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Oh My life! The BBC having the brass neck to say "the public" might re-think their attitudes towards Meghan Markle! I'm certain the majority of the ill-will towards her was manufactured by our right wing media along with the BBC. Most of us said 'leave them alone!' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

I’ve just donated to Care4Calais to help provide essential aid and support to refugees and people seeking asylum. Small acts of kindness can make a real difference. Please join me by donating what you can and sharing this page. help.care4calais.org/page/202972/...

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The House of Lords is nothing more than a retirement home for failed politicians and rich donors. Scotland deserves better. It's time to abolish the House of Lords.

Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊

Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you!

🔎 New report out! Growing up in poverty increases the likelihood of being NEET - not in employment, education or training - as a young adult, and inadequate income holds young people back from returning to earning or learning.

Did you see this? Lifeboat volunteers were attacked and harassed this weekend for saving lives at sea. Will you join me and add your name? 38d.gs/rvos

Dear Danny Tommo & chums I dare you to call lifeboat crew “traitors” in Cornwall. The Solomon Browne went down off Penlee-all volunteers lost in icy December water trying to reach the Union Star Almost Xmas,trying to save lives What do YOU do with your weekends? Oh #RNLI heroes, end of story.

The RNLI volunteers coming under fire and being threatened are heroes. They put their own lives in jeopardy to save lives irrespective of race, colour or creed. I am proud to have supported them for over 50 years and will continue to do so. Arrest the masked thugs. Repost your Support for the RNLI

Thomas's sister explains that he's spent 14 years in prison for stealing a mobile phone, and he's still inside.

We need more equality in our tax system, we need to end the exemptions and loopholes that have bloated our tax code to around 3,000 pages long - a simple one size fits all for income, however generated, would raise a significant extra sum of tax. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When they're discussing Andy Burnham's clothes, but the saxophones are getting louder

I spoke about @greensorganise.bsky.social and fighting austerity in local government at the National Shop Stewards Network. youtu.be/uzq2ULzN3x0?...

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.

Jeremy Corbyn on Starmer resignation.

At least one person has managed to make a fortune from the chaos of the Brexit deal. £5m for Nigel Farage. A £90bn hit to the rest of us.

Why has this been erased from the discussion?

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

We know that hope is stronger than hate. This Refugee Week we stand together in solidarity against those who seek to divide us.

Who benefits from the chaos? www.doubledown.news/watch/2026/j...

Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and Keir Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting. QWHITE revealing!

Cobra meeting for 4 empty ambulances that got burned and no one was injured. Many homes burned with residents having to flee for their lives, hundreds injured, no Cobra meeting. What ridiculous priorities.

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"For far too long... mainstream media in the UK has failed the public. It has downplayed the rise of the far right at home while helping manufacture consent for genocide abroad." I make the case for why we need Zeteo UK, which launched today and which needs your support, as subscribers:

Two-tier policing is real and ever-present. Black and Brown people experience it. Women experience it. Pro-Palestine and green protesters experience it. But the last people who would ever experience it are right-wing white men. They are the people with whom the police instinctively align.

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

James O'Brien didn't hold back. In this powerful LBC clip he brands Nigel Farage a "gleeful opportunist" who is shamelessly exploiting the horrific murder of 18yr old Henry Nowak to push division & hatred. Do we really let Farage’s rhetoric distract us from the sheer evil of what happened to Henry?

Our Hairy Haggis relay team are running 26.2 miles this Sunday to support people seeking safety in Scotland. We're running for hope, solidarity & to give refugees the warm welcome they deserve. Every contribution helps us to make a difference: ow.ly/XRKC50Z19S0 Thank you for your support! 🧡🫶

The government needs to start weaning social care off vampire private providers. It needs a root and branch clear out and major central government investment. Start in test regions and export best practice. This is such a tragic scandal.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

Corbyn was an MP for 32 years until elected Labour leader in 2015. No of media accusations of antisemitism from 1983-2015 = 0 No of media accusations of antisemitism from 2015-19 = 11,251 Media Lens on the establishment's revisiting of its smear campaign: medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

Sky News is blatantly lying about hate crimes. Trevor Phillips said that ONLY jews are being attacked, despite Essa Suleiman attacking a Muslim man in Golders Green THAT MORNING. The interview with Zack Polanski was PURE MISINFORMATION.

When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?...

Reform Candidate tweeted about White people as the Master Race, cheered an asian woman being raped, and unwisely also tweeted pictures of his house and dog to prove it was him.

Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.

The Greens has reached the stage of wall to wall media hate. There's no way to avoid this. It will be 24/7 and unending. We just need to stand firm in our beliefs and stay the course. Don't let them distract us or wear us down. It'll be exhausting, and it will be tempting, but we mustn't give in.

Save Our NHS. JC was right all along.✌🏼 #SocialistFriday