent: Most support Occupied Territories Bill even if it sparks retaliation from pro-Israel forces.
My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Whenever public opinion and international pressure becomes unignorable, offer a token concession that will diffuse momentum and act as a fig leaf, while maintaining the mass death and expulsion. It’s a playbook.
😖Department of Housing refusing to release the submissions made by government departments and utilities to the idea of planning exemptions for backyard cabins and so on. It would be against the public interest, don't you know.
Irish immigration officials refuse visas for 47 Palestinians due to come to Ireland for GAA tour jrnl.ie/6757964
I've charged it now, hope you feel better soon. 😁
One of the twins (5 yrs) and I were digging up weeds in the allotment today. He wanders off for a while, comes back and says: "I was just stroking a dog, and some flowers, and talking to some humans." 😂
A screenshot of an article from 2019 in which former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy talks about less space for less rent.
A screenshot of an article in which a renter in a small coliving unit is quoted 2,850 a month for a studio.
Oh great, smaller apartments for less rent, because that always... oh... okay then...
