@iwasid
Bookish. Amateur philosopher of the worst kind. Political animal who still believes we can build a better world for all. Banner is the Red Sand sea bell, tolling. Assuming people are fundamentally good. Standing up for Palestinians.
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
We need to #TakeTheMoneyOutOfPolitics
Looking forward to seeing proposals for that in the Green Party #GE2029 manifesto ,
@zackpolanski.bsky.social .
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We'd survive without BBC news. The rest is pretty damn good.
Not sure BBC news qualifies as news.
Im a historian of vaccination.
Every semester/year since 2015, I teach the histories of smallpox vaccination.
And every semester/year, I have had anti-vaxxers/vaccine hesitant people in my classes.
If I want to change their minds, telling them how evil or stupid they are isn't going to cut it.
Remember, these are the "grown-ups" in charge now.
Roll on #GE2029
‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut
Yes, all well and good having a UN and a rules based international order, but when the largest power refuses to submit to it, refuses the supremacy of an international court, it all goes for nothing.
And that superpower claims to represent civilisation.
if only there were some kind of peacekeeping force, possibly pur together by several nations united in purpose
As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.
Republican political operative says that the little girls killed by the US military in Minab, Iran are better off desd than wearing “burqas.”
These people have no souls newrepublic.com/post/207415/...
I don’t think we give the Trump Regime sufficient credit for finding out where Iran actually is, though to be fair, they probably had to ask Israel.
Black and white photo of young man in a white shirt, holding a pen, and wearing glasses. Bernard LaFayette is pictured during a Freedom Riders planning session in Montgomery, Alabama in May 1961. Lee Lockwood/WSPI/Getty Images
Bernard Lafayette, ¡Presente!
In 1963 when Bernard & Colia Lafayette organized a mass meeting in Selma for voting rights, Sheriff Jim Clark burst in with deputies, armed with a warrant from the circuit judge to prevent “insurrection.” 🧵
See @sncclegacy.bsky.social: snccdigital.org/people/berna...
According to Private Eye, since 2019
NHS maternity care budget £18billion
Maternity negligence claims £27.4billion
so successive privatising governments
which refuse to #TaxTheRich
yet say there's no money for our NHS
are letting mothers & babies die
in substandard neonatal units
to enrich lawyers
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CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin, causing panic amongst students and staff, has been released by IRGC-affiliated media.
Iran blamed the attack, which reportedly took place during the first day of the war, on the US and Israel.
"Netanyahu’s goal is clear – regime collapse and state implosion." "Israel couldn’t care less about the future…[or] the stability of Iran.”
There’s this feeling that if gay Palestinians are murdered for the immutable characteristic of being gay then that’s reprehensible, but if they’re murdered go the immutable characteristic of being Palestinian that’s fine
Pretty sure that aint "kiss"
Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."
Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.
"Britain’s 2nd-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives.
"A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage’s party-the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories." Times
WAR CRIME BY THE US.
An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.
The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.
THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.
This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
Of course, as with any large group, aggregates can be damgerous.
Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices ft.trib.al/vQLjYIK
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
"Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that the decision to assassinate the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was taken in November, far predating the breakdown in the nuclear programme negotiations that Donald Trump claimed led to the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran."
So it now appears based on many media reports that we bombed a girls elementary school and killed 175 people, and right after that Hegseth was beating his chest in a press conference saying we weren’t going to worry about “stupid rules of engagement” anymore.
This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
When the Prime Minister spreads lies about people - there are consequences.
He's made some outrageous smears. It's debasing our politics.
Anything to try to quieten dissent about the US and Israel starting an illegal war.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It is absolutely heart breaking watching years of relationship building, interface and quality monitoring NHS work just recklessly binned (along with many of the staff) by this government for no good reason.
