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Good morning, let's celebrate an extra hour by reading some good stuff. Here's some FT Weekend gift links, when they're gone they're gone it's rude to complain everyone judges you etc etc.

Labour Splits Erupt As Cabinet Minister Condemns Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Crackdown www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

🚨 NEW: The Scottish Government will quit X after the SNP voted to remove the party and public bodies from the platform

Palantir is working with ICE, it uses AI drones to kill innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Why the hell are we giving Palantir our NHS information. Palantir need to be banned from UK Goverment, just like the Swiss banned them from theirs

Dear god 1,500 people. Just grant them the residency status and move on. No one apart their family and friends will even notice.

Another good measurecamp. www.justgiving.com/page/measure...

Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told

ACTION THIS DAY 👇 For the trans community, getting back under the jurisdiction of the ECJ would be a boost in regaining our civil rights.

Despite recent rises, effective tax rates remain below pre-financial-crisis levels for low and middle earners ⤵️

Come on, anyone associated with #Halifax, #Hebden Bridge, #Brighouse, #Elland or anywhere else in #Calderdale... If you can't afford to help @reecedinsdale.bsky.social out, please, at least, repost his request. He's a good guy trying to save something worthwhile! 👍

And the fact that European governments are doing sweet FA about it is a testament to the morons governing the continent. Whether it is Labour in the UK, "Christian" "Democrats" in Germany or "Moderates" in Sweden - these death cult governments are all supporting X by using it.

There’s a surprise.

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

Nigel Farage, "the state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all" The state: He was offered a package including a bodyguard, car and trained driver, but rejected it.

We cannot allow a vile vocal minority to divide our nation. A lot of this content is illegal and Ofcom should be investigating. Solidarity with every player targeted. We are united.

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD. RT if you want them both out of the UK.

I will be blunt, at the point you are asking “but why should Labour MPs stop using a product owned by someone who endorses their own murders?”…you’d think “self-respect” would be on there.

I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham - get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...

🔴 The Troubled Firms That Gave Reform UK Tens of Thousands of Pounds Whilst on the Brink of Collapse Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don’t have to Nigel Farage’s party bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...

We've therefore started a crowdfunder to raise money to clear the remaining debt: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/socrates-u... We will be delighted to receive whatever you are able to share. No amount is too small! And if you can't donate money, then sharing this campaign also helps :)

Something really important in this story is that US democrats aren't just refusing to mention climate change, they're also not mentioning clean / renewable energy as well. insideclimatenews.org/news/2406202...

@paulconvery.bsky.social Hi Paul Another road closure that Islington will have approved without informing residents. Isn't the council required to provide advance notice to those directly affected? Crinan St & York Way completely blocked.

Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.

I think we just passed oops.

Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil The silence from the international community is deafening They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes

They are always blaming Socialism for Capitalism.

If I were in government I'd be scoping an announcement to have solar, batteries and air conditioning (heating and cooling) in every school and hospital by 2030

If you are worried about Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn. Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn. Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn. You‘re buying their lies.

THIS is what we do to Teletubbies who snitch

Nigel Farage is publishing pictures of himself wearing an England football shirt. But he wants to deport more than half the squad.

A reminder that just last month Kemi Badenoch described Elon Musk as a "goodie".

🚨 Fire every 5 hours. Cheap goods from online marketplaces are causing deadly UK fires, but tech bosses are making a killing due to a loophole that lets them dodge our safety laws. Act now to protect our homes! 🧵👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Farage’s dismal voting record set out on the theyworkforyou.com website. He gets an MP’s salary. He does no clinics. He barely ever votes. He does not work for you. He works for his crypto/fossil fuel owners. And they pay him to take the piss out of you. votes.theyworkforyou.com/person/26352...

GB News is NOT the broadcasting arm of Reform UK At least not according to Ofcom And Lisa Nandy just sits there, doing nothing

“An internal briefing prepared for NHS leaders in February 2026, seen by Democracy for Sale, says that even after ‘optimisation’, ‘processing time is reported as taking 4-5 minutes’ while similar processes take only ‘30 seconds’ with current systems.” https://goodlaw.social/i108

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Super sensible decision.

One of the largest drops in nhs waiting lists on record, which no one will now hear about. Opportunity cost from all the leadership turmoil www.england.nhs.uk/2026/05/heal...

This.

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

Anyone voting Reform is knowingly voting for corrupt racists who’ll make all of us poorer and less protected, remove our rights, privatise our NHS, increase fossil fuel dependency, shove children into poverty and threaten our communities… Don’t expect to be forgiven. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This. How is this acceptable in a democratic society?

Shameless lobbying by Big Food, trying to turn a war to their own advantage - profit over people.

Not a single completed prosecution for any of the 2 million instances of illegal sewage dumping in the last 5 years. Yet the government claims to be taking action. #Channel4 is continuing to expose the privatised water industry tonight. Time to end this mess. Take water into public ownership.

Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights.

A £5,000,000 gift from the party’s largest backer, is neither ‘purely personal’ nor a commercial loan. It is without precedent.