Lula:
"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world.
We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."
Most tax calculators tell you how much tax you pay *now*. Ours also shows how much tax you'll pay on your next £1. Your marginal rate.
We'll be publishing straight after the Budget. But here's a preview - I'd love to get feedback.
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I just signed a petition calling on the EU to defend the International Criminal Court against Trump’s attacks. The EU has a powerful tool that could protect international law - mass public pressure will force them to act. Join me and add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-10...
We have until Thursday 29th October to stop Thames Water from being bailed out yet again at our expense
Andy Burnham, block the bailout, remove their licence, TAKE IT BACK.
Sign the petition 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...
The Exposure documentary showing undercover footage of many Reform officials being racist and sexist is on ITV at 10.20pm tonight, so whatever you do, don't watch it.
UPDATE: While the No Kings Instagram is back up, admins remain locked out and cannot post
Meta must restore full access immediately
Until then, continue following for updates: @ACLU.org , @MoveOn.org , @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @Indivisible.org -TN
Ex-BBC Director-General, last year. The key words are, 'Win over' & 'adapted'. No news service has to 'win over' viewers. They must report accurate & unbias news. The most sinister word is 'adapted'. Twisting news & introducing bias to support their plan. It's a scandal that they even consider it.
Reform announcements are reported by BBC News as though the party is a government in waiting. Reform has 8 MPs.
Do they report Hartlepool United's plans for their victory parade in May after winning the FA Cup?
The Right Pointing Arrow spins 180° and it still points to the right. Only in a mirror will it point left (and only to the left). An incredible ambiguous object illusion by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan. [📹 physicsfun]
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Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax.
But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT.
That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing.
A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party.
Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power.
(Letter, Times)
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
🙌 BTW everyone - you’ve now sent out over 24,200 emails to your MPs in a week and a day!
Nice work! If you’ve not yet sent one, please use this form (I don’t care how Brexity your MP is - it all counts !)
And if you’ve have sent one, please try to get 1 or 2 others doing it.
What’s your legacy Johnson?
Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this.
The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure.
You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻
I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me.
Thank you! x
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Nonsense!
Gas prices have risen across Europe, Africa & the Middle East. It’s not peculiar to Britain.
What Monaco-based tax avoider Ratcliffe is trying to do is blackmail the UK govt to bung him some taxpayers’ money by threatening to close some his Hull plants
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want.
And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public.
The real issue is power — and who has it.
🚨 Gordon Brown: "I’ve seen how imbalances in campaign spending can distort democracy. The multi-million-pound gifts to Reform must act as a final wake-up call"
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here.
rnli.org/support-us/g...
Texas isn't a red state, it's a non-voting state. Let's change that, Texans!
Make a plan to vote early: October 19-30. And tell your friends and family.
Please check your voter registration by going to: www.texas.gov/living-in-te...
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions
He is not on your side
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Donald Trump is trying to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Voting laws and rules will be in court every day between now and Election Day.
Subscribe to Democracy Docket to get the most up-to-date information and analysis. No both-sides, just the truth. demdock.com/4w6emld
Why is this a *news* story BBC?
It will only be newsworthy if/when we hear she's been jailed for her links to Epstein. Until then, she's irrelevant.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could.
From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America.
Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.