Tom Jolliffe

Let’s have a level playing field on publicising the ethnicity of suspects | Letter Letter: The selective reporting of ethnicity creates the impression that a disproportionate amount of crime is committed by ethnic minorities, writes Martin Forde KC

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Public servants are being targeted and MPs have been murdered. But we will prevent fear from destroying our politics | Dan Jarvis A new law will restrict protests outside the homes of public office holders. The right to demonstrate is a given, but to menace private homes is just not right, says security minister Dan Jarvis

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This hotels saga isn’t really about asylum seekers: it’s a window on to a far bigger scandal | Gaby Hinsliff A blistering new report tells a tale of billions wasted and vulnerable people left traumatised, while companies profit from a blundering state, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

"Now, having bequeathed this shambles to the nation, all the Tories can seemingly do is blame their successors for not sorting it out fast enough."
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It is a mistake to fail to point out the errors of the Labour Government. Unless that is done, the Government will continue to lose the respect of many Labour Party supporters. They must change the facile watered down imitation of Reform and take on the racists and populists with hope not hate.

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

Very interesting story, but there should be more research on the "A" level student who made the discovery in 1977.

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Benefits of a four-day week are ever clearer, despite Steve Reed’s stance Housing secretary’s criticism of trial in South Cambridgeshire council ignores its many positives

Why does Labour continue to ape the Tories and Reform?

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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

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Lettings agency takes blame in Rachel Reeves licence row Agency says staff member offered to apply for licence to allow chancellor to rent out family home, but failed to do so

"the lettings agency employed by Reeves said it was to blame for not applying for the licence, and apologised for the error.

Emails between the agency and Reeves’s husband, Nicholas Joicey, a senior civil servant, supported this version of events."

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Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop Reform, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

" Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year."

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No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical | Jason Okundaye In this age of Tory nativism and Faragist populism, the question isn’t ‘is this person a bigot?’ Now it is ‘does that matter at all?’ says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

An excellent analysis of very recent history, illustrating unarguably how far we British in public discourse have fallen into apologism for blatant racism, promoted and supported by populists, opportunists and racists.

"Even May said she was “woke and proud”.
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Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis? | Peter Apps One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps

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Photo of Pochin saying: "It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Sarah Pochin is a racist.
Reform is a racist party.
Her ‘apology’ makes no difference to that.
Trying to claim your words really meant something else is not an apology.
It’s a lie about who you are and what you think.
So, she’s a racist.
And, for all our sakes, that MUST be a shameful thing to be.

Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour US secretary of state says preliminary move to apply Israeli law in occupied land is ‘counterproductive’ and a threat to peace

Monday, a 55-year-old Palestinian woman was taken to hospital after being beaten over the head by a masked Israeli settler while she was picking olives. Video.. shows the man striking her unconscious.. before hitting her again as she lay motionless on the ground.
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ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says restrictions breached international obligations UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies

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Nearly 1.9 million foreign citizens claiming UK benefits This includes those on universal credit, housing benefit, child allowance, carer’s allowance, disability benefits and pension credits

The Times (paywalled) and the Tories and far right are stoking more hatred for foreigners. 27 other European countries spend more on welfare spending than the UK does.

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Oh, that's quite made my afternoon.

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

Lam’s suggestion of removing thousands who were in the UK legally “shows how far your (Tory) party has moved away from the fundamental values of decency, tolerance and respect for the rule of law that the vast majority hold dear” says @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Robert Peston, "Where are you on the banning of Maccabi fans?"

Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, I take antisemitism really seriously"

"I don't think banning Maccabi fans is antisemitic at all"

Jewish community leaders in Birmingham

Standing outside Villa Park

Saying they support the ban of Maccabi

Saying it's nothing to do with religion, or against Jews

"It's a genuine safety concern against hooliganism from Maccabi"

Disgraceful reception for racist Robinson approved by Israel. Condemned by Board of Deputies of British Jews.

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Nigel Farage’s partner embroiled in Brussels fraud investigation Laure Ferrari’s Eurosceptic group was at the centre of fraud scandal that led to ongoing criminal case

Well, there's a shock.
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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The Tommy Robinson from whom Yaxley took his name was a prominent member of the Luton Town MIGs, a football hooligan crew which follows Luton Town. The pseudonym successfully hid his identity and criminal history until the connection was uncovered in July 2010 by Searchlight magazine.

Sure most know this, but in case any don’t.

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant racist, anti-Arabs slogans ahead of match in Amsterdam

Just Maccabi Tel Aviv fans chanting "death to Arabs" and "We will win, let the Israeli Army win, fuck the Arabs" as they arrived in Amsterdam for the Ajax game last November .

They also chanted "“Why is school out in Gaza? Because there are no children left there! Olé, olé, olé”

There is a conspiracy of silence about the upsurge in COVID. It is political and short sighted. The restriction of free vaccinations to over 75s is wrong and foolish. I got my COVID vaccination in France last May. It cost me just over 7 euros - no need to show a GHIC.

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynb...

Toynbee is spot on. Need to see UK politicians getting a bit of bottle to face down the lies of the Trump, Vance and their authoritarian cabal.

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You need to provide a source for this. There are no other news reports. It's a credibility risk.

300K views · 9.2K reactions | “I am here today to receive my degree – and I do happen to be 90 – but that’s besides the point, I hope.” Maryette McFarland, from Derry, has graduated from university w... “I am here today to receive my degree – and I do happen to be 90 – but that’s besides the point, I hope.” Maryette McFarland, from Derry, has graduated from university with an English Literature...

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👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."