Mary-Ellen

Oh shit that is really bad. And all those investors will expect the public to bail them out, followed by another decade of austerity. We have to be ready to say no to a bail out for the rich and instead protect our public sector and ordinary people.

Even in the narrow instrumental sense of dealing with the Faragist threat to the Conservative Party, Brexit has been a catastrophic failure.

“Why don’t you just verify your ID? Just send them your passport/face scan/credit card, what could go wrong? It’s perfectly safe you’re just paranoid” etc etc etc

name one other country on this planet that could kidnap
497 people from 46 different countries & get away with it

Israel boarded the boats in international waters, so the word "kidnap" is correct.

clear breach of international maritime law

Israel continues Gaza attacks killing 5 Palestinians despite Trump ceasefire call The Israeli army killed at least five Palestinians, including a young girl, and injured others in ongoing attacks across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, ignoring US President Donald Trump’s call for an…

Israel continues Gaza attacks killing 5 Palestinians despite Trump ceasefire call

Last night, Israel launched a deadly attack on the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing at least 21 Palestinians and leaving more than 15 trapped under the rubble.

‘Our children are wasting away before our eyes’: starvation deaths on the rise in Gaza as famine continues As aid trickles into Gaza, famine-related deaths keep rising. The Gaza Health Ministry warns that “mass death” will soon be seen among infants, as mothers feed them “water instead of baby formula.”

As aid trickles into Gaza, famine-related deaths keep rising. The Gaza Health Ministry warns that “mass death” will soon be seen among infants, as mothers feed them “water instead of baby formula.”

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#Palestine #Israel

Red ink line drawing says, "Israel has no red line." Drawings include buildings, a tent, a military drop, pastries, body armor, and maps of Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine. A sailboat and a globe are also depicted. @khadija.draws

Thousands of civilians killed.
Food, water, and aid weaponised.
Gaza reduced to rubble.
These are red lines, which the Israeli gvmt continues to cross.
The UK gvmt must take action now to avoid complicity in these atrocities. SHARE to amplify. #RedLineForGaza
Credit: khadijadraws

Zack Polanski delivers first conference speech as Green Party leader The newly-elected leader of the Green Party in England and Wales has used his party conference speech to attack the Labour Party and Reform UK.

What a first day of conference!

@greenparty.org.uk is here - and ready to win.

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".. most plausible current hypothesis to explain this recent decline is.. climate-change-driven cooling of spring and early summer temperatures in west Greenland has severely suppressed reproductive success."

"Climate mitigation adaptation measures are unlikely to reduce impacts in the short term."

The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 30 September 2025 Tube strike 'breakthrough' hope, Walthamstow Village shooting, new Croydon square plan, Lime legal claims + Corsica closing

The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 30 September 2025
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Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives 17% pay rise to £4.9m Richard Houston’s increase compares with 2.9% for staff at the Big Four firm and comes after warning of lower bonuses at biggest division

Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives £700,000 pay rise to £4.9m.

Firm has a history of delivering dud audits. Rewards for failure.

In common with other LLPs, the firm avoids paying employer national insurance on partners' profit share.

Govt silence on fat-cattery.
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The level of political ineptitude shown by Starmer and his coterie is pretty spectacular. It's like they are secret Trotskyists destroying the Labour party from within.

I think the "darker path" he's worried about is that the services of very sensible, clever, and grown up politicians like him will no longer be needed.

Imagine saying such a thing with Reform leading in the polls.

Trumps NSPM-7 memorandum is designating speech against Republicans, or anyone in their tent as domestic terrorism. This means all of the counter-terrorism apparatus is focused inward on the majority of the American population. It is an attack on American constitutional rights, yet barely discussed.

After Angela Rayner So much for my forecasts . The report of the government's standards' advisor found that Angela Rayner's failure to pay the correct stamp dut...

"With the cabinet a monochromatic grey of tired, obsolete managerialism, there is every danger the upcoming deputy leader election might see an outbreak of politics."

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

Delete your old emails to save water, says Environment Agency Emails and photos stored on the cloud are supported by large water and energy-demanding data centres

Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons.

This is desperate.

How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.

This is a key table to understanding public opinion on migration. *When confronted with the real trade offs* people go for protecting the NHS and the economy over reducing migration.

The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.

"He sows division in our communities, and like last summer race riots, it puts the lives of people seeking sanctuary in danger"

Just replied to an email from management on a position that reminds me so much of politics.
The analogy is - people are restricted to eating one cake a day, but we support people eating as much cake as they like.

What a world we live in.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

Chris Smalls, American labor union leader, reportedly tortured by Israeli security forces Chris Smalls, an American trade unionist and leader of the Amazon Labor Union, has been subjected to torture by Israeli security forces, reports say.

Chris Smalls, American labor union leader, reportedly tortured by Israeli security forces www.idcommunism.com/2025/07/chri...

I think of this every time my £400,000 VC boasts about hiring all new staff via a subsidiary on a far worse pension because LGPS/TPS are too expensive.

This from executives who get *extra* because they’ve *maxed out* the tax allowances on their own USS and TPS pensions. It’s generational looting.

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liasons - 'it's beyond my control'

😂😂

Exciting weekend watching the number signing up for the establishment of new political party with leftwing aims. Today apparently, the number is 600,000 members of #YourParty. Predictably - this from the Spectator

Anyone blaming the Green Party or Your Party for Reform's success is just an instant block now. It's not a good faith or honest position.