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"What about university tuition fees then? Will you remain committed to scrapping them?"

Starmer "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes."

"So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?"

"Yes. That's why it's a pledge."
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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South East Waters boss was paid £400k last year & he pocketed a bonus of over £100k. At the same time customers bills went up 20%

Why is our govt siding with the profiteering water companies that rip us off? We need to get rid of them & take our water back into public ownership
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Displaced people in Gaza are dying from hypothermia & the collapse of damaged buildings they are forced to shelter in.

Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bullets and bombs
January 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Israels using the pretext of permits to restrict the access of Palestinian children to education in the occupied West Bank

Xavier Abu Eid explains some of the schools targeted are older than the state of Israel & these attacks are part of wider attempts to destroy Palestinian identity
January 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Cooper refused to say if the UK would uphold an ICC arrest warrant, the UK refuses to meet its genocide convention obligations & stop arming Israel, & it refuses to take any actions as Israel continues killing Palestinians

She means a western consensus to keep backing genocide
January 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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"A war paradigm does not provide an effective solution to the problem of terror attacks." Costs of War director Stephanie Savell on the failed counterterrorism model in Africa in @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/01/11/v...
Failed U.S. Military Effort in Africa is on the Chopping Block
As Trump focuses the military on the Western Hemisphere, AFRICOM and other foreign commands could be consolidated.
theintercept.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has discovered, in the case of Iran, "those core values around human rights, around freedom, around justice and I would also say, frankly around basic humanity, when people are being killed in the most brutal circumstances."
January 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Why Trump’s sweeping 25% Iran tariffs have revived fears of global trade war
Experts have warned of global economic and political ramifications if the policy is implemented
www.independent.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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The “Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act” has been introduced in the US Congress and “authorizes the President to take whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland as a territory of the United States.”

fine.house.gov/news/documen...
Congressman Fine Introduces Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act to Strengthen U.S. National Security and Put Our Adversaries on Notice
Today, Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, landmark legislation focused on securing America’s strategic national security interests in the Arctic and counte...
fine.house.gov
January 13, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Kaja Kallas: 'Every week Israeli bombs plunge Palestinian cities into darkness. Destruction & death are Israel's answer to diplomacy. The bitter reality is this war might carry on for a long time unless we collectively put more pressure on Israel to stop it'

Of course she didnt say that
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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"Is the govt following Trumps playbook?"

@chrismurraymp.bsky.social : No

"Doesn't it have shades of what Trump is doing with ICE.. in America?"

"There's no parallel at all.. we have got to stop these boat crossings. Last year 14 children drowned"

So create more safe managed routes
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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A report on the interest paid on student loans. As Sophy Ridge says, its staggering.

To people who say we can't afford to scrap student loans or write off the debt (we can), why can't the loans be made interest free?
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Alex Norris explaining that the govt is passing legislation that means if someone asks Grok to produce an image of a woman in a bikini they will be committing a criminal offence. Whereas when it comes to taking action against X, we're told thats a matter for Ofcom not the govt.
January 13, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Does the UK military have forces embedded on the US carrier strike group that illegally attacked Venezuela?

It's been reported they do. But government refuses to say.

Because in the UK political system, there's no right to know. Why should we tolerate this?

#DCUKparliament
January 13, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Netanyahu says "we didn't carpet bomb"
January 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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New on advance access: "Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934"

by Roy Bar Sadeh (@uomhistdept.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934∗
Abstract. It is a historiographical convention to view interwar debates over the protection of vulnerable populations through the prism of ‘minority rights
doi.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Louise Adler, herself Jewish, said she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after the board disinvited Randa Abdel-Fattah. 180 writers have also withdrawn in solidarity.
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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What a mess. This could’ve been completely avoided if the board, y’know, didn’t make such a woeful decision. You reap what you sow etc

Solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah, to Louise Adler, and the writers who have withdrawn in protest.
Louise Adler, herself Jewish, said she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after the board disinvited Randa Abdel-Fattah. 180 writers have also withdrawn in solidarity.
January 13, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.

This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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⭕️ The director-general of the Gaza Health Ministry says “dozens of trucks enter loaded with soda, chips, and chocolate, while real food is blocked, medicine is denied, vitamins disappear, and infant formula becomes a distant hope.”

He says Israel is “orchestrating a genocide w/ cold calculation...
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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NEWS: Israeli forces carried out extensive air strikes across southern Lebanon on Sun., Jan. 11, 2026, with Lebanese media describing dozens of individual raids in multiple areas north of the Litani River.

The strikes targeted sites that Israel claimed without evidence were linked to Hezbollah...
January 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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🔴 UPDATE from Gaza’s Ministry of Interior & Nat'l Security blames Israeli agents for the assassination of senior Khan Younis police official.

A statement from the body reads:

“The assassination of the Director of the Khan Younis Police Investigations (Major/Mohammed Ahmed Al-Ashtal - 40 years...
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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🇨🇺 Cuba’s Foreign Min.: “We do not have a government that lends itself into mercenarism, blackmail or military coercion against other States. Like any other country, Cuba has the absolute right to import fuel from those markets that are willing to export it and exercise their own right to develop..
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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🇸🇩 Sudanese army allied Joint Forces accused the RSF of killing at least 19 civilians during attacks in remote areas of North Darfur, Sudan Tribune reported January 11.

The accusation follows three days of intense fighting in the Jirjira and Mastoura areas of Tine locality near the Chad border...
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Alpha News in Minneapolis is promoting a fundraiser for the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. The campaign was started by someone with a history of anti-Semitic attacks, and publicly mocks the Minneapolis mayor while pointing out that he is Jewish to potential donors.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM