I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below
1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder.
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Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
N'oubliez jamais que si le #Brexit a eu lieu, c'est parce que ces journaux ont vendu des milliers de mensonges contre l' #UE et l' #immigration.
On a la même chose en France: la sphère #Bolloré #RN #Reconquête #frexiters
Renationalise the water industry.
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A fact check post from @aoav.bsky.social
Has Elbit Systems UK been involved in the manufacture and supply of weapons to the Israeli military – a claim the company strongly denies?
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Jack Lemmon knew this about Welles and stopped him in his tracks once:
chart showing Welfare spending as a share of GDP (left) and in real terms (right), by category, outturn and forecast: UK
How has this week's forecast affected the outlook for welfare spending?
There has been little change, and considering spending as a share of GDP it does not look out of control.
I'm literally an expert on this and am on record as saying that you can't naively assume tattoos are indicative of true belief.
Nevertheless, there are only two conclusions re: Planter. He's either a Nazi, or (more likely) he's an oblivious edgelord. The latter is also disqualifying.
Have to say I find the inflation expectations that would follow a lasting oil price shock optimistic to say the least. Optimised supply chains may be resilient but rising costs of key elements can easily work through to prices.
Starmer, Shellbrooke, Taylor should be ashamed.
Desperate, they know their time as MPs is up so they're lashing out hoping to score some political points.
@greenparty.org.uk is going to replace them!
The majority of the UK is with me, no more illegal wars!
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Middle East crisis live: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut Evacuation order issued for all of the southern suburbs with up to 700,000 people thought to be affected
It used to be incumbent on states to not simply massacre civilians inside their destroyed houses and we have now moved decisively to “If you stay, you die when we destroy your town to rubble”. It was the wars in Iraq and Syria that established that precedent, not the destruction of the Gaza Strip.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
A traffic violence story doesn't get more American than this.
A man whose wife was killed crossing the street advocated for a signal and was later killed at the same intersection himself.
Neighbors have been asking for a traffic signal there for 40(!) years.
Chart showing real median salaries by graduate status. Postgrads have declined 17%, grads 12% and non-grads by 3%
Since 2007, real median postgrad salaries have declined by 17% and 12% for undergrads (*before* accounting for student loans!). The narrative of the 2010s was dominated by the status-loss of industrial workers, the 2020s might be the decade of disappointed grads
If you are a doctor or a nurse, the Minimum Income Requirement doesn't allow your foreign national spouse to live with you in this country
Important to lead with the headline that Arsenal are the ‘villains of the title race’ and would be ‘unpopular champions’ as they go up against the team charged with 115+ counts of cheating to gain an unfair competitive advantage over the other premier league teams.
"Europeans have chosen ... to reconcile their values and beliefs by inventing a parallel reality. They continue to profess norms but apply them to an imaginary world in which Iran woke up one morning and attacked Israel and its Gulf neighbors"
"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.
Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."
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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.
The New Statesman * @NewStatesman BRITAIN HAS AN AMERICA PROBLEM by @b_judah The year I would spend in the Foreign Office, as special adviser to David Lammy when he was foreign secretary, was to watch from the headquarters of British diplomacy as the rules-based order began to collapse. Being in politics means living various lies. Dutifully, I found myself ticking lines to approve sent by the embassy: we were the US's "day-one, night-one partner" for interventions, or "America's closest ally" - but we were just living in a different age from the one those slogans came from. It was painfully clear to me under both presidents whose teams I met that their real special relationship was with Israel.
I will not easily forget, sitting in the Foreign Office, how a Trump delegate explained why we needed to accept his 10 per cent tariffs and not overplay our hand in negotiations. "You've got to remember," he grinned, "it's like being at school. America's the big kid and it's coming for your lunch money." What Britain really has is an America problem. That's why, brutally, our grand strategy no longer makes sense. The superpower we have built our security around has become erratic, unpredictable and unmoored from its old alliances. We have a Europe problem too. The current situation is one we've all been happy to accept so long as it was economically beneficial. Shall we let the Americans lead on owning that super-sensitive defence infrastructure, with us getting to use it, or shall we make voters pay for it in tax rises? We all know how Europeans will answer that question, as long as they can get away with it.
Welcome as it is to see people wising up and admitting they’ve fucked it - more of this, please - I note that any vaguely left wing public figure would’ve been booted to death on live television for saying this, as recently as one year ago. Ben would’ve helped.
Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.
The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.
Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
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A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
I would go farther than this - on current policy we (and the OBR) already *know* there will need to be a further significant downward revision (and hence also to growth/tax receipts in November.
Solidarity, Mothin 💚
"Today’s OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up – while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They can’t have it both ways".
