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Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
The Times yesterday, on how trans kids, denied the healthcare they need, are buying black market hormones. Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.
You know, infuriating and a shameful betrayal though the BBC and other media's misreporting of the Sandie Peggie judgment is, it also doesn't really matter. What matters is the judgment which lawyers will read, use to advise their clients, and inclusion will be the winner.
“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here. Such grim betrayal. (iPaper)
My wife Bunty & I had the privilege of visiting Nigel Farage in his campaign office during the last election. He was so lovely & allowed Bunters to take a photo of him (shown below). There was absolutely no hint of him exceeding electoral expenses & being involved in fraud. 😊
"Organisations including Samaritans, Mind, Centre for Mental Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have written to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, to express their “deep concern” about guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation. In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills. Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors. No end to nightmare without public ownership.
Staggering - the effort and resource *still* being invested in keeping the Brexit shitshow on the road. No one’s held to account. No one’s fallen on their sword. No one’s got the guts to really speak out. So, on we go, protecting this huge and ruinous lie, because telling the truth is too difficult.
Farage is in the mud again: police reports over £9k dodgy spending - a refurbished HQ he “forgot” to declare, an armoured Land Rover shoved into “national” costs, and missing receipts everywhere. Add it to the pile: Russian cash, extremist bile, antisemitic bullying - now alleged fraud too.
"Region imported 438,000 tons of pesticides and herbicides in 2020, two-thirds more than in 2018. More than half of such chemicals used in Nigeria are highly hazardous, at least 40% of those can’t be sold in Europe" #Pesticide colonialism www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thames Water is a test for the British economy. It profits by ripping off customers. Pays dividends, doesn't invest. Since March TW borrowed £1.47bn. Paid £900m in fees/interest for the emergency financing. Can't address crisis without public ownership. archive.ph/oW8ck/again?...
Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs. Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise. Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits. Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
"Good Law Project said both rulings countered the argument that the supreme court ruling automatically resulted in a bathroom ban for trans people. “The tribunal was clear that the law does not now require banning trans people from single-sex spaces.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Sky News, "You just said that you don't want to leave any stones unturned" "Those words were used by Sajid Javid in 2018, when he ordered what you're calling for" "Are you saying today that you, the Conservatives, actually failed to improve the gathering of data?"
Elon Musk's X bans European Commission ads after €120m fine. An example of how corporations flaunt power to discipline govts. X was fined because it's blue tick system was deceptive. It was not "meaningfully verifying users". X lacked transparency, exposed users to scams, impersonation frauds.
Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future? The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
“The United States is no longer interested in Europe. Even more: This administration no longer views Europe - and specifically the EU - as a partner, but rather, in large part, as strategic ballast, as an economic adversary, and as a civilization in decline.” 🇺🇸 is hostile to Europe
Kremlin Rats: Three more of Farage’s MEPs are alleged to have followed Putin's script. CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill by Oleg Voloshyn when giving interviews to 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019.
Private water has failed this country. So I’m co-hosting a briefing in Parliament for MPs to make sure they know the truth about why public ownership is the solution. We’ve got just 24 hours to get my colleagues there. Can you help? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
“Do not believe everything you think.” Allan Lokos We all have moments when our thoughts run ahead of us. We can take a breath and come back to what’s actually happening. We don’t have to follow every thought that appears. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #SelfCare Picture by selfcare.recipe
Amazing how many people who claimed to care deeply about the welfare of Jewish people/combatting antisemitism whilst cheering on the Israeli government’s genocide now use antisemitic slurs and tropes to attempt to silence/diminish the Jewish men who allege that Farage bullied them at school.
Eurgh I’ve just read an article by former Health Secretary Alan Johnson, and it’s caused my heart to race. Why? Because I wrote a book about how politicians were privatising the NHS, he wrote a scathing review of it for The Guardian, which said I ‘should go to specsavers”. …
The US is sending 'drug trafficking' Special Forces (no such thing) to camp off Venezuela, one of lowest drug trafficking countries in S.America Meanwhile all the highest drug trafficking countries are completely ignored But of course it's that 'drug' oil that they are after
Happy Monday lovely phone family and welcome to a brand new week. I hope it's a fabulous one for you all ☕️ I've got a busy week of catching up with family and friends. Hoping the weather cheers up a bit. Have a beautiful day everyone, and of course always #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️
My latest Substack: short summary of multiple chemical pollution threats to which we are subjecting ourselves and planet, including plastics, PFAS, pesticides, heavy metals, endocrine-disruptors and licit and illicit pharmaceuticals nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Tech elites really are starting their own for-profit cities, supposedly to escape regulation and “failing” democracys. “While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works”
Extraordinary -- @dropsitenews.com reports that Pakistan is offering to repatriate convicted British-Pakistani members of a grooming gang on the condition Britain extradites two high-profile dissidents here, including Shahzad Akbar who has written for Declassified UK.
FFS. If the far right had been this lukewarm and timid, they'd never have got their Brexit! This isn't the time to say what CAN'T be done, it's a time to decide what you want and to fight to make it happen. It's time to grasp that politics is the art of the possible! Fortune favours the brave! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
100 years from now historians will look back and balk, like “how the fuck did Russia stealth-take-over the United States?! How did nobody look out for the disinfo? The bribes? The obviously compromised assets in both Britain and America?!” They won’t believe the total lack of interest & pushback.
The Telegraph is amplifying hate & misinfo again. Here are facts they've ignored: 🟣 Migrants boost the economy 🟣 It's not illegal to seek asylum, nor is one "illegal" when one's asylum is rejected 🟣 If it's legality you're worried about, the US' mass deportations aren't lawful
British army exercises in Kenya have led to “multiple civilian injuries and fatalities”, a devastating Kenyan parliamentary committee report concludes. Kenya became independent this week 62 years ago. But the empire never died. www.declassifieduk.org/kenyan-polit...