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The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

A year of strikes and pickets, and now a blockade by sea with the Global Sumud Flotilla: how an Italian port town is disrupting the war economy one shipment at a time. buff.ly/fciT1Xz

“We should be making sure that people who make a living by going out to work aren't paying effectively a higher rate of tax than people who get their income from sitting on assets.” Ellie Chowns responds to reports that John Healey has ruled out equalising capital gains tax ahead of the Budget.

NPO Spotlight on Corruption: —“considerable revolving door” in govt’s AI growth zones (Starmer’s AI + economic policy) —38 ministers, senior civil servants & special advisers hired to AI co.s, Jul24–Sep26 And so far, what's Burnham done about corruption & cronyism? Stick up for Man City's owners...

The genocidal state cannot stop itself from continuing to commit a genocide, and all the ‘ceasefire’ has meant is reduced media coverage. Israel has never stopped murdering civilians and destroying homes.

8 people lost an eye 2 had their faces shattered and needed extension reconstruction surgery 5 had limbs amputated 14 more had life changing injuries Imagine the outrage if ONE of these injuries happened to the French Police But they do this and not one charge against them

This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

Every aspect of Farage's political history needs close inspection for corruption ... "Transparency International EU calls for investigation into Nigel Farage Brexit campaign use of EU funds" transparency.eu/transparency...

Israeli forces kill 14 in Gaza as UN commission says genocide continues - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-kill-14-gaza-un-commission-says-genocide-continues

The wrong decisions on Rosebank, Heathrow expansion, heat pumps and EV targets would result in getting on for half a billion extra tonnes of CO2 being added to the atmosphere Truly insane as drought, wildfire, storm and flood continue to hammer the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hozier, Kneecap join Macklemore at sold-out launch of Free Palestine tour

HSBC quarterly pre-tax profits surge 32% to $9.6bn (£7.14bn). Banks receive bailouts, subsidies, pay measly return to savers, hike charges, rely on the state as lender of the last resort but threaten retaliation if taxed. Must levy windfall tax.

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

Albania Is Not For Sale 🇦🇱 Inside the Trump-Kushner bid for Sazan Island and the Vjosa-Narta coast Read more on the Reactionary International. buff.ly/1y22a8x

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

The climate crisis in one sentence: We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice

25,000 people have signed our petition calling for Andy Burnham to block the Thames Water bailout. Add your name today. 👉weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout👈

"The peers' letter was organised by Lord Walney, an ex-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.. Labour MP Kim Johnson told MEE: "This provides yet more evidence of whose interests some peers serve. "An unelected House of Lords and the suppression of free speech is a dangerous combination.""

It's polling day in Israel? Who will they choose to continue genocide? ❤️ www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israeli-el...

Teenagers in Texas dressing as the KKK for Halloween and shouting the N word at black people. This is the racist hellhole that people like Trump and his MAGA scum encourage

More tinkering around the edges.

Jon Kay to Jonathan Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

56 individuals in the UK have as much wealth as the poorest 27 million (Oxfam), but they appear - for some reason - to be immune from government efforts to raise more cash Monstrous and criminal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's almost as if countries need to remove their dependency on fossil fuels & go all in on alternative renewable energy...

They really do think we're stupid.

Apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians are documented, evidenced, relentless. All enabled by the so-called international community, including Ireland. We have legal obligations under international law to act to prevent egregious human rights abuses. #SanctionsNow

Coincidence corner: Tory peer Lord (Tariq) Ahmad and Qatar From the latest Private Eye, out now.

The UAE is the most consequential external actor in Sudan’s civil war—arming and financing the RSF through a subimperial project driven by economic, political, and counterrevolutionary motives. Available in EN, ES, DE and FR. buff.ly/KiRGTTq

If the BBC treated the Green Party as they do Reform, and Reform as they do the Greens, Reform would be on 10% and the Greens 20%

Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias. They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform. They have not instigated #Leveson2. Shocking dereliction of duty.

Hamas says UN report provides new evidence of Israeli crimes and impunity

Ali Fortescue to Ellie Chowns on the group Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

People around the world are uniting to say no to Trump. Yet Andy Burnham does the opposite by approving the Jackdaw gas field.

"Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage."

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Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine. The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Conservative peer Lord Jackson told a debate on Lords reform on Friday: "An elected House...will result in a House of compliant placemen from party lists, donors, careerists, cranks and the unemployable." Which to most members of the public sums up their view of the Lords as it is *now*

@mark-carney.bsky.social Israel is starving Gaza.

The Arab Parliament has launched an international parliamentary initiative aimed at mobilizing legislative bodies worldwide to increase pressure to end the Israeli occupation and hold those responsible for violations against Palestinians accountable. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261026-ara...

The Burnham government is happy to listen to transphobes galore but will move mountains to avoid listening to any trans people.

Flavio Bolsonaro crying after losing the election. I hope that cheered up your day.