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Here's a @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon for #WorldBookDay

Does anyone think that this - effectively describing people who came here at *our* invitation to work in care homes as would-be parasites on the welfare state - is what she meant?

Dean our Paperboy announces he is standing for Reform in the next council elections.
‘Why?’ I sadly ask.
‘Mr Anderson has promised me all the Greggs I can eat plus a new BMX & Simple Sally in the village shop is standing too. She’s been promised lots of wood shavings & mince.’😬

Dressing up for world book day is bullshit, even leaving the parental finance stuff aside. It's one of very few 'event' days in school calenders set aside for a solo, quiet, activity – and then it's turned into dress-up. Spectacularly misses the point. Schools should drop it from a great height.

🧵There’s a very obvious problem with withdrawing support from asylum seekers: what happens next? Let’s consider some non mutually exclusive possibilities…

Plumber wins by-election for Greens

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Incredibly telling Kemi Badenoch interview on Today:
- can’t say what she’d actually want UK forces to do
- no idea what objective her proposed military action is to achieve
- hides from reality that single biggest constraint on British military = her govt’s defence cuts

MAGA embrace: Europe’s nationalists head to Washington Right-wing populists from across Europe are converging on the U.S. capital, where Speaker Mike Johnson is headlining a sovereignty conference.

Europe’s right-wing populists may be personae non gratae among the political establishment back home.

But in the U.S. they are being greeted with open arms and access to the top.

Haha
No, just doing zoomies, like the dog and cat do. Running round with no obvious intent, other than speed

Yes, orc as an insult (Lord of the Rings I think), previously used by the odious Rupert Lowe
Shows how little she knows
Yes it was lovely to walk. Only the second Wednesday this year when we have trusted the weather 🙄

I was impressed enough to get his book - Thriving Beyond Fifty

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Blow for Reform as major new Holyrood poll shows them sinking to fourth REFORM have been dealt a blow after a new Holyrood poll showed they were on a downward trend and could finish fourth in the Scottish elections in…

Blow for Reform as major new Holyrood poll predicts sinking to fourth

This is an appalling statistic. No wonder turnout is so low. People can't be bothered to vote if they think it will make no difference

“According to YouGov the Greens are now the most popular party in all age categories under 50. Are you ignoring what voters are telling you about your reforms on immigration?”

It’s a little-known fact about Kemi Badenoch that years ago she must have suffered a traumatic brain injury that has left her completely unable to recall any event after 2002. That may sound ridiculous, but once you know it, it explains an awful lot about British politics. Take, for instance, Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader demanded to know why Britain wasn’t joining the Americans in attacking Iran. That’s a brilliant question if, like Badenoch — and apparently her entire team — you have absolutely no knowledge of “UK Involvement With Events in the Middle East: 2003 to Present Day”. Otherwise, even the most slow-witted MP would get a pretty handy clue from the first three letters of the target country’s name.

The best explanation for the British right's enthusiasm for war with Iran: brain damage. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

“That could mean thousands of people in asylum hotels could be kicked out and according to charities could end up on the streets rough sleeping which will just push the costs on to councils and the NHS”

Is the BBC biased against Keir Starmer? Polls suggest that people think that this government, and Keir Starmer, are in permanent crisis. Is that because the BBC told us this?

A new analysis of 95 posts by BBC political editor Chris Mason suggests the issue may not be accuracy – but framing.

No single headline is inaccurate. Impartiality rules appear unbroken. But repeated talk of “predicament”, “backlash” & “U-turn” frames a misleading story of permanent crisis..

Once again, a regulator showing it has teeth

Asylum seekers to face hotel evictions from June — The i Paper 'You can’t out-Reform Reform’ Shabana Mahmood warned by allies

Is anyone going to explain where these evicted asylum seekers will live if they’re evicted? Because this sounds like a great way to cause more homelessness.

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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

"To appease the billionaire press, Starmer's government has burnt its house down".
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The UK scandal of women handcuffed while in labour: ‘I was so shocked when the restraints weren’t removed’ Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

Okay, so people need to lose their jobs over this. The handcuffing of pregnant women, including during labour and intimate physical examinations was wrong when Tories did it in the Nineties, and it's wrong now. And as ever, Abolish The Home Office: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

That’s great!
Thanks to @siamesecaroline.bsky.social really, as it was she who first mentioned Will Harlow
Hope the improvement continues apace

For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%.

We can do/be so much better than this.

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

‘At the last general election, 58% of people who voted ended up with an MP they did not vote for.‘

Our voting system must change.

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MARINE: “NO ONE WANTS TO DIE FOR ISRAEL”

U.S. Marine Brian McGinnis got dragged out of a senate hearing for standing up and saying what everyone is thinking.

Reports that Sen Tim Sheehy broke his hand.

Looks like The Express wrote the headline before the conference happened.

It’s clear now that they were due to announce someone like Kate Hoey, and it didn’t happen, leaving them with a defector that no one knows.

It’s embarrassing.

A dog is squeezed in a corner between a washing machine and a cabinet, looking at a robotic vacuum cleaner in the center of the room.

it is best to find out early who can and cannot be counted upon when the robot uprising begins

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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