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Pete Cookson
@pete-cookson.bsky.social
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'People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' - R.V.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
'Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.'

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
Protests multiply inside Israel
In the West Bank, Israel’s project of military occupation and settlement, possibly driving towards formal annexation, continues. Road construction and settlement building in Palestinian areas has move...
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
'The figure is 9% higher than the year before, with the majority of deaths being linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazenes becoming increasingly deadly.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazenes increasingly deadly.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
“I think we need to go further than that in relation to some of the chants that are going on at some of these protests.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs
PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE
Trump, providing no evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail, accusing the two Democrats of “failing to protect” immigration agents.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11h
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Accused Of Being 'Worse Than Tories' Amid New 'Trumpian' Clampdown On Protest
They’re giving the incoming Reform government everything they could wish for."
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 20h
Annual cost of Eton school fees: £53k

Average UK salary: £35k

Guess which one the right-wing press is more concerned about?
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 23h
'At least 1,611 homeless people died in the UK last year, including 11 children, latest figures suggest.'

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'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children
The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 1d
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The Women of 7 October
In that moment, time stood still. There was no context, no history, no argument, no discourse. There was only pain.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 1d
'Two years later, and we still have not understood that a zero-sum game is simply not possible in our land. Either both peoples prosper together, in peace and coexistence, or both peoples will swim in rivers of blood.'

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“Peace is the only way forward”
Image shows a UK Friends of Standing Together vigil in London On October 7, exactly two years ago, we experienced a horrific massacre by Hamas, which invaded Israeli communities, murdered, kidnapped, ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 1d
Robert Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth are a pathetic attempt to stoke hatred by invoking white supremacist tropes.

Everywhere in the UK is worse off than it was 15 years ago. Why? Because of Tory austerity and local government ministers like Jenrick gutting council funding.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 1d
'The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research.'

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d
If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
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Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values
Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
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Wealthy UK Family Behind JCB Pays Itself $1.2 Billion Dividend
A billionaire Conservative Party donor and his family almost tripled the annual payout from their business empire, pocketing the windfall as fears grow over UK tax hikes.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
'The controversial package, billed as a blueprint for “living within our means”, includes a £23billion reduction in the benefits bill, tighter rules for universal credit claimants and an overhaul of disability support.'

www.mirror.co.uk/money/tories...
Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants
The Conservatives have unveiled plans to cut spending on welfare and scrap environmental subsidies
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
'Under the proposals, benefits would be denied to any overseas nationals, including those with indefinite leave to remain, even if they have lived in the UK and paid taxes for decades.'

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries
Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 2d
'Reynolds told the Labour party conference that there would be “no more ripping off the British people”, but also that she would oversee investment that would be “good for jobs, consumers, and good for growth”.'

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises
CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat
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