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Action Against Assaults – Demand stronger legal protections for public transport workers RMT’s Action Against Assaults campaign aiming to tackle the unacceptable extent of violence and abuse faced by public transport workers. As part of the campaign, we are seeking stronger legal protections through the creation of a specific offence of assaulting a public transport worker. We believe this is necessary for a number of reasons including that it will deter perpetrators, make it more likely that cases will be prosecuted and demonstrate that the Government takes the issue of violence against public transport workers seriously. We are calling on the Government to create this...

📊 Nearly two-thirds of transport workers have experienced workplace violence in the past year.
✍️ Please take a moment to write to your MP to call for the creation of a specific offence of assaulting a public transport worker.
https://rmtunion.org/assaults

The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.

Last night, Donald Trump voiced support for sending more weapons to Ukraine.

This is probably "the most pro-Zelenskyy" stance we’ve ever heard from the president, Jack Blanchard says on #playbookpod. But that puts him at odds with many MAGA supporters.

Listen here: ow.ly/2eNY50Wmb4M

Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.

“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

Just got out of the dentists office. The good news is, I don’t need a filling. The bad news is there’s a wild turkey trying to hitch a ride in my car.

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians:

“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
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Dear Canada: tomorrow is Election Day. This is Mark Carney. Hint, hint.

Happy 92nd birthday to the one and only Carol Burnett!

Let’s hope

Amazing that they gave a column to an eleven-year-old!

Well blame the Tories, you want to reform in go ahead. Hope you remember how great things were under Blair and brown?

Trump? Vance?

Becoming the right wing press will go bat shit crazy

Bottom Line is the countries skint because of 14 years of Tory failure.

As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family

One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀

Screenshot of headline from press gazette, November 28, 2022: Ex-GB News editorial director John McAndrew joins BBC John McAndrew most recently helped to launch The Andrew Neil Show on Channel 4.

In the light of the Evan Davis podcast being pulled, your occasional reminder of who the Director of News at the BBC is........

Are they though? I know people who are on dla and some absolutely need it and I had a lodger who just waisted it down the bookie

Ffs labour have been in power less than a year, look at the crap they’ve got to deal with because of 14 years of Tory failure?

‘I’m giving up’: Cate Blanchett says she is retiring from acting The actor has a string of films on the way, but insists her plan to quit is ‘serious’ and she has other plans for her life Cate Blanchett says that she is “giving up” acting to do other things “with [her] life”. In an interview with Radio Times, Blanchett suggested she was uncertain over calling herself an “actress”, saying: “It’s because I’m giving up.” Continue reading...

‘I’m giving up’: Cate Blanchett says she is retiring from acting

Sarah Jones, "One of the reasons the steel industry has halved in the last ten years"

"Is because our energy prices have doubled in the last ten years"

"We're over-reliant on gas. That's why we're investing in renewable energy here in the UK so we aren't so reliant on gas"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript As Russia's war with Ukraine continues, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits down with Scott Pelley to discuss U.S. support for Ukraine, the war, the Oval Office meeting, and the latest attacks on civil...

"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Always

Should be an early night but the masters!!!!!!!

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Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”.

“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”

This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.

It was reported weeks ago that Labour were planning on re-nationalising British steel.

Reform UK saw the writing on the wall two days ago.

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Correct.