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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan

Our captured flotilla colleagues have been subjected to violence and degrading conditions in an Israeli prison. This has only made us more determined, says Irish writer Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs

He knows his UK government is complicit. That's why.

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

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

More Gaza-bound flotilla ships intercepted by Israeli forces www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-ga...

More Gaza-bound flotilla ships intercepted by Israeli forces

Global Sumud Flotilla says three boats - the Gaza Sunbirds, the Alaa Al-Najjar, and the Anas Al-Sharif - stopped off Gaza coast

www.middleeasteye.net

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

Lord Heseltine: ‘Reform UK are equivalent of 1930s right wing fascists’ www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lor...

Lord Heseltine: 'Reform UK are equivalent of 1930s right wing fascists'

Lord Heseltine has said Reform UK are the modern day equivalent of the "right wing fascists of the 1930s."

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

The human cost of Trump’s War on Foreign Aid www.chartist.org.uk/the-human-co...

The human cost of Trump’s War on Foreign Aid — Chartist

Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga reports UK and US foreign aid cuts will consign millions of people to disease and early deaths At Biiso Health IV in Uganda’s western district of Buliisa, a young mother livi...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

Breaking video: new flotilla already under severe Israeli attack, crews kidnapped www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Breaking video: new flotilla already under severe Israeli attack, crews kidnapped

Israel detains activists and confiscates aid carried on the Freedom Flotilla as legal group warns of further action

www.thecanary.co

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

Record deaths of homeless people in the UK are a political choice – and there’s a better way voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/10/08/r...

Record UK homeless deaths expose political failure

Deaths of homeless people hit record levels as UK governments ignore proven solutions. Lack of political will is killing people.

voxpoliticalonline.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

A proud Little Englander asked if people agreed with the message on this bus stop ‘ad’ and the self-own was so epic they surely can’t be serious www.thepoke.com/2025/10/08/a...

A proud Little Englander asked if people agreed with the message on this bus stop ‘ad’ and the self-own was so epic they surely can’t be serious

Latest in an occasional series, self-own of the week surely goes to this proud Little Englander who shared the message no this bus stop ‘ad’ and asked if people agreed with it. It was posted by @Neccc...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

Labour’s War on Protest

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/labo...

Labour’s War on Protest

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

Videos show Berlin police beating pro-Palestine protesters www.youtube.com/shorts/FKaPN...

Videos show Berlin police beating pro-Palestine protesters

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

www.youtube.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardi...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/08/m...

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere

One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national ...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

Prepare to cringe yourself inside out at Chris Philp’s mortifying Tory Conference comedy stylings

Oh dear. Number one fool in a party of fools

www.thepoke.com/2025/10/08/c...

Prepare to cringe yourself inside out at Chris Philp’s mortifying Tory Conference comedy stylings – 17 one-star reviews

Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, has been entertaining the few attendees that have bothered to turn up to the annual Tory Party Conference by adding’jokes’ to his speech to spice things up. Wit...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6h

Treasury pushing for weakening of protections for England’s national parks & national landscapes to make it easier for developers.

Once lost, they are lost for ever

Rehabilitate empty homes.

Ever thought about building houses on the estates of the rich? Can't they live in smaller houses?

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

What did Lisa Nandy talk about with Israeli officials? I tried to find out www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/lisa...

What did Lisa Nandy talk about with Israeli officials? I tried to find out

The culture secretary's department claims that releasing details would prejudice UK relations with Israel. But close relations with Israel while it commits genocide are the problem

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

Rather a lot of that around at the moment!

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

The Return of the KKK? www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/08/t...

The Return of the KKK?

Pres. Donald Trump is imposing a right-wing political ideology and practice that increasingly resembles what Christ Hedges has dubbed “Christian fascism.”

www.counterpunch.org

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

Israeli security forces intercept a Global Sumud Flotilla vessel www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

Israeli security forces intercept a Global Sumud Flotilla vessel

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 6h

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 7h

No. They know that.

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christhecatsmum.bsky.social @christhecatsmum.bsky.social · 1d

I live in France and an sick of so many Brits saying "well the French fly their flag everywhere....". It's just not true. It's on Municipal buildings and monuments, plus local mayor's offices on memorial days.

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 7h

‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes’ – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on the blowback of imperialist crisis and its implications for Starmer’s government The words of the second witch in Macbeth speak of an intuitive sense of danger.

www.counterfire.org

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 7h

Nearly 10K Palestinians Reported Missing by Families in Gaza, Officials Say truthout.org/articles/nea...

Nearly 10K Palestinians Reported Missing by Families in Gaza, Officials Say

This includes 6,000 people believed to be buried under the rubble, though the true count is likely far higher.

truthout.org

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 7h

Italian prime minister reveals she has been referred to ICC over Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

Italian prime minister reveals she has been referred to ICC over Gaza

www.middleeasteye.net

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