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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

And this

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-atta...

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears

The Labour government’s attack on disabled people’s support has led to a “massive resurgence” in the disabled people’s movement in the last year, a protest outside the party’s annual conference has…

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

There you go
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Transport of London staff face deportation under new visa rules

More than 60 employees who came to the UK on skilled worker visas may have to leave the transport body.

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

He's shooting the USA in both feet

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Nearly a third of Gaza is experiencing famine, according to projections from a global hunger monitor. While the ceasefire deal pledges more aid, the timeline for delivery is still unclear. See our Chart of the Week reut.rs/4737uK4

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

www.thenation.com

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

LBC has long been a cesspit for the deranged

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 10h

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
youtu.be/eib6I0Bczzg

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 11h

Until it's restarted

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

Age of the bin bag ends in Dublin’s south inner city as waste compactors finally installed

Refuse-sack ban applies to 90 streets covered by the four-metre long machines

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 14h

Trump and Starmer, the new Brezhnev and Honecker

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Permanent facial recognition cameras are now live in Croydon – with no clear laws and no safeguards to protect our rights.

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

And yet some people think that Trump should be given a Nobel peace prize

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

What's he going to do? Nuke Norway?

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Phil Eckert @fileckert.bsky.social · 1d

All of it..

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 1d

Videos claiming that a new rule will ban pensioners from driving at night have been shared thousands of times online.

But this is completely false - and the videos also feature fake audio of the PM.

Fake nighttime pensioner driving ban rumour spreads online – Full Fact

A spokesperson from the Department for Transport confirmed this is not true.

fullfact.org

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 1d

First Covid wave for 12 months is well underway. Hospital admissions are already higher than last year's peak, but are much lower than we were seeing in earlier waves.

There will be weekly surveillance reports through the winter months here:
www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

When? Hopefully never

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 1d

A sign of just how far to the right the Tories have swung when the likes of Edwina Currie are condemning their rhetoric

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a man 's face with the letters lfc on the bottom left

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the letters lfc on the bottom left

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Every year 100s of employers are named and shamed for failure to pay the statutory minimum wage.

2016-2023: over 3m workers denied the minimum wage.

Puny fines do nothing. Fines must equal the remuneration of the board of directors. 50% personally payable. Imprison persistent offenders.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

SOS - Sick of Starmer

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D Mcguire @dmcguirecfc67.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile Next Month he will wear his Poppy forgetting that his soldiers he claims to be remembering with his poppy fought against fascism in both the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945) all while he supports a Fascist regime which is Israhell and the US !!!

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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