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Diane Abbott faces an investigation for saying:
"There must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism..." for full story see ALT text
"There must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism..." for full story see ALT text
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Diane Abbott faces an investigation for saying:
"There must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism..." for full story see ALT text
"There must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism..." for full story see ALT text
And so it begins...
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation
Armed police threatened a peaceful protester with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying “Free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide”, accusing her of supporting a proscribed organisation.
Officers told Laura Murton, 42, that her demonstration in Canterbury, Kent, on Monday evening expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which was banned under terrorism legislation earlier this month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
And so it begins...
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Israel is planning a concentration camp in Rafah. They are explicitly stating their genocidal intent. The #ICC needs to expedite the #genocide case, and the West needs to cut off all support for the Israeli regime, or international law is toast. This isn't the time for diplomacy. #gaza
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Obscene and unsustainable. #taxtherichnow
UK's richest 50 families have more wealth than 50% of the population
The 50 richest families in the UK amassed more wealth than the poorest half of the country, which is around 34 million people.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Obscene and unsustainable. #taxtherichnow
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Peter Hain says anti-apartheid activists & suffragettes would have been terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action
‘treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled & morally wrong’ 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled & morally wrong’ 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – UK politics live
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid activists & suffragettes would have been terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action
‘treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled & morally wrong’ 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled & morally wrong’ 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Rhetoric & reality. John Betjeman did not intend to bomb Slough, he was making a political point
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Avon & Somerset Police to investigate John Betjeman ‘Slough’ poem
Avon and Somerset are reportedly investigating global comments on several performances at Glastonbury at the weekend that the Government and various lobby groups did not like. Since they clearly ha…
wp.me
July 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rhetoric & reality. John Betjeman did not intend to bomb Slough, he was making a political point
wp.me/p15p2Q-evy
wp.me/p15p2Q-evy
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There's a national firestorm over Bob Vylan's chants about a genocidal army.
Rather than about the mass butchery of innocent people.
It is depraved, it is grotesque, it is beyond shameful.
New column about the world turned on its head 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rather than about the mass butchery of innocent people.
It is depraved, it is grotesque, it is beyond shameful.
New column about the world turned on its head 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
There's a national firestorm over Bob Vylan's chants about a genocidal army.
Rather than about the mass butchery of innocent people.
It is depraved, it is grotesque, it is beyond shameful.
New column about the world turned on its head 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rather than about the mass butchery of innocent people.
It is depraved, it is grotesque, it is beyond shameful.
New column about the world turned on its head 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
BBC inadvertently providing a pretty solid case for the defence with this juxtaposition.
June 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
BBC inadvertently providing a pretty solid case for the defence with this juxtaposition.
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Why are house prices so high?
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Why are house prices so high?
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Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
Just want to make sure I've understood this correctly...
Using weapons of war to commit genocide; not terrorism
Daubing paint on weapons of war in protest at said genocide; terrorism
Really?
Using weapons of war to commit genocide; not terrorism
Daubing paint on weapons of war in protest at said genocide; terrorism
Really?
June 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Just want to make sure I've understood this correctly...
Using weapons of war to commit genocide; not terrorism
Daubing paint on weapons of war in protest at said genocide; terrorism
Really?
Using weapons of war to commit genocide; not terrorism
Daubing paint on weapons of war in protest at said genocide; terrorism
Really?
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Iraq all over again.
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Iraq all over again.
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Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
June 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Abortion is illegal in Engand and Wales, but allowed up to 24 weeks. Stella Creasy MP is asking parliament to decriminalise abortion in a crime bill being voted on next week. Use the form below to write to your MP asking them to support her initiative
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Abortion is illegal in Engand and Wales, but allowed up to 24 weeks. Stella Creasy MP is asking parliament to decriminalise abortion in a crime bill being voted on next week. Use the form below to write to your MP asking them to support her initiative
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
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By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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47’s GREENSHIRTS…!
June 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
47’s GREENSHIRTS…!
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🥲🤬🇺🇸🤬🥲
June 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🥲🤬🇺🇸🤬🥲
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Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
June 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
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Fishing contributes around 0.04% to the UK economy. 55% of the annual value of England's fishing quota is held by foreign interests and three families on the Sunday Times Rich List control around 30% of the quota in England.
Treat the howls of pain with a pinch of salt.
Treat the howls of pain with a pinch of salt.
May 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fishing contributes around 0.04% to the UK economy. 55% of the annual value of England's fishing quota is held by foreign interests and three families on the Sunday Times Rich List control around 30% of the quota in England.
Treat the howls of pain with a pinch of salt.
Treat the howls of pain with a pinch of salt.
Nationalise now.
Dry weather and low river flows make UK summer drought likely, scientists say
Dry weather and low river flows make UK summer drought likely, scientists say
‘This crisis was avoidable,’ says head of River Action as he blames ‘corporate greed and regulatory complacency’
Exceptionally low river flows are predicted across the UK this summer as a drought becomes more likely, scientists have said.
An update from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) says dry, warm weather is expected over the next three months, putting pressure on water resources. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Nationalise now.
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Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit.
These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.
These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.
May 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit.
These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.
These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.
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The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
May 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
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An American complained about his experience in an English ‘Five Guys’ joint and sympathy was thin on the ground.
www.thepoke.com/2025/05/08/a...
www.thepoke.com/2025/05/08/a...
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
An American complained about his experience in an English ‘Five Guys’ joint and sympathy was thin on the ground.
www.thepoke.com/2025/05/08/a...
www.thepoke.com/2025/05/08/a...