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Coming to the UK if Reform gets in. Probably the Tories too, eventually.

Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...

The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.

Disappointing that none of the billionaires who love their country so much have come forward with a £36m donation to the RNLI.

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Using the UK national emergency warning system to effectively tell people to avoid using barbeques is the height of official idiocy. Must be run by the same people who control motorway variable speed signs. Overuse of the system will lead people to ignore it.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is not a good-news story.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

#davidsmonthofmusic Day 10 A song when you were 10 youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ?...

What George said.

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

I care

I care

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

These choices are also available to a UK government

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I see a future where we no longer have to listen to the continual inane ramblings of Sam Altman.

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator. The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be. Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt #IranWar

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Great thread

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction. Read on.🧵

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

What I find really strange about some of the Epstein Files is how fawning a lot of these men were over him. It's really weird how many supposedly powerful men come across as simpering wimps. What was his hold over them?

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Please share. 💔

Maybe sign it in Budapest again. Then ignore it again when it matters. About as useful as a guarantee on a toaster.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Strikes me that Shabana Mahmood is one of the dark forces she warns of. Labour need to stand up to this anti-immigrantion rhetoric, not amplify it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

British.

I wonder if Kier Starmer and the UK Home Secretary are listening to this.

The absence of even a semblance of self awareness is profoundly depressing.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

About to start watching All the President's Men with my wife, who hasn't seen it. We noticed it came out in the year she was born. I expect to be even more disillusioned with the inadequacy of our current news media in a couple of hours.

Think the Tony Blair Institute looks sinister? You've not seen anything yet. Crucial investigation by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Hypothetical: if you were to move to ban anti-fascism, what do you think that would say about you?

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

High water bills, filthy rivers, now drought. England’s water crisis created by privatisation. 1989 - 2023: No shareholder investment. Investment funded by customers. 19% of water lost to leaks. £82.4bn cash extracted. Water bills up 360%. Govt opposes public ownership. Looting continues.

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pockets picked Big pharma made £12bn excess profit from just 10 NHS drugs; profit mark-ups up to 23,000%. Energy companies £514bn operating profit since 2020. England Water companies £85bn in dividends, dump sewage in rivers. Govts subservient to corporations. Abuses continue. Wither democracy.

Trumpism HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance. Banks take bailouts, subsidies, sell dodgy financial products, launder money and abuse taxes, but never accept social responsibility. Voluntarism is a fig leaf. Change law. Impose public duties.

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Welp. ATI had already narrowed its focus to health, sustainability and security, but are now being told that health and sustainability are no longer legitimate public priorities for AI research, and that this is consistent what ‘the British public expects.’

share.google/uNJ9FuIIg3pP... So instead of efforts to improve humanity's lot through improving health or addressing climate risks using AI, Peter Kyle thinks we should focus on using it to find more efficient ways to kill people. What a ghoul!