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Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’
time.com/7377960/vlad...
Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet
“This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.
time.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell

Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow

www.thetimes.com/money/family...
Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell
Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow
www.thetimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Reeves urged to reassure MPs over public finances amid £6bn-a-year Send costs.

Crisis caused by privatisation & profiteering from special education needs of children. Money buys less.

Invest to rebuild public sector.

Privatisation has been disastrous in so many sectors.
Reeves urged to reassure MPs over public finances amid £6bn-a-year Send costs
City analysts say financial market investors will be worried if cost is deducted from budget surplus
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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This is Elon Musk territory, isn't it? A woman's purpose is to bear children.
Reform candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check
Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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🤔You want your government to be popular?

💡Why not try doing something that's popular with the public.

Most of us want to see public ownership across a range of public services.

It was true at the last general election. It's true now.

#publicownership
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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UPDATE: The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment

New evidence of the Palantir founder’s reach out to the far right Russian ideologue confirms the confluence of Big Tech with reactionary Russian mysticism

open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
UPDATE: The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment
New evidence of the Palantir founder’s reach out to the far right Russian ideologue confirms the confluence of Big Tech with reactionary Russian mysticism
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Queen Elizabeth loaned £7 million to paedophile connected to sex trafficking ring

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/queen-eliz...
Queen Elizabeth loaned £7 million to paedophile connected to sex trafficking ring
It has been revealed the late Queen Elizabeth II loaned £7 million to a paedophile who was linked to a sex trafficking ring.
www.normalisland.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Chris Philp, a minister at the Home Office 2022-2024, when his government spent over £700m and four years, to deport - voluntarily, at that - a total of four people to Rwanda, reckons it should easily be happening "within a week". 🤡 ~AA
Conservative's Chris Philp starting 2026 with a call to leave the ECHR

"The only way to stop the crossings is to leave the ECHR and to deport anyone arriving here illegally within a week"
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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🇳🇴 ICYM: It has been a tough week for Starmer, but what can he learn from his Nordic counterparts to resurrect his and his parties fortunes?

https://www.bestforbritain.org/what_norwegian_election_teach_starmer
What the Norwegian Election could teach Starmer
Try and picture this. A Labour Party flailing in the polls less than a year before an election, a centre-right Conservative party decimated by a radical right alternative, a wealth tax on the front pa...
www.bestforbritain.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Good to see European nations working together on Defence for their mutual benefit - Europe needs to stand together, as it remains clear we can no longer rely on the US.
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-chooses-franco-italian-air-defense-system-over-us-patriots/
Loss for Trump as Denmark chooses Franco-Italian air defense system over US Patriots
The decision comes after the U.S. president threatened to annex Greenland.
www.politico.eu
September 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Don’t be misled: anti-immigration sentiment distracts from the real issues facing our society
northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...
The real issue in UK society is not immigration
Don’t be misled: anti-immigration sentiment distracts from the real issues facing our society
northwestbylines.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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I grew up beneath this beautiful, 17th century white horse at Westbury, now defaced by racists posturing as patriots.

You can't pretend patriotism involves the defacement of our actual cultural heritage.

Please let's call it what it is - ugly, malicious, hateful.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Westbury White Horse checked for any England flag damage
Red fabric which was draped over the
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The BBC is basically turning into the Blackshirt Broadcasting Corporation.
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector.

Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services.

Govts won't expand NHS capacity.

Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector.

State sponsored profiteering.
How successive government have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
leftfootforward.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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🏥 Private equity firms have significantly influenced U.S. healthcare, often prioritising profits over patient care.

Now, these firms are setting their sights on the NHS, raising concerns about the future of public healthcare in the UK.

Read more here: lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...
September 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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📣Speaker Klaxon!

Sophie our wonderful lead campaigner on water will be a guest speaker at the Boycott Thames Water zoom meeting TONIGHT!

"Thames Water - the End Game" is a meeting for all water campaigners and bill boycotters.

📩Register here: vist.ly/458tc
#thameswater #publicownership
September 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B:

“In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard and so these claims look like a wilful misinterpretation of a treaty that ended decades of bloodshed in the UK and Ireland."

https://bit.ly/461k8cf
ECHR essential to NI peace deal
The ECHR is an "essential safeguard" to the Good Friday Agreement, campaigners have stressed, amid urgent warnings the "radical right is playing on fears around immigration to remove protections from ...
www.bestforbritain.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Flagshaggers have spent the week spray-painting dodgy Union Jacks and auditioning for the ‘Great British W*nk Off’.

Flags don’t compensate for no identity, a tiny nob and a height that means they can't ride the Nemesis.

It’s Poundland Nationalism.

8pm 👇🏼
youtube.com/live/xPlKTmY...
Revenge of the Flagsh*ggers: The Great British W*nk Off 🇬🇧 💦
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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August 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"A boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, walked past the counter-protesters with his father and shouted 'Send them back' 'Go back where you came from!"
Children, women, and young people being groomed by the far right
"A boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, walked past the counter-protesters with his father and shouted 'Send them back' 'Go back where you came from!"
northeastbylines.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Beautiful
So I wanted to do something to
Take back the flag to show we are better than the racists we are united.
I came up with a rubbish version and then the amazing @drhelenforte.bsky.social made what you see below. She is so talented ♥️ please share this far and wide
#LoveNotHate
#UnityThroughDiversity
August 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
August 31, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out

youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in creating this mess
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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August 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM